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Show DEATH'S DOINGS. A fewy. .irs ago a p trly consUting of Gov. E. J. Curtis, Jodire Gulespie, Kugi-ne Howuid, C. D. Yajen, Wm. A. Yates, E.!. R.ivnor, Tuns. E. Bail, Wm. Wmtelmrst, Kdgar Harr, H. B. Lane, ti,-rt Griffin, and A. J. Boya-ku, Boya-ku, a reception at the iXatesu'tan olhce, li,M;e city, at that timo owned and conduced by J.l8. S. Reynolds, Esq. Relrefuments were provided, toasts drank, and tbe occasion was one of much social enjovmunt. ' Ot that assemblage of jolly spirits but two remain the first and last mentioned. Poor Bane was killed by an insane man; Tom Bail ehullled off his coil by taking laudanum; Billy Yates died by his own hand pistol shot; Eugene Howard was found dead in bed one morning; Ed. Harr was accidentally killed in a mining sh-ifi knocked out of a bucket and tell a distance of six hundred feet; Ed. Riynor fell dead on the street, having left home but a few moments before in bis usual good health; Judge Gillespie died from a paralytic stroke, lingering aloug in a helpless condition fur two or three years; Will Whitehurst died at Dalles, Oregon, while en route to California, whilner he was going in tho hope of regaining lust health; Charley Vajeu tiled of consumption, out in Utah, two or three years since; and lh distressing distress-ing circumstances of Bert Griffin's death last summer are still fresh in the public mind. Ten out of twelve gone to that bourne whence no traveler trav-eler returns. A startling remainder ot the uncertainty of iile. trulv: ihd that the sou of num knowcth not when the hour coiueth. But two remain! re-main! Do you ever ponder that fact, Gov. Curtis? Idaho World. |