Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-02-15
SOME OF DEATHS D0INGS.
Judge 7. ". Healy and Col. E. D. Boyle
Pass TO The Mythical Beyond
Serious Calamities at Reno.
CARSON CRY, New, Feb. u, 1902.

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Tonopah does not have a monopoly
of all the death happings in Nevada.
Sunday morning last, old Judge
I, w. Healy, who has been a promi-
nently well-known feature of Nevada,
and especially of Carson for the past
- or 30 years, concluded to pass in
his checks, and he did il with a 49,
caliber bulldog revolver, the bullet
going through his head from temple
to temple in good effective style.
He did it at his room, lying on top of
his bed, fully dressed with his boots
on and his death was doubtless in
Simultaneous The cause of his sui
eide is variously attributed to a com
bination of adverse and destitute cir
cumstances, closing up with reckless
dissipation the last three or four
weeks. He gave his age at the last
election as "a, but that was a mis-
take for he was not less than a.
He was a native of Ireland, and
pioneer of California, and came to
Nevada in 1862, and leaves no i'm
mediate relation, but plenty of per-
sonal friends who liked the old Judge
for his geniel, friendly disposition.
He never amounted to much as a
lawyer, but has held positions of pub
lie trust, and was quite prominent in
democratic politics, and figured to
some extent as a poetic writer He
was dear lover of women, but was
never married.
On his desk was found his last will
and testament, leaving 5000 acres of
land on White river, ia White Pine
and Nye counties, the title to which
lapsed for taxes years ago, to his
dear friend Harry Day. of Carson,
and his poetical copyrights to Pro
fessor Howe, all of which really
amounts to nothing. The Judge was
always a delout Catholic, but by his
suicide act, he literally shot himself
out Of the church, so he had to be
buried by private subscription among
/ his friends
Colonel f. D. Boyle whom we have
known so well for many years as a
prominent COmstock superintendent
and mining man, died of pneumonia
Sunday afternoon at Dayton On
January 2, he was the victim of a
runaway-te accident on the Como
road, wherein his companion, W. H.
McQuarrie was killed, and the Col
onel received injuries to his head that
almost proved fatal, but he had
nearly recovered when the fatal pneu-
monia got him. He was about 60
years of age and leaves a wife and
son, the wife herself being now down
with a severe attack of pleurisy or
pneumonia.
His remains passed through to
San Francisco last evening for burial,
accompanied by bis son. He was
always prominent Mason, and a
member of the Commandery of
Knights Templar at Virginia, and it
was arranged for strong delega-
ton of them to accompany his re-
mains to the bay city, but his wife
who is a devout Catholic persuaded
him in his dying moments to renounce
Masonry and be baptized into the
church.
And now Reno has broken out with
/ the smallpox, and worse scare pre-
walls there than you have had in
Tonopah with pneumonia. The pub
lie schools are closed, the State Uni
versity quarantined and the Board of
Health orders that every man, wo-
man and child shall be vaccinated,
Indians and all They may even
have to shut down the Wedekind
mine. The big Riverside Touring
mill of that place was totally de
stroyed by fire night before last
ALT DOTEN.