Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-05

anoe Eseorting the Hearse-His Wi
and Estate-Genuine sympathy To b
Found in q Mining Camp.
Funeral services over the remains OF til
late DR.. Bishop were held at the house Q
tbe deceased on Granite street yesterda,
.,orning. The rooms where the casket Ia,
we're crowded with mourners and citizen
come to pay their last respects to the mai
vbom, in life, everyone had a kindly wort
,or. The Rev. Messrs. Blackiston an,
Marshall performed the simple and unpre
~tsutious services OF the Episcopal church
interrupted only by the grief Of the mem
hers OF the family. The casket was PLACED
IN the hearse and the pall-bearers tool
their places ON either side Of the vehicle
accompanying it on foot to the depot. Il
was preceded by representatives OF severa
s%ocieties with which the deceased was afili
ated: The Knights OF Labor, 80 members
20. U. w., 80; Select Knights. 10; P. O
6. A., so; Turn Verein, 20; Sons OF Veterans
10: G. Ar, IL. The Sons OF Veterans and
Select Knights were in uniform, the Others
wore badges. Tit Turn Verein and p. o
s. A. had their flags borne in front of then
draped in mourning. When the sad pro.
cession reached the depot DIR. Marshall
recited the De Profundis as the casket was
nlsced in the box and the mourners and
some Of the p~all-bearers stepped on board
the train. So passes from the midst of us
the last that was mortal OF DIR. Bishop,
"After life's fitful fever he sleeps WE'LL" a
week ago he was a living, buoyant person.
atty, full OF life and activity. In a few
hours his body will be restored to it's
mother earth, and nothing remains OF him
but q memory.
THE WILL
of the deceased was filed yesterday. 1t is
dated July 10, 1883, and was made at the
time that he had met with a very severe
accident on the 4th of July. By it he be.
oueaths to his wife, Mary w. Bishop, all
his property real and personal, without
any provision for the children, and ap-
points his wife executrix of the estate.
Speaking of this to a reporter, a gentleman
quoted the section OF the Probate Practice
Act concerning wills, and said the docu-
ment failed to comply in an important
particular with it's provisions. According
to section ACT, where a testator dies leav-
lng CuuuIOhJ II nO uCblIC6 W U6Qu6aUl Ills
property to his wife, the children must be
mentioned each by name with a devise of
one dollar to each and leaving the re-
uainder to the widow. 'The will is mop
eratvs on this account" said he. "As it
is, the estate is as though no will had been
made. The widow receives her third and
the children the remaining t~wo-thirds.n
There was also filed in the Probate Court
yesterday a REIMBURSEMENT by the widow,
Mary W. Bishop, OF her rights to act as
executrix, and nominating James A. Muir
ray as administrator of the estate with
the will annexed to act in her stead. The
Hon. W. w. Bishop, the brother OF the de-
ceased, filed a certificate that Alva c..
Bishop left him surviving his wife, Mary w.
Bishop, and the following children: Mary
Bishop, aged IL; William l.. Bishop, aged
10, and Lola Lorain Bishop, aged d.
1t was arranged finally before the family
left that they should go to Carson, Nevada,
for q month, after which they will proceed
to San Francisco, and make their home
there, where the deceased's brother, Hon.
W. W. Bishop, is engaged ia the practice of
law.
HIS ESTATE.
In conversation with a reporter before he
left the Hon. w. W. Bishop said that the
estate Of the late DR.. Bishop would prove
to be in better shape than he and many
others had supposed. This will be agree
able news to the many friends OF the de-
ceased. Mrs. Bishop said that Topsy
Bishop had kept her iather's books for the
last two years, and that his ~accounts were
in fair order in consequence. He stated
that the doctor had $13, 900 insurance on
his life, $4,000 in the New York Mutual,
$4,000 in the New England Mutual. $4,000
in the order OF the United Workmen and
$1,000 additional in a certificate from the
New England Mutual. This was all in Mrs. |
Bishops name and goes to her exclusively
Tree from any incumbrance. He had looked
hastily into his brothers affairs and on q
rough estimate was OF the opinion that the
property here and elsewhere, OF which the
doctor died possessed, would pay all in |
cumbrances upon it and leave some thou
sands besides. There are no doubt many
Of the Doctors fees from patients uncol-
lected as he never was a close collector and
was almost Indifferent to his own interests
in this respect. "But the estate being in
such excellent hands here as those of Mr..
Murray" continued Mr.. Bishop, II have
the consolation OF knowing that it will be
attended to as closely and effectually by
AiW NO Il OOuIu HybOll, dAu Uubu i OuO Cuu |
the family will be better off then / had |
hoped for. l cannot begin to express the
obligations | am under to everyone here in
Butte for the kindness showered upon
the family in their distress and affection,
and shown the personally. But in my ex-
perienCe Of the West, and it extends over
many years and in many sections, | have
always found that if you want to see spon-
t~aneous, unaffected sympathy with grief
and affection, you must 60 to a mining
camp. There the uncertainty OF life is
brought home SO powerfully and frequently
in accidents. and the people OF them see so
many sudden bereavements, and all have
more or less suffered in that way at one
lime or other, that a genuine o~utpouring
Of warm, honest feeling comes to pour it's
balm on the sufferer by a sudden and I'M
expected taking off, and their kindness to
the survivors goes out from the heart more
generously than anywhere else. This l have
have had an experience OF myself now, and
am unable to tell you how inexpressibly
consoling to us it has BEEN"
THE TUT vEREIN's RESOLUTIONS.
The following are the resolutions dr avn
up by a committee OF the Butte Turn
Verein and presented to the widow OF the
late DR.. Bishop on Sunday evening: