Show LELAND LELAN STANFORD AT REST the most moat active mind the warmest heart and the read readiest lest band among all those in public life on the golden goldau shores Shore of the pacific are at abonce once abw almost without warning listless a and d cold with a fortune so eo colossal that it may be a long time before it its is computed with the faculty of a seer and the gif gf of a midas with troops of friends embracing the experienc edthe capable and ancl the cunning laning cu among mankind baan the ie veler leveler could not be kept at baythe insidious destroyer who lits ih s in wait for great and E mail mall pushed past all the fancied barriers and restraints and thrust himself into the chamber of the multi millionaire the gifted statesman the broadminded broad minded philanthropist as rudely and unceremoniously ae though it had bad been the hovel of the poverty stricken outcast md and banished from its tenement of dust the immortal part of leland Lela jad stanford the deceased was born in water viet albany cauntay new york on the theah 9 h of march 1824 so that he was in his year those who are diS disposed Dosed to consider this as far from a cuttin cutting g short in view of the allotted span being nearly spent do not or did not know the man as he be was or rather as he was presumed to be he looked much younger than he really was and no doubt until quite lately felt it as he looked he was signally buoyant bale a d hearty and as far as outward indications go was designed by nature for a centenarian mr stanford began the battle of life a lawyer in his native state but misfortunes besieged him and a he abandoned active practice and went want to california in 1852 where he began an mining for gold at michigan bluff placer county he subsequently engaged in commercial pursuits and 1 10 1856 moved permanently to san francisco where be laid the foundation on of the wonderful fortune he be has left behind him he entered the political field in 1860 as a delegate to the chicago convention which nominated lincoln and ham HAK in he was one of the moving movina spirits in the pacific railroad latI rOad scheme and became president of the central pacific company upon its organization his history from that time fe on is well known to our readers it was an uninterrupted series of bosi basi jeaa and political POlitiC 81 successes COSSell mr stanford was strictly a practical man in whatever department of life he be WOO was found AS a member of the united states senate he was conspicuous from that reason as well as by hu hla I 1 presence and his numerous deeds of kindness to those around him he was not an orator scarcely a speechmaker speech maker but what he be said was always earnest and convincing his greatest greateL pt deed of genero generosity pity measured by only was the gif G of to found and equip a university bearing the name of his bis lamented son he was personally well known to many of tile the people of utah during the railroad bui building ding days and prior to that time being a friend and admirer of president young as aa be has haa been since of the leading men in the church he was always a staunch and consistent friend of the people who settled and built up this thi territory and his voice was ever ready to testify of fleir works work aud od worth a ol sesia the whole west presents present no aa name that tbt jo 1 so ao well known mp a hta his for he be apa WM broad min dei capable cw sturdy arturd in dis die position SHO aad princely in generosity and munificence if among all the army who knew him he be hd one enemy even among political op ponente pon exits such information is not in our possession it Is enjoined upon us to speak no evil of the dead but when there Is so eo little evil known of those who have rone gone before as aa in the case of leland stanford the admonition has no force |