Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-08-29

Col. Huger Wilkinson of Goldfield,
attorney at law and one of the old
est practitioners in southern Nevada,
dropped dead at midnight at the
Mizpah hotel Heart disease is sup
posed to have been the immediate
cause No inquest was held. He
was born in Virginia and was So
years of age. In his early youth he
became enamored of the west and
became cowboy in Colorado.
Col Wilkinson had been engaged
all day in the district court in try
ing the case of Sam, c. Knott VS..
NJ |. Thompson, about some mining
machinery on claims which Thomp.
son relocated and in which Wilkinson
appeared for Thompson. and at fre-
quent intervals he complained of an
oppressive feeling around his heart.
Nothing was thought of the matter
as the decedent had never entertain.
ed any thought OF heart affection.
The case was called during the af-
ternoon and after the hearing had
progressed for some time, the colonel
asked the court for further time that
he might look up some authorities
On this application the hearing was
continued to 1880 in the evening,
Court convened promptly and At.
torney Wilkinson did not appear for
five minutes. When he entered he
Offered most profuse apology in
his most courtly manner, explaining
that he had been troubled with indi-
gestion and that he did not feel
entirely well even then. The court
gave him further time and in five
minutes more Attorney Wilkinson
expressed his readiness to proceed
He spoke with all his old time unc
tion and force for an hour and a
half or two hours and then com
planned again that he was not feeling
well. His argument was couched in
good language and his points were
all well taken, falling to show any
: distress, but at the conclusion he left
court without further delay.
The attorney must have suffered
. keenly for he succumbed to the
). strain within a few minutes aftel
leaving the court house Attaches
of the court and several lawyers wht
remained to dispatch some minor bus
mess followed the colonel in tn,
course of ten minutes. AS the.
|. walked up the street toward tow
] the observed the body Of Col Wilkin
son PROSTATE in front of the Foulker
stein house, above the Comstock. H
Il was breathing, but not conscious
II taxicab was summoned and the su
is ferer hurried to the Mizpah hote
where Drs. Mcdonnell and McLeo
is had been urged to meet him.
le The patient was taken into tn
ID bar and stretched out on sette
'e but he was beyond human relief fC
he passed away before medical al
IN could be administered. The bod
lie was taken in charge by Tonopa
lodge of Elks as deceased was
st member of Goldfield lodge and take
~ to the morgue to await advices fro
It. the family.
re At noon word was received fro
Goldfield that the address of Il
is widow had been found and that 81
is would be communicated with at Sa
ia Cruz.
of Col. Wilkinson was one of Il
he leading mining lawyers of the stat
lie He had been on the frontier with Il
ne army from the early days of Dea
ss- wood and came into southern Neya
he with the rush of 1908. He was ass
to ciated with Judge Vermilyea a
Walter Shelton and their office W
to the scene of the largest transactio
le, in mines known to the early days
he Goldfield AS counsel for the Tor
en- pah & Goldfield railroad, Col "
les kinson had charge of the arranl
he ments and contracts by which t
Of headquarters of the railroad we
ill moved from Tonopah to Goldfie
big The citizens Of Goldfield paid
,ry railroad company a handsome bon
to take their shops and terminI