Son of Ebenezer S. Capps and Eliza E. Freeman. Grandson of Jabez Capps.
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The Leader Courier (Kingman, Kansas), 20 May 1909, Thursday
F. A. CAPPS DROWNS
Tuesday morning Oscar Capps received a message from Wichita announcing the death of his brother Frank, who had been an invalid for a number of years with rheumatic paralysis. The sick man had been an inmate of St. Francis hispital (sic) for a long time, and Mr. Capps, though surprised to learn of his sudden death, supposed he had died at the hospital, and never knew any better until late that evening, when he reached Wichita, he having gone over on the evening train, and never knew any better until late that evening, when he reached Wichita, he having gone over on the evening train. When the Wichita Beacon arrived that night, however, it contained startling evidence that Mr. Capps had come to his death by drowning, and the account cannot be better told, perhaps, than in the words of the Beacon, which follow:
"Frank A. Capps, for ten years a resident of this city, was drowned in the Little Arkansas river at 901 Waco avenue, this morning shortly after 9 o'clock. He fell from a pier on which he was sitting and was drowned before help arrived.
"Mr. Capps, who was a brother of Mrs. P. J. Conklin, had been in one of the hospitals of this city the past six months for treatment for rheumatic paralysis, and was taken to the home of his father, E. C. Capps, yesterday, for a short visit. He was very weak from his long illness, but at his request his father helped him down to the pier on the bank of the river this morning, where he could sit and watch the river, and the people as they passed to and fro in the park.
"Mr. Capps, Sr., had caught a fine fish while they were at the pier, and baiting the hook he left it, suggesting that his son keep watch of it. It is supposed that in attempting to get down the steps to the fish line, Frank stumbled and fell into the water, which at that place was about three feet deep.
"When his father returned after a few minutes' absence, he missed Frank and soon saw one of his shoulders under the water.
"Being quite feeble he was unable to reach the body, and he called upon R. L. Beeson and Edward Stancer, who were delivering ice in the neighborhood, and they took the body from the water. Life was extinct, though effort was made to resuscitate the drowned man.
"Coroner McCollister was notified and an ambulance was called and the body was taken to Gill's undertaking rooms, where it will be prepared for shipment to Mt. Pulaski, Ill., the former home of the Capps family.
The deceased was aged about 48 years and was one of the pioneers of Kingman county, he and his brother Oscar having landed in Kingman about 30 years ago when they were yet boys and when the country was yet new. In speaking of their arrival here, Oscar said yesterday that Kingman of that day was a sorry and desolate place, being a bed of sand where the principal part of the city is now located and but a few straggling houses of primative (sic) fashion and the outlook anything but encouraging for a couple of boys fresh from the east. Oscar said that the day after their arrival they put up at the little hotel situated where Santa Fe park is now located, and operated by H. L. Ball, and he remembers that the drinking water was secured from a spring that had been scooped out in the cellar under the hotel. His brother Frank was so lonesome and homesick that he wandered to the bank of the creek and under the bridge, and when Oscar discovered him he was crying and wishing he were back at the old home again.
But soon the homelessness wore off and the boys got busy and soon imbibed the spirit of the west and commenced to hustle for a living, both of them working in the office of P. J. Conklin, who at the time was editor and publisher of the Kingman Citizen, Frank working as printer and all-round man in the conduct of the paper and Oscar gathering cowchips and keeping fires and carrying out the ashes. Later Frank engaged in other newspapre (sic) work, always having an especial liking for the profession, and soon developed into a newspaper man of considerable ability, and generally successful in his venture. Along in the early eighties he associated himself with Morton Albaugh in the publication of the Saratoga Sun in Pratt county, which they conducted for a time, and later he went to the western part of the state and published a paper at Scott City, named the Herald, and from that on until sickness finally overcame him about ten or a dozen years ago, he worked at the business in various places until unable to longer "keep up his end," and he had to quit entirely, and for the past few years he has been practically a helpless invalid.
He was a man well liked and congenial in every avenue of life in which he moved, and it seems hard that a man of his temperament and abilities should have to get out of the race and spend his declining years in counting the hours and days when the time should finally come to end it all, knowing his mental capacity and at the same time feeling keenly the handicap imposed by reason of physical infirmities and his inability to help himself or those around him. To the surviving relatives the Leader-Courier extends condolence. It may be that a more extended obituary may at some time be furnished by a friend that knew him much more intimately than the writer, and one who by reason of his business and social relations with the deceased may be able to give the subject the especial consideration it merits.
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The Decatur Herald (Decatur, Ill.), 20 May 1909, Thursday
FORMER MT. PULASKI BOY DIES IN WEST
MT. PULASKI, May 19.--Mrs. Prudence A. Beidler received word Tuesday night from her brother, Ebb S. Capps, of Wichita, Kan., that his son Frank had died there that day at St. Frances (sic) hospital, after suffering for many months from paralysis. He was born in Mt. Pulaski, and was aged about 45 years. He left Mt. Pulaski for Kansas when 15 years old. The remains will be brought to Mt. Pulaski Thursday afternoon, and taken to the home of Mrs. Beidler. The funeral services will take place some time Friday. Mr. Capps is survived by his father, two sisters, Mrs. Charles Nicolet, of LaSalle, and Mrs. P. J. Conklin, of Wichita, Kan., and four brothers, Walter Capps, of Omaha, Neb., Oscar Capps, of Kingman, Kan., and Linn and George Capps, of Tacoma, Wash.
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The Leader Courier (Kingman, Kansas), 20 May 1909, Thursday
F. A. CAPPS DROWNS
Tuesday morning Oscar Capps received a message from Wichita announcing the death of his brother Frank, who had been an invalid for a number of years with rheumatic paralysis. The sick man had been an inmate of St. Francis hispital (sic) for a long time, and Mr. Capps, though surprised to learn of his sudden death, supposed he had died at the hospital, and never knew any better until late that evening, when he reached Wichita, he having gone over on the evening train, and never knew any better until late that evening, when he reached Wichita, he having gone over on the evening train. When the Wichita Beacon arrived that night, however, it contained startling evidence that Mr. Capps had come to his death by drowning, and the account cannot be better told, perhaps, than in the words of the Beacon, which follow:
"Frank A. Capps, for ten years a resident of this city, was drowned in the Little Arkansas river at 901 Waco avenue, this morning shortly after 9 o'clock. He fell from a pier on which he was sitting and was drowned before help arrived.
"Mr. Capps, who was a brother of Mrs. P. J. Conklin, had been in one of the hospitals of this city the past six months for treatment for rheumatic paralysis, and was taken to the home of his father, E. C. Capps, yesterday, for a short visit. He was very weak from his long illness, but at his request his father helped him down to the pier on the bank of the river this morning, where he could sit and watch the river, and the people as they passed to and fro in the park.
"Mr. Capps, Sr., had caught a fine fish while they were at the pier, and baiting the hook he left it, suggesting that his son keep watch of it. It is supposed that in attempting to get down the steps to the fish line, Frank stumbled and fell into the water, which at that place was about three feet deep.
"When his father returned after a few minutes' absence, he missed Frank and soon saw one of his shoulders under the water.
"Being quite feeble he was unable to reach the body, and he called upon R. L. Beeson and Edward Stancer, who were delivering ice in the neighborhood, and they took the body from the water. Life was extinct, though effort was made to resuscitate the drowned man.
"Coroner McCollister was notified and an ambulance was called and the body was taken to Gill's undertaking rooms, where it will be prepared for shipment to Mt. Pulaski, Ill., the former home of the Capps family.
The deceased was aged about 48 years and was one of the pioneers of Kingman county, he and his brother Oscar having landed in Kingman about 30 years ago when they were yet boys and when the country was yet new. In speaking of their arrival here, Oscar said yesterday that Kingman of that day was a sorry and desolate place, being a bed of sand where the principal part of the city is now located and but a few straggling houses of primative (sic) fashion and the outlook anything but encouraging for a couple of boys fresh from the east. Oscar said that the day after their arrival they put up at the little hotel situated where Santa Fe park is now located, and operated by H. L. Ball, and he remembers that the drinking water was secured from a spring that had been scooped out in the cellar under the hotel. His brother Frank was so lonesome and homesick that he wandered to the bank of the creek and under the bridge, and when Oscar discovered him he was crying and wishing he were back at the old home again.
But soon the homelessness wore off and the boys got busy and soon imbibed the spirit of the west and commenced to hustle for a living, both of them working in the office of P. J. Conklin, who at the time was editor and publisher of the Kingman Citizen, Frank working as printer and all-round man in the conduct of the paper and Oscar gathering cowchips and keeping fires and carrying out the ashes. Later Frank engaged in other newspapre (sic) work, always having an especial liking for the profession, and soon developed into a newspaper man of considerable ability, and generally successful in his venture. Along in the early eighties he associated himself with Morton Albaugh in the publication of the Saratoga Sun in Pratt county, which they conducted for a time, and later he went to the western part of the state and published a paper at Scott City, named the Herald, and from that on until sickness finally overcame him about ten or a dozen years ago, he worked at the business in various places until unable to longer "keep up his end," and he had to quit entirely, and for the past few years he has been practically a helpless invalid.
He was a man well liked and congenial in every avenue of life in which he moved, and it seems hard that a man of his temperament and abilities should have to get out of the race and spend his declining years in counting the hours and days when the time should finally come to end it all, knowing his mental capacity and at the same time feeling keenly the handicap imposed by reason of physical infirmities and his inability to help himself or those around him. To the surviving relatives the Leader-Courier extends condolence. It may be that a more extended obituary may at some time be furnished by a friend that knew him much more intimately than the writer, and one who by reason of his business and social relations with the deceased may be able to give the subject the especial consideration it merits.
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The Decatur Herald (Decatur, Ill.), 20 May 1909, Thursday
FORMER MT. PULASKI BOY DIES IN WEST
MT. PULASKI, May 19.--Mrs. Prudence A. Beidler received word Tuesday night from her brother, Ebb S. Capps, of Wichita, Kan., that his son Frank had died there that day at St. Frances (sic) hospital, after suffering for many months from paralysis. He was born in Mt. Pulaski, and was aged about 45 years. He left Mt. Pulaski for Kansas when 15 years old. The remains will be brought to Mt. Pulaski Thursday afternoon, and taken to the home of Mrs. Beidler. The funeral services will take place some time Friday. Mr. Capps is survived by his father, two sisters, Mrs. Charles Nicolet, of LaSalle, and Mrs. P. J. Conklin, of Wichita, Kan., and four brothers, Walter Capps, of Omaha, Neb., Oscar Capps, of Kingman, Kan., and Linn and George Capps, of Tacoma, Wash.
Son of Ebenezer S. Capps and Eliza E. Freeman. Grandson of Jabez Capps.
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The Leader Courier (Kingman, Kansas), 20 May 1909, Thursday
F. A. CAPPS DROWNS
Tuesday morning Oscar Capps received a message from Wichita announcing the death of his brother Frank, who had been an invalid for a number of years with rheumatic paralysis. The sick man had been an inmate of St. Francis hispital (sic) for a long time, and Mr. Capps, though surprised to learn of his sudden death, supposed he had died at the hospital, and never knew any better until late that evening, when he reached Wichita, he having gone over on the evening train, and never knew any better until late that evening, when he reached Wichita, he having gone over on the evening train. When the Wichita Beacon arrived that night, however, it contained startling evidence that Mr. Capps had come to his death by drowning, and the account cannot be better told, perhaps, than in the words of the Beacon, which follow:
"Frank A. Capps, for ten years a resident of this city, was drowned in the Little Arkansas river at 901 Waco avenue, this morning shortly after 9 o'clock. He fell from a pier on which he was sitting and was drowned before help arrived.
"Mr. Capps, who was a brother of Mrs. P. J. Conklin, had been in one of the hospitals of this city the past six months for treatment for rheumatic paralysis, and was taken to the home of his father, E. C. Capps, yesterday, for a short visit. He was very weak from his long illness, but at his request his father helped him down to the pier on the bank of the river this morning, where he could sit and watch the river, and the people as they passed to and fro in the park.
"Mr. Capps, Sr., had caught a fine fish while they were at the pier, and baiting the hook he left it, suggesting that his son keep watch of it. It is supposed that in attempting to get down the steps to the fish line, Frank stumbled and fell into the water, which at that place was about three feet deep.
"When his father returned after a few minutes' absence, he missed Frank and soon saw one of his shoulders under the water.
"Being quite feeble he was unable to reach the body, and he called upon R. L. Beeson and Edward Stancer, who were delivering ice in the neighborhood, and they took the body from the water. Life was extinct, though effort was made to resuscitate the drowned man.
"Coroner McCollister was notified and an ambulance was called and the body was taken to Gill's undertaking rooms, where it will be prepared for shipment to Mt. Pulaski, Ill., the former home of the Capps family.
The deceased was aged about 48 years and was one of the pioneers of Kingman county, he and his brother Oscar having landed in Kingman about 30 years ago when they were yet boys and when the country was yet new. In speaking of their arrival here, Oscar said yesterday that Kingman of that day was a sorry and desolate place, being a bed of sand where the principal part of the city is now located and but a few straggling houses of primative (sic) fashion and the outlook anything but encouraging for a couple of boys fresh from the east. Oscar said that the day after their arrival they put up at the little hotel situated where Santa Fe park is now located, and operated by H. L. Ball, and he remembers that the drinking water was secured from a spring that had been scooped out in the cellar under the hotel. His brother Frank was so lonesome and homesick that he wandered to the bank of the creek and under the bridge, and when Oscar discovered him he was crying and wishing he were back at the old home again.
But soon the homelessness wore off and the boys got busy and soon imbibed the spirit of the west and commenced to hustle for a living, both of them working in the office of P. J. Conklin, who at the time was editor and publisher of the Kingman Citizen, Frank working as printer and all-round man in the conduct of the paper and Oscar gathering cowchips and keeping fires and carrying out the ashes. Later Frank engaged in other newspapre (sic) work, always having an especial liking for the profession, and soon developed into a newspaper man of considerable ability, and generally successful in his venture. Along in the early eighties he associated himself with Morton Albaugh in the publication of the Saratoga Sun in Pratt county, which they conducted for a time, and later he went to the western part of the state and published a paper at Scott City, named the Herald, and from that on until sickness finally overcame him about ten or a dozen years ago, he worked at the business in various places until unable to longer "keep up his end," and he had to quit entirely, and for the past few years he has been practically a helpless invalid.
He was a man well liked and congenial in every avenue of life in which he moved, and it seems hard that a man of his temperament and abilities should have to get out of the race and spend his declining years in counting the hours and days when the time should finally come to end it all, knowing his mental capacity and at the same time feeling keenly the handicap imposed by reason of physical infirmities and his inability to help himself or those around him. To the surviving relatives the Leader-Courier extends condolence. It may be that a more extended obituary may at some time be furnished by a friend that knew him much more intimately than the writer, and one who by reason of his business and social relations with the deceased may be able to give the subject the especial consideration it merits.
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The Decatur Herald (Decatur, Ill.), 20 May 1909, Thursday
FORMER MT. PULASKI BOY DIES IN WEST
MT. PULASKI, May 19.--Mrs. Prudence A. Beidler received word Tuesday night from her brother, Ebb S. Capps, of Wichita, Kan., that his son Frank had died there that day at St. Frances (sic) hospital, after suffering for many months from paralysis. He was born in Mt. Pulaski, and was aged about 45 years. He left Mt. Pulaski for Kansas when 15 years old. The remains will be brought to Mt. Pulaski Thursday afternoon, and taken to the home of Mrs. Beidler. The funeral services will take place some time Friday. Mr. Capps is survived by his father, two sisters, Mrs. Charles Nicolet, of LaSalle, and Mrs. P. J. Conklin, of Wichita, Kan., and four brothers, Walter Capps, of Omaha, Neb., Oscar Capps, of Kingman, Kan., and Linn and George Capps, of Tacoma, Wash.
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The Leader Courier (Kingman, Kansas), 20 May 1909, Thursday
F. A. CAPPS DROWNS
Tuesday morning Oscar Capps received a message from Wichita announcing the death of his brother Frank, who had been an invalid for a number of years with rheumatic paralysis. The sick man had been an inmate of St. Francis hispital (sic) for a long time, and Mr. Capps, though surprised to learn of his sudden death, supposed he had died at the hospital, and never knew any better until late that evening, when he reached Wichita, he having gone over on the evening train, and never knew any better until late that evening, when he reached Wichita, he having gone over on the evening train. When the Wichita Beacon arrived that night, however, it contained startling evidence that Mr. Capps had come to his death by drowning, and the account cannot be better told, perhaps, than in the words of the Beacon, which follow:
"Frank A. Capps, for ten years a resident of this city, was drowned in the Little Arkansas river at 901 Waco avenue, this morning shortly after 9 o'clock. He fell from a pier on which he was sitting and was drowned before help arrived.
"Mr. Capps, who was a brother of Mrs. P. J. Conklin, had been in one of the hospitals of this city the past six months for treatment for rheumatic paralysis, and was taken to the home of his father, E. C. Capps, yesterday, for a short visit. He was very weak from his long illness, but at his request his father helped him down to the pier on the bank of the river this morning, where he could sit and watch the river, and the people as they passed to and fro in the park.
"Mr. Capps, Sr., had caught a fine fish while they were at the pier, and baiting the hook he left it, suggesting that his son keep watch of it. It is supposed that in attempting to get down the steps to the fish line, Frank stumbled and fell into the water, which at that place was about three feet deep.
"When his father returned after a few minutes' absence, he missed Frank and soon saw one of his shoulders under the water.
"Being quite feeble he was unable to reach the body, and he called upon R. L. Beeson and Edward Stancer, who were delivering ice in the neighborhood, and they took the body from the water. Life was extinct, though effort was made to resuscitate the drowned man.
"Coroner McCollister was notified and an ambulance was called and the body was taken to Gill's undertaking rooms, where it will be prepared for shipment to Mt. Pulaski, Ill., the former home of the Capps family.
The deceased was aged about 48 years and was one of the pioneers of Kingman county, he and his brother Oscar having landed in Kingman about 30 years ago when they were yet boys and when the country was yet new. In speaking of their arrival here, Oscar said yesterday that Kingman of that day was a sorry and desolate place, being a bed of sand where the principal part of the city is now located and but a few straggling houses of primative (sic) fashion and the outlook anything but encouraging for a couple of boys fresh from the east. Oscar said that the day after their arrival they put up at the little hotel situated where Santa Fe park is now located, and operated by H. L. Ball, and he remembers that the drinking water was secured from a spring that had been scooped out in the cellar under the hotel. His brother Frank was so lonesome and homesick that he wandered to the bank of the creek and under the bridge, and when Oscar discovered him he was crying and wishing he were back at the old home again.
But soon the homelessness wore off and the boys got busy and soon imbibed the spirit of the west and commenced to hustle for a living, both of them working in the office of P. J. Conklin, who at the time was editor and publisher of the Kingman Citizen, Frank working as printer and all-round man in the conduct of the paper and Oscar gathering cowchips and keeping fires and carrying out the ashes. Later Frank engaged in other newspapre (sic) work, always having an especial liking for the profession, and soon developed into a newspaper man of considerable ability, and generally successful in his venture. Along in the early eighties he associated himself with Morton Albaugh in the publication of the Saratoga Sun in Pratt county, which they conducted for a time, and later he went to the western part of the state and published a paper at Scott City, named the Herald, and from that on until sickness finally overcame him about ten or a dozen years ago, he worked at the business in various places until unable to longer "keep up his end," and he had to quit entirely, and for the past few years he has been practically a helpless invalid.
He was a man well liked and congenial in every avenue of life in which he moved, and it seems hard that a man of his temperament and abilities should have to get out of the race and spend his declining years in counting the hours and days when the time should finally come to end it all, knowing his mental capacity and at the same time feeling keenly the handicap imposed by reason of physical infirmities and his inability to help himself or those around him. To the surviving relatives the Leader-Courier extends condolence. It may be that a more extended obituary may at some time be furnished by a friend that knew him much more intimately than the writer, and one who by reason of his business and social relations with the deceased may be able to give the subject the especial consideration it merits.
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The Decatur Herald (Decatur, Ill.), 20 May 1909, Thursday
FORMER MT. PULASKI BOY DIES IN WEST
MT. PULASKI, May 19.--Mrs. Prudence A. Beidler received word Tuesday night from her brother, Ebb S. Capps, of Wichita, Kan., that his son Frank had died there that day at St. Frances (sic) hospital, after suffering for many months from paralysis. He was born in Mt. Pulaski, and was aged about 45 years. He left Mt. Pulaski for Kansas when 15 years old. The remains will be brought to Mt. Pulaski Thursday afternoon, and taken to the home of Mrs. Beidler. The funeral services will take place some time Friday. Mr. Capps is survived by his father, two sisters, Mrs. Charles Nicolet, of LaSalle, and Mrs. P. J. Conklin, of Wichita, Kan., and four brothers, Walter Capps, of Omaha, Neb., Oscar Capps, of Kingman, Kan., and Linn and George Capps, of Tacoma, Wash.
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