Show I I I I i I I i DEATH CLAIMS i l I EJ A HITCHCOCK I I 1 Former Cabinet Member Suc Succumbs SUCcumbs Succumbs After an Illness of Several Weeks STORMY CAREER IN OFFICE F MARION CRAWFORD THE NOV NOVELIST NOVELIST NOVELIST ALSO DEAD Washington April 9 Ethan Allan Hitchcock secretary et r of the Interior under Presidents and Roosevelt R died here her tie re this Hits morning at t 11 aged a 74 14 lie He had been critically ill for several days das and had bad teen ill III for sore some e weeks wk He lie contracted a Ii severe sever cold coW while in the west iest and his hie condition condi on became so 80 seri sert serious serious ous oui that he hurried to Washington to place himself in the hands hams of specialists lIsts who hart had ha attended him during his official carr carper here He suffered from Crom a com Om ri rIat ai i of or kidney heart and MIlmon pulmonary pt ary diseases Ills His condition bad had been l growing worse during the last two ton days day and last la t night all an hope for his reio er was as abandoned Inserted the Probe ills Hi passing marked the close dOM of a ca ea carper carper rOer who preeminent feature was an administration of or the Interior department stirred the western laud land problems as ne never er before t here from St Petersburg where he ie had served as ambassador under un under under der an appointment of President McKin 1 l ley v Mr fr Hitchcock was wa almost immedi immediately plunged into a vortex of compU complications rations growing out of oC A vast act ft frauds and charges of fraud and countercharges STOW Towing growing ing out of or the acquirement of pub public public lic lie lands in the western Mr Ir directed the most moat mo t sweeping investigations In ln arousing the enmity of or prow pow ful political interests That work wont is III recalled d tod toda today v as e one cite of the moat most un and relentless re Inquisitions in th the annals annal of or government m prosecutions pr Prosecuted Public Men lie Tic prosecuted t cases calleS against numerous men HlEn in public life and private business including United L States Senator Mitchell of or who ho was convicted and died not long afterwards former Congress Congressman man Binder Binger r Hermann who had served as commissioner of or th the general land of office office fice nef and who was acquitted former t United States Senator Dietrich of Nebraska ka Representative Williamson of or Ore Oregon Oregon Oregon gon and John Joan A Benson a millionaire leal real estate broker of or San Francisco o Mr Hitchcock was a target tar t for attack on the floors ct rf of oC congress and in protests filed flied at the White hove house The Hitchcock family famili was well known In Washington society where It frequently entertained at smart functions function At th the bedside b d when hen the end fame came were Mrs Hitchcock the three daughters Lieutenant Commander Sims and a nephew George C e Hitchcock of or St Louis Louie The body bod win will 10 be taken to St Louis to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow arriving th there re Sunday Sunda night The funeral will win be held Monday the inter interment interment ment being at the cemetery cemetery tery ter In that city Taft Sends Condolences President Taft teda today sent nt to Mrs Irs Hitch Hitchcock Hitchcock cock the following letter of M My 1 Dear Dar Mrs Hitchcock The sad news nes of the death of your jour our husband has Ju just jURt t conic come me Mrs Taft Tart and I extend to you ou and your our family our sincerest s sym sympathy m pathy path in your jour our great loss lOllS Your Tour hue hus husband band bands record for honest honesty and high sense of official rut duty was deeply impressed d dupon I upon uOn the country by his hill efficient con conduct conduct duct of or the interior department and his dignified and able representation of or this tilts 1 country abroad The TIle gratitude of his hie fellow rello citizens and aDd the high respect for tr I I his memory demory ma may In time I t hope mitt miti mitigate gate the intensity of your present prete ot sorrow I Sincerely yours jours ours WILLIAM II H TAFT I |