F.H. Kirk, one of the well-known ranchers living up near the Canadian line, was instantly killed last Saturday night as he was passing the Lancaster place near Baylor. He had left Glasgow Saturday morning with a large load of lumber, to which were hitched four horses, and he had reached Baylor in time for supper. They tried to persuade him to remain there over night, but he insisted on making the balance of the trip home that night. He started out with his hired man walking behind the load, and in going across a piece of plowing, the roughness of the hard, frozen ground made him lose his balance and he pitched from the top of the load head first into the plowing. The hired man, seeing him fall, ran around the load and stopped the horses before they could get away, and then returned to see if Mr. Kirk was badly hurt, and found him unconscious. The man summoned help from the nearby farm and they carried Mr. Kirk to the house, thinking that possibly he was only unconscious, and immediately sent to town for the doctor, but by the time the physician could reach the scene it was apparent that Mr. Kirk was dead and that he had been killed instantly. Word was at once sent to Mrs. Kirk and children at the ranch, and the body was brought to Glasgow Sunday. Monday afternoon the coroner's inquest was held, and the jury rendered a verdict about as above stated.

The funeral services were held Monday afternoon in the M.E. Church, Reverend W.W. Landis, visiting United Brethren minister, officiating at the service. The burial took place in the Glasgow Cemetery.

The deceased leaves a wife and three children, Hazel, aged 15; Paul, aged 12; and Mildred, aged 10. The bereaved family certainly has the sympathy of everyone in this sudden bereavement and great calamity that has deprived them of a husband and father.