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Show .-. DEATH OF A ItAlLIiOAD MAX. The First -Assistant Oenernl Freight Agent of the Union Pacific IHts at Omaha. Spfcin! lo The Tlnu. Omaha, lec. 5. F. ?. "Whitney, the first assistant general freight agent of ,tbe Union Pacific, died here this morning at 4:15 after an illness of oniy a few days. ND further pjirticuiars were received. V.'hen local railroad men, particularly those, connected -with the Union Pac.rie were iniormed of Mr. 'Whitney's sudden death, they were greatly shocked. Nearly ail of them knew him and admired him as they did few men. lie was a splendid fellow, fel-low, strong as a giant and yet as tender as a woman. His friends describe him as a man who looked like a god. He was over six feet high, weighed more than 'M'J pounds and was one of the finest specimens of physical manhood overseen. Hcappeared as it lmilt to last a hundred years. Mr. Whitney was about 3:1 cr ;U years Of age and had been eornectcd with the." Union Pacific for the past eight years. |