The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-12-29
STEvENsONS DEATH SCENE
The Novels. Died From a Stroke
of A~pop|exy,
Attacked White Making a Salad Dressing
-Had Becn liz Unusually Good
Iiealth--A New Novel AL
NEST Completed.

ARIA. Samoa, Dec. 5.-By Steamer
Arawa to San Francisco, Dec. %
Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist,
died of apoplexy OH Monday evening,
December 3: ut $40 p. IN. Abont O
o'clock the same evening, Lloyd Os.
bourne, Mr.. Stevcnson's stepson, was
seen in Apiu i~atless ind coatless in.
curing for medical assistance. For
lunately DIR. Anderson of II. NJ. $.
Waterloo was available and DR..
Funk, the locul physician, was
soon communicated with. Both
doctors FASTENED to respond to
Mr.. Osbourn's request for assistance.
Mr.. Stevenson Was discovered inseusi-
bic and breathing heavily and inter.
%mittantly. DIR. Anderson recognized
the symptoms of apop!exy and did all
he could to afford relief, although
aware that the case was hopeless. On
Dr.. l'unk's arrival further remedies
were applied but unnecessarily and
the patient lrcatlled his last ut the
hour above mentioned, never having
recovered consciousness.
The deceased was inferred on Tues
day between the hours of ] nnd ? in the
afternoon on he extreme summit OF
VI +, mountain. at the DOT of which
Nal.iIna is situated. There were about
twentc whites and sixty Sumonns pres
ent. Revs. /. Clarke and Newell of
ticiated.
From daylighs on Tuesday morning
y number vi Sumonns were engaged
under the direction of Nh. Osbourne
In cntting track up the
mountain side, the work be.
ing no easy one, as the
bush was dense and tho grade prccip.
itous. The funeral was not n public
one, only Il few friends beinginvited tG
attend it. Such friends, however, were
principally representatives of estab.
l;slied institutions.
Mr.. Stcvcnson's health of late had
been So much improved that the rela'
tivcs Ind hoped that his lung trouble
was ccasing 10 be absolutely dangers
BUS. For ~ long time heinorrhagos
had not been in evidence and
ali thought that the prediction that
tho 45th yenr being turned that thS
troubles of the lung would disappear
would be verified. Apopiexy does rot
seem to have been contemplated ut all.
The deceased being in, for him, robust
Iehllh, lItti paw liLolSh III III lOuS
amount of work lately, keeping hi3
sure. A very powerful novel which
would have been called either Tho
Weir of Hormiston." or perhaps 1.-THE
Justices Clerk was i'll progress and
about half finished and the author was
looking forward ~plcasnrably to its be-
ing launched into tire literary world.
Just before his fatal attack Mr..
Stevenson wns experimenting the
manufacture of some salad dressing.
Suddenly he felt pains in his head
and was almost INSTANTLY strucle
down. He vas carried into
the big ball room and laid on IL smnll
bcdstead which had been hnstily con-
veycd there. Here he reclined sur
rounded by his friends, and native SER
wants, who were nnSiously waiting
the end. During Tuesday morning the
body lay in the big room on it's couch
awaiting its removal to its final resting
place on the mountain top, l,20o feet
above the sea level. The face looked
calm aud composed. The departure
was mn ideal one for u poet. Sudden.
painless and in harness, sin the midst of
his loving relatives and surrounded by
the whole of his Samoan dependents
for whom he entertained so much affec,
ton, and then finally his romantic
grave, commanding an extensive view
of the land and sea and looking down
upon Nnilima and its loved inmates.
The islands arc comparatively quiet,
although minor disturbances among
the native factions are of frequent &C.
currencc. On the island SARAH, fre-
quent slsirmishes have occurred, but
as yet no fatalities lave been reported
to the authorities. 1t is certain, hew-
ever, that the representatives of each
side OF the political question are
jealousy watching each other. From
Lefaga in Aaun, the government
reports two rebels killed on Saturday,
LIST inst, but this lacks confirmation.