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Show I 1 II I. OF NEVADA 1 Dies After a Short III- K ness Was a Mil- K lionaire. H ' H i . Washington, Juno C. Senator H George S. Nixon of Nevada died in a H local hospital hero at 10 o'clock last H night of spinal meningitis. Bj Senator Nixon had been at the J; Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat hos- M i Pital since last Thursday, when an Hi operation since last Thursday,, when H an operation for nasal catarrh was B performed. Spinal meningitis (level - m oped -and the senator's condition soon B became critical. For the last twen- H ty-fonr hours his death had been mo- B mentarily expected. 1 Early today a Christian Science fH practitioner, William S. Campbell. jB was called into the case. The sen- VM ator's vlfo and relatives in Nevada jM had been notified of his condition and JjB they are now hurrying to Washington. :'H Conspicuous In Mining. H Senator NixOn was one of the most jH conspicuous mining magnates in the H "west, and was intimately associated :?H with the gold operations in Gold field H In his homo state. Ho was G4 years ? old and a native of California, going HMj x to Nevada early in life. He acquired vB large interests at Reno, Goldfield and jHr elsewhere, and began his political lH, , career with service in the Nevada iSHp " legislature He was attacked by mag- Hi; azino writers owing to the methods HLl-l by which they claimed he acquired hjs t'K!l fortuno, for he was rated as several yBirj-'J times a millionaire, with a personal 'IHJW' following unequaled by any other man HV in his state. -jH In the United States senate Sen- jH ator Nixon was a quiet figure, raroly H having anything to say in the floor ilHf proceedings, though alwavs ready to H give his advice in tho private counsels H of tho Republican senators, among 1,jV U whom he ranked high. He was chalr- H vr rnan'of the committee on reclamation H of arid lands, a committee which H seldom meets H Popular Choice. H He watched closely legislation af- H fecting the western interests, but con. :H fined his work to deliberations in H committee, Despite the running fire jjH of attack aimed at his control of large H interests, Mr. Nixon .was recently JH- -iinnnlmouslyelected. by a Democratlc H leglslaturo In ratification ofhis choico B at a popular election on the Oregon SH primary nlan. His term, a second nH one; would not have expired until JH 1917. B Senator Nixon lived at Reno, but H maintained in this city a magnificent H estate in the northwest suburbs, where H his grounds adjoined the large coun- JJ trv home of his Nevada colleague, -V Senator William M. Stewart, whose nmk wobbling political fortunes and strcn- IBf uouB financial dogma made him a Bty picturesque figure in the national cap- B l Ital a generation ago. |