The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-09-26
h BY ACID OF
[Gp MINING MAN
eApLES OF COBALT
L,.1ep AT UNTlMELY
DEATH

sater usa with interment at
II the evening at Salmon
,les who was the well
",anrerintendent and founder OF
y the Haynes Stelite com
~ ~ On Friday last, as al
sno,Inced in this newspaper.
'nles and the rev baby OF
ssn r family came down from
& here the birth of the young
.oS nlace four weeks before
;rg of the father. He had
see the mother and their
only once and hurried back
ugrossing duties.
r Caples and Miss Laura
sisrer ard brother OF the de
uere arrivals Sunday even.
ber relatives came later
inc was placed in charge OF
Royle pending the arrival OF
kerlir from the home office
omo, Indiana, who was ex
Inward the end of the week
roperty has been shown te
valuable and will continue
Lyeloped, it is said, with the
esible interruption.
aples died of a nervous
Kn. The collapse came Will
kiety about the slow prog
the work he had in hand
krly his inability to secure
for the completion of the
Rctric plant he was install
was just after the noon houl
fell dead in one Of the camr
buses. He never spoke.
Understood that Mrs. Caples
two babies, will make theil
tith her mother in Missouri
Eudden and tragic end of {
promised so much for the
hg of an industry of vast pos
to the community, to sa.
OF its element of inexpres
krsonal sorrow for so many
who knew and loved jim
and for those near and deal
is most keenly felt.
notes were left, one asking
be foreman, Thomas Boyle
his wife at Challis and tn.
addressed ITO Whom it Ma.
recounting his failure tt
pod at Cobalt iE. the manage
the properties there. Thil
te to what the unfortunat,
broken mind dwelt upol
from facts ascertained sine,
Eh to have been called fortl
ppointmerts ir completing ;
ectric plant for Cobalt. 4
natter that was, too, but i
Jim to despair. The note tina
bore evidence of having beel
September 1S but the figures
ratched to make them a da,
appended is the note:
September 10, 1919.
hom 1t May Concern:
: is a final statement of a
|hat has been spent in the
to make a mine at the Co.
Camp.
writer has not had a
= sleep in over a month,
lnds that his mind is gone,
|sputation ruined. his family
Faced, and the life of a pers
Woman ruined.
look over the camp today.
per saw, heard of or read of
amplete a failure as faces
me whole thing is a dis
upon the face Of human
therefore to live would be
Y Y 10 extend the disgrace,
Assicaliy | am unfit for any
1Fss' even If my mind was
@ne worrying over the sit
~ My boys are TOO young
ssl ,sa the mental effects, but
~ |. upon the world as a to-
Y horrid crime.
sa'e the camp in charge of
sas Boyle, mine foreman.
squest that he notify the
any at once.
checks have been entered
Ia aave been drawn.
Wy \. my wife in Challis. Ida
\ 90 70 her mother, and my
~ russell B. Caples of
. rails, Montana, where l
sired him on the 18th to
- =. money to reach him.
- = are so tangled, my
! " aeranged that l can't
any service to either the
y or my family in the.
: s.a unly end appropriate to
!. 'asion as is to wind up the
~. VI a ruined person.
sa., ol spend any time with
mains, simply make a box
: ~, me here ON the ground
I soa .n the ruins, as a proper
!. .Of such a failure.
n.y., n.y. my family as follows:
No,. b. Caples, Smelter
s,osaa'ana; Mary w. Stock
M. rf y. Wells Ave. ST. Louis,
n ". Goff Caples, Ma
s;o, Lnslnners, Fort Sam
= Iexas. Gordon NJ.
b., barber "a Asphalt Co.
: re. a check of $500 to
I Tboof s OF kilograms, in fav-
81 ahomas Boyle.
A. never was a comnanv
better for a man hoya
q r,I. Ir.eciprocate. but failed,
! ,h;s whole life is wrapped
~ a.. property. l cannot live
! Iessoy, y TO all, and may this
: h. 70 all rot to bite off