Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-06-20
PROF. GILBERT BUTLER,
FUND DEAD IN THE SAGCRRrxu
NEAR THE SHELTER.
seemingly Plain Case Of Heart his.
e"se-Anteceden's Of This Really Bril-.
liant Man-His Funeral Not to Talo
Place Before Sunday.

brown, County Coroner, was noti6et
that a dead man lay in the brush
about one and half miles north y,
town. lie Immediately repaired to
the spot, when he at once ident;.
he'd the remains as those of Professo,
Gilbert Butler, F. S. A., Principal Of
the Haley public school.
Deceased was lying in the brush,
about half way between the smelte,
and the lower road, his face covered
with his overcoat. His face and neck
were dlscolored, and there were drv
clots of blood about his nostrils. He
had evidently been dead for some
time. The freighters said that, while
out hunting mules, about 8 o'clock
last night, one of their number had
run across the body, when they at
once started for HALEY to notify the
Coroner. A freighter reported that,
about IL o'clock yesterday forenoon,
he had seen the deceased lying on the
ground; but that as he was we'll
dressed and there did not appear to
be anything wrong with him, he sup
posed that he had just laid down for a
rest. He is quite sure that deceased
moved.
Having made arrangements to have
the deceased watched all night, the
Coroner returned to Haley. This
morning, about 9 o'clock: the de-
ceased was brought to Wards un-
dertaking rooms, where he was put
on Ice, in order to keep him until
Sunday, when he will doubtless be
buried. the Rev. Mr.. Osborn (who is
in Boise City, having been telcgraphed
for to conduct the services.
The cause of death is unknown.
but is supposed to be heart disease
an ailment to which he was subject.
as well as his mother, who was carried
off by it, having been found dead in
her bed, one morning. He had been
missing since day before yesterday,
but was thought to have gone a.fsh-
ing, as he was fond of doing, and his
absence had caused no uneasiness to
his family. 1t is now supposed that
he started to walk in from Deer creek
and, feeling sick, cut across country
toward the smelter, where he expected
to meet his friends Jabez Chase or
Milton Pinney; but that, being over
come, he laid down to rest and died
soon after. The Coroner will hold an
inquest tomorrow.
The deceased was born in Ply
mouth, England, May 10, 1s47, and
vas therefore 81 years old. He was
'aised in London and at an early ace
graduated at the South kensinrton
Art School, winning the gold medal,
" highest prize, for drawing, and
Queens Scholarship" for either Ok
ord or Cambridge. He chose the
ormer, and studied theology, his pa
ents intending him for an Episcopal
clergyman. AS he did not consider
imself fitted by nature for that avoca-
ION, he soon lett Oxford for the
tudio of his uncle, Sir John Gilbert,
<. G. b., one Of the worlds most
oted artists, and piled the brush
while. Concluding to adopt teach
1g as profession, he came to the
United States in 1869, was elected
Principal of the State Nor
lal School Of Pennsylvania, and
ater was member of the
tate Board of Examiners. It was
'hile i'll this position that he became
cquainted with the Lady who became
is wife, and he determined to come
'est in order to earn fortune that
'ould permit him to support a wife as
c thought she ought to be supported.
n 1873 he founded the Healdsburg
Cal. Institute, where the classics, the
anguages, and all the higher branches
'ere taught. Some years ago he came
D Idaho, and has since conducted
chools in Owyhee, Boise and AIturas
ounties, where his acknowledged abil-
" as teacher, varied attainments as
man, and gentlemanly disposition,
1ade friends Of all with whom he was
rought in contact. While in Owyhee
e became an Entered Apprentice of
)wyhee Lodge, f. & A. NJ, and
lember of the Order of Odd Fellows,
ut ba did not ra,o,in l,pr auo,,rh RI