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Show I JANES $. THOMPSON PASSES I SUDDENLYJEDISDAV LAST I Masonic Funeral For General Superin tendent Utah Fuel Company Tomorrow To-morrow Afternoon. llighearted, Ojicnbandinl James S. ( Thompson certainly ono if nature's noblemen, lutciuwl) American mid n KCnHcmuii live it inoli nf him in no more. Ami, all who kiiw hbu -sonnlly grieve thai ho 1kmi1iI le railed in the very usefulness of hi life. lit; lied from heart trouble nt Snniiynide very suddenly last Wednosdnv limni-. limni-. ing at 8 ::t0 o'clock in the forty-fun; li : jcar or hi age jrt a joung man anil B most promising future before, kin Ho vriSI bo mourned not only by th hundred of empire working undir nnd VpiIIi him n gctieml m.jVH-iuli'ii-!cnl of Utnli Fuel company's pro-rrtioM pro-rrtioM in this district, but by everyone wlio eauie in closer ponlnel wilh'hiin , elherwise. lie loud his woik, )n on, llic iiiturttsU he served nnd Cat-)on Cat-)on county ns well. IIW chariticr wore many ami I. in viPtioii.be cry broadest. That lie Imit not bn in the host f health for itiiti' while whs known to Inn immediate friends, family nml vmployer, lint none oceld hi do- inim so iiuexjiecleJiy. Following tho breaking of the Maitiutotlt retervoli bim in (looseberry Valley in .Juno of 1017, llio propei l of ike eompany nt (Yisllu Unto iKtiall wns endanger- il by the gnml Hood or water thorn- . ) let loom, For Inn own company V -tnil the Denver .mil Km (Iraudo he fur week persoiii.ll) headed great liodioa nf InlHireiit ami volunteer imucnt rebuild that which wns carried iwny by that mighty flood. It was f- nave proiH-rty and n great induMi) I 1 hut ho worked us hind, if not harder, limn Ihe men tniiler hltn. Tip worr , ijhI work told on Mm. Later he went -. l, (Tdltfnmtn In i.i.i.lr runt, tli. i.nnu, I I nek bettur in hoallh, but not n well About n ninutli gi W. N". WVtxd, imnn Kuperinltmlmt nt Sunn.itiili. uciit IviiNt mid lie bud been rx. -iml Mck for nevernl ony. During liu eliMWieo dociwiM'tl took upon liiliiM'lf llio duliiM of the teitidenl fliixjrilltrn lint dt Siinnytiii! nn well nn IIiom oi the generni tuiiiflrinloiuldiiey. Tills ih HunMied to linve nggravnied Ins ioiibleii to the end Hint U here lold. Whilo at KunnvMulc lie jiinde frequent trip hark ami forth to ("untie (lati, iliuro n homo mid hi office wor I'laiutniued. Thocc vslio wiw him IiimI tit both plnrcH lintl not the nliphliht iiNpii'ioi bin end uu mi near, lie is survived by u vldow and u hoii 10 enrn nT age, the latter in n military Kciiool in Califomi.i. Mrs. TIiomiiumui only it uliorl time ago ivttirned In tUitlo (lute after buiug in Cnlifomia, ii I no for hut lieulih, with her huhbamJ. .Iniiies 8, Thoiiiptoii, for the p;ut lour yeurn gi'iieraf mipciintendent of 'Unli Fuel eomuini was horn u ''hi eagn in 1 675, nml came from a ntnl-urt ntnl-urt old Scotch futility. Iio received hi cduoation in the public hoIiooU of Denver, Colo., mid grndunted with ihu degrt'O of engiuetir of imnes fnim i ho Cohmidt Siuto Selimd of Minen i't (lolden in ISO'). lie wax nno of tho noted athlete nf thai school and 'no of tho most impular tueii of hm time. Alter graduation ho entered tho employ of the Colorado Fuel nnd Iron couiHiny iu vngineor and n thioiigh aritnis ioitioini to that oi division Nuporint-mdciit of, the Trim-dud Trim-dud district, the nnmt iinportnnt ill-kinion ill-kinion of thnt coiH)rotion. In "iTl ho left that couimny iial bofiuiu.i .isiRaut superinti'iident far M" I'ol-'ml I'ol-'ml Ixmd company at Fit' "i-r, Mo., going from there, in ID'Jj to' i ho (loiiition of umiunil -tU'Mtrinleu-J iknt of tho btone Canyon Contoli-I dated Coal oomtiaiiy at Htvno Cnn,on, t'aln. In 1001) he retumed to the I rvico of the Colotndn J'uel ipid Iron! .nnpaiiy, klaying until 1018. Ho vta u mining cugiiiew of very txroptionnl ability and ocoupiod a i'ruininenl position among tho nmI j mlno onemtom of thy Voi IIu was. a inomber of Amcriciiu Mining oon-l groM, tho Amcriou ilino Hafuty as-1 huelntion and th Hooky Mountain I foul Mining institute. Jlin tttrenu-J iu uf forth in uiiting in rosouo wurk nflcr Home of the terrible explosions I vhlrh iicnurrcd iu tho coal uiinoK of I Colorudo uuderuiiiud, to n great ox-l lent, his uplendid ootibylution. Smro oirltiL' to I'tnh ho entoied with hlwi cuktoinnry vigor into tho notivitiod of Ihu coal mining indiutry nnd did much to add to nml maintain tho high H siundnrda thin btoto holds. IIu was u H man of duttnguUiied and comtnnud H mg personality, li'lund which was u K true, loyal nature, emgular tnteiiBitv 9 "f puriiose, anil a vann nnd geucroti MS Jieart H Today the remains arc nt a local undortnking parlor and will he laktij to Salt Lako Cilv on the chH trait tomorrow. The fiinurnl will be tnn Mmwnic Temple there In the mi,r noon and conducted by ono ot tli lodgea of that ctt. ieHimpnnii the body fnim tfuntivnide nre lu widow, Mr. ami Mr. K. V. To. 't Mr. nnd Mm. IJ. 1. Kirkpatntk. V and Mm. Frank S. Turkor, N WoUel and A. D. Iiadley. Fnindi of 'the derenred .inn ofherit ill g, n from CnMlo Onto on tho Kline tra,t The miii is on his way nt this tit ,( , Clah fnmi miiitary hcImmiI hi l a i lornia. .laiiien S. Thoiiioii was nmrr.cd nt Denver, Colo., mmii- eighteen ci. ngo l Mi l,iiiiri 'linker, a niMi- ot B. V. Tucker or Sunn.x.idc Tl ritrkent air jminwu of the ( ill ninl Sidle. Mrn. J. O. Fausctt in ehsrgo of the knitted goods for tho local lied CruM chaptor rc(iuutH that all niticloa nou in the hjinds of workers bo delivered 'at hiiadquariern m I'nco on or hetort next Thursday iu tho room nt Price public school building. Denvnr, Coh . rfficers Iiavo im! ed for n genera' checking up fix in ull auxilliancs. BHkabI ft ?4HBGI BmWmmBwBmmmmWmb'!JtwB .IAMKS SCO'rr TIlfa.Ml'SON. " IT'I'I II Utah Knitting nnd Outfit couipnnv has brought a stock of goods to Priii nnd will he hero frr n few Jays onh. Iho lino is im displajin tho mmh room ,.f the Silvnpii building |