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Show rPI0EB ID1 EDITOR MEM KILLED Special to The Tribune. IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, May 17. Justice Jus-tice or the Peace William . Wheeler, 75 years of age, piouc-er newspaper man and widelv known citizen, died litre at 5:30 o'clock t hi3 afternoon as the result of an accident. Thursday evening while crossing the street at ;lic intersection of I'ark and ' Broadway, Mr. Wheeler was run down I by a laundry car.- His injuries were so severe that he never regained consciousness. con-sciousness. Mr. Wheeler retirad from active : newspaper management nine years ago, 1 but since that time he had been Idaho Falls correspondent of the Salt Lake Tribune and other big publications. Mr. Wheeler was born in Vermont in 1S43 and removed to Illinois when he was 25 years of aire. He served through the war as a member of the 14(3the Illinois Illi-nois infantry. He first came to 1 the inlermouutaiu west in 1SB9, when he visited for a short time in Salt Lake Citv. Mr. Wheeler began his newspaper career ca-reer in 1S71, when lie established the Evanston Age at Evanston, Wyo. Later on he went to Blackfoot, Idaho, where ha started the Blackfoot Eegister. From there he moved to Eagle Roek, now known as Idaho Falls, and changed the name of his newspaper to the Idaho Register. I For twenty-nine years he edited the Register and gave it a high place among the newspapers of the Gem state. As a staunch Republican he was a delegate to the territorial convention in 1881, and served subsequently at many of his party's state conventions. Active constantly in public life, he was appointed a member of the Albion State Normal school board, and later as a trustee of the Idaho state industrial indus-trial school. He also served this city as a member of the. school board. He was postmaster in Idaho Falls from 1S(S9 to 1S94. He also was prominent , in G. A. R. circles. ! In 1910 he was made secretary of the 1 Idaho Falls Club of Commerce. Prob-1 Prob-1 ably no man in this section of the state had a larger acquaintance or en-joyefl en-joyefl the friendship and the respect 1 of more of his f ellow citizens than did Mr. Wheeler. Funeral arrangements have not been made. |