Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-08-03 | Page 4 | Burley Dies at S. L. Hospital

BURLEY DIES AT j S, L J0SPI1L Widely Known Railroad Man Succumbs After Two Months' Illness SALT LAKE. Aug. 3. David E. Burley. widely known railroad man,1 ,died at 3 o'clock last evening at St.! Marks hospital of septlcaamla, fol- (lowing an Illness of two months. He w-as 71 years of age. For years ho; Was general passenger agent of tho! j Oregon Short Line railroad. Mr. Burley was born at Amanda, 'hlo, March's, 1849, and was educat-j educat-j ed In the public schools and at As-.bury As-.bury (now Depauw) university, at Grecncnstle, Ind. Early in the soven-I soven-I ties ho went to Omaha and for several sev-eral years traveled for a wholesale grocery establishment there This I took him all over western Nebraska I land the Dakotas and Into Montana I jand Wyoming He dealt with the In-Idian In-Idian traders and became well known at the deferent agencies. Later on Mr. Burley became deputy 'sheriff of Douglas county, Nebraska, I which county embraces Omaha, and In .this capacity participated in many exciting ex-citing events of that period. Among tin.- w;ts the running down of the Big Spring bandits In 1877, one ofl whom Mr. Burley caught in western Nebraska. Another capture which he managed alone was a horse thief, whom he traced from Omaha to Arkansas. Ar-kansas. He found his man there with a crowd of confederates. Mr Burley I had to deal with but one, however, but he wanted that one He found his I miin in the crowd and pulled him out! by force, holding tho others at bay with a revolver. He led his man to a j river and forced another to row him I across and then successfully took him prisoner back to Omaha, where he was (tried and convicted. Mr Burley entered the employ of the L'nlon Pacific In 1879 as traveling .passenger agent In the Baltimore, Md., j territory. He was transferred to Salt 'Lake as general agent of the passsn-ger passsn-ger department In 1890 and. when he Oregon Short Line was segregated from the Fnlon Pacific In 1897. Mr. . Burley wan made general p.tssenger agent of the iregon Short Line, with headeiuorters In Salt Lake, which position posi-tion ho held until he retired May l, '1916. About fourteen years ago the' town if Burley, Idaho, was named! I for him. Since Mr. Burley retired he had resided re-sided In Salt Lake, having an apartment apart-ment in the BranafOrd. H0 had spent : much of his time at and considered the 'Alia club to be his general headquar-tors headquar-tors He had been an active member' of the Alta club since ho Joined It on' November 14, 1894, and acrved two' 'terms as president of that organlza-jt'on, organlza-jt'on, the last term being In 1919. Mr Burley always was known as a regular 'Republican, although during the last i few years he had taken but little interest in-terest In politics He was conservative conserva-tive In his actions, but of a positive jnoture. and always loynl and devoted to those of whom he approved. It was known that he made many material cc ntributions to charity, although he always did this without ostenxatlon, and In many Instances nobod but the .recipient of his charity knew of it OO