The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1896-03-12

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The Williams "News" informs us
that sheepherder, after several days
of assiduous spreeing in that town, fell
dead on the street just after staggering
out of saloon where he had been
drinking Truly. if one needs to apollo
gize for dying, this poor fellow had a
satisfactory excuse, and should be held
to no further accounting for his sudden
infraction of the rule that requires
every drinker of Arizona whisky to do
the necessary dying outside Of the hun
dred-yard limit This, we believe, is
one of the first instances on record
where even Williams whisky killed at
such disreputably short range.
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The writer is informed by several
ye.witncsses of this occurrence that 1t
was spoken of by several passersby as
sort Of unusual joke, but no less edl.
flying on that account. The idea that
it was a CHASTITY and shocking affair,
terrible in every aspect, seems not to
have impressed those who merely took
sufficient interest to cast curious
glance at the bloated corpse. What
does it amount to, any wayl Only the
crumbling clay of besotted sheep
herder. Only another victim to the
hopeless ambition of drinking the
whisky trust to finish. Hurry his
sodden body to the potters' field. 1t is
not an attractive advertisement, albeit
a mournful tribute to the efficacy of
forty-rcd.
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But, wait. Perhaps VIC have been
too hasty. The doctors have not yet
said that this poor fellow died from
drink. What is thisl "The physi-
clans say he died of heart failure" "
Reader, will you kindly strike out the
foregoing two paragraphs The man
died of heart disease, or heart failure.
We have wronged the innocent stimu-
lants with which he had been flooding
himself. We have no right whatever
to. say that he died from excessive
drinking, when AS matter of scientific
truth his heart simply stopped beating
Why, anyone can see what killed him
now. The only question that bothers
us at all now is, what use can there be
in the vocabulary for the thousand and
one diseases, complications and de,
rangements that have heretofore been
regarded as Deadly If a piledriver
happens to masha man out of all human
semblance it is now only necessary to
assign heart failure as the cause of his
death. If he is drowned, hanged,
struck by lightning Or talked to death,
all there is to do in the matter is to fEd
out if his heart has stopped beating, If
so, there is no use burdening the record |
with useless claptrap about what struck
him. Heart failure. Well, we won
der if anyone ever died of anything
else.
Nv
"Trilby" died young, and if the
poor thing was ever compelled
% confront so choice lot Of
'oozers as sat in front of Pa yton's com.
'any last Saturday evening, leering at
espectabls ladies, insulting the troupe
md disgusting everyone in their rushes
o "see man" between the acts, we
must congratulate the young lady on
he fact that Du Maurier killed her off
ust when he did. We do not know
he name Of the young actor who volun-
eered to lick the blackguard who inter
upted the play with his vulgarity, but
se commend the whole troupe for hav-
lg such one in their company, and
ssure them that his gentlemanly cour-
&c was appreciated.
W.
Every man who files an application
Or a position in the train service of the
1. X. & 7. nowadays has to sign a
ontract to the effect that he will alb.
tain from the use of intoxicating
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