Show I COL L SM ITHEE t z Prominent Denver J p pc pcr r I Man Ends His fife in V Arkansas i Little Rock Hock Ark July lY S Colonel oton l J 3 JN JN N of t Denver De er W iff fOund dead in his room at the Merchants Merchant hotel in Iri inthis this thi city at 2 30 this afternoon A tt pistol clasped em sped in his right hand and anda a bullet hole holt through h his hIsS head beg ex explained the manner mannex of or oIB ki death X note nearby gave save this further rl er explanation nation na on c V For cripples cri paupers and mendi mendl mendicants cants cents I have nO Use Hise ule Fearing F I 1 rna may alay get In one of these theS classes by b r as il ilof oC ot the injury with which X 1 was recently visited I lend end the While in New Y rk several Y l months ago Colonel severely se injured his ankle by a fall He H had aa been ben in Little LittleRock Rock months and was preparing to leave leav for Denver v r In a days The Theoron coroners rs Jury JOry held Id an in inquest qu quest st and decided that his NJ death was caused ca sed by a gunshot gU s wind gelfin d with suicidal l Intent Inte t Colonel s wit irid children t tf In Denver Denyer have haY been n notified 1 ot Ills bl death dea tho Colonel Co lonel c gas i amative p nativa of otAr Arkansas s sc 00 years ra d W J jr thi nd after th m ted with ith the th Arkansas A kansas Ga tr in this In 1874 1 4 he be was g elected stat stare sti land la 4 com cont commissioner c m missioner and subsequently su chair chairman man of the Democratic state stat central committee c I V Vin In 1878 he was an hit m andl datO t for governor of at Arkansas Ho lIf then moved Colorado to but returned turned i to Little Rock in 1898 1893 to become b editor of 0 the Gazette whIch place he held for fot I over oer two years cars then returning to Den Denver Denver ver vcr Denver Den er Colonel neL James Jamesr I N who v ho committed suicide s cid it in Little Rock was well known In Den Denver vcr ver where his family consisting of ofa a wife two sons and a daughter reside reel d e Colonel was for foz some time I connected with the Rocky 2 News Ies and was also engaged hr liv mining He was prominent in politics |