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Show WITCHER JONES. The death of Witcher Jones is most pitiable. He had been struggling for years to complete j an arrangement which he believed would insure the launching of an enterprise of vast and lasting significance to "Utah. A month ago he was sure I that fruition was close at hand, that not only was an independence for himselT secured, but that there would be places for five thousand more workers in Utah. He had fought through many disappointments before, but when this last vision went into eclipse, his weakened heart had not the strength to longer go on with Its work. Witcher Jones was a gifted, genial, most companionable com-panionable man; in his youth he was one of Morgan's Mor-gan's devil-may-care wild raiders, but he was a through and through American. Appomattox not only ended the war with him, but In the cup of his soul no lees of bitterness were left. When the bloody struggle was finished he accepted the stern arbitrament without reservation and went to work in prood faith to wipe away the tears, to bind up the wounds of the war and to make the divided land one again. In his family he was loved better bet-ter than are most men, and his death to his wife and daughter is a catastrophe Immeasurable. May Gor help and pity them and send them his Peace. |