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Show GEORGE M'CORNICK DEAD. Attack of Heart Trouble Carries Off the Veteran Mining. Operator. After battling bravely with an acute attack of heart trouble for over three weeks, and in the face of the best care : of skilled physicians and trained, nurses, George. A. McCornick. the veteran mining operator, passed peacefully away at the home of his brother. W. S. McCornick, at 4:20 yesterday afternoon. The funeral will occur at 5 o'clock this afternoon frem the McCornick residence, upper Main street, and interment will be in the family plot at Mount Olivet, at the close of the service, which will be conducted by the - Rev. Mr. Paden of the . First Presbyterian church. Few mining men were better known in he far west than was George A. McCornick. Mc-Cornick. Born in Canada a little over fifty-nine years ago. he grew to sturdy manhood and then decided to cast his lot in the. mining regions of the western states. He went to Nevada in 1S66 and after spending a few years in the Mono and Reese river couniry, he moved into Idaho, where he has been almost constantly con-stantly for the past twenty years. Five years ago he wws taken down with a severe attack of la grippe that left his heart weak, and whQe he continued to look after his properties at Rocky Bar, Willow -creek and in- the Wood river country, his task was a. hard one. though self-imposed. He -was up in that country coun-try when he was stricken with the illness that proved his last, .and it was at the urgent request of his brother that he came down, for medioiil attention. He was a man of quiet, almost reserved, disposition, dis-position, but of a character to make and hold friends in all walks of life. He will be missed and mourned among the old-timers old-timers all over the coast. |