The Anthony Weekly Bulletin Harper County Friday October 8, 1897 Wayne Simmons Dead. Word from Editor SIMMONS of the Manchester Journal, under date of October 6, says, "Little Wayne died this afternoon at 3:45; will be buried tomorrow at Hutchinson, Kansas." For over six months the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. SIMMONS have feared such announcement as the above would reach them, but as time passed they hoped that medical skill might triumph and the life of the little sufferer be saved. Wayne M. SIMMONS was born October 25, 1895 and died October 6, 1897. The little fellow grew and thrived as most babies do until the 26th of March this year, when he in some unaccountable way got hold of and swallowed some concentrated lye, causing a stricture of the throat. His life was despaired of at the time but he rallied, and through the hot summer months he fought inch by inch for life; the unsual children complaints attacked him, and the fond parents consulted the best physicians in Manchester, Anthony, WIchita and Hutchinson, and everywhere wre met with the one announcement that their darling one could not live. You who are parents know what such an announcement would mean, and you would do as Mr. and Mrs. SIMMONS did, hope and pray th! at the physicians in this case at leasst might be mistaken. By this time the entire Southwest was interested in the case of little Wayne, and characteristic of the disease he became better and was able to take some nourishment, and the parents grasping at a straw hoped that a change for the better had come; it had, but it was a delusive one and was followed by a more serious condition than ever, and the little fellow without nourishment enough to sustain a bird lived and maintained strength wonderful for his condition. The last month has been a fearful one to the parents; they have had the consciousness that Wayne must die; they have daily watched him grow thinner and weaker, virtually starving to death, and fully realizing that no earthly power could save him, and when the inevitable happened Wednesday afternoon, although prepared for it by months of waiting, the blow was none the less heavy or their burden easier to bear. Kind sympathy at such a time may help them to better bear the burden of their grief and lessen its intensity, and of such they have the sincere expressions of thousands of friends.