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Show FALLEN ASLEEP. jf ut News comes from Carson City, Nevada, of the J Jfl death of Aaron D. Treadway. This will have lit- kH tie significance to this generation, but he was a liM master spirit when the Comstock was discovered JjlB and for twenty-five years thereafter was one of $ uW Nevada's strong men. Clear-headed and shrewd 1 iff!B was he, gentle and kindly was he; men's charac- f.filM ters were an open book to him, a glance was suf- iflijflB ficient to enable him to decide whether there Irll was any "nutriment" in a man or not. There was ' LH no malice in his nature; he was always as genial -, PjjH as the sunlight itself, but he was never deceived. H kiifl He was a pioneer of both California and Nevada. iiH He was a middle-aged man when tne excitement flPlH of '49 was sprung; he died at eighty-eight not iflvJH from any disease, but because the machinery of SffB his body ran down, and stopped. He was a prov- PflflH idence to those wno needed friends around him, KHfl he never did a wrong in his life knowingly, he ttiiifl died without apprehension or pain or fear, end HHI uod rest his great old soul. ' HHH ' HHIH |