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Show JOSEPH STOWE, mining - and business man, who i died here yesterday. ! if ' 1 p , 'I r 'Al ill UTAH PIONEER DIES i Joseph Stowe, Who Came Here in 18S4, Was Well-Known Well-Known in West. Joseph Stowo, SI years of age, died yesterday iri the Bransford apartments. He was a pioneer of California, Nevada and Utah, having come west in the boom days of ISrTl. Tn 1S54 Mr. Stowe caught the adventurous adven-turous spirit of that period, and left his home in Ohio for the west, reaching San Francisco by the isthmus route. He first became engaged in placer mining min-ing in Downieville, Cal., and afterward was attracted to the Comstock by the excitement of Gold Hill and Virginia City. Subsequently hiining or mercantile mercan-tile business took him to San Jose, San Francisco and to many of the most important im-portant old-time mining camps, such as Austin, Belmont, Aurora and Bodie. Since 1890 he had lived in Butte and Park City, but most of the last twenty-five twenty-five years had been spent in this city. Besides his widow, he is survived by one son, Howard S. Stowe, formerly a well-known business man of Salt Lake and now of St. Louis, and one daughter, Mrs. C. L. Rood. Funeral services will be held at the mortuarv chapel of S. D. L'vans, at 2 p. m. today. Interment will be private. |