Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-01
ANOTHER PIONEER GONE.
Death Of ". r. Wllliamson.

one heard the same phrase IN SOTTo"iui
accents. Uncle Billy's dead The Old
man (if one may call a man Of fifty
seven DID, had been failing for some
time aud had suffered great deal from
rheumatism, but the immediate cause OF
his death was q curious one. While cut
ting q corn lately he cut too deeply. the
wound did not heal, and eventually,
modification set in. Mr.. Williamson
was born in Noble. Alabama, and CON-
menced life as IL steamboat clerk. He
afterwards b. came n notorious Wing
and, IS such. WAS very prominent in the
time when HARRISON and Clay caused
party feeling to run high. He came out
here in the ''Gold Hunter. in 1850, and
soon Afterwards built the Verandah, a
house that all old timers remember we'll
He vas connected with the Gold Bluffs
enterprise, which Was TO have brought a
return of $43 600. coo. but ended in
smoke, or rather In sand Mr.. William
sen subseIus ntly turned his attention to
politics, and was
BRODEhICx's RIGHT HAND MAN.
III. succeeded In making himself partlcu-
larry obnoxious to Milton s. Latham,
who launched bolts against him In many
. stump speech, declaring on one occa-
sion that if Broderick told him TO start
to China in tea chest, with a Ean,ikeE-
chief for sail. Billy would leave port
without word. His name viii long be
remembered in connection with the Bay
View Driving Park. which be laid out,
the funds being provided by William n
Lent. As an authority On turt matters
Billy WAS universally recognized TO stand
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be missed and regretted at meetings for
his character was cast-iron integrity,
which was never inpeached. Dogbe-ry S
character of Verges would well apply 10
him-'.An old man. sir. in faith honest
As the skin between his brows-" His
funeral took place this afternoon, and
vas largely attended. Nay he res: in
peace,-Sd. Francisco Post, Dec. %.
The deceased, in his day, was one of
the most remarkable men for veracity,
ready wit, the magnetism of hale fellow
ship and restless and available activity
that ever existed in or out OF California.
He was intimate with, and a marked
man among. that old and much wasted
set of men which embraced James Es-
tell, VIM. I. Ferguson, Jim Graham,
Leonidas Haskell. William Hawkes.,
Humphrey Griffith. Yincen. E. Geissr,
James Y. McDufiie, Charles Wes.moTe-
land, Vi. Turner, Charles S. Fairfax,
Il. John McDoug2l," John Bigle-,
Alex Wells, Hugh Murray. Ned Baker.
L. F. Tracy. James A. McDougall, Joe
Baldwin, Jim CofTroth and their con-
and companions of the army
Of the bles.. Indeed, Mr.. Williamson
was one Of the very last of a school of
old timers who, when they lived and
moved and took part in the public af
fairs of California made an average
splendor of political life such as nobody
ever saw since the brilliant days OF the
and such as nobody will
ever look upon again Such flush
time of Wit and riotous ability was an
reflex of the flush times in
gold dust; and splendid talents wasted
themselves and were burned ont 81 gen.
and constantly that lockers on
never took serious heed Of the dazzling
carnival. It will come, in time, to be
glorious thing to have been
one of these, and to have died holding a
place in the general recognition of
Of intellect and full manhood
khich they emphasized and embodied.
TO have known such q race Of men IS to
% made critical Of aspiring mediocrity
md impatient of tie noise of small abi,-
ties. The flashing sloquence of Fergu- /!
on and Hawkes.; the keen political |
Utilities Of Estcll and Geiscr; the vivid |
terary gifts of Baldwin and Westmore-
and; the gorgeous oratory of Baker and
Tracey; the profundity and easy carriage
# their learning by such great men as
lanes McDougall and Hugh Murray;
hese retrospects unfit him, part of
rhose valued experience they are. to
MEASURE with charity the far lesser lights
1 the commonplace and prosy present.
n his way, our dead friend was q peer
D this realm Of noble abilities The
imp of his uncultured but bright and
azzling Wit burned as wildly, in its
lace. as any of the rest Broderick
aousht out the grand strategy of his