John Leuark |
| Posted 2019-07-11 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Weekly Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Friday, January 11, 1878, page 3.3 The death of John Leuark, at verde, which we mentioned a few days since, occurred under peculiar circumstances, as we learn by private letter. He and Benjamin Barney were carrying on a blacksmith shop, near Hull's store, on the Verde, and wishing a piece of rawhide, for some purpose, applied to some parties living in the valley, and obtained a hide, which, being hard and dry, the put into the river to soak. After it had become soft the cut it up to suit their purpose. Soon after, John Leuark was taken sick, and his arm commenced swelling, and soon the swelling passed up his arm into his chest. The sent to Camp Verde for a doctor, who came and examined him, and at once pronounced it poison from a dead carcass, and that he wouldn't live 24 hours. He died that night. |
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