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Show IN FALLS OVER LEDGE TOJEATH Chester Thayne cf Washington Washing-ton Instantly Killed As He Slipped on Icy Rocks and Hurtled into Canyon Below Chester Thayne, 39, of Washington, Wash-ington, was instantly killed on Wednesday when he slipped on any icy ledge and hurtled 100 feet into a canyon below. The back of his head was crushel in by a sharp rock as he fell, and one leg was broken. Thayne, in company with William Wil-liam Miller, Frank Hafen, Levi Neilson and Len Jolley, had been riding for cattle on Washington Wash-ington flat near Neilson Springs, about ten miles north of Washington. Wash-ington. About 3 o'clock he had dismounted from his horse, and was standing looking down into a jagged canyon when he slip- pea on the ice ana tell to his death. He was born at Washington and lived there practically all his life. He volunteered for military mili-tary service during the world war and was at a Virginia training train-ing camp awaiting orders to leave for France when fighting ceased. - Surviving are his father, Alex Thayne, three brothers, George, Rowland and Edward, all of Los Angeles, three sisters, Mrs. Florence Flor-ence Hunt and Mrs. Louise Bot-ger, Bot-ger, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Thelma Lurker, Topeka, Kansas. Arrangements... for funeral, serr vices are being held up pending word from relatives. |
