Show EXSENATOR HILL Colorado has lost by the death of ex Senator N P IJI1I a citizen who for a generation has been one ofthe strongest I strong-est forces in the political and Industrial life of the Centennial State He went Ito I-to Colorado equipped with a fine education edu-cation and with full training as a man I I of affairs He saw an undeveloped empire I em-pire before him and determined to take by conquest his part He carried with I him a knowledge of reducing ores which while enabling him to utilize the means at hand at the sumo time was of Inestimable service and value to all this Intermountain region He built up I a great fortune but his work enabled a thousand other men to lay the l foundations i founda-tions of fortunes while from him labor l always loco vei most generous wages j IIIs name waa on almost all lists call I Ins for charity but those who knew j him well declare that those subscription I subscrip-tion were but a tithe of what was j quietly given by him and his most estimable I esti-mable wife Jle was shy and reserved by nature the masses calling him cold i but his friends revered him greatly and he was always true to his friends I lie was J politically very ambitious for twenty years On this account he built up and made a power of the Denver I Republican he served one full term In I the Senate but about ton years ago was defeated by Mr AVolcott and then he began to draw away from public I life and for live or six years past he has been known very little except lo I his friends and those necessarily drawn Into business relations with him His falling was that then was nothing I magnetic in his nature he could not draw men to him through their enthusiasm enthu-siasm then he was a Christian and lived a severely moral life and sometimes some-times expected more oC others than the atmosphere I of Colorado sometimes permitted But his life was a most useful one ho was one of the strongest factors In giving Colorado a high name among States one of the strongest factors In the swift development of her marvelous wealth Ills IB a name that should be engraved In the most sacred archives of Colorado |