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Show OGDEN CITY. ' Judge Dee, Ogden's Most Important Citizen, Passes to Death. Thomas D. Dee is dead. He passed away at 1:15 Sunday morning, succumbing suc-cumbing to an attack of pneumonia, which developed Saturday and made such rapid progress that in a few hours he was beyond hope of recovery. In Ogden Judge Dee has bffen easily its foremost citizen for two decades. The city has perhaps citizens of more wealth and greater political prestige, but none is so closely and conspicuously conspicu-ously identified with so many important enterprises which enter Into the financial finan-cial and industrial welfare of the city, county and state. Whatsoever he undertook un-dertook he worked at with a thoroughness, thorough-ness, an intelligence and a. broad comprehensive com-prehensive mentality that soon made him master of the subject. Thomas Duncombe Dee was born Nov. 10. 1S44. at Llanelly, Carmorthon-shire. Carmorthon-shire. South Wales. His parents were Thomas . H. Dee anil Elizabeth Reese Dee. He came to Utah with them in 1S60, settling in Ogden. where he. has lived ever since. He leaves seven children, chil-dren, Mrs. Maud Dee Porter. Mrs. Elizabeth Dee Shaw, Mrs. Edith Dee Mack. Margaret Dee, Rosabel Dee and Laurence Dee. His wife also survives him. ' -4 P. J. Moran, the well known Salt Lake contractor, was a surprised man when he found that his was the only bid for the asphaltie paving of Twenty-fourth street. Mr. Moran owns his own asphalt mill and plant in Ogden. 4 The application of B. Mahler for a franchise to construct and operate an electric railway line through the city of Ogden was killed by the city council. Some species of blight has attacked the tomato plants at the county infirmary in-firmary farm and the entire crop will in all likelihood be destroyed. The same blight is attacking the tomatoes elsewhere in the county and will do many thousands of dollars worth of damage. -- ' Mrs. Annie Fleming of New York died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas E. Fitzgerald.-2363 Fitzgerald.-2363 Jefferson avenue, after an illness of about six weeks. She was 63 years old. Funeral services were held Friday Fri-day morning at St. Joseph's church. - . . |