Show SUICIDE The Sad End of a Itlontaua Vigilante Vigi-lante Captain The InterMountain contains an extract ex-tract from a private letter which gives the particulars of a strange affair the suicidal death of Captain Jas Williams Following is the extract referred to Our usually quiet valley was this week disturbed by the excitement caused by the suicide of an oldtimer Captain Williams who was distinguished in the early days of the Territory by being the captain of the Vigilantes He left his home on last Monday morning to go to the lower end of the ranch to feed his cattle He did not return re-turn that day and on Tuesday morning they began a search for him They found his tracks in the snowwhere he had done a great deal of walking through very thickbrush and where he had gone to i I the river broken the ice and been in the water He retraced his steps from this place and crawled into a patch of thick brush and briars Here he took a big dose of laudanum lay down and I presume pre-sume never woke again He had placed his scarf and mittens under his head and his hat over his face He evidently did not wish his remains to be found and had it snowed enough to cover his tracks he would possibly not have been found till spring As it was he was not found until Wednesday Thus ended the life of the man who propably tied the hangmans rope around in the more mens necks than any man West and it is certainly not a very desirable desir-able ending II I I |