Show PLATTE PLA TIE 0 U LYMAN l PASSES AWAY Death Overtakes President of San SanJuan SanJuan SanJuan Juan Stake After Much Suffering MOM I A CANCEROUS GROWTH h IU cl 0 upon nt St Provo Proto fur for II by b Knew J The sad lIal and anti shocking word of the death of or President Platte D P Lyman of tho the San SlIn Juan Junn Stake reached President Joseph Joeph F p Smith this morning Tho Time communIcation Was ns 1111 In ip the th form torm of ot a ti dispatch from froni F I U IS Hammond of ot Moab loab San Junn Juan county which stated that thal he lie haul had received n it letter to 10 tho tIm effect that the time end clime came on Wednesday last after i weeks HollS of oC terrible suffering Buffering There wore Or few fe people In this section of the who ever over know knem of or Elder J Lymann nail and 1 were wore therefore totally for or this the sorrowful news Ills death was II caused by a n can caim cancerous cerous growth under the right arm arnu for tor which he lie underwent a It critical opera operation tion ut Provo several weeks week ago He lie first became aware U of the growth glowth while on the ocean returning from Europe I last summer It continued to grow gross worse until nn an operation became necessary sary Bar After Atter tho the operation he lie seemed scented to tu be Ie Improving but hut while In attend attendance mice ance at the conference he ho shook hands with so many mall acquaint faces that the tho affected spot was Irritated ed cd and he ho returned to hla home sick and with tho seal of oC d ath upon Ullon his lila brow bro lie He met his fate no Ill ho met every Ivery other Juncture In life liCe with unfaltering front and with the fear Car of God In his hishen heart hen rt lie He was a n moan man full tull of energy end and of ot sound common sense Rense riot not demonstrative live tive In his nature but of such genuine sterling manhood that nil all who knew him esteemed him most tonal highly He lie Was a n man who enjoyed the highest confidence of or those who vito were over him and anti tho the fullest regard of those over whom he ice presided I I 1 lk Platte p Alton Lyman was born on the Platte river opposite Fort In Wyoming August 20 ISIS His Ills parents were Vero Amuse Amasa M and Eliza Partridge nail and nn l he lie was n a broth brother er of ot Apostle F 1 M 1 Lyman Iman Salt Lake ke City was his home until he lie was wa fifteen ars of age when he lie moved with his parents to FUlmore Fillmore Millard county Ho lie was married In Stilt SnIt Lake City by President Young Youn on May 18 to toJI Miss JI s Delia Robinson and In the same month left leCt for tor a mission to Great Grent Urit lIe He labored In the tM th Kent anti and andIon London Ion on conferences becoming preal president dent of the latter and ami was released to return home on the day he was 21 years old oldOn On returning home borne he lie was made ma Ie n a High Councilor In tho the Millard Stake ami anti In III 1871 was sent edit to Oak Olk Creek to pioneer that section was Inter later made bishop bI hop of ot the ward position he held until the fall of 1879 ISTO In Iii the meantime he filled another omission mission lon to England with signal credit to himself anti In 1879 he was willed called by President John Taylor to the San Juan Junn mission I anti was President Silas S B Smiths as tie I In lit building up U that country When the latter settled In Colorado Elder Lyman was WU united to preside over the Saints on the tho F Fn n Juan Junn river In 1884 1814 he was from rem his hI labors In the San Juan mission minion and returned to Millard county count Yo locating In Scipio Hut But ho moved movell hack bick anti and forth rom from Scipio to San Juan Junn until 1891 1831 when he moved his family to the ho latter batter place and was chosen second second counselor to tho the late President F I A Hammond In ISIS he was wan called to preside over the tho European mission arid and discharged tho tIme duties of at that calling ailing with his cus CUR ternary zeal and Intelligence lie He was tras honorably released to return home boson last summer mind Ind It was while on his home homeward homeward homeward ward that he contracted the tIme that ba lists now claimed d his life Ute When President Pr Hammond met his hI tragic fate Eider Lyman Iman was called callo to succeed I him and was wa sustained by the unanimous vote vot of ot the people of San Juan Junn who are now In deepest mourning over oer hit his untimely death |