| Show Death Came Like d a Bolt I Must dust Go to the Pacific Coast or to the fernal Eternal Coast So Said Orson I 1 Pett a fel Days day Ie Ic Suddenly to the Loler Latter h 1 th thi il lH HI iH l I Is Ii f s i iI 14 I r t tI t j t 1 I L J tJ t tr A AE At t I I j I f ff f E I f I t ti I i 1 I H I IIII 1 H H IHl H I f H I H HH H o I l H H HIJ I I t i ORSON H PETTIT Wel Well I guess I 1 wi wIll hO have to go to Pacific coalt coast for n a rRt rest 1 If I 1 dOIt dont dontI I 1 wi vili probably go to souse some other Cast coast the COlst coast ot of eternity That Is the tay y I 1 feel so I 1 I 1 hind had better get het ready to g go to the forer former as quick quickly ly Ir IS as I 1 earn can canSo So sull said Orson I 11 Pet t ono one or of the test known Ind and most conservative business m men n of the community a few cays days ago ngo The fhe statement ut wa va mad tl to some of the of the Coup Coell Furniture company ns as they gathered abut about him after aUer 1 a brier brief period or of 1 iii neMan Iness illness that 10 no one ona but himsel himself apparently nty believed to be so o serious Tine The truth of hIs own suspicIons had frightful and fatal verification nt at lila hla home In this city this afternoon when lie he suddenly on In tine the direction UI 01 the Ihu coast of eternity to which lie he hail reference when hen lie he replied to the tho solicitous or of the institution of which lie he was one of the owners VICTIM OR on WhIle of sturdy and good goad generally Mr Ir fOI on several months has hnas been suffering runs rheu rheumatism anti and hal hind been taking electrical treatment Tine The ot of the subtle was pretty heroic ut at Ind and there are friends wino who think that It mn tony have accelerated conditions somewhat though there to be beno no certainty nt at this time on thEt that point lut the last day or two Inc he wu was a prot pret prett t ty sick mun and tine the malady attacked his heart consIderable violence As n a consequence n a hurried message wal was sent to his business associate lon lion W v N who ho harell barel math hall time timeto to get to the mouse house before lie ho died at atI I 1215 lC thi this Mr r Jett hal lied lOl long been a of the Ninth ward of this city Ind and oc occupied numerous positIons of trust lie Be was n a plain blunt Inn man but always n a mim man of hiM mis word lie Bo hEll had enemies us as we e as friends on of his courage and outspoken on ni all matters of public Interest hut But Buthis his friends far outnumbered his une ene mIca anti lie he wi be remembered as 1 a good le lie leaves 1 a wife and le soy cral rl children Tine The time or of Ills his funeral lis has not yet et heels been decIded Ulon IY lIT HS IllS I It has been wisely observed that one of C the thc estImates of a mains character Is tine the esteem In whIrls which lie he Is Island land held by isis his those vho lii la Lr bor under tinder hil his direction and yet wino who stand lt at hil his side ald and aHI assIst t hIm hini In his build business to struggles to ii U tip a become a captain of Ac According cording to 10 that idea Iden tine the measurement coring oI of Orson Oreon 1 11 Pett IS as u a mal lust initiaL rank ft high mi attested hS bS a II Iii cd nt 1 ln HI s ed II inn h lila of IuRI mess tinis afternoon In in II very pry few min minutes utes after tine the receipt of the tue message message that hil hIs demise n a of We tile News WI ins In tine the Co Coop tate Furniture tore store for the partIculars of I tine the ld ad event cent lie He 11 till of tine the themen men in tine the center of tine store storo discussing In tine the sorrowful tidings I Ev v ver er time a lew new of tine the little arrived he asked trembling 1 la It true But he would got get no further us aa tine the response In chorus was Yes It Is true Then hen there n a recial recital of eIe do tais tails as tears and words of sor sorrow row were expressed Pinal Finally mi one of the thu men for forward forward ward nl Wp Vt cant lel tell OU munch much about isis his life or bu business lne s lut hut we ve van tel tell you ou that tine the ln men In houle house have lost tine the best friend tine the e ev evor or nr for I 1 have hae be been n mere here wih mum him fur for five years earB tinder al all kinds of pressure surl ninth lever never lot got a crOSH word I froni hUn 11 all of that time linen another hi his croton emotions long enough to 10 exclaims and I have worked for mini hIm for 1 14 years and never a cross word Il lee spoke harshly to us UR dil did h be bo boys 7 All ev cv every cry ery 01 one added to tine the of 10 noes as h by til tine state eat ent that ht Inc alwa s 18 inn when wham wo we were In trouble Ind and lever meyer scolded uS tnt nt nn any time r It ma may be that wi vili he be paid thC the memory of Mr Ir Petit hunt It II lii doubtful If any wi will be as touching Ild as tine the Oi one contained In the above sentiments b by these who hV known for 1 a lon long time tine Ilm man for whom they toled toiled anti to whom they tiney looked keel much lS as look to 1 a father Mr Ir Pett was I a Long Islander of the the rugged type and hal had lived here many years anti m r 8 years 01 of ago ngo hits HI was as n a of at the Mormon and In matters was tinn staunchest t sort of Democrat and wal was wasa 1 a fol or legislative honors nt at tine mends hands of his party a tel few las days ago |
