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Show DIES AS HE TRIUMPHS. Success is in Inventor's Grasp When Death Comes. New York, May 30. After working twenty-five years to complete a gold refining re-fining machine, Samuel W. Walker, an ! inventor of -Omaha, was stricken with ' heart disease in Brooklyn and died to- . 1 day, aged 48 years. ', , Walker believed he had found a prac- j , tical way to recover gold from the crude ore by a. dry process. He de- j ' veloped an amalgamating machine, j ' and after a long period of waiting he , ' obtained a patent. His years of scien- ! . title research and the cost of perfect- j , ing his invention cost him a fortune. ( , He brought the model of his machine to the east in the hope of interesting i ' capitalists in this city. Several wealthy j ' men became interested in Walker's patent after his arrival in New York. . Walker told his friends a few days ago , that the experiments he had been con- , sidering were successful in every detail. de-tail. It was said that Walker would take his eold refining machine to the ' Klondike, with the backing of William ; F. Cody and others. |