, 1888-02-16
Nathan BpShearS Found Dead
in % Cabin six Miles From
Town.
The Facts rs Learned mt tho
COrOner's Inquest.

Sunday night that II man living on
White Bluff prairie, about seven miles
west Of town, ON the Med Cal Lake road
was dead. The coroner and she iii ", re
notified and with ~ REVIEW reporter
LETT Tor the scene yesterday morning.
Various rumors had been put IN circu-
lntion AS to the manner in which the
man came to his death, the general
impession being that ho had been
ioully dealt wiIh. On arriving on the
gr- und jury was empanneled, and
the coroner began his Investigation.
There were several witnesses, viz:
S. McMeekan. Z. w. Bishop, w. II.
Parks, 4. w. Lloyd, w. G. Helm, Ed
May, and J. g. Whitney. The testi-
mony of these gentlemen was almost
the same throughout. That when last
seen the deceased, whose name was N.
Beshaers, was apparently in good
splits, although not entirely well ,hav-
ing been confined to his bed about
half the time since Christmas, ut
which times. he seemed to he
suffering from fits, and would at times
be out of his head. To
several he had mentioned
his intention OF soon going
home to his mother, Margaret Hor-
RIM, who lives in Fox Hollow, Oregon,
setting the day for starting on the
l2th, the day he was discovered dead.
The first to discover the body was
neighbor, Mr.. McMeekan, who, not
seeing him about the place, concluded
something was wrong, and on going
over and looking in the window saw
him lying partly out of bed. He then
went in the door aud found that lie
was lying partly in bed and partly out,
20 that his head and shoulders were on
the floor, with his head under the
shoulders. he then went and in
formed the neighburs. Had known
him since he had been in the county,
some three years. Appeared to be in
the best of spirits at all times, never
acting as though he WAS subject to the
"blues."
On looking about the room every
/ lIllIlS SctIIICO w NC III DtIltCJ
his clothes were neatly folded and
placed under his head for u pillow, and
his rifle standing against the side of
the room, everything tending to show
that when he re ired he WAS conscious
of what he WAS doing. On the mantle
above the old-fashioned fire place was
u small work basket, across the top OF
which lay adirk in its sheath. The con-
tents were aniscellane0us collection of
odds aud ends, among which were IL
lew cheap pictures, II couple of dishes
| and an envelope containing fishing
tackle. On top Of all this was found II
note, on opening which was found the
following request:
'"in case of accident please return
this box to Mrs. w. y. Raney, and
oblige N. BEsHEARs."
An examination of the deceased
showed no marks of violence. There
was a little blood about the nostrils
and the lips and shirt showed t"aces of
slight vomiting. At ethe request of
one Of the witnesses, Mr.. Joel McFar-
ing was called and sworn and testified
as follows:
The deceased, Mr.. Beshears, has
been making his home with me for
| the past three months. On Saturday
noon last Mr.. Bishop came driving by
and Mr.. Beshears rolled up his
blankets and came over here to this
| place; then lin about an hour he came
back, went out in the yard and caught
his horse, saving that he was going to
Medical Lake to try and collect some
money that Wa owing him there.
This was Saturday morning. Did not
see him again until about 9 o'clock
the evening of the same dav. There
had been quite IA rain, through which
he had come, and as he was wet and
| cold, l told him to sit down by
| the ire and dry himself while |
went out and put up his horse.
While was in the stable he came out
md pulling IA bottle from his pocket
off red me II drink, saying. take some
Of tn, juice Of the forbidden fruit.
" hen left Cheney had two bottles
(pin } al this is all / have left. I"
We inen returned TO the house, where
| we talked for some time. He telling
! me what II time he had had i'm Cheney,
| TO which place it seems he had gone
instead of Medical Lake) saying he
had been to the brewery and had had
| all the beer he wanted and then went
to a saloon, where he asked the bar
keeper "if he knew that there were
strangers in town,"to which he re-
piled "no." He then told him it was
| fact that he was u stranger and
asked him, the bartender, to drink
with him. He then got the bottles
! and started for horne. IL now being
somewhat late he said he was
going, and getting up took his rih,,
and was starting to go when l asked
| him ii he did not want some more