Show COURAGEOUS FIGHT OF TURF MAGNATE IS ENDED BT Br DEATH harry r airy Stover Stovers Famous Race Horse Owner and Plunger Suc Succumbs Succumbs Succumbs After Hard Struggle Against the Inevitable ble bleA A Picturesque Figure 1 Harry Stover te rs dead Thill was the th pews which ran through the betting r rig ig at the fair fall grounds yesterday aft afton HII on nn 11 Just an La the price makers began T ToO talk up prices prica for the opening race Many a stouthearted soldier of fortune c vt t i pr l on his way to make comment i Id i 1 i enhance drop a tear teal for in all ail aUt tu tt t h lexicon of well known character characters i M n the American turf none nOM there was wal Ii affectionately esteemed teemed e by his i i t than the same Stover I I Ii a thousand and papers in all aU parts of h nun try today there will appear appe r un er eri ern e a Galt Lake date line Une the facts and andi i of Harry Stovers Stover de do deHe 11 n I He H passed away shortly before Hi noon non hour at his apartments on oni itAh i avenue near the fair fall grounds a lingering illness s from ii n fl The end was not unexpected foi for forn of the had n in the supreme nerve man K hp pi p him alive these past two months month HI II H had hail been bt en growing gradually weaker MI U f a last la t Sunday and early yesterday m ning he entered Into a slight coma comaLa Eater La t H he h rallied only to fall into a awa wa t slumber from which he dropped drop and peacefully into the beyond Mr Mrs r Stover and one or two Intimate friends were about the in tn nis Ma Malast nisla la last t hours I Up n to a II late hour last night the place nf of Of interment j had bad not been decided upon Frank G Stover a Ii wealthy cattle buy buyer er and stockman of ot Kansas City CIt Mo Mois iv is i a brother broUer of defeated decried ed and his only blood relative tr tor to r was as 46 48 years of age and al at alis 1 says ays is spoke of ot Petaluma Cal Cat as his I horn home town There he be has a pretty Ut i tIp ti suburban place and arnt a magnificent ranch valued alu d at I about He Hek k kept Tt few books or accounts and to estimate es et estimate his wealth would be a hard bard matter In Lt his name and title is prop property property erty to the value of ot but as to how far this is ls encumbered remains to ho hf seen About five years ago Stover commenced to complain of ot lung trouble at New Ne Orleans At Butte a I z year ago he hI was reported to be falling failing rapidly and only his sheer pluck had kept him among dinong the living since then He wast wasted M ed d from rom a II man of ise pounds to about WI f pounds at a t his death deathA A Noted Turf Character stoer Stover was one of the character studies stu studies dies lips of ot the turf He often said the two Things in life he liked best were his hl horses and his hia bl friends frends No man had a amore amore amore more indulgent ent or loyal Joyal friend than Stover tovEr His quiet acts of kindness will never neer be fully known but in the th hone af ot h his S death it is safe sare to say way hundreds and nil hundreds pf pt n hj hi beneficiaries bene ClarleS In all till parts para of or MI the country will send end up a word of gratitude to tIM the friend who helped in the hour lour of need He H was Ass born and raised d In Kansas Nineteen years yeas ago he went to Eureka Cal Cat There he drifted into stock rais rals raising raisIng ing and soon became possessed or of a II avery every very fast quarter horse He won fifty four match races with Ith this horse home about the county fairs tails and then organized a If large jar e stable for a campaign upon the eastern rn and California courses He un Ull understood understood a race rae horse from the ground up and was always s a good money moneymaker moneymaker maker makeI He liked all sorts of animals and It was waB not nut a strange thing to see two or three dogs a R couple of ot kittens a goat and slid a horse following him about his hi stable He lIe was a chicken pitter pates of or renown and hi his birds have hae won battle battler from to California Califor ta Had a Fast Stable On Wednesday Native Son won a race at the fair fall grounds In the th colors ot of It Stovers Kenilworth farm stables stable Atthe At Atthe Atthe the present time he has a n e SIR staDie Die at atthe atthe atthe the fair fall grounds which will bt be said ouid Id to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow It Includes es and other fair fall performers Stover was the principal promoter of the recent meet meeting meeting I ing at Ogden and at the time of hf hl death held the controlling interest inthe in inthe the tIte meeting at Butte scheduled to opec o r late this month He wrote Tobe Ramsey a letter early yesterday morning asking him tv tu attend to some stable details He ivas wasa was a man of undying nerve and grit shown in the fact that he fought for hit hi hilife life against hope right to the end Stover named his hili farm at Petaluma after alter Kenilworth the best horse he ever eer owned and to which he was wag much attached at attached attached Stover was unique In appear appearance appearance appearance ance always alwa s wearing a slouch hat ano ana high water trousers either upon stat stator or ordinary occasions He Hee was known on every racing course in America Among his stanch friends of years standing Is W V W Finn of the Utah Jockey clug clog Finn Tobe Tote Ramsey Ram ey and other of Stovers cronies gathered in little knots about the th paddock yes yesterday yesterday yesterday and in the grief that only rea men of the real world know mournfully discussed the passing on of a true friend and one of o the gamest and stout stoutest est eat men that ever breathed The flags at the race course of th to Utah Jockey JOke club were at yesterday ye out of respect for the memo memory ry 0 of the turf mR |