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Show HIS FUNERAL WILL ' I : OCCUR IN DENVER 'I if, " i 'i ' j- j( ,'!, Body of Fred S. Rockwell Passes ' l(t !f1 Through Salt fake ' li '! - ' IKY-, a 08 he body o Fred s' R.ckwe11.. thc '.It' I'JJ I well-known Colorado stockman I ' t i; J. who died in Caldwell, Ida., on )v Jj' 1 ,k , Wednesday morning, passed H j ' I ' through on Denver & Hio Grande train Jj jl f; No. 5 yesterday. JyiJ Ip' t: ' The. popular cowman contracted j jt , 'i pneumonia while on a trip in the Jor- , i" dan valley, some seventy miles south ! !l ij " , of Caldwell, after a string of steers, i ' , ' j 1 which terminated with sudden and j lijl . M shocking fatality to his family, a wife j i ' and son, and his friends here and elsc- j J , r where. Mrs. Rockwell was summoned ji . , I, from Galesburg, 111., on Monday by a j Is, , , wire from the son, Robert, , who ac- ' V,!'- ' iJi companied his father on the trip into V W --the country; but she was notified at ' T Glenwood springs, beforo she could I''! reach the sick bed, of her husband's ' j si death. I , A' . Mr. Rockwell was a New Yorker, i about 62 years old. He was for sev- iill i; eral years connected with the freight A I department of the Burlington and the J lf I, Denver & Rio Grande railway systems 'i if V ! ' before joining George "W. Ballantine of A ;,!! . the Denver yards in a cattle ranching jui; and feeding business at DeDeque, Colo., J- 'if -which the firm has built up to one of , I large proportions. For the last eight j ' years Fred, as he was familiarly i known, had devoted himself to the i n . ranch and its affairs with splendid ,1 t , i'. success financially, during which time 1 ' 1 he had bought and moved many of the . M best steer herds from Utah, Nevada I . I, and Oregon, and thereby formed an 1 extensive acquaintance with North- , !,i western cattlemen, and Utah breeders ; In particular. He was well liked as i. p ; well as widely known, and his sudden ,i i ( J demise has occasioned much sorrow in k l i Salt Lake among his railway and llve- v v jr stock frlend8. His body will reach , i?i Denver this evening and be Interred , from the residence of his late partner, (, ', 'George W. Ballantine, on Saturday. )' ' . I,, Mr. Rockwell Is survived by his wife , ' .j r! and son, Robert, who has Just attained A 1 his majority. |