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Show IDAHO SENATOR DIES SUDDENLY Washington. OcL IS. United States Senator Wjldon Brinton Heyburn ol Idaho died at his apartments here last nisht after a lingorlng Illness. He was GO years old and had been in the senate nine years. A complication of diseases involving the heart and kidneys caused the senator's sen-ator's dnMv ITfl hail been 111 allien last March, when he collapsed after delivering a speech in the senate on tho arbitration treaties, In spite or the doctor's warning that the effort might cost him his life Seeral weeks ago, apparoutly gaining gain-ing strength after a serious relapse, tho Kenator and Mrn. Heyburn mado preparations for a trip west. Another relapse followed and since then the patient had been growing steudlly weaker., Yesterday the doctors thought he was slightly improved, but death came suddenly a few minute before S'o'c-lock last night. No arrangements ar-rangements have been made, for .the , funeral, fbut the .body will ba taken to tlio old home or Senator Heyburn jn Birmingham, Pa., for burial. One of the staunchest of the rugular Republicans jmd .1 man of strong convictions, con-victions, frankly and emphatically ox-pressed ox-pressed on all occasions. Senator Heyburn Hey-burn for years had been a conspicuous conspicu-ous figure in the aenate. Ho was. mostly known perhaps for bis unyielding un-yielding bitterness toward the south ami frequent denunciation of southern Civil war leaders. He called the placing plac-ing of I.ee'a statue in the capital an insult, to the nation, and In dlhcnssin this and many other incidents engaged in acrimonious debates with southern senators. During thc last few yea is, since th-devejopment th-devejopment of a serioiiB dlvlblon iu the Republican ranks, Senator Ilev-burn Ilev-burn had played a prominent uart In the fight for party regularity. He always al-ways opposed Colonel Roosevelt'.-conservation Roosevelt'.-conservation ideas and manv of his speeches on the deelopment of the west. In which he was koenJy inter-j ested .were devoted to argumnte agalnHt the former presidents noi-i Icies. ' i , f hif,rt acta ns a senator to attract public notice wna his strong aupporchjnirejood and drug act. The senator's wide range of lufonnajdB tion, flue inomorj' and loadinc-cd ,V speech always assured hlin of atteiSB tlon when he roso to speak. ifl |