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Show HURLED TO HIS DEATH. James Rogers Falls Down a Well at East Mill Creek. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning upon the ranch of Edward Baycham, East Mill creek, .Tames Rogers fell to the bottom of a well, a distance of fifteen feet and died a few minutes min-utes later. Coroner Harris was notified last evening and a conveyance was despatched for the remains re-mains which at 1 o'clock this afternoon arrived J at Undertaker Joseph E. Taylor's. An inquest was promptly proceeded with by which it was elicited that Rogers who had worked at the ranch last summer returned Thursday in search of employment. Unable to secure it he went to work voluntarily on the well. Yesterday morning he was hoisted to the surface and securing a tool, lighted a cigarette cigar-ette and prepared to descend. Boarding the bucket he had descended but a few feet when the windlass broke and he went headlong to the bottom. More diiithan alive he was brought to the 6ur-! 6ur-! face and despite the efforts of a 6ureeon I and others died a fewmrnrltcs later. From one of the withesses it was learned that ; Rogers lost a wife and child ten months ago, I but nothing further is known of him or his. t |