Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-09
Aldridge, August 6.

Mountain Branch O6aee.
- Aldridge, August 6.
Saturday noon DR.. 6. E. Leard Of Liv-
angston arrived here and impaneled the
following as a coroner's jury to hold an
inquest over the remains OF Thomas w.
Thomas: Thomas Kane, foreman OF
jury; William Forsyth, Alex Hynd. Tom
OBrien, ST., David A. Thomas and
George Paul, ST., jurymen. Robert Orr.
Justice OF the peace, assisted Coroner
Leard In holding the inquest. Constable
Guide had charge of the jury, and
Clint Brown, the stenographer and type
writer OF Horr, o down the evidence
as given by the witnesses. WiA3aml D..
Thomas, George Owens e. J. Hughes
and Samuel Barrett, ST.. were the Wft-
nesses examined. The first two named
were the men who were working 4
mine near where the accident Occurred
and who found the unfortunate nan and
assisted in removing to the home OF his
friend Thomas FOremen. The hst two
witnesses examined are mine 'f0renaen
here. After examining the placS OF The
accident the body of the
and hearing the testimony of the Wit
nesses, the jury retired and soon brought
forth the verdict which was read BY
Coroner Leard in the presence bf quite
a number OF spectators. It WaAs to the
effect that Thomas W. Thomas was sc
cidentaily killed by the falling fqf rock
while he was working In b k1dridSe
mines Friday. August Sd, at 1:sD a. "a.
Death being a. result of self negligence
At $40 p. m. the funeral procession
was formed in front of the residence OF
Thomas Foreman, headed by the Aldridge
Silver Cornet band. Over n ndre
union men and a long procession of sad
hearted people started on the long march
to Horr depot. The touching strains
from the band made 1t still more solemn.
President Lenaghan chose the
as p~allbearers to accompany the corpse
to Horn and from thence to the Noun
tain View cemetery at Livingston:
Thomas Foreman, William D. Thomas,
Alex Hynd. David A. homa Thomas
Gibson and Robert Lewis. Joe Guide,
Tim O'Brien and Barney Smaltz acted
as marshals of the occasion and together
with the officials of the union they de-
serve great credit for the way in which
the funeral was conducted. The mem
bers of the Odd Fellows lodge, to which
Mr.. Thomas belonged, with the able as
istanc of Mrs. Ida Miller, did credit to
themselves by the way in which they took
charge of te corpse. So H.
The following spent a portion of the
day yesterday on the highest pinnacle OF
Montana, Electric Peak: Harry Gore, l..
ID, Glenn. Misses lillian Brandt n Sue
McCampbell on horseback: and W. G..
Williams, James Marble, Miss Edith An
drews and Mrs. Andrews by wagon. The
saddle horses were taken very near tne
top and Mr.. Williams drove the four
horse teams within about 80 rods 81 the
highest place. The party spent the hours
very pleasantly eating lunch and gath
ering overs and s~nowballs. Kodak snap
shots were occasionally fred. "a rts
Miss Sue Campbell Of this place re-
ceived am Invitation to visit w. 4. Hail
and wife at Cinnibar tomorrow. to be
present upsn the arrival of Miss Nc
Campbell's cousin and his wife, Mr. ana
Mrs. Barnett Of Humansville, Mo. hey
will come up on the park train tonorrow.
Mr.. Thomas Lenagl1an, president cot
the AEdrfdge Miners union, went TO Horr
and assisted in completing the work OF
organizing the union there. Fifteen new
members were taken in and John Carr
was chosen president and Nick Cara
secretary. 9-sf 81 D,
The undertaken, Mr.. Krieger OF Living
ston, has been in town the past two days,
he being brought up on account of the
accident Friday. "