Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-04-15
DEATH OF
'-"I3i BRoN7E N BuRGs7ER
Well Known Resident of James.
town, and Hotel Man, Dies
After Short Illness.

SO"us 0llu aAVSNA VAoAS DASo
After Short Illness.
Tuesday eve, at 10 O'Clock, occurred
the death of Bronte Bnrgster at the
! G Gladstone hotel. his death occurring
after a comparatively short illness
from peritonitis and complication
of appendicitis and kidney trouble.
He was taken seriously sick last Fri
day morning, when physician was
called to attend him, as he was
suffering with unusual pains in the
stomach and abdomen. His case was
at once seen to be serious and from
the first attack his physician gave
his friends but little encouragement
for recovery. Mr.. Burgster had only
recently been restored to partial
health following a severe attack of
pneumonia which sent him to his
room about the first Of February last.
He was laid up with this disease for
some three weeks, but pulled thru
and was getting along, as his friends
supposed, fairly well. He did not
however gain strength as he should
or as fast as desired. However he re-
turned to his usual work at the no.
tel, and attended to his duties until
Thursday evening last, when he re-
luctantly went to bed for a second
time. He was ambitious to be again
at work but was apparently not as
strong and able to attend to the same
as he believed.
Bronte Burgster has been con-
nected with the Gladstone hotel for
the last l6 years, most of the time
steadily engaged except during sever
al winters, when he made trips to
the south for recreation and health.
He was esteemed by his. employer
and his intimate friends, most high
ly, and is known to have been most
faithful, efficient and trustworthy as
sistant, as anxious for the success
and good Management Of the business
of others intrusted to him, as If it
were his own. He has been per-
sonally interested in the construction
of new residence for himself on 4th
avenue north, and spent some time
each week looking after the work Of
building.
Deceased came to Jamestown in
1881 and was first employed in the
firm Of Shoenberg Bros. He after
wards went to Medora, when the
Marquis De Mores was building his
large meat packing establishment;
and he also spent a summer at the
Norris Geyser, in the Yellowstone
Park. His father was Rev. Joseph K.
Burgster. whose death occurred in
this city.
Bronte, for short time was en-
ployed in the old Klaus House, after
which he entered the Northern Pa.
cific railroad service, and became
passenger engineer, running between
Mandan and Dickinson. He left the
road in 1894, and since then has been
connected with the Gladstone hotel
in various and responsible capacities,
being sole manager during Mr..
Klaus's absence. He was also engaged
in the sheep raising industry, in con.
nection with q partner, and estab.
lished ranch near Dickinson several
years ago, and stocked the same with
sheep. The business as "a whole has
prospered, not withstanding occa.
sional severe losses. He was man Of
excellent business qualifications, was
member of the Masonic order, and
the United Workmen, being enrolled
in the Mandan lodge, and also men,
Der of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers. He is survived by his
mother, Mrs. H. G. Burgster, who
has resided at the Gladstone with
her son for some time; and by two
brothers, Editor J. b. Burgster of
the Jamestown Capital and Nate G.
Burgster, in the insurance business
in Minneapolis. The deceased was
"A years of age, being born May 25th,
1865, at New Lisbon, Wis.
WILL BUILD 100, 900 GAL. TANK
The n. P. Co., will increase their
water supply for engines at Dawson.
and will build . 100000 gallon water
tank at that place. Supervisor Frank
Ingalls, left today to see the. work
started. There Is an abundant sup
ply OF good water at Dawson OBJ
tained from . deep we'll.
WILL PASTURE STOCK.