Show DEATH diati OI 01 CAPTAIN MAY captain william way why a well known mountaineer and trapper and chief guide gulde to colonel Step toes command died in the military hospital 1 of salt lake gity on the of february captain may alay was originally from tennessee but at an early abelle age he sought the great west and adopted the profession of a I 1 beaver trapper for twenty give five yea lie he roamed over the country bai bordering on the heat head waters of the missouri and yellowstone among the gros ventres rees tees crows and sioux and there is scarcely a tream that pours its ita waters into the missouri from the thi roky ro roby ky in which his traps have not been on the decline odthe of the fu fui trade be lie located himself on tile the platte occasionally visiting tile the settlements in thai thel Spanish cout country itry or starling starting t out to the mountains with his traps and a few pack mules mutes when his fun run low imir only to return azain acain an and d with tile the rec reckless klesi of 1 the true mountaineer spend his hard earning earnings in ar wild flolid ablong his friends As a trapper captain may alay had hadbo hacho no superior and but few equals equi als either in hunting beaver or in the preparation of tile the skins ile he was he the of williams and walker and cimo neau t and bridger and leroid Le and chatillon I 1 and caron carton and a kinstof lio lin others whose names perhaps per hapy not deservedly are better known than his the amount of information he possessed respecting rei inar the vast territory teri hory rory of nebraska the marvel mirvel marvellous marcellous marv ellous lous ious adventures ad ventures ventured of his life and ind the indian tales and legends of bilth he was wms a perfect repository made him bim jilin a mos most moat aerating sing and arid agreeable companion tn ati aai qualities his honest principles and ln ifft kind and generous impulses drej drew artia nd hini a i circle circie of war carmand mand admiring friends 1 A few days before his death captain may dicy was making preparations to start lor the navajo country on a trading expedition but lie ws suddenly attacked with inflammation inflammation of or tile the lungs lunge which rapidly brought to a close his varied and aw i adventurous earlw carper r before he breathed his last he hir expressed a regret ilat he was not permitted to ta die on the prairie where his life had been mainly spent maage hia hla age sas yag was geue gete generally raBy understood der stood to be about sixty years lt he lib has now gone to the spirit li land d that with indian faith lie he firmly believed in and we may hop hp that in those hippy hunting grout dil dol in aj om ott trapper is at last free trie from all the alesh flesh is heir to W |