Show Town Named After Him Spokane Wash March 30 James F Wardner whose death in El Paso Tex Texis Texis is announced today was perhaps the best known pioneer mining man of the northwest He was born in Milwaukee in 1846 General Charles King being one of his boyhood friends He served in iii the Wisconsin during the civil war He came to the Pacific coast in 1871 locating at Los Angeles and later engaged in mining He joined the rush to the Couer in 1883 and cleared up a fortune The town of Wardner Ida was named in his honor Later he lost most of his money mone but continued to engage in mining yen ven ventures tures A few weeks ago while in Mex Mexico Mexico ico he was reported in peril from the Yaqui Indians but escaped safely sarel |