Show A PECULIAR DEATH t wm in merrifield Mern field falls from T tree it enear near creole mine and dies without speak ins ing a word was litun hunting ding a bear A alnar LIMA which terminated fatuity fatally for one af if the buff buijten iteN occurred in ili film city cily thursday ny night wm win Mern field aged 32 5 3 cars can a na tic of co r all Is the lenim lc tini arid and ailt he died tit at the hospital bo iclal early fill this morn morning not nol its hu ing spoken a word or uttered a found hinca the accident W 11 thomas and toney toncy gribble were mere milli the hie deceased lite hie fatality fota llly occurred und and tilts this morning orning in in ia tho pres cote or coroner sparry attorney altomay L 13 1 ight und and tho the v m titer the they told the fullow following ing story of the aclair THOMAS SAW A bitnar baralt W 1 I thomas Tb oinas m who lie Is if lulng ing at tile the creole mine an am linian was on oil his may av to the mine lute thursday nii M ahli ul tit a paint about two hundred it red y ards froin the mine lie saw w lint lie u vasa its a big bear stanl standing log under it ft big tree ile he was badly friglet elicit and returned horne to get some one to go up M kah lint and hill 1111 tile arl if POS biblO in tile re rc bort suction lie found toney toncy Gri gribble lable and tit W 1 I merrifield who nho badjura idaj jut from froin the theater arid and after getting a rr from thellar hie bartender tender they started out for the mine merri merit nold und gribble had bulli bubli been drinking some waln the tree in question was wai gribble says lie he saw something boing in ili lite branches br and commenced to shoot lie he fired three or four times imd and then merrifield started to cluni climb tho the freeto tree to geem sec what lint tile Lial Unal was aoa gribble remonstrated milli attilli him hod pulled him down once Merrill eld went up again howder ho veer weer and is mann imn about fourteen feet front from the ground lie branal on v m bich lie was waa standing anding broko broke and lie he full fell lie he uttered no sound and thomas came toton to tow n tit at once and going to the james boarding house alic three men llad lie ego got I 1 help ordered a commance conea com cance ance and men I 1 balk to lo the injured mitu mail lie ile al taken to the llie hospital ho bilal and died there m aasboe abo e stated his symptoms ibeck ibe cr int crual hi jurics ills 1114 left leg was brugui it she aboc e tile hie knee there Is ia a bal bail ardise m 0 or cr the left ci ea c besides se several cral minor scratches and bruises ond and a w on oil tile near dear side of tho right leg ivear the llie groin resembling a bullet A wound amul tina tills gas yue c rise to lo the report that cliot the mun man lind hail been shot but bul dr wilson mado a thorough of tile the wound tills afternoon and found that it w uis its not hot a bullet build wound but OLI by a branch of the tree penetrating the flesh as ait the num man foll fell internal injuries arid pneumonia which hiah tic cloird i are a ro gien gl eu as the cause of death deceased lind been here about nine months this little lanci having haing lived he here I 1 e about live five years cara ago age and bal veil slid and favorably known ho he tilts no relatives hero here but hits has brothers in butte alio ito lame hae been comm I 1 ill bated N mleh ith and ft A mother in hi corn cornwall n if iwa funeral arrangements will be made de later |