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Show . . . SUDDEN DEATH. A. N. Powell, a Well Known Sheepman of Lehl Passes Away in His Room at the White House. "My God! ho is dead." Tills was the startling cry of Brig Martin, the hack-nan, as he rushed into tho White house office at 7 o'clock last evening. A. N. Powell, the well known sheepman of Lehl, passed away in his room ut tKat hotel some time during the afternoon. It seems that Powell had heen suffering for some time with a felon on his left hand. The pain at times was almost unendurable, it was nn Impossibility for him to sleep. Sunday Sun-day morning he had the felon lanced, but as night came on the pain became so intense that he walked the floor incessantly, every onco in a while taking a dose of medicine, consisting of a mixture of four grains of morphine and two ounces of water. He also took a little whisky, but not to excess. Yesterday morning at 7 o'clock in the com. pany ol Brig Martin he retired to his room, No. IS, never to come forth a live man. When found he bad evidently been dead for some hours. The deceased is a well known sheepman throughout the territory, and is said to have left a family of six motherless children, the eldest being but 14 years of age. The coroner coro-ner seems to be of the opinion that heart disease was the cause of death, but in order to sot all doubts at rest he will make thorough investigation of the case. |