The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-25

and an Acquaintance Apparently With
All Leading Kentucky Statesmen-He
had a story Which He Promised to Re
late But He Takes the Morphine Route
and His Lamp of Life Goes Out Forever
He was Well Educated and Always
had Money to Pay His Bills.
( Hob Milton has won his race and mas
gone to the great beyond.
I Few characters were better known IN
| Wichita than Hob. He was always IN
q good humor, that is generally speak
ing, and nothing could be said to make
him mad. About the man there was
an interesting story and he promised
several times to relate his career to an
Eagle reporter, but something always
turned up and the story was deferred
II was certain that the man had been
weIl-to-do al sometime and had been an
influential citizen in the blue grass
state. for he frequently received letters
from John G. Carlisle, Joe Blackburn
and Congressman Breckenridge
During the celebrated trial Of Colonel
TreckiEridge in Washington the Oh
man would come every day to the busl-
ness office and stand and read the cyl
dence and the day when Breckenridge
took the stand and told his story mad
der man than Hob it would have been
hard to ind anywhere.
He has done just what l told him not
10 do. g It is the last advice I will ever
give him. A man who has no more sense
than 70 take the stand in a case like
= M l.
teal oblivion and he will do ii. All
Brsck had to do was to keep his infer
nal mouth shut, but he would not, and /
would let him rot before 1 would turn a
hand over to help him"
This seemed to break Hob up and that
night he got as full as the prOverbal
owl and landed in the calabOOse. He
never seemed TO have much money
about his person and the next morning
when Judge Babb fined old Hob the en-
tire force were surprised 10 see Hob pull
cut a wad of bills and promptly pay his
fine. Turning 10 Rufe Cone ne said:
"Rufe thas * the last time you will
ever see me full. Tt is a shame for a
man raised like have been. One who
IS connected with the best families in
the United States should make a beast
OF himself. but when l read about what
lltll t5itt-k Lldil l-L Law - W liSBI Ildtht
out Of him just got full. Hereafter
will do like respectable people do. l will
get drunk and drown my sorrow, but it
win be on whisky I will hereafter use
morphine and cocaine. That makes a
drunk come out and yet people don't get
ONO it
There was not a question of history or
quotation that could be given that Hob
could not tell all about the details. He
made frequent visits TO Kentucky but
from that time on Hob gave a wide
berth to whisky and alcohol, but he be
came a slave to narcotics and from the
following dispatch received last night
by the Eagle Hob has ended his race
and passed away to the great beyond; a
stranger in a. strange land and his true
history VIII never be known
There was one thing certain and that
was that Hob Milton was not his real
name. but his right name was hidden as
was his identity.
The dispatch tells the sad end of his
Efe's chapter.
FL Reno, O. T., Feb. 24-(SpeciaL)-
The body of a. strange man about 50
years Of age, by the name Of Hob Milton
WAS found east of YOukon Sunday even
ing. An inquest elected the fact that he
was an opium and morphine fiend and
died from an overdose of the same taken
with suicidal intent.