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Show FAMOUS AUTHOR 15 DEAD iiW YORK Alfred Henry Lewis Sue cumbs Suddenly to Intestinal In-testinal Disorder NEW YORK Dec 23 lfred Henry Lewis newspaper man and writer of books died today at the home ot his brother here of an intest nal d solder lie had been ill only a few days ' Mr Lewis was born n Cleveland fif tyfive years ago Though a lawyer he entered newspaper work m Kansas C ty in 1S90 and subsequently became a writer of pol t cal articles by wh ch he establ shed a reputation as one of the foremost polt cal writers of the countrj He was descr bed as a prodigious work er and n fifteen years produced e eh teen books many of wh ch obta ned a w de and popular circulation He was well known also as a writer of west ern stor es n which cowbovs and mm ers were dominant f gures as well as of articles on underworld 1 te in this city For several years he was the Wash ington correspondent of the Chicago Tunes which he left in 1906 to serve in the same capac ty for two years w th the Hearst newspapers He then be came the editor of The Verd ct, a humorous weekly but soon turned h s attent on again to f etion and political wr tings Of late jears he had been employed as a pol t cal wnter by the Hearst papers Among n s best known books are Wolf v lie The Sunset Tra 1 and The Boss Mr Lew s s survived by two broth ers who control the publ cat on of the Morn ng Telegraph in th s c ty He was marr ed in E chf eld Oh o to M ss Al ce Ewmg daughter of Dr E A Ewmg vho surv ves him KANS4S CITY, Mo Pec 93The v id impr nt made upon h s m nd by the cowboy 1 fe n and about Dodge Citj Kan turned Alfred Henry Lew s fron a lawyer pol t c an to a writer H s f rst western sketches were pnnted in Kansas C ty newspapers They were the stones of the OH Cattleman s gned Dan Quin In book form these red blooded st rring tales w th son e add tions became Wolfville Th s was the foundat on of h s 1 terary successes although Lew a soon became widely known as a play wr ter The Lewis family came to Kansas C ty n the early 80s The father of the author was a carpenter Soon after the fam ly came here Lewis flung h m self nto the life of a cowpuncher in ! "Meade county 4 Kan tak ng part in some of the b g cattle drives to the ra Iroads and later go ng into the Panhandle country of Teias |