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Show ; - APOSTLE A. 0. ' WOODRUFF DIES, i " Expires in lil Vnso, Textts, of ISinullpox. While returning homo from (lie fun-cral fun-cral of his wife in Hie Oily ol Mcxlro, Apostle Abrnlinm Owen Woodruff of Hie Mormon church illcil of smnllpo nt Kl Paso, Tex., Monday night. Mrs. Wood, itiffdieil nf smallpox about two weeks , ago. Her htiidiaiul had hurried to the Mexlcnu capital nhen informed of hla i wifu's illncV, nd was with her to the Sf, end. NtU'vlng full precautions hnd J bum taken to prevent his contracting ' thodlaense, ho started for lils home In Salt Lake. He was ill when -he ariived nt El Paso, nhout ten days ago, and' stopped thcro to recuperate. A phyeiciati pio-nouured pio-nouured hU case one of typhoid nnd he was given treatment for typhoid, when it dovolopcd that l.e had smnllpix He was at onto removed to the isolation 'j hospital at Kl Paso. His case did not I appear to he a severe one and there was ! overy Indication that ho wouU soon re- cover. He ate a hearty broakfasi Mun-j Mun-j day morning and was th night to have reached the convalescent stage, when jj ho sud leuly hecanic worsu and passed . away Monday night, tlio direct cause of 1 dentil being heart failure. I Neweof the death reached H.ilt Lit Monday night in the form of a tolegiam I to President Julm H. Winder from A I W. Ivlus, president of the Moxle.m mls- I lion. Tlio Interment will in all proba bility he in Kl l'aso, from the naturo of the disease, that produced death Apostle Woodruff leaves four children, three daughters and a eon, all under 0 j ears of age. Tim youngest child, on infant of 5 months, is with its gram' mother, Mrs. Kinmu Smith Woodruff, in Halt Lake, and tlio other threo children ar In Colonia Juarez, Mexico, in tlio charge of rnrvnnli. Apostle WooJruir was a son of the late President Wllford Woodruff anil was born in Salt I.nko county, Nov. 2J . ' ' 1872, his mother being Mrs. Knima &&.' - -"-5 Smith Wood ruff. Jll,,Uoyb9dw ? ', - passed on the' farm whero be was born, and, after finishing the district schools, ho attended the Latter-day Hahiti' col- lcgo in Halt Like. At the ago of 18 he became a collector for a Salt Lake bank and was later promoted to tlio position of assistant bookkeeper. Ho was called on a mission for the Mormon church in 1803 and was assigned to Frankforl-on- the-Muin, in the German mission. I Within a year ho was made president of tlio Dresden bianch, and later was called to Iho presidency of the Berlin conference, whero ho remained for a year before returning home, in 1800. On June 30 of that year he was married to Miss Helen May Winters, whose 'n V death preceded liia own by two weeks. Ho was oidained an apostle Oct. 7, W 1800, by his father. Since that time he 'i' has been engaged wholly in church en- Kg terprieos. Hla chief labor has been the tII ' . Mormon colonization of Iho Big Horn 9t ' country. Herald. |
