| Show I DEATH CALLS GEORGE GEORGEE E BLAIR Young Mining Man Falls a Victim to Ptomaine Poisoning WITHIN SIGHT OF WEALTH 1 I WAS ACTIVE IN INMANY MANY LINES AND YIDEL VIDELY Y KNOWN E Blair died at the L D S t at 4 yesterday att after an illness of less than ten days u Sunday Sunda June 4 Mr r Blair returned to Salt SaIl Lake front from a trip to IiiI on oh the coast 11 lie was a at tHaI ii with amid b I Ow ti f in h 1 ri n le home the di as hod ii 1 it such sit h s that its I I to Pt LP carric I fr n his i car George E Blair 1 He was taken taku at once to the and never left Ifft his bed till tiJI the end came Dr William Villiam F Beer who was in at attendance Is of the opinion that the im immediate mediate cause ause of death was ptomaine poisoning Mr Blair was born in Utah and all his days das were ere spent here He was as the son or of Seth I E Blair Biair one of the pioneer Ja lawyers ers of the thc territory and because ot of his activity in many lines he was as widely idely known He was as born at Vest est Weber eber Weber county April 8 1 the son n of Seth M 1 and Sarah Jane Blair Soon after the family moved to J Cache ache county and the boy grew to man manhood manhood hood in Logan There he married Nd tf lie M 1 Thatcher the daughter of George Georgev V and Luna Lana Y Thatcher the grand nd of President Brigham Young ills Hie wife ire survives him together with live children till all und under er the age of lJ i two girls irs and three Unee boys boy His mother lit is also still living and amid one brother Jed M 1 Blair of Logan Two sisters the wives ives of James T Hammond arid and Ed Edward ward Hanson of CAche county reaper also survive him r Blair came to Salt Lake about fifteen years ago He became active in Teal real estate insurance and other lines of busi business He was as manager of The I Herald under the ownership of R H C Chambers in 12 He was as deputy coun county ty tv clerk under D C Dunbar for several years hf he took an a active Lie part in politics MS as an ardent Dem Democrat rRt from the t time of reaching his majority till the end He wielded an influence among the young younger or er elem element nt of his party Lately AIr Mr Blair had heen hecim active in minin mining enterprises being a associated ted with Uh F H Lathrop and oth others others ers in the a placer i tion iii Tale Tule canyon Nevada and in the dle He Red D Dog in the BUllfrog district just I out of He had been en in Xe vada ad to inspect the properties a mum num Nor her of times and his trip to California that resulted in lila his death was for the purpose or of stud studying a prO process ess for has han handling dUng gravel vel in the placer mine Funeral in Logan The burial U take lake place ce in Logn The remains tul will iU be taken to that city toni ht or tomorrow night anti and the services will eo hold in that I city at t some e hour on Sunday Definite I have ac not yet been made Blade George Geore E Blair was taken off at a time lime when h n he be had every t of he be being log ing a wealthy lIe combined in his 1 per person unusual talent in many lines At the time of his death he be was as at work on OH a at the same time M he was as promoting a mini mining scheme in Nevada Neada that romi to makE him jmJ W Y wC wealthy th He had a poetic style tyle as a writer and a persuasive iR in I speaking that made him a aim important factor In Iii I |
