Show J S WIT f fUlfS DIES L LA V A Well Wel Known Passes Pisses Away Asay A WiY at Holy 1011 Cross Hospital This Morning A GOOD FRIEND OF THE POOR Acute Gastritis ns os lS the lie Cause or of Ills Is Demise His Deeds of or Kindness Were Wee Numberless Dr John S 0 Witcher rt a 1 well WI know Salt Sai Iao physician died at nt tho the Holy HolyCross HolyCross Cross hospital between 4 and C 5 I this morning moring lie le had ha been seriously rlou ly lyl Ill l only since Tuesday Tu evening when he ha went to the tile hospital ho Death was 1 caused by Intestinal trouble truble and acuto gastritis Is 1 given aa as tho the cause caUle Ho He tre fre jq r V rl Id V r 11 I F FV V i pit Oft Df J 3 5 S had severe overe hemorrhages and when ho h went vent to the hospital Tuesday evening tIll his hil system m and his hid hI condition became b ar rapidly worse until thIs morning when death relieved his sufferings The flu announcement If his demise will willbe wi willbe be a I Bovere shock cheek shok to scores of Salt Snit JA citizens Ilia Is sunny disposition obliging manner won for tor him many worm warm friends and his unbounded charity endeared him to the th hearts henrs cf Ut tt I hundreds hundred of poor Jr people for he ho wu 1 In very deed decil tho tile friend of ot tho tile poor or In ds tress and was ready renly at nil aU times tiny day or night to minister to their wants walts without promise promie promiS and ad without price The writer ler who was wal probably as I In with wih him as an I any ni ono one In tho the city outside of ot the family knew him to ho bo hoa a II kind hearted genial ready to do doa don gentleman Ho was always Iwas a n good turn HB us Ut ho termed It I to rich or p por poor or rime Time and time again ho he has Ilas hIL been known kown to send semI other physicians y to attend some of till hla hl cases while ho he responded to 0 charity calls cale He lie le never nev r obtruded his troubles on any nn one Sick or well ho he was na always the same Mie good gd natured kindly kindly hearted man Only IllS liU most Intimate friends know knew that ho he was wn serIously ill til I or realized the tho heroic fight he made mada for weeks to ke kee keep P up UI his courage curge At times he would brood brooch over his trouble hut but a n word or two of encouragement from froma fromn froma a n friend was w wits s all ni that was to put him In tn good goo spirits again On he ho sent for Cor fora Coro a o Nowa reporter to visit him at nt tho the hospital Ills s condition won was very ory at that time amid he ho realized It Still StIl ho hail had hope of ot arising his bed bod of ot He lIe Je worried a 1 great deal about various arloua cases And gOre gave mIe di dl directions directions as to what should bo be 10 done Old man mali ho he saul said I am min horribly sick nick fick but If it I can cnn hold my own for tor three or four tour days I may moy bo ho 10 up tp and around I have n a long hard fight to ward war this off of but I simply gono gone to pieces anti and can not pull puli myself together night he seemed leenell a little easier but hit yesterday his hid hil condition grow steadily oreo anti and toward evening his family became alarmed During Durin the tho night ho lapsed into unconsciousness and a his physician Dr Root Hoot won van M In Inconstant constant attendance Everything 1 Unit that could be bo done ilone was as done dono for tor him but It I was aA a 11 I losing fight a n fact that he lie him himself self finally and nn fully tul realized Sonic Some time before leoro time the end como came ho lIe talked to his brother b Arthur H 11 I anti and gave Mc directions direction ns as 11 to matters maters that worried him hini Ho lie 0 then of his up death ileath Ho Ito 10 said Mid he ho realized that If L f would woul soon son bo be all ni over nver hut but ho he cit frit reconciled and all commended lila his hil sou souto to his hil Maker Malcer He lie le gave lle directions as ns asto asto to the disposition dl of his remains Tho end caino CaIne peacefully and the lie watch watchers ers era r at nt his hll bedside felt that It I was a n ro re row lief to we see lre him out of ot his suffering Shortly before he hr hI Mrs 11 Witcher was voR 1 notified nM hurried to her him litta hUl bunds bedside hut but the tle grim reaper had timI preceded her when she nr ar nt at the hospital the pall pahi of death hung hun over the ward In which his bin body hod lay Dr father General J 7 fl S Wicher Is II now non with lh his wife In ill Colt Cali fornia but they tho have been beel nl are expected hero by h night Tho The sad sod tidings will wi be le n a severe blow Mow to them as nil n It has been to his hIl wife his hil other othet relatives and friends HAP Or Dr Wl her woe born at It Wheeling West est Virginia Aug AU IS 15 1 WT 1867 Ho lIe re received I a Il good goo anti selecting the tho medical graduated Krall tl from tim tho Louisville Medical colle o as RS No 3 8 out of a class clans of ot 15 1 on in Aug fi R 1503 tho doctor married Miss Minn Margaret Bane daughter of ot Judge Rant Bane In They fhe have hlO ono one 01 child a 1 little girl Kane Wicher 3 years of or ago For 1 r one 01 and a halt half years erA prior to statehood Re he ho was as physician Wal at the tho state peni Te The deceased has l four tour 1 Phillip l lp 1 S 8 and an Arthur Athul H U of this city I W v n 13 and Edgar J who reside In the east A married sister sIMer now living In Virginia survives him bin The To funeral nl will wi In ni all probability take talo Place Sunday though arrange arrangements ments menU have not been completed In the absence of ot word from time the father and mother In California |