OCTOGENARIAN'S DEATH.

Mataura Ensign, 13 August 1909, Page 4

OCTOGENARIAN'S DEATH.

A ROMANTIC CAIUvISR. l-lJii UXlliiO I'llKoS ASSOCU'IIO'-I in .NL'DIN, Aue'lL'. ''l'" death ol .11 r ,1. K-kdale at J'allliel.sloil Ve.slerda>, at the iljii'. ot N-l vcars. brought lo a close ;i mora romaui.i.■ eaioor. Deceased wao bom near l)u':iirn-i (Scotlandi in Ui'o, and when Id veai-.s old nejii i„ Mull to |oin his un-l- in til- drapery trade. Rut he tired o| iim- hie. and went to America. Alter a year's 111,- on a ranch he look up saloon-keepine ,-,| Loadville, where the ill-l.ited \ i,-ior Calbraith. who was afterwards tried by court-marital and shot, and «ho„e death i.s immortalised by Longlellow in a poem, sa\ed his life. Mr Fskdale was attacked by a ruH'lan. who was about to -.lrike him down with a knile. when Victor dalbraith tired ami broke (he .lesperado's ..nn. the kiiil- lading to ill.- ground. Alter two Vars ol saloon-keeping Mr F.skdale .joined a party oi l m - traders plving between th.. Indian coiiutrv and' Mexico. mid on one occasion deceased was badlv wounded by a .omaliawk 1 brown by a Redskin. .Mr F~k,|.-,1... 5.. m .,| ,n 'th«. Mexican war. during which be was wounded in the 1-g. AVbile with the troops lie witnessed the unforl iiiml.incident which |.,| t„ . |„. ( . xi .,.„fi, sl „|- \ i.-lor Calbraiih. After the war Mr Kdebde and a party ol fur trader.-, received .-iii.tion ,1-llais compensation for Willi litis they „.. cut l'oV"Calii.,niia'! They bad lo ,-ro.-.. i lie Ari/.om, desert. "I'd -o -real were tlie privat ion.s that

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