| Show I OLD CROSSES DIVIDE 4 Death of J Hays Cook a Famous Prospector Pro p 4 DISCOVERED DISCOVER D THE O 0 K I MINE 4 a ON THE Another of ot th tl old miners en of o Ute the r period of ha hM the great reat dl ide vide J I Hays Cook ook a famous vho ho row d the horn hom In the days daya of the earl ea old od excitement in Califor California nia Ilia die at St Marys Karys hospital yes yn yesterday A complication of bladder and kidney ailments caused canted his death Cheerfulness a light heart and ancI a dla dis disposition position to enjoy life while it lasted characterized the old man to the last test 2 Sir Mr Ir Cook was 78 years and a pop popular popular io ular character throughout Utah His me leath will come as a shock to cores coree res of vt f friends throughout the state and wherever hei ever he be is remembered by the plo pio pio pioneer neer Deer argonauts ar For two weeks Mr r Cook has been under treatment at St SC Mary M hos hospital pital On Sunday Say he be became convinced that UK u end Waa near aad ad sent t for J r Hays Cook a photograph taken in his hunting costume by Cener many years ago Justice Lochrie to draw his wUL WIlL wiB The magistrate tm te responded to the caB and 1 pent t wath him d de discussing esIng his temporal affairs It was w desire to leave his estate es te to tw Mt Mrs of this city a f Another daughter 11 living Hying ing in m Oregon regon who is ex cx ext exe t eo e d to reach Salt Lake A number numb r of leases of mining mint pr perty r were in such euch shape that he 11 wanted time to consider co a way to adjust the therna matter rna with fairness to the lessees If and li II I finally put off the matte matter t vuth atti yes ye telling the justice to eaK cau in the afternoon When Justice pre pee presented pre himself he was informed that his bis client was dead Left eft Comfortable Fortune Mr Cook was a well known and prominent mining man and land hind owner of Milford where he settled after ati r years of ot prospecting Ung and mining in lit nearly every camp of Utah Nearly all his property was located In the Star dis din district district and is valued in the neighbor hood of He was a typical min ruin mining mining ruining ing man and an interesting character who was cultivated c by visitors of ot all classes s He came to the west from New Nw York and spent the heft best years of his life lite in developing the country Ar Arran Arran Arran ran for the funeral are being belD withheld the arrival of or his ble daughter from Oregon Discovered D 0 O X K Mine in inMany Many and interesting are the stories that hat t are al told by concerning oo Mr I f Cook As Jut the original orl nal discoverer I of ot the O a K mine and one of the three I original ownes before ii H i passed into the possession slon of Allen G Campbell lila his name became a byword among wong Utah miners This was not his only big find After having gone go to the gold x via the horn the pioneer returned to L t the east and antt made his way across croes the continent lb one ODe of f the first droves of o high grade horses hones ho taken ta ea eat I l to t California Through prairie and desert the pioneer made his way was nut eat fering alike from the ravages of f av nay avage age Indians far tar more savage Y whIte men nen reen prairie fires and all the elements element that made travel in that primitive way eventful He reached his destination in safety however and disposed ed of J Jil is horses Mr dr Cook was as na popular among the 01 ginal a as u he was wu among A tho fhe white settlers Lovers of ot stories I Mere vere accustomed to sit by the hour rd hear from him the tale of the I Mountain Meadow massacre as it was ws wa if j bunted i t L him by the Indian par parti ti Their side of that story is j isrow row rew likely to die wit his hl death Only a 8 few t w weeks eks ag when it was apparent ent n that Mr Cock Coo health was wu giving nay BY ay Colonel Henry Altman mad m m an effort to have the story of ot his life lite and anda a number of his most interesting rem reminiscences recorded for the benefit of or coming romine genet genel The work was as ne never nEer er done and ard the deceased pioneer v will ill carry carr to his grave matters of local I history which will soon pass from the nw tory of men While Wl Ile Is never very wealthy Mr Mi Cook made and disposed fit of f comfortable fortunes in his bin day Penrose e is now operating ex ox extensive I mining interests purchased fioro fum him near ner Milford Mlford and a of or other oth arc are operated by b persons leer leering lez I ing Under bond from Cook t ook oo At all h times and acquaintances profit profited ed 1 through h whatever good fod fortune be 00 fil Mr rook lOOk ook although his keen judg judgment ineRt ment of ot human nature prevented him from being imposed upon Good Goo na nature nature nature ture wit and humor and unbounded hospitality o were his most striking characteristics 8 with ith frugal honesty hon ty that won bin hin many friends fOnds r Old friends fri ds are arf arrn ing to make the fur an au affair alfair the close cose of 80 0 ev nt al 11 a lift liff |
