| Show THE DEATH OF JUDGE kirkpatrick the death of tile hon moses kirkpatrick will cause a i shock over this whole coast when a great oak that has withstood the hurricanes ot of a century suddenly on a still summer d day without a sign ot of decay lit in a inocent moment falls in utter ruin all the fore forest st is startled and those who pass near stop astonished moses kirkpatrick has battled with all the storms ot of the a coast 0 ast for forty six years he came with the joyous band that laid the foundations of the iho golden state he established for himself a distinct personality from the fars first while yet a youth he served california in the legislature lie ile very soon built up tor for himself an enviable reputation as a lawyer As he had been an argonaut in california he was an argonaut in nevada assoil associating first with senator stewart they succeeded wonderfully both as lawyers lawyea s and as mining and mill men ito ire came to this city in the remained a ii little ilia while and then returned to nevada ile he returned again to this place early in the SOs and finally about ten years yeara ago made his home in butte mont ile he ranked in the first class among I 1 lawyers aw and from tile tho time lie he landed on this coast up to his death yesterday there has never been a breath against his perfect integrity teg Leg rity never a doubt of his eminent ability the circumstances of his death were most pitiful one of his daughters is married in ili china three others of his daughters daughter 5 were on the western WC Stern coast waiting for a ship to sail off across the pacific Pa ciric Cic ile he left his wife and two little girls the youn youngest 9 est 0 of the flock in butte on oil thursday eve evening ning he was seized about 1 4 on friday with a disease dise ase so violent anti and acute that the pala pain almost immediately overwhelmed him arid and lie continued to sink under the shock until he be died yesterday morning ho was flighty most of the night but was calling over the names of his loved ones at intervals arid and murmuring that they must hurry evidently through even ills his delirium lie ho knew new that lie he was go lug tu to die and ills his thoughts were tor for tile lvcy ones whom ovll n hi was waa never indre to see per thou thousands s ands and W id thou thousands six ads of wen mon will mourn for him to ahn sand landd 8 kal aal thousands ills call will coin its as a personal aul riot not many of liia bit near friends even evell knew moses kirkpatrick patrick thoroughly they dil did riot not know now how bow tilled filled with charity lie he was how ho he never cherished LP up a wrong how prone lie he was to find excuses tor for tile the shortcomings of others oll irs how sentie senile in ili judgment was he how resolute arid and manly lie he was under adverse tor for tune how he never once bad a harsh haisli word for the ungrateful end arid tile bricke wl ckel 1 A groat great arid and good and boft capable man was lie he the grief of ids family will be inconsolable arid and he ha hlll ill go down to the grave leaving the memory ot of the iho lifo of a great clawy er a generous honest high minded man vav putting on the harness when but a boy worked incessantly never conn coin pla ining at the thousand rebuffs which till unkind fortune gave him but over cheerful mid alid gentle lic never cr tubing fusing never becoming k souil our ed ii but wearing tile harness steadfastly s aly ii to the iho very cry hour when lie he tell fell out of f tile the ranks and sank into ills hla final leip bleed lei p ills family has lost one tie of the kindest of husbands anti and fathers fd tile coast has lost one of its foremost citizens and the only comfort that can be extended to the stricken ones to whom he was till nil in all Is the knowledge that thousands and tens of thousands of 0 men on tills coast are arc mourners mourners mour mourn nars krs with them above lili hin bier |
