Bitttk,April ii.--(Special to the i tide^wendent J Wesley W. Jones meet bis^death this morning in a most peculiar man^ner. He waa lying ou a box at the Wash^inglon Brewery saloon, sleeping otT the^effects of li(|uor. The box waa about four^feet high, and Jones rolled off on the Moor,^breaking his neck.and his death was almost^Instantaneous. He screamiHl aloud when^he fell, but never spoke nor made a motion^afterwards. He was 47 years of age and an^old timer of considerable note His father^is president of an f ^hlo college. Jones was^brought up lu Boone county, HI., aud en^^listed at the outbreak uf the civil war iu^the Fifteenth Illinois regiment as a pri^^vate. He afterwards rose lo the rank of^captain of company l^ in that regiment.^He resigned In IHitti and came to Montana,^locating at'Keynnlds City. He was sheriff^of Deer Ltalge county tor four years, from^|M IB Milk He had but one failing drink
andthat cost htm his life, lie will be^tinned by the t. and Army post to-morrow
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sinKANK Fai ls, April II.^(Special to^the Independent. |-Mrs. L. C. Anderson,^residing at Logan Station, near Medical^Lake, cut her throat this afternoon with a^ItBBffi indicting a 'wound which doctors^think must prove fatal. The hemorrhage^was so excessive that ahe waa literally^b.ti lo d in blood. She li the mother of three^children, the youngest less than one year^old. She Is an educated Iady,of cheerful dis^position, and no cause has yet been dlscov^end for the terrible deed.
Mr.MeKnltfhl Nut ltr^poii*lhl^^.
