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Show sBsssHsssslssBI mfWffmwmwmmmmmM TRAGIC DEATH OF NOTED PIONEER James II. Kennedy, Famous All Over the West. Falls Under a Reaper. Atcldent Was Discovered When ths Horses Came to the House, Drag glng In Their Wake tha Dedy of tho Aged Pioneer. Itoieinan Mont Jiimcs II. Ken-f.fcly. Ken-f.fcly. uai-d 71 years, one of tbo most SMuri pie pioneer, not only of thl Die hut of the entire west, reaching Ho Purine coast, met a violent eaili nt Ik-lgrade, hear this place. II had been nulstlng bis aon, lien-Jan lien-Jan in Kt iiiiihI) In n wheat field and litd 1 1 ' n left with a team and reaper v.bll the aon returned to tho houio for i" me binding twlno Tho latter lud bunly rearheil llio houso when be wis followed by tho horses and reaper, dragging In their wago tbo dtnd hod) of the aged plonocr. The old idiiii had evidently bad a pirilal paralytlr slroko whllo oa tin test of the reaper nml had fiillen. Ills fnot ritihlng In the "trip " Mr Kiniied) wa known as one ot the most iinitifl character In Mgn-teas Mgn-teas He waa born In flrunt county, Wisconsin and whh taken by hi fa' ther to Claston county, lown, tho fob losing year where he rcmnlned until 3U.1 At that time ho stiirlcd overlaid over-laid for Oregon walking tho cntlro tlletunre and swimming every rhcr from thn .Mississippi Ho arrived In Oregon Ihe mine year and Joined tho forces In the llogim Illvor war, for hi wlces In which tho Oregon government govern-ment still owe him 1130 Ho carried car-ried the first Indian ecnlp Into Yreka, Cil, and recehed a bounty of $260. He went from California to South Asiertrn thenco to New York and Isler to Kansas where ho served In tbe second Imitation, Knnsn volunteer volun-teer during thu war Ho cumo to Montana In 18(11 |