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Show W, S, GODBE IS GONE Died Yesterday at Brighton, After Long Illness. ONE OF UTAH'S FIRST MINERS Age nnd Nervous ProstrtUlon Ciused His Demise Leaves Ten Children Cnmo to TJtnh When n Youth ns a Mormon but Broik Occurred nnd He Was Dropped From the Church Rolls Had Beon Mining Extensively Exten-sively in Utah and Nevada for Many Years (Saturli a Datl ) One of the empire builders, a father of mining In Utah nnd one of the leaders lead-ers In liberal thought in this State closed his weary ejellls yestetday nf-teinoon nf-teinoon and freed from the clreum scribe 1 limits or earth passed Into the falhomlei-s unknown where peihaps his liberated splilt may renllie the grand Ideals that have tilled his soul and beckoned him on thiough the ells-aprolniments ells-aprolniments or eaith lo the peace or William S Golbe Is de id He passeel nwns at the cottage or his boh Altiol at Hrlghton wheie he had been so Journlng since the lattei P irt or Jimc-Iwo Jimc-Iwo of his onp I'.rnest and Mutiny weie at his beds! le when thc end came It was an end tfnt an man might desire de-sire enhn peaceful nnl untroubled The bodj will arrive In Suit Lake this morning , There were manl sid hearts nnd many evpicsslons of sonow when the news reached town Inst night HI chlldien weie not expecting the fnll of life a curtnln so qulckl tineTwere deeplj nf-fectod nf-fectod Owing to the serious condition of tho health or his wire the news wns kept aw n rrom her last night Henrj W Lawrence n lltelorg friend nnd former for-mer business associate of the deceased had packed his bagnage and was about to leave on the lite train for Portlinl and Seattle when he heird tiom Hrlghton He Immediately postponed his Jnurnej and announced that lie would reimln hero until the tuneral or his old rrlend EARLIER nrALICJ3 Frxt-nine jeirs had possed over tho heid or Mr Oolbe nnd few Indeel v ero those enrs In which ho was not doing something to add to the growth and prosperltj of the West Born In Lnglind In U3.1 he came to Utah nt the age of 19 ns a convert to the Mormon faith His first employer, us ncirly aa can be recnlled ot this time was n merchant mer-chant namwl Thomas Williams who gave him a position ns clerk Ab an agent ror Wllllims, ho lslted Ciliror-nli Ciliror-nli In li3 or 1S1I nnd ther acquired lhe desire ror mining thnt determined the course or his future lite Prom tte Ooldtn Oate ho silled to Central mer-Icu mer-Icu crossed the Isthmus of Pnnann and went by water to New York hlle In the East he purchisod a small stock of mrchindlse and n complete com-plete assortment of drugs which he blnilgbt to Salt Lake acioss the plains W lib thla stock he opened ft store of his own on Mnln streeet near tho present site of the Bamberger coal ofllco Me till well nnl ln A short time was nble to purchase a lot at thc corner of Tlrst South and Mnln where he erected the building now occupied hv the Oodbo-Pltta Oodbo-Pltta Drug company His drug stnie was in the cornel room nnd next door to the east was his general store nimK WITH THE CHURCH rrosperlt attended him for many enis but In 11") ho became restlvo under the control ot the church authorities au-thorities nnd started a movement ror rerorm In tho dliectlon of gicater Individual In-dividual llbeity Inspired b this pur-rose pur-rose he rounded the Utah Magazine and In n guarded wny, alvocited more rreednm or Ihmifcht nnl iclton for the membera or the church He was still nominally n Mormon however The oren break was precipitated hs nn o II-torlil II-torlil In the ITinh Mugn7lne a lvocntlng the opening nf Utnh s mines Mr Oo 1 1c Mr Lawrence E U Harrison nnd others were enjoying nn outing In the hills when the matter waa llrst sug nested President Young hnJ dt dated that when the time was ripe for mining the Lord would rovoil It thiough his priesthood so the whole party knew that such nn expression In tho Mapn zlno would bring seilous tonseepiences In Its train but Mr Harrison wrote i.ic nrtlcle It wns toned down anl edited remorselesplj, but the suggestion ro-mulntd ro-mulntd nnd wns published U tho time one of the pnrty predicted that the) would be called In question ' within six weeks Mthniikh unlnsplied tho propriety vvus fullllkl At tho church trial the editorial waa rtad In support of the charges against tlodbe, nn I he vvib ex-clu ex-clu led fiom fellowship togethci with his nssoclales In the Migazlno Ills mercantile business begun to decline at once nnd he was forced to closo out Ho had already expended between Jin . COO nnd S.1 000 on his magazine hut ho with Hcniy W Lawience and others continued the campaign In Iho Tiih une founded first as a weekly ln 1S70 anil then ch inred to a dully It una run nt a loss ror two years, nnd then sold nt n low flguie MINIMI OPERATIONS Mr (Jodbcs first venture In mining v as in lal when he organized nn I.ng-llsh I.ng-llsh company nnd opened the f hlcugo n Ine In 0 hlr district A smeller was put up and a largo quantity or silver nnd lead oi e treated The comiany urieiwnrd acquired the Plavlllo mine, for which Jim 000 In cash was mid Both mlm a paid large dlvltemla mil continued uetlve until 1S7 when they were worked out Beginning In 1877 Mr Ooell t operated u smelting lant ut i riscvi where lo treatel tho ore fiom the Horn s Iver mlna i til lgsi hih intuition was nttiBcted e iso to tho Meat i sslbllltles ,,i ,u,i nvmo' v,v He dieted large smelting wiTrks then aid shortly ufterwaid got i lean on the tnlllngs of the Hajmond-l,lv mine i, , , ,'" h cuncentrutH on 1 sinolted lisiru) tuns of waste material making u good piolll In fact the o I I rlnunt vv is so succe.sful thit he wns t mpted to opcrule on a larger s ile and In W. he oiganled a Byudlcnl'o in unrkii "lilch ncqulied the .ntue III . L'e "'""rtniiel Has mnn 1 Kly n Mendov ullev mines Tin smi iters wuo constructed und a lull vv.j slxtetn mllis long was built ", Jn'krabl t whore ti sjndlcate , pure base 1 other mining nm , riles It Is sild Unit JIMOmo waa ex en lei hoi, bilwoen USSnnel mi Bx'0"",, "e" The preliminary wrrk hnl Just In en itmplciid relurna from thc Investment w in beginning o tome In when tho ileslng of Iho Bull, minis tn the free eoniige or silver hammeml dov n ti, pilie nf the white metal un I bronchi nun tn this and him Ir.ds or oihs" m ilng ventures In Iho West 1 hoie wns not enough nnuey on h m l loo crnio the mines sniflters and rill-load rill-load und cvm with money silver min Int- vv is no longer profltublo .u th dr. iretlaleil rrke so lhe gierit ontoriilsu . f . '.I ,(.,0'.,b.B ha'' cstabllslie I with suih ullnlta labnr cruiribletl In a nigh V sphlt or poorer metnl mK,t Jell have been crushed hj ihls grtnt n. verre but Oodl o was one or those men who Icniw not tho word 'fnll lour ngi and de termination never left him Poor if puree hut stiong of hfnit ho returned lo Huillnnvllle ind iiu. working over Iho tailings nf the nbin cloned mines by various processes In lhe hope of discovering a method that would make the waste heaps of com-m?r com-m?r lal value His last Important operation was the sile of tho April Pool mine at De La Mar to a company and the promotion of the De Ln Mar Consolidation At the tlmo of this consolidation he was elected president of tho April Fool cumpan, n position h" retained until last .iHtiunt'j when his falling health compelled him to resign and to retire from active buslneps Since then his health has broken down very inpldly His age wns so advanced that he licked thc powci of recuperation and ho lost his holl on life little 1 little Death Is attributed to nervous prostia-Hon prostia-Hon Ten children purvlve him ORIGINAL LIBERALS Klndneaa of heart gencioslty and de-otlon de-otlon to whnt he tonsldered the truth were the ke notes of hla character He gave awns thousinda of dollars In unostentatious un-ostentatious chulty nnd spent thou-ondn thou-ondn more In upholding abstract principles prin-ciples that meant little nr nothing to nls miterial success He wns one nf thc foundeis and leaders or the Llb-(inl Llb-(inl political movement With his bosom friend Ilenrj W Lawrence, he built the Liberal Institute on Second East ptieet wheie the Pesbyterlon school now stands nt a cost of 110 000 and thus furnished n meeting place for the smill and feeble party of thas da: s ln the light of pissing eirs his char-icler char-icler has become better understood by tht se who were once his Implacable enemies nnd there nrc now rev If any, of the oil lesldents of Silt Lake who will withhold n tour from the shell that nolds ids dust or u Mower from the sod lhat shill spread Its green coverlet above his grave |