Demaster, John N.

Picher Oklahoma, March 20.--John Nelson Demaster, 19 years old, died at the Picher hospital at Picher, at 12:30 Sunday morning as the result of a skull fracture received at the Kansas Lead Mining Company mine, north of Zincville Oklahoma, at 3:50 Saturday afternoon, ten minutes before quitting time.

Demaster was a shoveler and was working near his brother-in-law, H. Halliwell. He stooped to pick up a board when a boulder rolled from the stope and struck him on the head, partly crushing his skull. Dr. D. L. Connell, accompanied the ambulance of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher to the scene and Demaster was removed to the hospital. The patient never regained consciousness after the accident.

The body was taken to the home of his father, John Demaster, at Spring City Missouri, where funeral services will be held at 2 Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. R. C. Cantrell, pastor of the Central Methodist Episcopal church, south, of Picher, will officiate. Burial will be in the Hornet cemetery near there. Demaster is survived by his father, two sisters, Mrs. Ceicel Halliwell, Zincville Oklahoma; Mrs. Eliza Harriman, Pittsburg Kansas, and two brothers, Dudley Demaster and Alva Demaster of Spring City, Missouri