Mercur Miner | 1905-08-12 | Page 5 | A Correction

A Correction. Senator Dubois, of Idaho, tells of the case of a miner In that State who had been reported as dead by n number of the Idaho newspapers. It would appear that the miner had n keen sense of humor, for w 1th reference refer-ence to an obituary of himself which uppeared lu a Holse City paper the alleged al-leged dead man addressed the editor with a view to correcting certain misstatements mis-statements In the sold obituary. "My dear sir," wrote he, "relatlvo to tho obituary of myselt iipiarlng In our Issue of the 'JM ultimo, 1 beg leave to cull our attention to several errors therein. In the first place, I wns born In Massachusetts, not In Ithodo Island; secondly, the cause of my death was not heart disease." Collier's.