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Show DEATH OF W. A. LARKIN. I Popular Yountj Railroad Man of Butto Passes Away After a Long Illness. After a heroic battle with eUatft that extended through many weeks j pain, William A, Lnrkln. late city ticket urent of tho Oregon Short Line Uutte, named awny at St Marks ne pltnl Sunday, k,. Mr Ijirkln vmx brought to the nj" pltal on August 13th Inst ""J"'" from appc-ndlcltls with tomJlca""i. Ho was operated upon, but h s conoi tlon was such that the Bppendlr couw not bo removed at that time j ten weary weeks he lay at the nospi i before being permitted to leave tm nlly ho wus nllowel to start home, puc hud scarcely reached Hutto when" was tteUcel with a thill and wasobllieJ tn return to tho hospital at once w this time his onee sturdy const tutlon had become so enfeebled that hW s a losing light, but his splendid coursse and fortitude never for 11 moment oe-nerted oe-nerted hhn and ho continued the un equnl slrugglo to tho end, his '" irelng strcnglhcned by the lnplr " presenco of his devoted young wife who remained steadfastly at hln sldo throughout all his Illness and now ulinost prostrated by her gresi Htf: I-iiUIn was not quite ' age. and had it most prom "J" ,'S lla was bom In Devonshire. J'f1-n?1 und inme In America whe n nl-jut years old lie, entered the f'nn'0!,w, the railroad live years no and Hlcadlly working his way by ability n Integtlly to the. front rank when n Illness began He wns '"""'.".p, Hiiltrj nbout two nnd a half yea to M MorJorlu Sldley nnd their i together wns all happiness until Larklns's health failed Xjt. Ernest Larkln. arrived from , Ilutt 7 terday, and John Sldley, 1W 1 w biollier. la expected from "n.bu'f a', t today Mr Larkln h P"""'" broth Jockson, Miss . line! he. I,''" Vihio and i er, Thomas, at school In Ohio ana -other, Fted, In ChlcoR" ,,., Mr. Lrkln's death vvlll cause j n grief not only ninnnn the ' '-l?ndi in hut to hundredH of "'"'. 'r'e,n"rcit Ilutte nnd 1'heie, wlsise slnr Hympr-thy will go "'''" "he so"onlr ) ken y Jtig wW " The 7unr' ' jiarents and btnthers l"'.v will ptobably be- held hero today. |