Show last of famous beaver bea coterie mike powers Power one sOne of six men who met tragic death michael L powers one bithe of the most prominent mining men of early days committed suicide about 10 monday night in his hia room at I 1 he metropolitan hotel 78 79 west third south street by firing a bullet into his brain powers who was almost totally blind from an injury received some som years ago in the bullion beck mine at eureka was a sufferer fro r dyspepsia and for lour Jour days was unable to leave hab room yesterday morning m orn he requested mrs ada thomas proprietress of the hotel f ea to send for dr II 11 B sprague the visited mr powers and prescribed for him during the day mrs thomas visited mr powers room several times for the pur pose of giving medicine to him accordine accord to the doctors orders order 4 she last saw him alive at when she next called at his room about 1016 1015 p m the light was out and she ahe stumbled over his feet which were touching the floor his body lying partly on the bed frightened she summoned several guests who were in in the hotel office ard and they hurried to the room they found mr powers dead the bullet having pissed passed entirely through the head m entering just juat over the left ear car his right hand still clutched the weapon n aich abich was a new one and which showed one empty chamber chamb er mrs thomas that mr powers had been at the hotel at intervals for the past two years lie he is understood to have had mining interests in park city and beaver utah among his effects were found personal letters from E D norris norn s maple street san diego gal cal alva thompson and martha beaumont of beaver city utah little could be learned last night concerning his relatives mrs thomas stating that a son aon who she thinks lives somewhere ere in utah visited him recently S e also said that he had spoken of a aughter aught dr but does not recall her name or addres address add resi i A man named adams a friend of the dead man called at the hotel nearly every day ti look after him but he could not be found by the hotel people last night mr powers was widely known among the older generation of utah mining men and at one time he was counted quite wealthy he is popularly supposed to have possessed considerable money at the time of his death he rarely ventured alone on the streets farther than restaurants in the vicinity of third south and main streets but often went about the city and on trips to various darts of the state in the co company of friends dr W S keyting who answered the police call examined the body and notified L R martineau J acting coroner who ordered the body sent to the ODon odonnell odonwell bell u undertaking n d e r t a k ing rooms tribune the above item will bi of deep interest toa great many of the older people hereit hereabout bout mr powers cams came to beaver about 1870 and shortly after opened a saloon on main street which jie he operated until after the removal of the soldiers from ft cameron in 1885 prior to this however mr powers became interested in mining in the mineral range and developed a large tonnage of auriferous iron ore thousands of tons of which was shipped by team to the old horn silver and godbe god bo art siT filters 31 at frisco and was used for flux flexing fluxing ing mr powers still owns ochs the property known as the baltimore group from which this ore was extracted and he had done many thousands of dollars worth of development work on it about 1890 he developed some springs at eureka for which it is said he received in cash A peculiar incidence coincidence co in his death is the fact that of a half dozen men with whom he was intimately associated all through the every one died by his own hand |