A I’lONKKU t.osi; Ii| Our people were shocked last Hatur* j day to hear of the sudden denth of t Judge W. R Bowman. The doat'i was j j partly duo to an accident While driv -'iing a team down hill It became fright ened and s*.ar:ed to ru'i, throwing him from the wagmi, breaking a feiv j ! riba and otherwise Injuring him. AI tj friend took him to Durango where the* i wound-i were dressed hut were not considered dangerous. During the night pnuemonia set in and he was beyond mc*liea! aid when discovered.r AHe was born in New York state! December 16 i»3o and lacked but a few\days of being 66 years old. lie was a graduate of a Michigan law school,; hut came west and engaged la other t pursuit .I He was married in 1*467 and leaves| a daughter, wife of postmaster Estes,j his wife dymg when child was vreyyoung. For over thirty years he and: his brother, Alex, have been engagedUa business together and neither has,required an accounting of the other.Two brothers and a nephew from(Colorado were in attendance at thefuneral, which occurred at this p a e,I Monday at noon. \Mr. Bowman was a man universallyiliked and everyone wlio knew him •peaks of his death with regret jI— —-