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Show The Deaths 01 A. N. Hamilton and Wile. H The news of the death of A. N. Hamilton and S that in a week his wife had followed him to the grave was a great shock to very many people here, for the Hamiltons lived here many years and had many friends. H They died in Ellonsburg, Washington, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stulfouth. Mr. Stul- fouth was his nephew and his wife was Mrs. Ham- ilton's sister. H Mr. Hamilton was born In Pennsylvania sov- enty-one years ago. He acquired a fair educ ion, then learned the printer's trade and worked 'or a time on the New York Tribune when H -race Greely was its directing force. Then he wc t to Kentucky and joined the staff of the old i ouis- ville Journal when the great George D. P' 'tee was the foremost and best known and most oved H editor west of the Alleghenies. There are none so great nor so well loved now. On that aper he and Charles Browne (Artemus Ward) wt c0- workers and great friends. Then Mr. Ha: Hton H drifted away and with a friend had started Utt,e newspaper when the great Civil war brolu PJ the country. They locked up their offlc and went to. Cairo to enlist In the Union .army Hain" ilton failed because of a physical disability; his ' pariner enlisted and came out of the war Colonel J a G. Hawes and is now the London manager of the New York Life Insurance Company. ! Hamilton went to Leavenworth, Kansas, and with Mr. George Prescott carried on the Bulletin and Commercial during the war and for several ' years thereafter. Then they came to this city and went to work. A few citiens, Harrison Godbe, Henry i W. Lawrence, the Walker Brothers and one or two more, had established a little magazine and were making the best fight they could against the tyrannies, brutalities and lawlessness of the chief priests of the Mormon Church. General i Connor had likewise established a little paper at Camp Douglas, called the Vidette. Hamilton, Prescott and Mr. George Reed made an arrangement arrange-ment with these merged the publications into a newspaper, which they called the Tribune. The fight they inaugurated was a most memorable one. At flrat the paper did not pay expenses; then as it I drew friends to it, it still left them above expenses only a half living, but they never faltered, and at length the paper reached a moderately paying basis. In the meantime Colonel O. J. Hollister 1 had bought an interest, but while the paper had reached a paying basis, only a few people know under what a pressure it was run or what devotion devo-tion to principle cost those sterling men. They all, save Colonel Hollister, sold their interests in-terests in the paper late in the autumn of 1882. Mr. Hamilton went to Portland, Oregon, and started a paper called the News. But the Ore-gonian Ore-gonian owned the Associated Press franchise, and i it was hard making headway against that powerful power-ful journal, so Mr. Hamilton crossed the Cascades' and established the Ellensburg Capital. Bllens- ' burg was then little more than the nucleus of a frontier settlement; but the paper is still alive and flourishing under the direction of Mr. Hamilton's Hamil-ton's nephew. In 1891 Hamilton removed to Seattle, giving up all newspaper work except acting as the northwest north-west correspondent of the New York Sun. He promoted many Alaskan enterprises and was .a strong factor in the opening of that far-off territory. terri-tory. A few months ago he suffered a Ptroke of paralysis and only partially rallied. A few weeks ngo he with Mrs. Hamilton went back to Ellensburg Ellens-burg and on the 7th of November he passed away. His wife, overborne with care and anxiety over her husband, and gi'ief at his death, was prostrated; pros-trated; a day or two later she was seized with pneumonia, which culminated in heart failure, and she died on the 14th. They were a most devoted pair. Mrs. Hamil- ton's devotion to her husband never wearied for one moment. Their marriage was an absolute consecration of two lives to euch other. A. N. Hamilton was an absolutely honest man, and as bravo a man as over lived, and as loyal as ho was brave. He was a strong writer and he ( possessed a cynical wit' -which made some of his paragraphs rankle in the souls of the men thoy were aimed at as long as they lived. He married Mrs. Hamilton in Ohio. They had two daughters', one, Miss Hetta Hamilton, of Seattle; the other daughter lives in Alaska. A thousand hearts in this city will go out in sorrow for the father and mother, in sympathy for the stricken children. |
