Show DIED EH EN EOUTE ROUTE james campbell Expire li i on Ws way to OMAN Oni alia the omaha malin bee of last bues tues tuesday day contains the re report ort of the death of an all aged beniter member of efthia this community at sunday morning coroner jacobs received a telegram notifying notifying him to be at the union pacific depot depot at to meet the incoming einiger emigrant ant train which was several hours late and take care of the body of a roan man who had died on the train between grand graw I island and Oni omaha alia the remains were those of james campbell an aged man mail whose ticket and memoranda showed d I him in to bo be on the way from salt lake CUT city to glasgow scotland campbell bel was a very tall strongly built scotchman liman said bythe by alie pass passenger engers who were with him to have been 88 years old he biad a ticket from salt lake city to deiy K ew york and about GO in in money and N was r as evidently to have taken the steamer mer odthe guion lines line his cal acts consisted of a stout sack containing his scanty wardrobe and a basket in which mere were M ere a coarse lunch provided for liis his trip two or three bottles of medicine put ut up at it plum creek from front a prescription of bancroft M D whether at salt lake or plum creek ia is not known and a quart bottle which had contained port wine la belled beell bechtol tol sands the firm being the proprietors of the walker house sampling rooms hi i the city of the saints the tile dead man had also a memorandum dook containing ft a list of his children twelve in number the eldest being born 1838 and the youngest in IMI 1863 a copy of the book of mormon the book of doctrine and covenants and a bible A certificate in the memorandum book signed ed by john gray president I and andrew duthie clerk of the west glasgow branch of the church of jesus christ of latter das as saints showed the dec deceased eaI to have been a member in good standing of that organization organdy it appears that the lie old man ae left ft glasgow in tile early part of 1879 for zion w and was returning returning in in response tu to al a letter from ono one of his sons the pa passengers mengers say ve no was im s sick when lie got on the train at ogden they cared for him as best they could but the lamp of life had bad flickered nearly out and his strength was not sufficient for the journey lie ile probably died of old age A telegram was sent to a salt lake man whose address was found on a stamped envelope in his pocket but as no reply was received the dead man was buried at prospect hill |