Show SENATOR HEYBURN 0 OF F IDAHO DIES AT W ASHINGTON FO A LONG ILLNESS DUBOIS P POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR Western Solon Passes Away at Capital Had Capital Had Been Too III to Go Home Oct I 17 United i.-United United WASHINGTON v States Senator Wel Weldon on Brinton of ot Idaho died at his apartments apartments apartments apart apart- ments here tonight after atter a lingering Illness lIe Ho was CO GO years rears old and had been in the tile Senate nine years cars carsA A complication of ot diseases Involving the heart and kidneys caused the tho senators senator's sen son ator's death He ITo had not been well since last March when he ho collapsed after alter delivering a speech In tho Senate Sen Son ate ato on the arbitration treaties In spite of ot the thc doctors doctor's warning that the effort might mig cost him his Ills life lite Several weeks ago apparently gaining gainIng gain gain- ing Ins strength after a serious relapse the senator and Mrs made preparations for tor a n trip west Another relapse followed and since then the tho patient patient pa pa- tient had been growing steadily weak Beak ed cd Today tile the doctors thought he was slightly Improved but death came camo suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly a few minutes before S o'clock clock tonight No o arrangements have been I Imade made for the funeral but the bod body will willbo willbo i ibo bo taken to the tho old home of or Senator I Heyburn leyburn In Birmingham Pa for Cor burial One Ono of or the sta staunchest of ot the regular I II Republicans and a man of strong convictions con con- I frankly and emphatically con j cx- cx on Pago Page 9 Column 6 G. 7 9 S 5 S 4 SENATOR ron H EYB URN UnX SENATOR HEYBURN t DIES IN CAPITAL ILLNESS WAS INAS LONG Continued from tram Pago o 1 I. pressed pre on all occasions Senator lIeburn heyburn lIe hey burn for tor years Fears had been a conspicuous figure In fn the tho Senate lie was mostly known perhaps for his unyielding bitterness bitterness bitterness bit bit- toward the south and and frequent denunciation of or southern civil war lead lead- ers Ho lie called the placing placing- of I. I Lees Lee's es e's statue statue statue stat stat- ue In the capital an insult to the nation na nation nation na- na tion and In discussing this and man many other Incidents engaged in acrimonious ous debates with southern senators During the last few years ear since tho the development of ot a n serious division in the thc Republican ranks Senator Heyburn had played a n prominent part In the thc fight for fOI party part regularity He always opposed opposed opposed op op- posed Colonel Roosevelt's conservation Ideas and many of his speeches on the development of or the thc west In which he was keenly interested were devoted dO to arguments against the thc former Presidents President's Presidents President's I dents dent's policies One of or his first acts as a senator to attract public notice was his strong support of ot the pure food and drug act The senators senator's wide range of or Information information tion fine memory and readiness of or speech ch always alwa's assured him of or attention when he arose to speak Weldon Brinton Heyburn Heburn was born In Delaware county count Pennsylvania May 23 3 1852 his parents parent John Brinton and Sarah Gilpin Heyburn were Quakers of at English descent He lie married Yeatman of or John Marshall an and lnla Lavinia Passmore Yeatman He Herece rece received ved an academic education was admitted to the bar In 1876 and practiced practiced law continuously up to the time when ho he entered the Senate In the winter of or 1883 he moved to Shoshone count county Idaho and has resided there ever since lie Ho was a member of he the he convention which framed frame the constitution constitution constitution tion of or tho the state of or Idaho an and was chairman of the Judiciary committee of or that bod body Ho He always voted and supported sup sup- supported ported the tho Republican ticket was elected elected elect elect- ed cd delegate delegato to tho the Republican national convention In 1888 1886 1892 1900 and 1904 was national committeeman for fat Idaho from 1904 1 to 1908 was the nominee of the Republican party part In Idaho ton fo Congress Congress Con Con- gress gross In 1898 but was wal defeated by a fu fusion fusion fu- fu sion slon of Democrats Populists and Silver Sli Sil- Sliver ver ar Republicans was elected to the United States Senate January 13 1903 receiving the entire Republican vote yote of ot tho the legislature to succeed Henry Heitfeld Helt- Helt feld Democrat for tor tho the term beginning March 1 1 1903 and was as unanimously reelected reelected reelected re- re elected b by the legislature January Januar 13 1909 1903 |