"Hush! the dead march wails in the
people's ears;
The dark crowd moves, there are sobs
and tears;
The black earth yawns; the mortal dis-
appears."
Angus Bernard McEacheran was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, July 6th, 1876, and died in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, October 5th, 1906.
That Death loves a shining mark was verified this morning when, at 6:20 o'clock, the reaping angel touched and took to himself one of the owners of and the
business manager of this paper, A. B. McEacheran - "Sam," as he was called by and known to all.
Death followed an operation for a very complicated attack of chronic appendicitis, which was performed Wednesday night at the General hospital, to which place he was tenderly carried on Wednesday afternoon from his home to which he had been confined since Sunday, Sept. 23d, on which date the first symptoms of the disease became apparent.
For nine days he suffered but very little pain, as everything known to medical skill and the art of nursing was applied Tuesday night the case assumed a serious
aspect and on Wednesday he was taken to the hospital. What followed has already been stated.
"Sam" learned the printer's trade in his home town in New Brunswick, later going to New York where he was employed three years. In 1898 he joined the great rush North, stopping at Skagway until 1900 when he became associated with A. M. Rousseau in founding the Whitehorse Star, with which he has ever since been connected.
In August, 1903, Mr. McEacheran was united in marriage with Miss Josephine Heidinger of Tacoma Wash, who, with their little two-year-old daughter,
survive him.
A loving husband, a fond and indulgent father, a prince of a business partner, a noble, upright and honest man, who had not an enemy on God's footstool, has been called to his reward.
"God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform,"
The funeral will take place from the family home on Third avenue north Sunday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Interment will be in the local cemetery.
