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Show DEATH OF JOHN F. LARKIN Whlli Tarrying on a Brier Visit In Sali Lake City. Mr. John F. Larkin left California about three weeks ago to visit his family In the East, and particularly his mother, who is living on the old homestead near Wellington, Welling-ton, Virginia. He ; feared that at her advanced ad-vanced age it could not be many days before be-fore this filial duty would be too late, Mr. Larkin himself being in his seventy-second seventy-second year. He stopped in Salt Lake City to spends' a few days with his youngest daughter, Mrs. A. L. Pollock. Soon after his arrival he began to fail, and last evening at 7:30 he passed away from heart failure, superinduced by cancer in the rectum. His family has the consolation of knowing that his last illness was ameliorated by the most tender care and attention that a devoted and affectionate daughter could bestow be-stow upon a father. In many respects the deceased was a very remarkable man. He had the courage of the best pioneers in California in '49, and it never failed him to the last. He was ever hopeful and he bad the faculty of imparting hope to others. In person Mr. Larkiu was a most imposing man, and in mental vigor and moral worth he was not inferior to any. Funeral arrangements have not yet been to ade. |