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Show OBITUARY. Stringham. On Thursday evening,- Jan. 29, Emma Em-ma .the 11-year-old daughter of Mrs. E. J. Stringham of this city, passed away at the Holy Cross hospital, after a brief illness of fourteen days of spinal meningities. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs. Stringham, who by the death of her little daughter is left alone in the ebb and flow of a cold world, without a soul to share in her portion of joy and sorrow. The funeral service was held in St. Mary's cathedral ' at 2 o'clock on Saturday, Sat-urday, and there was present a goodly number "of sympathizing friends. Father Morrisey officiated, and in the course of a few simple but.pathetic remarks, re-marks, which brought tears to the eyes of all present, paid a glorious tribute to the childlike wisdom of the deceased, as evidenced during her illness, and spoke tender words of sympathy and consolation con-solation to the poor disconsolate mother. "Death,", said .Father Mor-I rissey, "is always a hard and cruel and ' sad visitor. But it has degrees of cruelty and sadness, and in the present pres-ent instance a bitter degree shines out In bold relief. ..Little Emma" was all that this sorrowing mother ' had on whom to center her joys and hopes of life, and now that she js gone it seems ns though life is not worth living. Ah, my friends, it is a sad thing when our hope and joy is. life is snatched from us, and when nothing is left us but to weep and mourn. ; Such is the portion of Mrs. Stringham today, , in which she has our sincerest .sympathy. Yet she has a consolation a consolation of which infidelity would rob us, but which Christianity metes out in all its soothing influence.- It Js hope the hope of Him who said: "She is not dead, but eleepeth," and "Blessed are they , that mourn, for they shall be comforted." As the skilful gardner, at the least appearance ap-pearance of danger takes his tender plants and replants them in more suitable suit-able soil, where they, will more readily bloom; so, dear mother, the wise Celestial Ce-lestial Gardner has taken your loved one to a happy home, where pain and suffering and sorrow are unknown, and wheVe, after the'japse of a. few" short years, you shall - meet again in ond, eternal embrace." - : .'"'"'. Miss Nora Gleason with-some six or eight of her choir children at intervals during, the service rendered some appropriate ap-propriate hymns emblematic of the innocence and purity that lay shrouded before the altar. The clear, shrill tones of "Nearer; My . God, to Thee," sung with her usual pathos by Miss Clara Fafek, had a marked effect on the little lit-tle funeral procession as it slowly filed out of the church. The remains were laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery. May the "Father of all good gifts" bestow consolation and solace on the bereaved mother. Kenney." ; , The report I of Peter-Kenneys death at St. Mark'sno"spital in this city on Friday of last vreek was received with feelings of surprise and regret by his host of old-time friends in the mining regions of these intermountain states, especially in Park City and Butte, Mont., where his genial face was a familiar fa-miliar object and where his broad cha- rlty,, open-hearted fellowship and kind-, ly manners endeared him to all with whom he came; In contact; . "The funeraltook place from St; Mary's cathedral at 10 o'clock on Monj day morning last.- Father Curran of the cathedral parish officiated (and paid a glowing tribute to the sterling character char-acter and genuine Christian charity of the deceased. "The pall-bearers were ,Willlam M. Flynn, Edward McFadden,; .Cornelius Glasset, Partick Doyle, Robert Rob-ert Skews and Patrick Gorman, all old 'acquaintances. The remains were laid to rest in Calvary, cemetery. . . u"T'eterKenriey was a comparatively young man, being born in . County Down, Ireland, only forty-five years ago. He came to the United States in 1885, and first went to work in the mines at Leadville, Colo., where he remained only one year. He then came to Park City, Utah, and worked in the Daly mine for two years. Afterward he i changed to the May Flower and later to the Silver King. After a short stay in the latter mine he moved to Butte, Mont, where he remained but one year. Returning again to Park City he took , charge of the Wood-side Wood-side mine for the Hon. Thomas Kearns. About this time glowing stories of rich gold finds came from the Klondike, and Mr. Kenney, like many others, fell victim vic-tim to the gold fever. He started out for the gold fields, of Alaska, and soon succeeded in locating some rich Strikes. He returned to ' Utah to secure se-cure capital to work . his finds, but owing to failing health'-.was obliged to postpone his return indefinitely. In the meantime he took charge of a property prop-erty in California for Kearns and Weber. We-ber. He later returned to the Silver King, Park City, where he remained until shortly before his death. A few weeks ago he entered St. Mark's hospital, hospi-tal, where he succumbed to miner's consumption. (Ed. Note We are indebted to Mr. Andrew Tarbet, a bosom friend of the deceased, for .tie above facts.) |