Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-07-26 | Page 8 | Hugh D. Rippeto Dead

HUGH D RIPPETO DEAD WELLKNOWN MINING MAN EXPIRED EX-PIRED LAST NIGHT HevHacT Been in Poor Health for a Year But was Able to be Out Friday Fri-day Last the Final Change Began 1IedIn Salt Lake City July 25 1000 Hugh D Rlppelo In his slxlyliflh yean A sterling warmhcurled genial man was Hugh nippelo lie was too a most capable man His business was mining he had followed It in every Slate and Territory of the coast and those who knew him best and longest trusted him most They trusted his judgment they never for a moment doubted his Incorruptible Integrity lie was well informed on cunent events he was a strong hut absolutely fair partisan par-tisan he had a great love for his country coun-try and exulted In her progress and power He haled a mean act with all his mind he was blunt and outspoken but the heart In his breast was tender as a womans He vas a strong type of time brave souls that have searched for and brought forth the treasures from time hills and deserts of the West and possessed all the sterling generous attributes of time class He knew all the letlors of the alpha hot of time rocks and could sot them lo words and make them give up the se oiel oC how they were created through what fires they had been tried by what glaciers they had been planed what prescriptions in the laboratory of time drops hud been tried upon them A high and useful life went out when he died He has been drooping for a year past under a complication or complaints com-plaints He first discovered that he was falling by Ihe unsteady notion of his heart then the Imported circulnllou I brought trouble to his eyes and so lie disease extended until he was but the ghost of his former self He ctrnggied up street every day until a week ago and It was pitiable tu see them but last Friday the final change began and last evening he tiled He was a true man and will be sincerely mourned wherever to a miners cabin the news of his death Is carried