Show i M 11 1 M 1 SMITH S FORMER FOME DUCHESNE r AN DEAD W Member of Colorado Ie ll Legi lion Teller Count runty Vas us Created rent Creat ed cd Came to tu This Thi Slate I li i igl liven Yeats Ago o D By L. L A A. Hollenbeck News comes that M. M M M. Smith died of paralysis in Los Angeles C California Cal Cal- lIf l- l If olf off August 31 Until thelast thelast the thelast last two anda 5 and ra a a half haIr years he had been a prominent citizen of D Duchesne chesne for a period of of neaily IS years The writer has been personally personal acquainted with him for COl nearly 30 years in Colorado and Utah and he has been quite a distinguished character character character char char- acter and und especially so so before beCore he became be- be became be be- came afflicted poor health His Ills earlier years were in Arkansas and little is ku known wn here of his earlier experiences ex ex- But lint he lie first came Into more prominent attention while h he was a locomotive engineer on the theD D D. R. R G. G railroad and running over mer Marshall pass from Salida Colorado where being beins prominent in both social and political circles he became a candidate for fOl the Colorado legislature from Chaffee and Fremont Fremont Fremont Fre Fre- mont counties in 1898 The writer was also a candidate with him from Chaffee county count url tins i we were both elected by hy large laige majorities majorities majorities ma ma- and sat in adjoining seats In the general assembly of Colora Col Col- ora orado o. o Smith was an active and a useful member That legislature was wa a brainy an and turbulent bunch and fu full of sensations It was composed composed composed com com- posed of Republicans Democrats silver sliver Republicans Populists and andone andone andone one Socialist Smith was elected b by Democrats Populists ts and silver Republicans Republicans Re Re- Re publicans but the mem members ers soon al allied allied allied al- al lied themselves in the main into a 1 majority led by the time speaker and a minority led by that old political war warhorse warhorse horse Col B. B F. F Montgomery l who was afterward elected go governor f rn or and who had previously moved to Meeker where he resided esi at the Ule time of l his his' death I It t That legislature cre created ted the coun coup county ty h of df Teller which was the Cripple Creek mining district but cutting it off from El Cl l Paso aso county of oC which Colorado Col Col- Colorado orado ordo Springs was the county seat That meant tal taking ing a lot of or business away from Colorado Springs and aUlI that city was full tull of millionaires who didn't take talie kindly to the sep- sep The Springs raised a slush fund of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars ars to defeat the bill to make Teller county and a coy cov 0 Ammons sal said that that fight W was lS the greatest parliamentary fight ever made in Colorado It started at two p p. p m in m. on March 2 2 1899 1599 and closed at three o'clock the the next morning with Teller Tell Tell- er county victorious by a vote o of 33 against a vote of or 32 32 The rue victors I were dubbed the Immortal 33 33 ana Cripple Creek gave eaCh of or them a agold agold agold gold medal M. M M. M Smith was called called called call call- ed out b by the lobbyists during duing th the battle into the oil on room and when he returned to the house ho he caused a state wide sensation b by saying that the Colorado Springs outfit had offered him for his vote He lIe could have had ten len thousand thousand thou thou- s sand sanet or more mOle had he desired to sell sellout out but he was not the tho man to de desert desert le- le lesert sert his cause for mon money He was returned re- re re returned turned to the legislature and had a slight stroke of or paralysis and soon after utter that came to Duchesne county county coun coun- l ty then then as Wasatch where re Ite he resided until nUl about two and a half years rears ago when when-he went to California His health wa wai always alwa's poor after atter he left lert Colorado but he was public spirited grid nd J took k- k ka a ely JI iely interest In public r affairs and was noted his light lighthearted hearted and v cheerful manner He Hew w a 1 noted local writer and some of his efforts were yer very good His departure Is regretted by his many manyi i friends friend l and he will b lJ be remembered as a useful citizen and an honest manI man t I |