Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-10-15

DEATHS ROLL CALL.
Jay Hall, Well Known Resident
of Miles City, Joins the Silent
Majority.
The Coroner's Jury on the Clark
Case Find Verdiit of Heart
Disease. /.
DEATHS ROLL CALL
Is Answered by JAY rInr'. on sunday NIr'.

i Answered by Jay Has on sunday Eic'.
On Sunday night abont midnight,
JAY Hall, u well known resident OF
Miles City, lrelthei his last, the
cause Of his death being, it il pre-
sumed conclusion If the brai
caused by una or more severe ftll-
that occurred during Saturday night
aud sunday. On Friday aud Satur-
day lat the deceased undertook to get
up Il celebration Of the rec mt republi-
can victory in this county, gong
Ground with n sub rription list aud
collecting money 10 hire the Fort
ks'gh band To come 10 town on Satur-
day night and play at the celebn'ion.
H was successful IN raising the mOoey
and bringing the hgui down, tut in
doing % got under The influence Of
liquor and on SATURDAY. nigh he be-
came engaged in adi<Yute with Deaf
Johns NJ which resulted in his being
thrown heavily to the gcound, his
heHd striking the sidewalk very forcI-
bly,. He wi4 picked up at one and
carried into the rear room of Wards
saloon and laid on the lounge, ON
which he afterwards fell on the floor,
remaining there during the night. IL
is reported that two or three times dur
ng the night he attempted to get up,
bu. would no sooner get on his feet
than he would fall again. each time
striking on his head. In the morning
he got up, came into the saloon, and
slier sitting there fpr while, eth, r
went up or was assisted upstairs TO his
room and went t. bed. Here he had
what attention WIS deemed ne?es-
sary, 1t beirg supposed that he wss
suffering mainly from the effects OF
drink, which would wear off in time.
During the early evening the sound Of
some one falling was heard from his
room. aud some parties who were in
the saloon hurried up stairs and found
him lying on bis back on the floor, in
sensible and with his head tightly
wedged into the corner Of the room, in
dicating that he had fallen with great
force and again struck bis head. From
this time he never rallied and expied
a. above sisted about midnight. After
the first fall that be bad. he was ration
Bl wheneve he woke up, as he was also
in the morning when he got up pre-
vIous to his going up stairs. Iuas-
much as the coroner is investigating
the cause of his death II is out OF place
here to indulge in any speculations as
to what caused or hestened 1t.
Although Mr.. Hall was well known
in town. but little is known Of his
antecendents or family. II is under.
stood that he was Of q very good fam
lily, had received a liberal education
and had read law In the office Of Sena-
tor Alger, of Michigan. FIom various
sources II has been gathered that he
went to California from New York
state about 1854. From that time un-
Ill 1868, or thereabouts, he operated on
the mining stock board in San Fran
cisco, and amassed fortune Of some
S2O0, 900, which he lost in the same
manner that be had gained II. Where
he went when he left California Is moi
known, but in 1875 he was engaged In
mercantile business at Richmond City,
Wis, where Mr.. J. l.. DeHart knew
him, and where, Mr.. DeHart says, he
was conducting prosperous business
aud stood high In the estimation OF
the people. In 1877 he sold out and
went to the Black Hills, where he re-
mainod until about 1854, when ne
came to Miles City, remaining
here ever since. His life here has
Indicated that through some act Of his
own he was separated from his people,
whom he would at times speak of with
the highest degree Of consideration and
express the deepest regret at his seper'
alton from them. Whatever the cause
was he evidently felt that II had raised
an impossible barrier between him
and .hem, and this no doubt so dis
couraged him rs TO prevent all effort tc
repair the social position that his birth
and education entitled him to. Hin
conversation when he was at bimsel
was both instructive and entertaining
causing bis friends to regret that hs
could not always restrain himself
aud maintain his manhood.
An ardent republican, he early In the