Show EDWARD X FULLER c Edward N Fuller now of Tacoma I Wash and who eighteen years ago I was editorinchief of The Herald succeeding suc-ceeding the lamented Edward L Sloan recently arrived at the 71st milestone in lifes journey and the congratulations congratula-tions received from his brethren of the press in Tacoma tell in eloquent language lan-guage in what high esteem the veteran Js held in the state of Washington where he has been located for the last fourteen or fifteen years A souvenir mementOj containing the kirtf words said of the veteran on his last birthday has reached The Herald and it is the pleasure of the writer who was well acquainted with Mr Fuller Ful-ler to say with much feeling that all the compliments showered upon him are well bestowed Mr Fuller has spent fifty years in newspaper work and he has left a mark of which he may well be proud In a short time Mr Fuller will leave Tacoma for a trip to the eastern states and the scenes of his childhood and he will take with him the files of the papers he has edited in the various cities east and west with the idea of presenting them to various public libraries li-braries of the cities of his youth When Mr Fuller was in this city now nearly eighteen years ago he had a very valuable colleotion of newspapei files a collection that no money would have tempted temp-ted him to part with notwithstanding notwith-standing the fact that he was not in what might be called affluent circumstances circum-stances and we understand that in the years he has been on the sound he has added to the books which he so jealously guarded Why he took such care in the preservation of the files which now have so much value was a I secret locked up in his own bosom and it is now out for the first time The congratulations of The Herald are added to those already received and the hope expressed that the veteran vet-eran will not slight Salt Lake on his tour to the scenes of his former triumphs tri-umphs |