The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-05
DIED ENRouTE HOME
John II. Just Died ON a NORTHWEST
e,n Train Wednesday Night
on Reaching Onawa.

on Reaching Onawa.
When Mr.. and Mrs. John f. Just
departed last fall for Pasadena, Cal,
to spend the winter months, they
had little thought that On their re-
turn trip a fatality would ensue. Yet
death overlook Mr.. Just as he was
on his way home from the coast
state. Mr.. and Mrs. Just were both
in poor health, she having recovered
but a short time before their depart
ure for California from a severe at
tack of typhoid fever, while Mr.. Just
had been poorly for some time be-
fore they wen to the coast, and it
was in the hope of benefitting his
health that they went.
Mrs. Just stated that they left Pas
adena Saturday, March 90, and on
taking the train at Los Angeles, Cal,
they were in a collision just as the
train was leaving the city, and when
the two trains met Mr.. Just was
thrown forward in his sea- and that
he undoubtedly received an injury,
coupled with his disease of muscular
atrophy, which caused his death.
They made the trip home with some
difficulty, and on reaching Onawa,
Iowa, at midnight of Wednesday,
Mr.. Just passed away in his berth in
the tourist sleeping car.
On reaching Sioux City the re-
mains of her husband were taken to
an undertaking parlor and prepared
for shipment to Mitchell. Mrs. Just
and her husbands body reached
Mitchell Thursday evening on the
1915 o'clock Milwaukee passenger,
and the remains were at once on
veyed to their residence at the end
of Third Avenue west.
Sketch of Life.
John F. Just was born in Milwau-
kee, Wis, May II, 1915, and at the
age of Ia years he went to Perkins
Grove, ILL.,, and remained with his
sister a year, returning to Milwau-
kee for another year. At the death
of his father Mr.. Just went TO Per-
kins Grove and remained several
years with his sister. In the year
1866 he went to Bradford, ILL.,, and
lived with his sister several years.
In 1859 he was married to Catherine
Hatzell at Lee Center, ILL.,, and he
and his bride made their home on a
farm near Ashton, ILL.,, for three
years, and then moved TO Ashton,
living there until the spring of 1882.
In that year Mr.. and Mrs. Just moved
out west and came to Dakota, locat-
ing on & government claim south of
White Lake. They lived there until
December, 1902, when they moved
to Mitchell and purchased the Bracy
home in the western part of the city.
In the death of Mr.. Just he leaves
a wife and four sons to mourn his
death. The sons are Geo. j. Just,
residing at Guthrie Center, Iowa, L.
Just, of Bagley, Iowa, Chas. l.. Just,
of Platte, S. D., and Earnest A.. Just.
of this city. The two sons from
Iowa arrived in the city Thursday
night, joining the mother at Sioux
City.
The following account of the death
of Mr.. Just and the surrounding Cir
cumstances is taken from the Sioux
City Journal of Thursday morning:
While on his way home from a
winter %sojourn at Pasadena, CAL,
John +. Just, a wealthy land owner
of Mitchell, S. D., died shortly be-
fore midnight last night in a tourist
sleeping Car on the Kansas City-St
Paul flyer of the Chicago and North
western railroad. Death TOOK place
just as the train vas pulling into the
town of Onawa.
Mrs. Just, who is a cousin of Mrs.
Henry Rinehart, of Sioux City, was
with her husband and she asked that
the body be brought to Sioux City.
Charles q. Sievert, conductor of
the train, and a number of the pas
sengers of the sleeping car, remained
by the side, of the grief stricken
widow until the train reached Sioux
City.
The police and Westcott's under
taking establishment we're notified
by telegraph to meet the train at the
Northwestern station. Upon arriv-
ing at the station Mrs. Just was
taken care of by Police Officer Frank
Harvey, who assisted her to the
Howard hotel. The body of her hus-
band was taken to the Westcott
morgue.
Mrs. Just Aaid her husband was
81 years of age and that they were
the parents of four sons, one Of
whom lived at Guthrie Center, To-;
another. at Platte, S. D.; another at
White Lake, and the youngest at
home at Mitchell. The mother bore
up we'll under her sudden weight of
affection except when she thought of
her sons and the sorrow their faith
er's death would bring to them.