Show Career Ends DENNER ER ENNER X S SMITH r- r B iI noy ncy statesman nud and soldier v who Lo llie lied yesterday following an nn illness of three weeks 5 1 I s 1 r S f S S j 4 S 4 V Vi i h u ui i ft l i li 1 I 4 r S 1 kv f 1 I Ie it j i II t I T Z t W x W m fG t r 5 z Sudden Dea Death l of Prominent neilt Utah Barrister Proves Blow BloT to Friends x X s SMITH nTH attorney B BENNER statesman and soldier who had hall been n associated with Frank B. B Stephens In the practice of law In Salt Lake for tor almost a H quarter of oC a n. century died at SL St Marks Mark's hospital yesterday afternoon following an Ill Illness illness ill ill- illness ness of three weeks Although Mr Smith had harl been reported critically ill m. his friends and business associates had hall hadnot hadnot not expected his sudden death Mr Ir Smith was born In GalesburG Ill April 26 26 Ho lie was the son of or Judge Arthur J A. A Smith and Mary Iary MaryE E Smith His Ills father served ed as n. n i colonel In the union army during tho the civil war and was for twenty-eight twenty years cars a district judge in the Illinois courts He was educated at Knox college Gal Galesburg Ill where he received ed the degree of or A A. B. B He lie later graduated from the Columbia Law school receiving In log ing tho the degree of LI LL B. B In 1893 1593 he came me to Salt Lake and entered the law Jaw office of Frank B B. Stephens with whom h ho he became as associated associated as- as as a partner in 1895 This partnership was In e effect up to the death of or Mr Smith Shortly after coming cominS' to Salt Lake Laker Mr r Smith was appointed assistant United States district attorney his first public office and the commencement commencement commence commence- ment mont of ot a long ong career in public af af- af fairs Ho was assistant attorney general for tor Utah under Attorney General Bishop Dishop Dish Bish op and was later appointed district attorney for tor the Third judicial dis die During the Spanish American war he ho served as a first lieutenant in the tho Utah cavalry under Capt Joseph King lie Ho was as a member of the tho state legislature for Cor a period of ten years cars serving ser successively suc suc- successively ely as representative e and state senator In 1904 1 he lie married Mrs Mabel Miner Minor McClure daughter of or the late lato Judge James A. A Miner former chief justice of ot tho tb state supreme court He lie was a member of ot the thc Episcopal church a Republican in politics and was a n member and former president o of the Alta club a member of the tho University Uni club dub and of or the Loyal Loral Legion of ot America Mr Ir Smith Is survived by his widow Mrs Mabel Miner Smith on one stepdaughter step step- daughter Armstrong his mother Mrs Mary E E. Smith and one sister Ister Mrs frs Ira H. H Lewis all of this city two brothers Loyal L. L Smith at attorney attorney at- at torney for the tho Grand Trunk railroad and Dowitt Dewitt D D. Smith a a. manufacturing Jeweler both bolh of or Chicago Funeral arrangements have hare not been completed p |