Show TAKES HIS OWN LIFE BECAUSE OF OP ILL HEALTH Pioneer Preacher of Idaho Commits Suicide While D Despondent WEISER Ida April 12 L. L. L L. L Shearer Shear Shear- er r er the first minister of of this county committed suicide yesterday at his home in this city by shooting f in the head he He had been a I from consumption for s ver l years and de despairing despairing de- de of recovery took his life Ufe His wife was milking the cow cowand and hearing the report of the rev revolver ran in to find her husband in the throes of death Mr Shearer had b been been- beena en a resident of Weiser Welser for nearly twenty years He leaves a wife and five He was about 55 years of oC age Mr Shearer was a minister In the Baptist church until his' his health failed some years ago since which time he has been on a ranch n near ar this place He left a note in which stated that he would commit the because because of the great suffering he was afflicted with |