Show I n Death o of v P Pc Pera c era eral I Blair v p t I S i r 7 I S 1 I I 0 i S I 1 Judge Jacob acob Ja ob S Blair J Jacob B Blair survey nU f Utah U died in lila His room ro ait st the Alto Altai shah ct ten tea be re r 6 G yesterday morning after a a very wry brief and in the eightieth year of his Thus Jh dosed ced a IKe that h t was one of constant sunshine and his death will win eau cause regrets In the hearts of ev every e ery person n who was as so So fortunate as to number himself among the acquaint acquaintances aces ances of the line fine old gentleman Judge Blair was in his usual good health on em Sunday evening on Monday morning mornin he be was but had no premonition of his hi approaching end He was among amonI his associates in the club Jub until noon lOOn and then not feeling well he be wait wem to hs r room He had a severe ev pain in his hie aide ide for fr which Dr DrA DrA DrA A C Swing Ewing prescribed Late Monday Mondy evening the th judge gw g w worse Dr br bri i Pinkerton and T Dr r Union Worthington were ere railed caned In a L it trained nurse was se secured secured cured and all that th t was wa possible was done by doctors nurses and attend attendants attendants ants an s to alleviate the suffering of the theman therna man maa rna who was a favorite with all It was waa nil all in rain aIn and just as the morn mornIng mornIng Ing lag was breaking ble bie k king ng his spirit took its flight The doctors are of ec 01 the opinion that death deth was the result of heart fall fail failure urn ure UI brought on by old age Judge Blair has bas had an eventful ca en career career reer he was in public life UIe the greater gr par pa pare of ot sixty years ers he be filled many high offices and filled every one one well He Hews was ws universally respected by lt whom wl m he wa a 1 t io contact The T judge was born in Virginia April 33 3 1881 90 so that had he lived until next April he would have hae been 80 SO years old As a young man nina he studied stud law lawand lawand lawand and located in West Virginia He ae served in the legislature of his state was twice sent to congress and was one of the most moat active in securing for tor his state during the civil war He also 1180 represented his govern government go rn ment meat at Costa Rica and D later was ap appointed appointed pointed associate justice justlee of Wyoming Wy by President Grant He served in that lat t office for a number of ff years and then thene came e me to Utah in 1888 In 1891 he was made probate judge here and served in fn that office until 1895 1835 In 1897 he was made ni e general for Utah by President McKinley and continued in I that until his hs death I There was as no better entertainer in I all U the western country than Judge i Blair He was as witty a good story storyteller storyteller storyteller teller had an inexhaustible fund of good nat nt and was every everywhere where rec ree i W an allaround royal good goodfellow goodfellow fellow He e was the ute ito of the Alta Alto club He joined that Association In UW laO and was wa always aIwa on hand for a ag good g od time His is the first death to take place In the club house hOuie and the whole place pIce p was subdued as a house of mourning yesterday The flag was at The deceased had no relatives living in the went we His wife has been dead for tor a nuber number of years and his only children two wo daughters are living In Inthe Inthe the he east a t One of them is Mrs H H Moss of Parkersburg W V Va the theother theother theother other is Mrs ITS J B Bell of f Dayton O 0 They were at once informed of their fathers death d th and asked for Instructions instructions Instructions as u to the funeral Mrs Moss re responded responded spondee that her fathers wishes should be carried curled out These wishes were to the effect that tb 1 he lie be buried here in Salt Lake and he be had purchased a lot at Mt lIt Olivet for this purpose The funeral will wID therefore be held at tit atthe atthe the Alta Aim club at 2 today The religious services will be under the di direction direction direction of Dean Eddie of St Marks and the interment will be at Mt Olivet The pallbearers p will wUl be United States Marshal Glen Miller United States District Attorney C O 0 Whittemore emore as representatives of the government Henry R M 11 Atkinson and C B Lin Linnen nen of ot the surveyor generals general office and Josiah Barnett Judge John A AMarshall Marshall p L and J T M Stout the tha Alta club A could be l filled d with in int esting stories stores of or this genial t man While VIrile a resident of Wyoming he was a 8 sort of chum for fr a time of or Bill Nye He circulated a subscription paper and raised the funds funIs with which the Laramie Lal lie Boomerang ng was as established established Jt hed and in this way w y may rna be said to have started Nye on his road to fame When ben nd was elected in 1892 a friend Irl nd accosted the judge and ank id hint him what he t was vas ay going to do doit about it ft His quick k response res Po nse was If It Grover lets me alone I will let Jet him alone He was probate judge j dge at the time the office being binga a presidential ap appointment At one oe time the judge mar married married ried ned a couple here in Salt Lake by the aid aM of an Interpreter Then it was dis dia discovered discovered I covered that the couple did not wish iah to be married by a judge but ut by their own minister r Judge Blair B Ir was vas bother bothered ed an instant We cant divorce them he said aid id well just tear up the certificate and tell them to go and be married bi bt b their minister r |