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Show v OBITUARY. Death of Colonel Pat Donan. Advices received in this city Tuesday brought the sorrowful news of the death of Colonel Pat Donan at his homevin Portland last Sunday. It is known' that the' well known newspaper writer and magazine contributor had been in failing health, but his friends here were not prepared to hear of, his demise. ; ' .During the boom times a dozen years ago Colonel Pat. Donan came to Salt Lake. His fame as a brilliant, dashing and flowery writer. had preceded hi ni, and while here he won added laurels, lt was he who .. ccined the word "Utahn," to designate a resident of Utalvand he named, his weekly journal, which he published -with varying success suc-cess in this city several years ago, after the word of his coinage. - . Some half dozen years ago Colonel Donan went io the northwest and later became the advertising agent of the Oregon Railroad & Xavigation company, com-pany, which position he held at the time of his death. Very many of the literary pages in western railroad, fold-' i ers were from his facile pen. Probably no man ever achieved the large measure of snocess that Colonel Donan did in writing boom literature, j It is related of him he that fairly out-, out-, did all rivals by sending his articles on 1 the resources and attractions of west-; west-; Mn states to eastern publishers, who eagerly used his advertising matter without pay.' All of Colonel Donan's articles of this kind possessed such literary lit-erary merit that the big eastern news-rnppv news-rnppv oublishPo" columns of his writ-- ings on the boom order without limit, and craved for. more. - Colonel Donan has two nephews in Utah, J. Donnan Reavis, a former newspaper reporter of this city, and Donnan, the pro" tor of the Upper Falls resort in . ' v'o canyon. It is rather an oddity that these two have added a letter "n" to the name of Donan. |