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Show LAST RITES HELD FOR JAKE HOSTER Funeral services for Jake Hos-ter, Hos-ter, 70, who spent most of his life in Bingham and was the first white, child born here, were held in the Bingham mortuary Tuesday afternoon. Speakers were Bishop David C. Lyon, Dr. F. E. Straup, Alfred Al-fred Henkel and Eugene Morris. Musical selections "What Voice Salutes The Startled Ear," "I've Read of a Beautiful City" and "Down The Road" were given by Mrs. Don Reid. Pallbearers included in-cluded John Viettl, John Feraco, Chris Locke, Mark Austin, Dominic Dom-inic Elena and Art Beal. Interment was in the Bingham Bing-ham cemetery. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hoster, he was born in 1868 in a Id.? cabin wheih stood near 462 Main street. His father was one of the early prospectors to discover and mine ore in this canyon and was a retired soldier. Mr. Hoster had at one time worked in Canada and Montana but had lived alone here for years and had no known relatives. rela-tives. He wtas familiar with early historical incidents in Bingham and loved to tell about boom days when this city was a raw, rapidly growing mining center. At various times he was engaged en-gaged in business, more recently leasing mining property from the Northern Lgiht mine and working at the Italian-French cafe bar. He died early Friday evening at the Bingham Canyon hospital from a stomach ailment. |