Show FIRST WOMAN CORONER in these days of suffragists and suffragettes women are filling all sorts of offices cei but it remained for a st joseph mo alo woman to become the original lady coroner the duties of tile the coroner of buchanan chanan Du county have tor for several weeks been performed by mrs airs 0 11 byrd whose husband fills that office when he is at home just now dr byrd is visiting the exposition at seattle and is enjoying his vacation with the assurance that the emoluments ants thereto accruing are not escaping the purse of tho the byrd family since coroner byrd left home there have been au an unusual number of coroners cases in st joseph and the county and in each of them there has been a prompt response by mrs byrd who was legally commissioned as his hia deputy before dr byrds departure mrs airs byrd has been summoned to investigate halt half a dozen suicides the same number of fatal accidents and has officiated in two cases of murder 1 I found the duties ot of coroner especially disagreeable said mrs airs byrd in the absence of my husband I 1 look upon the work as my regular business and I 1 try to dispatch it in a businesslike way I 1 am pleased I 1 to know that I 1 have won the commendation of the other authorities and ha have ve not been criticised criticized by the public |