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Show LAST OF LAND BARONS DEAD. Henry Miller, Who Rose From Butcher to Cattle King, Answers Summons. San Francisco. Henry Mil.tr, one of California's notable men, who rose from butcher's boy to be known as the cattle king of the west and founder foun-der of the famous Miller & Lux properties, proper-ties, died here Saturday in his ninetieth nine-tieth year. He had 'been confined to his bed for nearly two years. Henry Miller, once a poor butcher boy of San Francisco, owned at the time of his death an empire in the west described as "twice the size of Belgium," and because of his vast holdings hold-ings of sheep and cattle he was known along the Pacific slope as "the cattle king." He never knew himself exactly how much land he held. Several years ago experts estimated approximately 22,-717 22,-717 square "miles, or 14,539,200 acres, were under his control, mostly' in California, Cali-fornia, Nevada and Oregon. |