Through the surprising efforts of someone unknown, the death
by suicide of Mrs. Ada Otis, in the Van Nuys Hotel, Los Angeles
did not become known in Phoenix where the woman was wel known
till yesterday. Mrs. Otis took a dose of morphine August 4 and
died at the Good Samaritan Hospital four days later.
The cause of her death would probably never have been known
publicly had not her father, a wealthy resident of Chicago,
sent a detective to Los Angeles to investigate the cause of
her dath.
The dead woman left a single note behind her. It was addressed
to William Coleman of San Francisco who is also known in
Phoenix. He was here during last winter. He was at that time
a guest at Palm Lodge. Mrs. Otis was the divorced wife of
Thomas Otis who was associated with Colonel Epes Randolph in
mining interests in the territory in 1898.
Mrs. Otis spent some time in Phoenix where she was considered
an unusually handsome and attractive woman.
HIRAM ALFRED OWENS "CHLORIDE JACK"
July 10, 1909
Chloride Jack is dead. He has gone to the land of purple
shadows, over the adobe divide into the region of starless
night. Hiram Alfred Owens, known throughout all the western
mining world as Chloride Jack died July 7 at 7:30 in a
hospital at Prescott after a lingering illness of dropsy.
He was 66 years old and a native of Georgia. Surviving are
his wife and two sons residing in Oakland, Calif. A brother,
John Owens is engaged in mining on the Sandy in Mohave county
and another brother is a wealthy planter in Georgia.
In his deathNevada and Arizona lose one of their picturesque
pioneer characters. He was known as Chloride Jack in all the
principal camps and mining districts of the Sage Brush State
and this territory. He was a veteran prospector and explorer
who delighted in making and spending fortunes and ever ready
when favored by fortune to assist his less fortunate fellows.
He was a colonel of a Georgia militia regiment of the Confederate
Army during the Civil War and was in many of the bloody
engagements of the war and was known as a daring and efficient
officer.
Soon after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox he started
west, locating in White Pine Nevada in 1868 and it was there
he received the sobriquet of Chloride Jack by which he was
ever afterward known.
In the early '70's he moved to Mohave County where he met Mr.
McCracken both later sharing in the honor and emoluments of
the discovery of the famous McCracken Mine. Mr. Owens
afterwards disposed of his interest for $80,000 and a large
block of stock in the McCracken Company. He married soon
afterwards and later located his wife and children in
comfortable circumstances where they now reside.
Mrs. Nevada Mae Page, wife of Hy Page, died Thursday night at
St. Joseph's hospital after a long illness. She has not been
in good health for a year or two and a few days ago submitted
to an operation as a final and as now transpires, a futile
hope for an improved condition. Her husband who is in the
employ of the Southern Pacific at Guaymas, came here a few
days ago to be with her. She is survived also by two children,
a girl a little more than three years old and a boy nearly
two years old.
Mrs. Page was well known in Phoenix and highly esteemed by all
her acquaintances. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.
Borton who reside at 323 North Fourth Avenue and was married
to Hy Page a few years ago when he was employed in the local
offices of the railroad company. Both Mr. and Mrs. Page were
universally popular among the young people of this city and
their many friends will be deeply grieved at the untimely death
of the young woman. A brother of Mrs. Page who resides in Los
Angeles is also here, having been summoned on account of his
sister's precarious condition.
The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock bin the
parlors of Easterling and Whitney.
AMANDA PALMER
October 8, 1909
Mrs. Amanda Palmer, whose serious illness was announced in
yesterday's paper died yesterday morning a few minutes before
1 o'clock. She was stricken with apoplexy a few days before
and it was realized then that her chances of recovery were very
small.
The funeral services were held at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Rev. Fisk of the M.E. church officiated. The remains,
accompanied by Miss Josephine Palmer were last evening
shipped to San Bernardino, Cal. for interment.
Mrs. Palmer was 79 years of age and has resided in Tempe for
some years. She is survived by two daughters, Miss Palmer of
this place and Mrs. Curtiss of San Bernardino. Mrs. Palmer
and her daugher had just completed a comfortable little
cottage on East Seventh Street and had moved into it only
a day or two before Mrs. Palmer's death.
ERROLL PAYNE PALMER, JR
April 21, 1909
Doctor and Mrs. E. Payne Palmer were sorely bereaved yesterday
in the death of their infant son, Erroll Payne Palmer, who
passed away at 10:50 am after an illness of only thirty six
hours of spinal meningitis. He was born February 26, 1909. A
funeral service will be held here in a day or two, the date
not yet having been set and a few weeks later, probably about
the first of July, the body will be taken back to Dayton Ohio
for interment, that being the former home of Mrs. Palmer. The
young couple have the sincere sympathy of the entire community.
The funeral
April 26, 1909
A large assemblage of friends of Dr. and Mrs. E. Payne Palmer
gathered in the Catholic church yesterday afternoon at 2:30,
the occasion being the funeral of their infant son, Erroll,
whose body was borne to the church from the home of Dr. Palmer's
sister, Mrs. Franklin D. Lane, 826 North Second Avenue. It
will be taken to Dayton Ohio for interment in the family plot
of Mrs. Palmer's family.
MRS. RICHARD PAULSON
Feb. 20, 1909
Mrs. Richard Paulson, whose serious illness was chronicled
yesterday, passed away late Thursday evening at the Allen home,
east of the city on the county road.
Mrs. Paulson had been a sufferer from lung trouble for some time
previous to her coming to the Gem City some four months ago, the
disease having advanced so far that the change in climate could
not benefit her. The remains were prepared for shipment by
Undertaker W.A. Burton and were sent to the former home of the
deceased in Idaho on yesterday's afternoon train.
MRS. M. ELLIS PERCIVAL
August 6, 1909
On last Saturday afternoon Mrs. Zimmerman of 341 North Third
Avneue received a telegram from Billings, Montana saying that
Mrs. M. Ellis Percival had been killed earlier in the day at
that place in an elevator accident.
Mrs. Percival lived many years in Phoenix where she was well
and favorably known. When left to care for herself and little
boy, she took up nursing in which profession she has been quite
successful. She was temporarily employed at the Phoenix Indian
School for several months, leaving there fore the Children's
Hospital in Los Angeles where she was employed about eighteen
months.
Entering the Indian Service she was sent to Carson City, or
Stewart Nevada at which place she was in charge of the school
hospital until August 1, 1908. She resigned this position to
accept a place as stenographer and office assistant of Dr. C.P.
Watkins where she was when the accident occurred that cost her
her life.
She leaves besides her son, Harvey, sixteen years of age, a
sister, Mrs. Ann D. Reno of 341 North Third Avenue and other
brothers and sister in Kentucky. She had many friends in
Phoenix who will regret to hear of her death.
PERCY PERCIVAL
July 3, 1909
Percy Percival died yesterday morning at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Percival, at the Indian
School. Percy succumbed to tuberculosis, an affection
which developed after a long affliction of malarial fever
acquired during service in the Philippines. He came here a
couple of years ago, hoping to find relief, making his
home with his parents who are in the Indian service. He
came here with them first from the family home in New York
state, deceased having been born in Buffalo, March 15,
1883. In 1903 he enlisted in the Navy as a mechanic
serving as a carpenter. Beside his parents he is survived
by a sister, Ruth, who lives at home and a brother Albert
and a married sister, Mrs. John Parker who resides in
Kansas City, Kansas. The funeral will be held this
afternoon at 4 o'clock in the parlors of George F.
Merryman and will lbe conducted by Rev. L. Williams of
the Christian church. The interment will be in Greenwood
Cemetery.
