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Show OFFICIAL DISCOVERS FRIEPsD BEING BURIED Deputy Commissioner of Insurance In-surance Has Sad Experience Experi-ence in California, To get a letter of introduction to a man and then, an hour after one's arrival in liia own' town to see his funeral cortege pass one's window was the experience of Stewart K. Smith, deputy Btate insurance commissioner of Washington, who left SaJt Lake City a week ago. Mr. Smith has written of the experience experi-ence to State Insurance Commissioner John James, who gave him the letter of introduction. Mr. James learned yesterday yester-day why his letter of introduction was never presented. The deputy commissioner from Washington Wash-ington was in Salt JLake City for several weeks examining the books of the insurance insur-ance companies which have their head of- ; t ices here. He planned on leaving to spend several weeks in California before be-fore returning to Olympia, the Washington Washing-ton state capital. When lie left Commissioner James gave him a letter of introduction, written in a somewhat facetious vein, to J. J. Morris of Palo .Alto, Cal., well known in that state and an old friend of Mr. James. Mr. James had been acquainted with him for years through his visit here in 1S92 to urge the authorities of the Mormon church to send the tabernacle choir to the international inter-national eisteddfod at the Chicago world's fair, and through Ills prominence in societies so-cieties of Welsh people and their descendants descend-ants in this country. Deputy Commissioner Smith has Just written that when he arrived in Palo Alto and was considering when he would call upon Mr. Morris, the latter's funeral was in progress, t passed the hotel where he was stopping. The late Mr. Morris was a descendant of that Morris who gave financial assistance assist-ance to the struggle of the thirteen original orig-inal colonies to get independence from Great Britain and from these United States. |