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Show OLD FREIGHTER GONE. J. N. Irwin ot Kansas ulty Is Called Hence. Kansas CIIJ. Oe I SO J N Irwin of the lrvvln Hios I'oimnlsalon eompniiy, died at his home hue today of Ilrlght'a ills. use. He was fc jeai of uko and lu ibe 'CUs was a freighter making mini) Hip fiMn Atchison Kun , tu Salt Lake t'lt teller Irwin and his brnther held beef and mill eonliaets with the (lov-rimueiil (lov-rimueiil and made trips to Denver, bull Lake I'lly and Santa Fe, N M In 1857 Mi Irwin wint Into partnership partner-ship with his hiiither-lii-law and together to-gether Ihey started rnun AlthNoii Willi a train of freighting wagons bound fur Salt LakeCltj. At lloeley ltldge, Wyn , their train was slu ped by soleller im-eler im-eler the eommaiid nf lien Albert Hjd ney Johnston, then nu their way tn euppiess the Morinoii niitbieuk In t'lnli Tho brothers continued their Journey a far a Full Hildger and tumid tlulr (totk ovtl to Lexington, Kineaid & Co, sutler or Salt Lake Thes made iwn other trips wllh goods to Salt l.alu und lor mon than a ynu niade their huiue at Salt Like and maniged a store Hut they came bat k In ISC0 and tin six ears were rrelglit-crs rrelglit-crs at loss the plaimi mnking trips tn Denver, hilt Uike City and Kantn Fe, N M They nftei ward became (lOverument matl eontruelor and rontriieturs fur beef supplies for Hie armj at the fiou-llei fiou-llei posts Ieiler Ihey hauled Rraln tu forts In the Indian Territory and New Mexico The brother wn on the plains continuously from ISM to 1871 |