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Show THE DEATH OF GOVERNOR SHEPHERD The death of Ux (lovernor Alexander II Shepherd formerls Iran of the Iilstrlrt of Columbli la worth spnl.il noli He took the Cits of W ishlng-tnn ishlng-tnn a mill hamlet full ot rl Iges nnl hollows und made It a city of lnnl-srape lnnl-srape delight he was charged with all sorts of malfeasance and inlafenannce In connection with the making of n tits nut ot Ihe National capital, but though ther was abundance of preju-lite preju-lite more than an ohunilnnre nf i harges and vituperation without stint not a charge was proved not ll I dishonest cent was traced to him or any wrongful ronnntion with anything that he did The trouble was he shook up the moss backs compelled them to wake up made them pay for Improving Improv-ing iheli property and the streets whether they wmld or not He ltviled nntl paved tho streets sometime leaving leav-ing some old fellow perrhed up twenty or thirty feet above the street and It cost money to make the corrcapondlng leveling that via Imperative, stand il-ous il-ous and unsnnltniy old rookeries had tn be t.plured by modern dwellings In the consiiuction of which the city ir-chltect ir-chltect and the sanitary Inspector lmd something to aay plumbing and sewer connection wcie requited In place or thc old open drain that connected with a cess-pool or a. lavlne that rarrhd a small creek part of the time In short the pioperty uvvntrs wen compelled tn do thcli put In the making of the new city The result waa n new city tint a broken man The ilouds of eilutnny closed nbout him ami h wns madt to fan a searching Investigation and though he waa cleared of all the charge such nn nntlpaths hid been creat d against him that when the Die-j Die-j til t t, iieiiimcnt wot. cbungel to the Ii i nt rniin of thm ciiiiimlHhlnueis to i ov rn the cits nn I Pi blent limit iioniiiut I Mr Fhinhcrd n be one of the three the Senate refu-ed to con-tlrm con-tlrm the angrs property owners who had been compelled to piy for miking their property valuable nnd delrnble brought such pressure upon the Senators Sen-ators that thes were not ablo to withstand with-stand the social and personal clamor, and they sacrificed th" man who they all knew ought to be retained That the City at Washington Is tho beauti ful and Blorlous capital It now is, is more due to the efforts of (3ov. Shepherd Shep-herd than to nns hundred of other men But he was driven away from thnt cits under such contumely ns the mean-spirited souls he had enraged coull pile upon htm Put tvvents seats liter the propcrls-ovvner of Washington Washing-ton gave him nn ovation such as few men have ever received for like eerv-Ices eerv-Ices thes recognized him as the mnn who hid done the work that made them nnd that he Ind done It honest-Is honest-Is nntl well When Mr Shepherd left Washington some twenty-live S"rs ago he went to Mexico and at Unto-pllas Unto-pllas he developed a great mining prop-erts, prop-erts, to which as vice-president and minager of the compnns, he has devoted de-voted his last scars nnd there Is where he died Ho was born In Washington, D C, January 30, 1835, and his great ambition wan to mike hla native city shine, and no mm ever better cnirled out the aim of his llfo |