| Show THOS G 0 MERRILL IS GONE BEYOND Died Yesterday Morning from an Attack of Pneumonia GREAT elt IIII ol 01 lush ius lIa lt It fIl lII Operator Thomas G 0 Merrill died cUed at lii hi hemS hemSI I Third at an day morning ot of pneumonia In Chicago month Mr II eon con treated In Ia whIch last lut nIght late pneumonia result lUg In death III as Mr Merrill wail nil known In Man Jon Jont t Utah and Colorado a plo pio fleer In the State and ha hay lug interests lii III all ot of them thern lie 1 was flU one ot of the staunchest of the silver cause In time the country forsakIng the par party party ty In 1210 and contrIbuting both bothIn bothIn In limit anti money mOlle to the of timed year s As Secretary of if the th Na a union itt In 1896 1596 ime he came cam into 1110 clO close personal friendship with Cot Col J 3 and Ind other sliver lead IMd Ste ot of the country 11 lie removed to Uth from Montana In February ot of arid made his homo home In this Ihl ell city from that tIme Mr Merrill was In his year having been n born In Mich June 9 1829 1819 He II graduated at college on anti when alien the War Var broke out ht he en cn enlisted listed In a Minnesota regiment but ow owIn In lug to physical was this charged three months after his hla enlist went 11 went vont to Montana In UtiS 1163 creasing the Iho plaIns In tb the wagon train that tsen from St Paul PAU lie Ho way was engaged In tubing near lie lena until 1192 and was the first Ir er PI of Jefferson count county II He returned to Minnesota In 1119 and there married Annie R E In US he again oame W I settlIng at Helena until he removed to Salt Halt Lake Inke lIe He WItH was heat nent In politics In Montana and was at atone atone one time offered the Republican nomi n as delegate to 10 Congress from Montana lie He wal appointed Montana cOmmissIoner nt at the Midwinter fair In San l anti served during durin the exposition His devotion to silver him to 10 espouse the side lid ot of Bryan Dryan In un 1111 Jr lIe was I made secretary ot of the National BImetallic union head headquarters quarters In Chicago that year and WAS one of at the most liberal contributors to the campaign fund fundA A wife and tour four children ren are orl left to mourn Ih the lose loa of a devoted husband and kind father tather for tor forthe the funeral have not yet et been completed and It hunot been decided whether the I will be interred here or In the I east st I I |
