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Show MX DEATH OF ITEOJIONEFJ lames H. Kennedy, Famous All .Over the West, Falls Under a Reaper. Accident Was Discovered When tht Horses Came to the House, Drag, glng In Their Wake tho Body of the Aged Pioneer. Bozcmnn, Mont. James II. Kennedy, Ken-nedy, aged 7-1 years, ono of tho most picturesque pioneers, not only ot this state, hut ot the entire west, reaching to tho Pacific const, met a violent death at Belgrade, near this place Ho had been assisting his son, Benjamin Ben-jamin Kennedy, In a wheat Held and had been left with a team and reaper whllo tho son returned to tho house for some binding twlno. Tho lattor had barely reached tho houso when ho was followed by tho horses and reaper, dragging In tholr wngo tho dead body of the agod plonoer. Tho old mnn had ovldently bad a partial paralytic stroke while on tha soat of tho reaper nnd had fallen, hli foot catching In tho "trip." 'Mr. Kennedy Was known as one ol tho most unlquo characters in Mon-tnnn. Mon-tnnn. Ho wns born in Grant county, Wisconsin, and wus taken by his fa tlicr to Clayton county, Iowa, the fol-, lowing year, whero ho remained until 1853. At that tlmo he started overland over-land for Oregon, walking tho cntlro dlstanco and swimming every river from tho Mississippi. Ho arrlvod in Oregon tho snmo year and Joined tho forces In tho Kogue River war, for his services In which the Oregon government govern-ment still owes him $180. H,e carried car-ried tho first Indian scalp into Yroka, Cnl., and received a bounty of 29(, He went from California to South America, thenco to Now York nnd later to Kansas, whero he served In tho second battalion, Kansas volunteers, volun-teers, during Uie war. Ho carao to Montana in 1SC4. |
