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Show i Death CIs Vtlscn II. VetercnRd!rcadTc!cc;!::r cr.J Fcrmcr Lldc cic Or.J ! .. .a i Pioneer of Mountain Region Opened First Telegraph Office for Union Pacific - . at Echo, Utah NEWS of the death of Watson N. Shilling, ja.t jrranJ maitrr of th. Maaonie jurisdiction of Utah, at Portland, Ore Saturday, u received her. today and waa the causa of much rrgrtt in Masonic and civic circles in which he waa well known. Burial will take place at Hailey, Ida., tomorrow, and it is probable that many Mason, and other, drawn from Utah Utah and. Idaho will attend tha funeral acrviccn. F. C. Schramm, aoveri-ipn prand inspector of tha local Maaouio jurisdiction, atate. that Mr. Shilling opened tha first telegraph office for the Union Paeifia at Kehn, Utah, and ith aas) wh flashed to the world th golden splk elbrat!oa t ' Promontory Point In Ut9 wheg th raits of the Union Paolflo war linked with th Central Pactfto and made possible th first transcontinental transcon-tinental railroad In th United R La tea. SERVKD OODEN ANK, Following this, Mr. Schramm bell be-ll Svea that Mr. Chilling became the Indian agent at trost Fork. Ida., and In Ills or HIT he moved to Ogden, where h becam vie praldnt of th Utah National bank and served In public office Mr. Shilling was a member of Weber lodg. No. . of the Free and Accepted Mesons. He became senior grand warden of Utah In 1MO, In the following year became deputy grand master and In waa elevated to grand master. It was while serving In his capacity ss a high Maaon that he laid the com em tone of the cityand county building In Salt XAk. Further particulars received from Th Telegram's oorrespondnt at Pooatelio. Ma, ahow thnt Mr. Shilling was born st Massillon. O. April 24. 1840. Ha waa a Civil war veteran and was Incarcerated In Llbby prleon at on period of that memorable time. Aside from ths fact that he was wsll known In Utsh snd Idaho, hs waa a member of the reservation reserva-tion staff during th Kea Perce and the Cueter massacre. Aa a telegraph operator he conveyed the first word of thoee fights to the outside world. REPUBLICAN DELEOATK. Mr. Shilling sttended ths Republics, Re-publics, national convention In lia as' a delegate from Idaho, served m various othsr canaeitlea and waa at one tlms elected to the stats leglelsture. snd whsn his office was conteeted let It go by defsult. Following his activities In Utah, whsrs hs sgsln came after residence In Idaho, where he moved In the ?ae. he relumed to Idaho and In lto$ established th first stor st Rupert. .Beeldes being a Mason h waa also an Odd Fallow and a member of th Grand Army of the Republic. Re-public. He married. December 1.. 171, at Malad. Ida, Miss Angelina Harrison, snd ths following rhll- flren survive mm : jura. r-twi v. Carpenter of Portland. Ore., at wboeehome he died; N, P. Shilling. Pocatello; Mrs. H. R. Dalrymple. Columbus. O.; Oeorgs R. Shilling. Msnlla, P. I.; Floyd A. Shilling. Hailey, Ida.; Mrs. F. J. Lsrna. Rupert, Ida., and Jack H. Shilling. San Francisco. CONDUCTED MCANTILK feUSINESft IN OQOEN. OUDKM. Aug. 7. Allls Cmsrson, Ogden manager of tbe Utah Associated Asso-ciated Industries, waa Informed of Mr. Shilling's death by the Ogden correspondent of Ths Telegram today. to-day. Hs was sn old friend of ths pioneer. Mr. Era arson said that Mr. Shilling waa a former 'president of the board of education of Ogden and he believed that at one time he was a member of tha city council. coun-cil. Mr. Shilling, according to Mr. Kmereon, was head of ths old firm of Shilling, Wallace company, wholeeale dealer In women' apparel, ap-parel, whoae establishment was In th building now occupied by the StAndard-Ki.arn.ner, He waa also connected with a hardware huelnee In a building wher th Western Union Telegraph company's office now stsads. His horn waa on Washington avenue, where the home or Mrs. W. U Maglnnla. mother of S. Abbott Magtnnis. former for-mer United States minister to Bolivia, Bo-livia, now stands. Mr. Shilling Is said to hav opened th first Western Union Telegraph office In Ogd en. He was sleo em- ployed by the company at Corlnne, wher h was not only ths office manager, but waa the telegraph operator op-erator and lineman and tnnry a tlm h bad to climb poles to put the line In order. Mr. Krnerson said that Mr. Shilling Shil-ling often recalled some of the stirring stir-ring Incidents in which he had participated, par-ticipated, recalling that he open mentioned the sending out of news on tbs Ouster massacre and the I driving of the golden splk near Og- I den. Mr, Shilling, It Is thought, was alao connected with Fred J. Klsl In the building of the railroad and the development of ranch landa in Oregon. Up to two years sgo, Mr. Shilling, j according to Mr. Emerson, had never missed an encampment of the U. A. K John S. Lewis of the Lewis Jewelry Jew-elry company was snot her old friend of Jdr. Shilling's. He heard with regret today that th former business and civic leader of Ogden had dud. |
