Early Whitman County Pioneer Found Dead in Hotel

H. S. Young, of Farmington, one of the earliest pioneers of Whitman county, was found dead in his room at the Commercial Hotel Tuesday morning. Young, who was suffering from a severe attack of asthma, arrived here Sunday in the hope that the change of climate would benefit him. He engaged a room at the Commercial and visited Sunday at the home of Policeman J. B. Haydon, who had known him for years. Monday he seemed much better and at 11:30 Monday night when Mr. Haydon visited him in his room he said he was feeling unusually well and asked Mr. Haydon to call him at seven the next morning as he had made arrangements to visit friends in the country. When Mr. Haydon called at the hotel the next morning about 9 o'clock Night Clerk Hartwig said he had been unable to awaken Young. The two then went to the room and after a vain attempt to arouse the man they entered by removing the lock from the door. Young was found dead on the floor about three feet from his bed. Mr. Haydon immediately communicated with a sister of the dead man in Spokane and with a brother who is chief of police at Sandpoint, Idaho. The body was shipped to Spokane yesterday morning from where it will be taken to Farmington for burial. Mr. Young was one of the most widely known men in the Palouse country, having come to Whitman county in 1871. He was sheriff in the early days and at one time was reasonably wealthy. He had been a widower for more than thirty years and is survived by no children. He was 66 years of age.