The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-04
DAVE DAVIS FUNERAL
Pathetic Story OF the Murdered
Mans Affection for His Mother,
Who 10 Frustrated at News OF
Her Son's Death,
special Correspondence Of the standard.

special Correspondence Of the Standard.
BUTTE, Aug. 3.-The funeral of David
Davis was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon
from the house Of his brother on East
Broadway. The funeral was very largely
attended. The house was filed and
many were compelled TO stand outside.
The services were in charge of the Ma
IONS and Bricklayers union, of which the
deceased was n member. After q prayer
and o few appropriate remarks from the
officiating clergyman, the procession
formed shortly after B O'Clock before the
house n moved slowly up broadway TO
the "a music Of q dirRe played by the
Orion band. At Main street the process
sion turned down toward Park street,
then turned again down Park street and
thence proceeded to h cemetery.
Davis was a young man not yet "A years
of age. As has been already intimated,
he was a bricklayer by trade. About W
years ago the deceased came TO the West,
leaving a mother in Johnstown, Pennsyl-
vania, and n fiancee still further east.
He came against the strong protest OF his
mother, who, like most mothers, felt sure
that her son would never return. The fear
in her case was destined to he realized.
As IL was, the mothers protest was over
ruled in the interest of her h was to be
the wife and Davis came west.
The months had YEARLY gone by and
at last Davis found himself in circum-
stances to marry. In October, had he
lived, he would have returned to the east
and claimed his bride. Only a few days
before In accident he had received
from her n packet containing various
little tokens of affection. On Monday
and on Wednesday Davis wrote his fam
Gee, informing her Of the danger in
letters, the friends are hourly expecting
an answer-an answer addressed to one
long cold in death.
When the death occurred yesterday
morning dispatches were sent To The
mother and flancee. and have al
ready been received from both. The first
reply from Johnstown conveyed the sad
intelligence that the mother, already half
i'll with anxiety over the news contained
in letters written her before, M COM
pletely Frustrated OH hearing OF her sons
death, and had been unconscious for some
time when the reply was te~legraphed.
The other telegram was answered by the
mother Of the young lady, who said that
her daughter was away from the house
and could not Immediately know the
dreadful truth.
tits feared that Davis mother cannot
survive the shock she has received. She
desired the remains sent east but this
was deemed impossible. The mother Is
one of the few survivors OF the Johnstown
flood. At the time Of that disaster Davis
indicated his affection for his parent by
sending To her dispatch after dispatch OF
inquiry when II was clearly impossible TO
receive any reply. Davis had a cousin
drowned at the time.
Little can he learned about Evans to-
night. He Is saidt 10 he feeling very badly
but still manages TO maintain his self
control and nerve.
Last evening in attempting 10 express
himself to Deputy Sheriff Richards,
Evans broke down and sobbed like a
child. He can only with difficulty be
prevailed upon to take any nourishment
Evans has a wife and five children, who
must share with him the consequences OF
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