| Show D DOIN bl BIL duio sunday night in ogden don ma ala guire eighty year old mining engineer and geologist was hit by a car and died shortly afterward mr air maguire was has born in vermont in 1852 educated in a franciscan t e in california a catholic by faith and a life member of the knights of columbes his mining activities took him into the raw wild west when it was all that and it is a strange turn of fate that te be t e should pass through all the dangers incident to his profession meeting outlaws hold ups and renegades renegade 3 unscathed in the face of real danger only to meet hia his death on the streets of his own town he ile was a writer and enjoyed it he ire contributed to the press to technical journals and besides those activities actie ties wrote a nov el and books entitled day of nine tales of the wild west hidden treasure tales etc and jett left a manuscript entitled the life and times of frigham young with instructions that it was not to bo be published until last year ie is wrote an interesting article for tha the chronicle on ben den tasker a well known character and cattle thief op lere le rating tang through this region and into nevada al mr r 1 maguire laguire was aas acquainted with ma m father but I 1 had never met him though we had tor for nearly three years on topics of cintr est to both of us he ile was deeply interested in archeology and hall collected material for the world worlds columbian exposition of 1893 an article by him in the chronicle to d of the archeology archeo log of the he sevier des ert as he saw it fifty years ago ills his profession sion took him all over utah nevada arizona new mexico and old mexico in one of I 1 Is let he told about a dangerous ex peri ence cp with mexican bandits an other of a near adventure with i band of smugglers besides running episodes of bad men met in travel but who did not molest him I 1 ast week s chronicle printed a letter from 1 hin m wishing me well and signing himself as a fellow kraftman craf craft timan man ills iiii wife died five ye years irs ago he has a son in salt lake city and oth ci ei relatives survive ur vive him I 1 have read material from the pen of don maguire tor for over forty years i ears and honored and respected him in b h a I 1 teel the loss of a warm and since sincere re friend tact wae was denie I 1 1 me ar beckwith sr r |
