Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-12-29
STEVENSON'S DEATH SCENE
The Novels. Died From a Stroke
Of ApopIexy,
Attacked While Making "a Salad Dressing
Had Been In Unusually Good
licalth-A New Novel Al
most Completed.

hrIA, Samoa. Dec. By Steamer
Arawa TO san Francisco. Dee. %
Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist
died Of apoplexy on Monday evening
December 3, at $40 r. IN. About
o'clock the same evening, Lloyd Os
bourne, Mr.. ~Stevenson's stepson, wa:
seen in Apia hatless and coatless in
| curing for medical assistance. For
tunately DIR. Anderson of ii. NJ. y
Waterloo was available and DR.
Funk. the local physician, was
soon communicated with. Both
doctors FASTENED 10 respond TO
Mr.. Osbonrn's request for assistance.
Mr.. Stevenson was discovered insensi.
bic and breathing heavily and inter
mittantly. DR.. Anderson recognized
the symptoms Of apoplcxy and did nj
no could TO afford relief, although
awar that the case was hopeless. On
DR.. Funk's arrival further remedies
were applied but unsuccessfully and
the patient lreathed his last at the
hour above mentioned, never having
recovered consciousness.
The deceased was inferred on Tues.
CAV ltlNttI kiit iohiS vi i u = AZ Wv
afternoon on the extreme summit OF
VI mountain. ut the foot OF which
Nul.ima is situated. There were about
twenty whites and sixty Samoans pres
cnt. Revs. |. Clarke and Newell Of
fciated.
From daylight on Tuesday morning
o number of Snmoans were engaged
under the direction Of Mr.. Osbourne
in cutting track up the
mountain side, the work be
ing no easy one, as tho
bush was dense and the grade precip
itoue. The funeral was no a public
one. only II few friends being invited tC
attend il. Such friends, however, were
principally representatives of estab
liShed institutions.
Mr.. ~StcNcnson's health of late haC
been SO much improved that the rcla
tivcs had hoped that his lung trouble
was ccasing 10 be absolutely danger
Gus. For a long time hem~orrhage:
had not been in evidence ant
all thought that the prediction that
the ASH ycnr being turned that the
troubles of the lung would disappear
would be verified. ApopieNy does not
seem TO have been contemplated at all.
The deceased being in, for him, robust
health, had lut through an enormous
AMOUNT Of work lately, keeping his
arnauucnsis. Mrs. Strong, at high pres
sure. A very powerful novel which
would hnvc been called ci,her The
Weir Of llo,mis!on, or perhaps The
Justices Clerk" was in progress and
about half finished and the author was
looking forward plcasurably TO its be-
ing launched into tho literary world.
Just before his fatal attack Mr..
Stevenson was experimenting the
manufacture of some salad dressing.
Suddenly he felt pains III his head
and was almost instantly struck
down. He was carried into
the BIG ball room and laid on u small
bcdstead which had been hastily con
veyed there. Here he reclined sur
rounded by his friends, and native SER
wants, who were %anXiously waiting
the end. During Tuesday morning the
body lay in the big room on its couch
awaiting its removal to its final resting
place on the mountain top, 1900 feet
above the sea level. The face looked
calm and composed. The departure
was m ideal one for a poet. Sudden,
'l.4ilfFN Nl.As ~ itNl 10 "a II apiaob VI
his loving relatives and surrounded by
the whole of his Samoan dependents
for whom he entertained SO much affcc-
ton, and then finally his romantic
grave, commanding in extensive view
OF the land and sea and looking down
upon Nailima AMI its loved inmates.
Tho islands are comparatively quiet,
although minor disturbances among
tho native factions are Of frequent oc-
currencc. On the island SARAH, FREE
qucnt sliirmishes have occurred, but
as yet no fatalities have been reported
TO the authorities. 1t is certain. how
ever. that the representatives OF each
side OF the political question arc
jealousy watching each other. Flom
Lefaga in Aaua, the government
reports two rebels killed on Saturday,
LIST inst, bat this lacks confirmation.