Show Noted a 13 JL P j Baldwin aldwin Is s Dead f. f II i t I- I f I i II I 1 j J I I J J 1 j t t 1 J. J f 01 f j f J 4 1 i j jI I I i 1 I f I t 4 c I I I Ii i I i. i LUCK BALDWIN t i I f LOS ANGELES March 1 Elias I.-Elias Ellas J J. J Baldwin tho the famous plunger and turf- turf I I known throughout tho the country and aud Europa as Lucky Baldwin died at ihU in Arcadia on tho the celebrated d Baldwins Baldwin's ranch fifteen miles from I w Angeles at 7 0 o'clock clock D' D Ho was 81 years old t The Tic cud end came after a lingering illness illnois of several weeks Ho passed quietly Way surrounded by his family and friends after having boon beon unconscious most Jef ef the night At his bedside this morning were Mrs Baldwin their daughter 1 i s Isas end and other relatives The illness which fi ch-fi finally Ii a result resulted in th death of Baldwin began leau on February It 2 1 At t that time he be experienced a t-en- t er JMJ OIlS spell nearly resulting resisting in his but bat from which h he finally rallied nd made nade a B gallant light fight for life Pre Pre- pious to this attack however be he had bad I for several weeks with in mile mile- u. u I enza and had bad refused oil to be 10 attended by bya I a sic ph physician and aud when Dr J. 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W True True- worth northy of this city was called on t the I night of February 2 he be found Baldwin much enfeebled and aud in n a high highly nervous ous I condition I The wonderful vitality t of the aged Icel millionaire and md his bis If grim l l to get on ou his bis feet 1 again agam aiu carried hint him through several eril recurrences of the heart henrt trouble but he be grew weaker and less able to resist rc the next one oue Baldwin Was Twice Married I At the time Mr Baldwin was walS first seriously sc- sc stricken Mrs Bald Baldwin Will whom ho bo married twenty three years ago ngo when sho she was but IG 16 y Dears Dears' ars- ars of age nee was in in Sacramento and did not learn of her husbands husband's serious condition until two days davs later Sho then hastened to hi his bedside and b has s been almost a constant constant con cou stant attendant from that time until the end For the greater part of the twentythree twentythree twenty twenty- three years ars of her married life Mn Baldwin has remained in San Francisco while Baldwin has divided his time between be tween n his ranch at Santa Anita and the north Sometimes ho has been at Lake LakeI Tahoe T other times in Al Alaska Alka ka and again I in San Francisco UP He preferred Santa Anita however and one ono of tho the greatest ambit ambitions of his life was t to see sec the race racetrack racetrack I track there become the thc greatest in the count countr country r. r I I Lue Luek Lucky k Bald Baldwin win wn was born on a farm six sis miles milc's outside of Hamilton Ill and andon andon andon on his bis fathers father's estate he acquired tho the tn taste t for fast horses that made his a familiar fi figure guro nrc at Sit many manja a track During Dur ing jag his boyhood the family moved into Indiana and thence to Racine Wis I where whew he engaged in the thc merchandise I business Attracted by the tales of fortunes for forI I tunes made and wd lost Jost fn in a the tho gold sold fields I of If t California Baldwin gold out and came cameto cameto to San Francisco in 1853 Almost from the first his ventures were attended with the success that won him the tho sobriquet t by bv which he is best hest known in ju the we west t. t He lie first acquired I I a hotel which after two of titan man I a he sold MId for He found frequent t opportunity to indulge his hii I fanc fancy in m In horses when he lH later returned I I to the east with a 11 considerable fortune I I and it was n at Saratoga while watching I the races that he decided to acquire a stable of his own Many of his earlier were ver lr m in n fun h ho had X cashed cached f a lct bet bot on n one e which b he be favored Grimstead and Rutherford t I wore two tt of his horas purchased in this manner By the time his bis string was I complete bo ho brgan brcan to attract tho attention attention atten- atten I tion of the raring racing public by hy his long Ion record record re reo cord of victories He Ho won th the American Ameri Amen J enD cnn derby four times w with th the Emperor of Norfolk Cloud and andRey andRey I Rey e el Santa Anita In Saratoga during dim dur ing ilig one lao on ho bo captured fitten of of I Ithe the tho twenty five stake events in which ho had bad entries It was wan during this p period that li were ridden by hy Isaac i Murphy I then an as u well 11 known a 1 key joe ns as I Iwas I I W was Baldwin among owners On many man I I I occasions hi his wt wagered nail anil I won or lost fortunes on a single bingle lace ace and on one of his hi greatest coups was the I I winning winnins of at long odds on a a. amare mare marc Called Molly i When ho he finally d determined tl tu to settle I I in in Ca California and establish j h a breeding i farm that was to rival rhal tho the immense e es establishment I I of Jams James Ben AH All lina Haggin in hiR pOR posse e ious iou w wore scattered lip up nud aud down flown the length th of the state Ill IIo purchased him pur I chased tb the ranch at Santa Anita Anila for fot fott t. t and aud built a 1 hotel at atthe tIll the j end of Lake Tahoe and in inI Sin San br he i built huilt and established hed I the time hotel lintel and theater that bore hore his name I Mining Linin ventures iu in X vada evala added addell materially ma rna I I to his fortune and his older acquaintances ac ne- in include ninny many figures I rich nn and notable through b the I |