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Show ROUGH "lIFE IS EtiflED James M. Hamilton Dead by His Own Hand. TROUBLE AND DRINK CAUSE Lotifr Spree Termlnnted by Rifle Shot In Livery Stable Yesterday ForenoonSaid Fore-noonSaid to Hnvo Come From Mackay, Idaho, rind Believed He Had Troublo There Spoken of as a Fighting Man nnd Had Many Wounds Lenves Several Relatives ln Utah and Idaho. (Saturday's Dull) ) The cloning c,a i,r t10 bl.torj of Jamea M llnmllton, a miner whn blew hi" bralna nut jesterda) atternoon In the livery atablo run by N M Sheela nt 10! West I'lrst South street as the tormina-lion tormina-lion nf a long spree and I imlly troubles was In keeping with the rest of Ida life and marked the eliding of u wild career of ellaalpatlon that waa Interspersed with manj personal roulllcta, tho marka of which his bodj bear TI MID AliOt'T MACKAY While sitting in the office at the barn yesterday llamlllun la said to have talkeel much abiut Mackay Ida and In the midst of the conversation liu a. kid Sheets whether he had ever been In Mackn) I he latter replied thul he bad ami ad lint that l once knew a man thero who er much reremblid iho speaker llnmllton said it must hull been I. la brother anel . changed the conversation Ho nppeiirid worried that his companion was aequalnt-eel aequalnt-eel then, and waa notlcod to east suspicion, suspi-cion, looks ot the llverjinan during the remainder of tho Interview leudlng to a belief that he had been In trouble In the I Idaho town 101'N'n HIM DIIAD Hamilton left tho room tlnillj and re turned wllh a small cullbcr rin. which he hraiHll.hed above Ida head 1 he look upon tho itiHii s faco alarmed his hearers One of them asked ' What do jou think jon ore g.lng to kill wllh thif lie repllcel Oh don t be afraid fellow. It ln t loaded load-ed He then showed them tint the weapun waa empt) rhev went out n short lime after thl. and after the) had li.cn at work a considerable tlmo one of the men who wna within a few steis of Iho ofllce door heard the report nf tho gun and bursting through the door was horrlll.-d lo see Hamilton lying behind the .tovo Uiad and tho room tilled with smoke HAD I'AMII Y lltOt'HI.i: Tho bo.lv waa turned over to t nder-taker nder-taker Jnacph William Tailor lie remarked re-marked when he saw the bod) that the mall had only the day beforo lie. n to him and tried to buy a horse 'Iho bodj la being held until the man a frlrnda nnd family determine, what .hall bu done with II lie haa a father John Hamilton, living; liv-ing; In Hcbcr t'ltj, and It la expected that tho body will bo tuken there for burial Hamilton haa a brother named Hubert In Mackaj and nnuther. Joseph who la work lug aa n miner In the lei. graph mine In Hlngham The dead man had been twleo married and la tho father of two children a boy nnd a girl tilt, children of hla tlrtt wife They live In Ced ir tit) He waa divorce it from his flrst wife, whn still ro-eldea ro-eldea ln the .outheru part of the Stute Hut u few mantha ago an latrangcmcnt grew between himself and Ida second wife nnd this la thought tn have had an Inlluenco upon his determination tn kill himself Tho accoud wife Is now living at New Harmon), In Washington countj WAS A KiailTlNO MN Ilnmiltnii has an adopted slater, who resides in Silt Lake at tho homo nf Ievl W Itlcbnnla P C street She la a full-blond full-blond Indian, though she .peaks the l.ng. liah language tiiie.'dy She gnca b) the name ot Annie llnmlltun, and s.i)s thu dcud man uiwuys called her his little brown slater' Bl.o was raised on Iho farm of the dead mans father, which la located abiut six miles south of iVdar ('It) It was uu his place that Jnmra Hamilton was born about 42 )ears ai,o, and most of hla life was spent aa a mint r 1'o.alht) no ono In Halt l.ake knew the man better than J McNeill Ut West bee. ond North who hnd known htm all hla life, and worked with him In several mines He su)s that about ten or twelve jears 111,11 Hamilton Uird In this lit), hut moved awa) hecause of hla resttesa and roving dlspoalllon Ho said that though he disliked to mention It, ho could not an) the man waa of a tieaeeful disposition for during the many jeurs he knew him llnmllton had ever been a hard character and frequently engaged In llghta He bears the marks nf having been wounded with bullets .evornl times, and the absence ab-sence nf part of hla right ear. which was bitten off In a light In Henvir rilv some j ears ago waa the ready meana McNeill hud of I lentlfylns tho man when he called at the morgue to ace the body jealcrdnj cterdn) In recounting hi" lalcr trov-cla trov-cla Hamilton told tho cmnloyeea at the .table Hint ho had tome down from Park I'll) with hla team, but McNeill aavs It Is certain he arrived directly from Iduho lliiinlltnii carried Ufa Insurance In a London companv, but whether 11 I" good In rasa of aulclilo la not known Jll.lleo Mel.cn decided Immedlotel) when he .visited .vis-ited Hie scene that an Inquest would bo unnecessary |