, 1906-07-05
NATIONS BIRTHDAY MARRIED BY
ENDING OF HUMAN LIVES
AND INJURIES OF
OTHER CITIZENS.
Pioneer Citizen of City Takes His Own
Life in Fit of Temporary Aberra-
ton of Mind and Alien Employe
of Railroad Company Meets Death
in Accident-Railroad Man Re-
ceived Powder Charge in Face.

Tragedy went hand in hand with
mirth and patriotism yesterday, and
the joy of the people was mingled with
sadness in some households. The
news of the death of John H. Morris
in his lonely cabin in the mountains
was told in The Republican Tuesday
afternoon, his Borrowing family here
mourning not alone that he had died,
but that he had died the lonely death,
his forehead unsmoothed in the last
moment by loving hands, his last
words whispered into the ear of those
he loved as the angel of death claimed
its OWL, his path to the grave not
strewn with the tears of wife and
daughters. His body was found as it
had lain for a fortnight or more, the
face to the wall, the limbs in a ma
tural position, as though Mr.. Morris
had gone to sleep, as indeed he had,
the waking coming for the soul in the
great beyond, the body left to be re-
turned to the earth from whence it
came.
Death of Charles Nissen.
Another home was saddened by the
untimely death of the husband and
father, the angel being summoned by
his own hand. Charles M. Nissen, the
veteran barber and longtime citizen,
was found hanging in his woodshed,
the cruel knot without question the
work of his own hands
A Japanese section laborer, but re-
Gently from the land of his birth be-
yond the sea, unused to the ways of
the new great world, met death by
accident while in the pursuit of pleas
ure, the charge from his own gun
finding an instantly vital spot, and
he poor fellow dropped in his tracks,
his spirit winged its way to the world
beyond.
There were numerous accidents of
a less serious nature, a hand wounded
here, a face SCARED there, a finger
torn yonder and some minor bruises.
Accident and fatality stalked abroad,
as they do on all such OCCASIONS.
Systematic Attempt at SeIf-Destruction
Mr.. Nissen, who was the Oldest bar
Der in the city but one, and VINO has
spent almost a third of a century in
the city, tired of his long suffering.
and taking advantage of the absence
of htr urifn I'D trrN hr;-Lt 1;tt1. --,,-l
tiers, cut a piece from the family
clothesline, and knotting it to a beam
overhead in his wood shed and slip
ping the moose around his neck,
dropped to eternity. The deed was
performed during the afternoon, at
his home, 60 south Fifth street, be-
tween 2 and $3.50 Wednesday after
noon. Mr.. Nissen had been i'll for
several days, his condition for months
having given himself and his family
much concern. He was forced several
weeks ago to sell his barber shop and
go to Denver to have an operation
performed. When he returned he was
believed to be better and did oc-
%casional work for Chris Tegner at his
barber shop on Grand avenue. For
the past week he has not worked, and
yesterday seemed too weak to walk
across the He had hard trouble
in going to the hydrant for a drink
and a neighbor assisted Mr.. Nissen
to a lounge in the front room of his
residence,, where he could watch the
passers by to the celebration at the
city park, two or three blocks away.
He had been lying down in his under
clothes, and when Mrs. Nissen and
the neighbor came to assist him to
h sofa he donned his pantaloons and
a pair of shoes.
Sends Wife and Babes Away.
After the MONDAY luncheon he pre-
vailed upon his wife to take their
children to the park, promising to re-
main on the lounge and watch people
pass, hoping to catch a few minutes
sleep. 1t is presumed that no sooner
had Mrs. Nissen and the girls set
out for the park than Mr.. Nissen be
gan his preparations to end his life
Strength returning temporarily, in o
fit of mental alteration and physical
suffering, he made his way to the
back of the yard and iuto the Goa
shed. The shed consists of three
rooms, separated by partitions. In
the first Is the coal bins, in the sec
Old being a heap of kindling. Across
this room Is a beam seven or eight
feet from the floor. By standing OF
a bench Underneath the beam, Mr.