The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-02
OUR DEER LODGE LETTER.
A Community In Mourning Over
the Death Of an Estimable
Young Man.
Special Correspondence of the MINER.

DEER LODGE, Dec. %, 1888.
Your correspondent is not devoit
of news items with which to contrib
ute to your columns, but in common
with everybody else in Deer Lodge
he has no mind to think of the com.
mon run of affairs. Our most es.
teemed young friend, Warren Kel.
ley, clerk in the bank, and second
son Of r. S. and Mary Kelley, of this
city, departed this life this morning
of diphtheria, after six days strug-
gle. Warren was an exemplary
young gentleman, aged sixteen years.
Not only was he the pride of his par
ents, but of the whole community.
Last Friday week ago the boy was
as we'll as usual and played in the
band at the skating rink. Saturday
he felt quite ill, and Messrs. Larabie
and Reed, of the bank, advised him
to 60 home and retire to bed. Full
Of ambition, and never willing to for
sake his post of duty, he finally
yielded to their kindly entreaties and
sought his bed. Drs. Mitchell and
Laurin were called in, and did every
thing in their power to relieve the
sufferer, but without avail. DR..
Laurin even remained with the pa
tent night and day, SO doep was his
interest in the case. Last Wednes-
day, DR.. Hough, of Butte, was
called over to consult with the at
tending physicians. His ideas
seemed to be in harmony with Drs.
Mitchell and Laurin. and he re-
turned home on the following day. |
But let me state here that DIR. Hough |
expressed grave doubts of the
young mans recovery and returned
to Butte feeling that his brother ply
sicians had desperate case upon
their hands. 1t is but fair to state
also that the physicians who waited
upon the patient had more than
common interest in the case, and left
no stone unturned that would re-
dound to his benefit. The family of
Bob. Kelley was raised here. and
everybody, without single excep-
ton, felt deeply interested in the
young mans case. And while we
give credit to the physicians for us.
ing their best efforts, it will not be
amiss to state that hundreds of !
friends also stood ready and willing
to render any service required. But
the poor boy, in the prime of life.
and with brilliant future before
him, in spite of human aid, has been t
to the other world. He
struggled manfully for six long
days and nights, but eventually q
called his parents to his bedside and Z
.Old them that he "wanted to 60 /
home." This announcement caused
The loving parents great distress, and ,
hey at once prepared to meet the
final result. So at five minutes be-
'ore o'clock this morning his spirit r
ook Its flight to the God who gave
t. All the business houses, banks,
stores, saloons, etc., closed their
doors at II o'clock to-day out of re-
'Pect for the beloved departed. The Il
bank, in fact, did not open its doors 8
this morning, but instead draped ''
hem in mourning. The funeral has a
'een set for 2 o'clock; the pail bear Il
'rs will be six young men, former a
of the deceased. The band, t
# which the deceased was amember, b
will turn out in full and lead the G.
procession with reversed instru- e
nents, the good mother Of the dead a
10Y expressing the desire that no Il
music be discourse6 on the occasion. c.
Your correspondent feels too deeply N
rieved to think of anything else to o.
vrite, and while it would be his u
'leasure to give the MINER a SUM- al
nary of the years dolngs in Deer 1t
lodge county, he hopes this will suf- q
Ice for the pre- cent JoEBUsH. sc
Furniture. y,