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Show VETERAN BASEBALL MAN DIES AT OGDEN Eddie Miller Said to Have Been Member Mem-ber of famous Atlantics; Tliirty Years Train Dispatcher. Special to The Tribune, OGDEN, March 22. Edward Miller, widely and familiarly known in Oiidcu as "Eddie" Miller, died this afternoon at 4 o 'elook at tho Lincoln hotel on j Twentv-tkird street, from heart trouble, i following an attack of la grippe, lie I was 65 years of ago and was oorn in tdanada ilareh 17, He never mar ine d. A brother nnfl sister live ot To-: To-: runto, Canada, and a nephew, I'rank 1 Davev, lives in Grant avenue, this city, j Miller was -said to have been one of ; the very earliest of professional baseball base-ball players, having, according to friends, been as a youngster attached to the famous Atlantics, and later having been a member of the Boston club in the first real league. He was a close friend ' of Sid Farrar. an early frst baseman 'of the Philadelphia club, and father of Gernldiuc Farrar, the celebrated singer. Miller bad been a train dispatcher for thirty years. At tho time of his death he was employed bv the Southern Pacific Pa-cific company, in which company's service ser-vice he had been since Ithi'i. when he came hither from Texas, lie was re garded as a wonderfully efficient train, dispatcher and had the reputation of never having had an accident in his entire en-tire career. The body was taken to the Kirkendall undertaking rooms. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the lodgerooins of the Elks, Miller having been an active and influential influ-ential member of that order. |