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Show uo CIVIL WAR VETERAN IS DEAD AT BOISE lit USE. Ida.. Se pt. IS Thomas Nltchen. s:, years nf agr, a veteran ,,f the blvll war, died at the Idaho Soldiers Sol-diers Home here today. He wfl 0 native f Ohio, moving later to Missouri Mis-souri and thence to Kansas, In which state he enlisted in Company u, sixteenth six-teenth Kansas cavalry. Mr Nltqhen was tin early frlen I r Alexander Graham Hell. Inventor of the- telephone, anei he- has frequently told of how he demonstrated to Bell years ago the sound could be truns mltteel from ene end of a tree to another an-other through the scratching on or.e end. Mr Nltchen sild he belo ved that his demonstration may havt had something some-thing to do with the dlscovcrv later made by Bell. |