Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-12-23
MRS. s. E. ELLIOTT DEAD.
Wife Of the Popular Ex-Dakotan DIE
Under Pathetic Circumstances.

4 Thousands OF North Dakota people
know Tom Elliott, formerly OF Ram
som county. The following 6rom the
News, pubadshed at Coulee City,
Wash, will be read with regret:
S T. M. Elliott, a well known stock
man of Okanogan county, arrived In
Coudee City Tuesday evening from
Spokane, where he buried his wife
Sunday last, and on Wednesday morn
ing took the stage for Brewster, near
where ds his home. While here his
friends extended sincere sympathy
over his great sorrow and the attend
ing distressing circumstances follow
ing the taking away Of his adored
helpmeet. E. g Y.
About month ago Mr.. Elliott,
.buoyant and happy, passed through
this city on his way to Nashville,
Tenn, with a big band of horses
which he purposed to dispose Of there.
En- route he arranged to have his mail
cared for at Hannibal, Mo-, and incl
dentalQy he informed friends along
THE line OF his mission Reaching his
original destination In due. time he
concluded, upon the advice Of friends
there, to take his horses to Charlotte,
N. C. Before quitting Nashville Mr..
Elhott wired the Hannibal postmas-
ter to forward his mail to Charlotte,
N. G.
On reaching the city Of Charlotte,
Mr.. Elliott received this message,
sdgned by a Lincoln, Neb., hotel man:
wire home. Wife dead" Without
taking time to reply MIR. Elliott
boarded the passenger train then
about to start west. Travelling two
days and two nights with that meagre
information from an acquaintance on
ly, MIR. Elliott finally reachedaSt. Louis
Saturday, November Is, FASTENED to
the Western Union office and asked
the manager, J. A. Weaver, to have
the Lincoln hotel man verify his first
message. Without moments hest
tatdon, after hearing Mr.. Elldott's
story, Mr.. Weaver opened direct COM
mamdcation witch the Lincoln office
and held the wire until the hotel man
was reached and who almost instantly
verified the first telegram with this
message which he had received from
Mr.. Elhott's foreman, John Moraz:
Locate T. M. Elldott, stockman. Wffe
is dead" G.
The last message removed all hope
i'm Mr.. Elliott's mind. His wife was
dead. He proceeded to Hannibal and
the postmaster there handed him two
kilograms and four letters, the latter
from his wife, then dead; the former
announcing her death. In transmitting
the Nashville dispatch the operators
made the signature read "E. M" In
stead of T. M. Elliott. This error was
responsible for the failure to locate
MIR. Elliott the same day his wife
passed to her reward. Mr.. Elliott
arrived in Spokane last Friday, the re-
mains OF his wife having been shipped
there few days previous She was
buried In Greenwood cemetery Of that
city Sunday last
Mrs Elliott died very suddenly OF
heart failure at home near Brewster
at $3.50 o'clock p. M, Thursday, Nov.
%. She had been On her usual health
all day, putting in her time writing
a letter to her absent husband and
paanahng. She was about to give or
ders to the men employed on the
ranch relative to some road work
which they were engaged in at the
time. when she was seized with heart
failure and breathed her last shortly
after being conveyed into the house.
Her maiden name was Ella Myres,
and she was born July rs, 1864, at
Nnnday, N. 7, where she WAS married
to Mt. Elliott December 10, 1892.
While on her wedding trip she slip
ped in stepping out Of cutter In
Spokane, sustaining internal injuries
In the fall from which she never fully
recovered. Mr.. Elliott was member
OF the Nordh Dakota legislature at the
time, and was also interested financi.
ally In Okanogan county. In the fall
OF 1900 she moved with her husband
to- North Yakima and few years
later went to Olanogan county DO re-
side. She was an artist OF rare abii.
ity, many of her cangases ADJOINING
a goodly number of homes from Wash.
tngton 10 New York. She was well
liked by everybody who knew her and
worshipOed by her husband.
Mrs. Elliott was a most deYout
Christian from young gir1hppd, 4
staunch member Of THE Methodist
church and dnce 1900 a frm beqiever
IN the power Of the Divine Healer,
having been wonderfully healed Of q