Show L E pr HUNT NEAR THE NEVER SWEAT CANAL lee hunt formerly ot joseph city and in the last few years a richfield resident came to his death by dro drowning wn his body was found in the canal near the never sweat dam dame thursday morning after a search of two ONO days and nights and it is an open question whether he was tho the victim of an all ace accident or committed suicide the latter supposition seems less les probable as hunt acted lately in a queer way and membris of liis his family are of the opinion that lie he was sick and mentally unbalanced lee hunt was 60 years of age he came here from joseph several years ago to work on a profit sharing basis on the farm of president R D young in III the last few years hunts family went through severe trials one daughter died in provo in ill consequence of a shock after an explosion in tho the candy factory where she was working another daughter fell a victim of the influenza last winter A grandchild was run over by an automobile to and died one daughter had an accident when helping her father in topping beets she hurt her knee gangrene set in and her leg lee had to bo be amputated mrs hunt had ft a paralytic stroke a few months ago and is helpless all these things seem to have influenced hunt to such a deg degree fee that ho he started to show lymp toms of getting unbalanced mentally tuesday night lie ho seemed to b bo sick lick and its his children tried to induce him to go to bed instead of 0 lying down he left the home son and son inlaw in law followed him on horseback when they missed him in the tha home hoine and overtook him on oil east first south where the road turns to annabella they succeeded in putting hini him un on one of the horses and it looked like the old man hollowed followed then them home willingly suddenly ile he turned tue the horse and ran away in the direction of Anna Annabe liella IIa at such a terrific pace that he soon disappeared the son hurried home and called up deputy sheriff H S christensen Christens cn requesting him to assist in the search tor for hunt the three men aar ir christensen the son and the son in law continued the search the whole night without an any result the deputy sho rift however found the horse wednesday morning in the pasture of john Christen sens farm about half a mile away from the horse towards the canal he found tho the bridle but no other trace could be seen the search was as renewed wednesday all day and the largo large part of the night thursday morning a sheriffs posse consisting of about fitly fifty men volunteering beering their ae nices took up the work again this time following mr Christen sens clue that tho the old man probably had drowned in the river president young and his men searched the brush along the canal and the continued on page five lee hunt drowned in canal continued from first page river liver sheriff greenwood engineered tho the dragging of the canal and deputy sheriff christensen Chris bensen sen with his force of men worked on lowering the water by extrac extracting tint from the dam one board after another alter after the third plank had been removed the water shot over the dam in mighty torrents and a corpse was seen taken by the masses ot of water into the canal it nas aa quickly recovered and proved to he be the body of lee hunt city physician T it gledhill reports that from rom hn hii knowledge hunt was buffering from epi letic attacks for years and that he probably toll foil into the river and dro droned dronen ned when under an epileptic fit surviving are the widow who is sick in bed six daughters in several parts ot of the state three sons and several grandchildren the funeral will take place sunday afternoon from the residence of 0 the deceased bishop hansen of the third ward will bu be in charge of the services t over the remaina |