Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-18

 izen of Arizona for Al years and a prominent participant in the stirring pioneer-day events which are now his tory, died recently at his home, 195 South Main street-wheIe he had lived twenty-one years.
 His death followed a stroke of par alysis about a month ago, from which he never recovered. Up to that time he was familiar figure on the streets of this city. Those who did net know him were prompted to ask, for his fig ure and bearing attracted attention. and if the informant was an old-timer, the Questioner would get a thrilling story from the life history of John Dew. Burgess, soldier, globe-trotter, mine operator, pioneer, Indian scout.
 No later than the present summer, Captain Burgess donned his scouts uniform and participated in patriotic demonstrations peppering away at q snare drum with all the ardOr and wig or of youth. Up to the time he sui fered a stroke of paralysis his health was good, the result of his life in the open on the western plains.
 Captain Burgess lived at his hcme here with his adopted daughter. Mrs Maude G. Thomas, and her sister, Miss Annie Stevens. His wife died a mum. Der of years ago.
 Captain Burgess was an associate of the late William F. Cody in the de velopment of the Campo Bonita mines in the Catalinas. and as min ing engineer he assisted in the open s,,. z ,,,,-,, oro,,c dfrfIa,d pa,-iror m, in ae in this section. He was T years and three months of age at the time of his death.
 The funeral of Captain Burgess was held Monday morning, August 5, at 9:30 at the residence, and interment was in Evergreen cemetery. The ser vice at the residence was conducted by Rev. George T. Purves, and the Knights of Pythias had charge of the service at the grave.
 Captain Burgess was intensely pat riOtic and he was never more pleased and happy than when he marched with the younger generations soldiers and Boy Scouts on the streets of Tucson. His step was as firm as the youngest and his gallant old figure could not have been told from that of a young battler for democracy except for the flowing gray hair. worn long in the manner of the old-time scout
 Captain Burgess was instrumental in securing the donation of Senator Clark of S50OO for the silver service which was presented by the state to the battleship Arizona.
 Born in England
 Captain Burgess was born May 2, 1S47, near Exeter. England, his father being Irish and his mother English. His parents brought him to. America in his infancy and his early life was spent near Terre Haute, Ind. He ran away and enlisted in the Union army at the age of fifteen-and he found his element From that time his life was full of adventure. He arrived in the territory of Arizona in 1869, according to a biographical sketch of him in Col. J. H. McClintock's History of Arizo- na," and engaged in mining in the Prescott district
 Though his body was a palimpsest of wounds of honorable warfare, Cap tain Burgess had one wound that was llAlCleQ Dy an luCldu pTDleSt Mt Carson, named for the famous scout The boy was a pet of the captains home. One evening the boy imbibed an unusual quantity of fire water' and went on the war path. The cap tain started out to disarm him and the boy fired a shotgun loaded with bird shot in the direction when the captain was coming for him, and some of the shot entered Captain Burgess eye, putting it out.
 Biographical Sketch
 Captain McClintock's biography gives further details of his life in his His tory of Arizona"
 Probably no citizen of Tucson is more widely informed on pioneer life in the West and Southwest than Cap tain John Dewitt Burgess, who. as ar my officer, government official, pros pector and miner, has had ample op- pOrtunity to witness the varying con- ditions that marked the progress of the country's deyeoplment.
 His father was reared and educated in his native city of Dublin and for IT years was professor of mathematics in