WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN DIED LAST SUNDAY; APOPLEXY.
The former Democratic leader, William Jennings Bryan, died
suddenly last Sunday at Dayton, Tennessee. He was discovered
dead in "bed at 4:30 P.M, Apoplexy is given as the cause of his
death. He was in the best of spirits and expressed himself as
"feeling fine" when he retired shortly after luncheon at 1:30 P.M.
He had partaken heartily of the meal before retiring. Mr. Bryan
attended services at the Southern Methodist church before lunch.
A companion of Mr, Bryan passed through the room in which he was
sleeping and noticed him breathing heavily, he rushed for the
nearest neighbor, A.B.Andrews, who on reaching the scene summoned
Doctors W. P. Thompson and A.C.Broyles, who said Mr,Bryan had been
dead about fifteen minutes.
iwrb. ±<ryan ana the cnauffeur were in the house at the time, Mrs,
Bryan told McCartney, the Chauffeur, and Mr.Bryan’s personal
attendant, to wake him about 4:30 o’clock, McCartney shook him
twice before he noticed he was not breathing. Physicians and the
neighbors were summoned hurriedly. '
”1 am happy my husband died without suffering and in peace”,
said Mrs.Bryan. Citizens of Dayton were unable to realize that
the great Commoner was dead. During the morning service many
heard him in the church lead in prayer.
He was known as ”The Silver Tongued Orator”, virtually dominant
in the democratic party for nearly sixteen years, and was three
times nominated and defeated for the presidency. Then, like Elijah
of old, he cast his mantle upon the Elisha of Princeton and exert
ed a poten tin fluence in bringing about Woodrow Wilson’s first nom
ination to the office to which he, himself, had vainly aspired.
Known in his youth as the "Silver Tongued Orator of the Platte”
it was Mr.Bryan’s eloquence in his famous "cross of gold” speech
at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, in 1896, that
made him the choice of his party.
His career was likened to that of Henry Clay, who was three >
times nominated for the presidency and as many times defeated.
Clay, too, became a Secretary of State, and friends of Mr.Bryan
insisted that, like Clay, he was too,conscientious, consistent and
scrupulous for a politician, and that the famous Whig’s, ”1 would
rather be right than President”, well described the great "Commoner
THE RICHARDSON HIGHWAY TELEGRAPH STATIONS CLOSED.
A progr3.ni of retrenchment in Alaska has been inaugurated by the
War Department, with the result that six of the Signal Corps sta- if
tions along the Richardson Highway, between Valdez and Fairbanks
have been closed recently and the operators assigned to other
work. The Signal Corps office at Nenana also has been closed
and the business transferred to the Nenana office of the Alaska
Railroad.
The trail stations which were put out of business by the recent
order, include Salcha, Grundler, Baxons, Gulkana, Tonsina and
Beaver Dam. The elimination means that the men in charge of the
remaining stations will have nearly twice the length undertaken
during the winter months, when the wire is exposed to extreme cold
and heavy snow and tf/ind storms.
It is understood the Department does not contemplate any changes
in the stations along the Yukon and Tanana Rivers below Nenana.*
There are seven stations left along the Valdez trail.
-Cordova Times.
FOUND: 1 14 carat wedding ring at Post Exchange.