Biographical Notice 



associated with King in the long trial 

 of a case at Butte, Montana. The 

 season was unusually mild and the 

 atmosphere of Butte unusually clear. 

 Perhaps these balmy conditions 

 tempted people to imprudent expos- 

 ure. At all events, the town was 

 afflicted with a veritable pestilence of 

 pneumonia. In popular rumor the fa- 

 tality was 90 per cent; in actual statis- 

 tics it was 54 per cent, of all the victims 

 attacked. Among the counsel, par- 

 ties and witnesses in our case, or in 

 their families, eleven died during the 

 trial. King prepared himself with 

 his usual pertinacity and industry, 

 spending many hours underground 

 and taking prudent precautions 

 against chills ; but he had an annoy- 

 ing hoarseness, which he could not 

 shake off. After giving his testimony 

 he made a rapid trip to Salt Lake, 

 for -change of air and altitude, and 

 in a couple of weeks returned, still 

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