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Show A PIONEER GONE. The west coast papers bring the news of the death of Jonathan Slouson of Los Angeles. A great all-round man was Jonathan Slouson, eminent emi-nent lavyer, miner, banker, real estate speculator, church builder, shrewd, kindly, generous, pious, an all-around humanitarian, sterling business man, public spirited, generous, far-sighted, kindly. A wonderfully gifted, genial man, who loved to make money that he might have more money to devote to good works a man who ought to have lived a thousand years. He went from New York to Nevada in 1864; he was shrewd "among the shrewdest; as clear-brained as the best of the workers there, brave enough to never be bluffed, so kindly and genial that the humblest miner could go to him in perfect confidence that he would be kindly received and would hear some hopeful words; a believer in hard work and in perfect justice to all, he so lived that, though he left Nevada thirty-five years ago, wherever an old day Nevada miner still lives he will read of his death with sorrow and send after him loving ' ,. cisco and settled finally, in Los Angeles in 1874. He was a chief factor in transforming that city from a hamlet to a great metropolis. So' masterful was his work there that when, on Thursday, of last week he died, the mayor of the city issued; a public statement recounting his eminent services.-to services.-to the city and deploring his taking off. He was: 76 years of age, and for several years past had been in precarious health, so that his death was not unexpected, but the city mourns his death as that of one who, all his life, was a help .always in trouble, as an inspiration of good front the hour he made his home in the sun-kissed city. |