Junior Exhibition Appointments

The honorary appointments for the Junior exhibition at the close of the present term have been announced as follows: First honor, B.H. Mills; second honor, George Wilson; third honor, W. E. Garrey. The entire class was appointed to orate at the exhibition but four members were afterwards excused. … The exhibition will occur on Monday, March 27, instead of Tuesday as some of the speakers are going out with the Phoenix Glee Club on its concert tour, during the vacation.

WILL WALK TO THE COAST

B. H. Mills Starts Today on an Extended Pedestrian Tour for Pleasure

B. H. Mills, a well-known young man of this city, a member of the pioneer family of Greenville, and a graduate of Lawrence University in the class of 1894, left this morning on a pedestrian tour to the Pacific coast and return. Mr. Mills makes the trip entirely for pleasure and for the experience it will afford, and expects to make the round trip in about a year. He will go by the southern-central route, stopping at Manhattan, Kansas, for a short visit with Prof. Will, formerly of Lawrence, who is now located at Manhattan College in that city.

Mr. Mills started on his journey this morning fully equipped for real travel, with a tourist suit, leggings, and stout shoes. He carries a light knapsack containing clothing and a few necessaries. For the first part of the trip he will stop for food and shelter at convenient towns or farm houses, but after leaving eastern Kansas he will be compelled to carry food and camp out a good deal of the time. On reaching the desert country, which cannot be avoided by any route, it will be necessary at times to carry food and water for several days while crossing long stretches of absolutely barren alkali plains, and at these points he is certain to encounter some hardships. These, however, he proposes to overcome, and will walk every foot of the way. He will be supplied with ample funds and will travel rather leisurely, the object of the trip being pleasure and time of no pressing consideration.

Mr. Mills is a determined young man, possessing plenty of persistence, and barring accidents will accomplish the task he has set for himself.

A LONG TRAMP

B. H. Mills Starts for California on Foot—A Health Measure

In these days of rapid transit, a walk to the Golden Gate looks like quite an undertaking but that is what one Appleton citizen has started on today. For some time B. H. Mills, a recent graduate of Lawrence, has been quite badly out of health, with a nervous trouble. His physician has ordered a change of scene and he concluded to take it in the shape of a long walk.

His destination is San Francisco, California but he will walk only so far or so much each day as he enjoys. For days he has been preparing his outfit. His walking suit consists of a suit of jeans, leggings, and heavy shoes, and he carries a pack with rubber and woolen blanket, and a few needful utensils for camping, a Winchester rifle and a big knife complete his outfit.

His route takes him through the west of Neenah and then to Winneconne. Baraboo will be the first place he will make any stop. He hopes to find some place on the trip which will suit him as a location to enter the newspaper business.

At the Point of Death

B. H. Mills, the young man who started from here early in the season to make a pedestrian tour to the Pacific coast, but contracted mountain fever in the mountains near Denver and returned home about three weeks ago has grown rapidly worse for the past few days and now lies at the point of death with little chance for his recovery.

Burnett H. Mills Dead

In the last evening’s issue of the Crescent we announced that the doctors had given up all hopes of the recovery of B. H. Mills. He continued to gradually sink until midnight, when his spirit took its flight.

Burnett H. Mills was born in the town of Greenville, and at the time of his death was in the 26th year of his age. He had been raised in this city, attending our public schools, and afterward Lawrence University, from which institution he graduated in the class of ’94, with the distinction of having won first honors. For some time past his health had not been of the best, and in April of the present year, thinking not only to benefit his health, but seeking for pleasure as well, he started to walk across the country to Colorado. When he reached Nebraska he purchased a pony and finished his journey in that manner, spending his nights encamped by the side of the road. He spent some time in Denver, and nearly the last thing he did before returning about three weeks ago to Appleton, was to climb Pike’s Peak. While there he contracted a form of mountain fever, which upon his return developed into a severe case of typhoid. It was this that finally resulted in death. He leaves a mother, Mrs. E. A. Mills, and four brothers and three sisters to mourn his untimely death. Mr. Mills was a young man extremely well known in this city, of an honest and upright character and well liked by all that knew him. At the time of his death he was studying law in the office of John Bottensek. The funeral services will be held at the home of his mother, 763 Ida street, Friday morning at 10 o’clock. The interment will be at Greenville.

Death of Burnett H. Mills

Burnett H. Mills, whose dangerous condition was spoken of in The Post Wednesday, died Wednesday night at 11:30 o’clock. The funeral was held at the family home, 763 Ida street, Friday morning at 10 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Haylett.

The deceased was the son of Mrs. L. B. Mills, formerly of Greenville, who has been for some time past a resident of Appleton. He graduated from Lawrence University with the Class of ’94, being one of the honor men of the class. He was employed as a substitute letter carrier for a time in Appleton. Several months ago he conceived the idea of making a walking trip across the continent to California, and his departure upon the trip was spoken of at some length in the papers. He had gotten as far as Pike’s Peak when he was stricken with typhoid fever which was the ultimate cause of his death. He was brought back to Appleton three weeks ago, and the fever has been running its course. When the time for convalescence came his constitution was unable to respond. In school and out of it Mr. Mills was regarded as an especially intellectual and promising young man. He was 26 years of age at the time of his death.