Show DEMISE OF OP Seattle Wash Jan IS Henry G Thornton former chief of police of Seat Seattle Seattie tie tle and for half a century a rest resi dent of the Pacific coast states died to tonight night of acute Bright disease Mr Thornton was born In Portsmouth O 0 fn in lS and cros crossed w t the plains with settling at Portland where he operated a terry ferry and bu built H one o the Ors first reservoirs He engaged in la railroad con truet work at SUn San Francisco In 1863 and came to this city in He Is survived bv by a wife and five children one of whom is Mrs W Q 0 Beck vf pf Portland |