Show COL AYERS tho the death of 0 J J ayres ayre ILL at los angeles cal la is announced cc ill and thel brief notice culls calls up tho the dead from rom all the iho burial places of memory A wonderfully bright man w was US ho he in the long lone agro ago A line scholar and writer and giving every promise of making for himself ex a croat name lie ile foundell tho the 1 call but abold it and about drifted to virginia Ir gIrdo city them he ha formed a with th the veteran vete rall printer and editor C A V putnam Put nara find and they founded tho the inland empire in hamilton nov nev early in 1869 1860 the next summer tho the beautiful fl ifo of mr aye ayers sickened and died and then ho he peale cally ceased to assert himself tile the paper was swamped after ai few anon months tw longer struggle and then ayers went out of sight for two or three years until it was ives announced that he hda had married a wealthy eal thy native california lady who owned a fine estado outside of LOS angeles then he h bought the herald of los angeles and conducted it until his health broke dom down n two years ago we believe that since then lie has hals when able physically been writing it a history of california dut but his force as a man and writ writer er went out in hamilton he never should have gone to the desert ile ho knew nothing of tile tho ways of men in a a new nil mining n ing camp wd and ho he always had the air there of a man maa in an country whose ships had been burned and all chances of escalo elc aLps cut oft off and 11 hen ho he got away lie 1 was nover nerver any more daoro his old self relf his trouble from the first was nas that in his youth ho he had never submitted to any discipline and when in later years trouble cuna he was helps less lesi to meet it and mako make a a fight tor for himself ila ho had ta lentil enough to have won tor for himself an enviable name but ho he lacked both discipline and fi armneas of 0 purpose and long ions ago aero voted himself IS failure end and all tho the music in his life died |