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Show Distinguished Sioldier And Sterling Citizeii Answers Death's tallj ' ' v - . o - Ah f Man .most in public eye ii taken aH'close of an Eventful career. Although in, ftriytc life was Looked upon ts first citizen of mh State. .. The entire statqof Utah-and thou-sandsiof'Joyar thou-sandsiof'Joyar friqnds and citizen ana many' communities far and wfde throughdut the United States as .well as many good and. honest .hearts throughout foreign lands, will bo 'deeply shocked to hoar ot the, death, ot General Richard W. Young, General Young died at the Latter-day Latter-day Saints hospital, at Salt Lako City Saturday night at 7:20 o'clock following fol-lowing an operation for appendicitis on tho Sunday previous, In 'the. Cist year of his ago. wixuniaADiEn's stab, - r ,0"on. "Young was a Utahn tluough and I through. Hcwns born' ln- Salt Lake AprlluH', 1858; received hlBd-ucatlon hlBd-ucatlon in Sol t, Lako, gave his services servic-es to the country", first with tho famous fam-ous 'Utah battery of Spanish Amerl-canwar Amerl-canwar fame, then as commanding omcer of tho 146th field artillery Utnlt national guardrfrom which post ho -wad promoted to the rank, of brigadier bri-gadier general and nsslgned to, tho 6Eth nrttllery brigade. t- ' Ho served the city and the state, the city as a member, of the' council lnl89o and 1801. and tho Stnto as 1 rodent of thp Unlvorhlty ot Utah, and tnfsteoor both, tho Dilgham Young unU'erslty and tho Brlghahi Young college, ' . As n boy the gcnornl worked as'a carpenter and' school tpachcr and for a time was telegraph operator for tho Utah Central Railroad at Richfield. WEST POINT OHADUATn TTio" general's military career began be-gan when he qntered the Wost Point academy in 1878. Graduating from tho academy1 in 1883 as n second lieutenant lieu-tenant ho was ansigned to Goyoinor's Island, Now York. While stationed there ho studied lay at Columbia university. un-iversity. Ho was admitted to the; bar ot' New York In 1884. His opportunities In the atn.y came undor Oenoral Wlnfiold S. Hancock t vwho appointed the young officer to ' his otaf t with' thurnnk ot captain. It ( w? SyilJfi,"! w''o sent Cap-. Cap-. tain YoungSroslauiinT'tho coljjbrat-l coljjbrat-l ,- .$. cd Swain court martial trials Dur- t lng fils,fenr,lymiy tarr" career ho served serv-ed wlthfbjth!fhoVThlrd and ; Fifth field artillery regiments. ' ''While lnthevservlco" In those early years her hadoccaslon' .to serve with tho mllltlar in a mob'outbreak at Pitts" burgh, following which ho wroto a book 'cailoV. "Mob and' Military," showing tho relationships between the two and (he mothods of proco-turo proco-turo best adapted to the military for handling such' troubles. PIIACTIOKS LAVr Soon after this he came homo on furlough and decided to resign from tho army. After consultation with Hebcr J. Grant and others ho decided .to remain for a while and was successful suc-cessful In getting an "assignment to Fort Douglas, At tho expiration ot this duty hoTcslgned from nctlve ser-, ser-, vc9 to dovoto himself to the law, In April. 1883. . In politics General Young was a roombor of the Democratic party nnd took a vlgoioUs part In tho activity's and campaigns of the stato and national na-tional organization. His name has boen mentioned most prominently slnco his return from Franco as tho probable candidate for tho party's nomination for governor of Utah at the elections next year. At tho outbreak of tho war with Spain he enlisted with the Utah volunteers vol-unteers and was made captain ot A battory. Ho had previously hold tho rank of brigadier genoral and commanding com-manding officer ot tho Utah national guard which title ho was given In 1894. ,-. RKIIVKS IN SPANISH AVAU . First aaTbattery ""commander and later as 'major in command, of the Utah battalion hp took part In twenty-five engagements during tho Spanish Span-ish and I'hlllpplno troublos. The activity ac-tivity pf tho campaigns In which h , shaicd is indicated by twp Instances, ono whon hjs horse was shot fiom boueath him, tho other when ono of his bpgtn was s'o from his foot. At theconcliTslon of hostilities ho bccamc acso'cinto Justlco nnd president presi-dent o,,thp cilminal b"ranch ot tho supremo court t the l'JiHipplnes,-nhd ' servec there for two years. President Grant tells of tho financial aacrlflco which Gpncral Tfoung mado. at thp tlmo and in a rccont article In the Juvenile Iustructor wroto: "It was a groat financial sacrlfico for him to volunteer but In tho providence prov-idence of the Lord tho statement that 'sacrifice brings forth tho blessings of hoaven,' was fully Justified In Richard's caso as It turned out that his appointment as supremo court Judge iQgcthe'r with a very splondld Increase during his absence In tho value of ono ot hlB Investments In Utah, which he cabled mo to sell, but which cablo I disobeyed, more than made up for tho things ho so willingly willing-ly sacrificed. "HONEST TO COUE" "Richard W. Young is honest to tho very core. Ho has been rellablo and trustworthy In all tho walks ot lifo. Ho has been honored by being prosldont of tho Irrigation congress,, nnd ho Is an Intimate friend nnd Is highly respected by some of tho lead-1 lug men of our nntion. j President Ornut said of him: i "Tho death ot Genoial Young Is z.n absolute and distinct loss to hto state. Ho was almost entitled to bo called tho foremost American ot Utah General Young was the peer or any military man or of any churchman In tho stato. "He was ono of thoso characters who had no enemies. As long as I had known Richard W. Young I had never known anyona who did not like and admire him. Wo woro schoolboy companions, nnd I had pi ways considered con-sidered him my noarcst and dearest friend. Ho had been my associate 'n tho church and in business nnd his death Is a great sorrow to me. "General Ypuuir won for hlmsolf a national roputatlon nnd was a foremost fore-most citizen not only of Utah, but of tho United Statoa.'A j. " ' ' ' |