Show WOULDBE SUICIDE Isaac Bergmanof Chicago Shoots Bimseif Five Times H WILL PROBABLY RECOVERsec He Wa the Republican Boss of Wyoming Cause of the Trouble Idaho Commercial Com-mercial Convention CHEYENNE Wyo Nov 28Special telegram to THE HEKALD Isaac Bergman for ten years county treasurer and probate Judge a prominent Mason a pioneer and owner of ran cattle made a most determined deter-mined attempt to kill himself in his officepa this morning He locked the doors and fired at his head five times Four shots were from a pocket pistol of heavy calibre and the last from a regulation sixshooter The fourth bullet made a slight flesh wound the fifth one intended as were the others for the right temple passed just behind both eyes blinding the man forever Instantly the doors were forced and the man lifted from a puddle of blood He asked to have the blood washed from his eyes not knowing that he had destroyed his sight The man didnt loose consciousness He said he wished the job had been a perfect one He called for his wife and summoned his bondsmen to say that his accounts were all right and this statement i accepted as correct by everybody Bergman has been here twentythree years and has had a remarkable career He was ilrst a cook in a railway grade camp then a clothing clerk and for ten years a postmaster who with the field and opportunities was the equal of John Kelly or Boss Buckler He had a finger in every Republican pie and controlled a considerable consider-able independent element He was elected L to the best paying office in the county five times and for there terms of two years each was city treasurer This latter office brought him trouble for he refused to give up and was ousted In 18SS The constitution of the new state of Wyoming Wy-oming abolished his office of probate judge luthe claimed it up t the end of the term fought t the supreme court and was to have turned over the records to day Wednesday ho said the books would only < e secured from him over his dead body utThursday he told a friend he intended relinquishing both offices His wife is a splendid woman and he has in Mrs Frank Kemp of Omaha a lovely Jaughter but he had a liason with a public voman and this of the was one causes eading t the attempt at Bergmans suicide sui-cide His manner of shuffling off shows his grim determination Once when the superiors threatened to force the records from him he fixed trap guns about the office of-fice so that one touching the doors or windows would be blown to pieces He fired bullets everywhere this morning and several persons running to the scene were just missed I wanted t end my troubles was all he would say even to his closest friends who questioned him as to the cause of his de fire to kill himself Since the proceedings for the probate records were instituted he has been a conservative con-servative prisoner of the sheriff The latter lat-ter was approached Monday last by a fireman fire-man in a mill who said he had dreamed that Bergmnn emptied a revolver at a crowd of men in court and turned the weapon on himself The sheriff was much impressed by the dreamers earnestness and did look more closely after his prisoner About 1 oclock Thanksgiving morning Bergman called on woman and remained a short time On leaving ho showed her his revolver and he remarked that he guessed the weapon would be his Thanks giving The doctors say that he will most likely recover The town wouldnt be more surprised if Jay Goold had traded the Union Pacific for a jack knife and there is talk of nothing else Idaho Commercial Coonventlon BOISE Cm Idaho Nov 2SSpecial telegram tel-egram to THE HEUALE Nine of the principal cities of this state have elected delegates to the commercial convention which assembles here December 9 Tonight To-night the directors of the board of trade of this cily elected as their delegates Hon George A Ainslee Colonel Nelson F Kimball and Secretary Charles A Clark Judge Ainslie is an expert on legal questions ques-tions affecting water rights and will I discuss the problem of reserving water to irrigate three million acres soon to become the property of this state under the admission ad-mission act Colonel Kimball will represent the Interests of the merchants a affected by transportation and taxation Mr Clark will give the results of his broad experience ex-perience in making board of trade organizations organi-zations practical and efficient Full de ails of the convention in preparation will be forwarded to delegates elect in a few days News of the resignation of President Adams of ihe Union Pacific is received with unbounded satisfaction Renewed efforts will nov be made efort wi ta secure t a redress re-dress of the grievances under which Boise has suffered under the old management Wo must have train facilities and a termi minal centrally located The trcmendoaf growth of Boise this hear has made th need of better railway service imperative For the third jmperatve time this year building operations have been suspended because the railway cannot bring in supplies sup-plies as fast as the contractors absorb them The friends of Governor friend Shoup are congratulating con-gratulating him today on his return t his official duties His health is heath not fully restored re-stored and he works necessarily with caution A New York Murderer Sentenced to Death NEW Yom Nov 23 Martin Loppy convicted of murder in the first degree for tilling his wife Esther in July was sen tenced t death today The time set for his execution in within executon the week beginning January 3 at Sing Sing |