Show FORMER MANTI PASSES li i N WASHINGTON e J 11 We r a are to M. M A. A Bo den ty former editor of the Messenger fur for lIr lIrI I the he the following news n ws taken from a I Washington paper about Joel IJ k m ker a form former r editor of or the Mesa Mes Mes- s elger and a former Corma school i tit 1 this city j 7 I Joel whose varied life I J l led d him hint along many paths from In In- Ulan dine fighter to minister to public of of- 1 fici l and n nE newspaper r paper editor had ant answered an t 1 s the last laSit roll call Monday Monda I I Although he was seventy five old when he died late Monday Mon Monty years day at Marine 1 Hospital he was still Th In n the public eye EJe as the t r I Af f a 3 legal fight to compel the state stat I fo to pay the full 30 a month pension To ro himself and rife as well as other I ij b ged people similarly situated I i t I Bora Bor O October tober 2 1 S 62 in Kentucky I ky ky Mr was graduated I the Kentucky State University Iud entered the ministry of the I Christian Church in Illinois and Howa Iowa He enlisted in the Indian Vars Wars with the Sixth United Stat States States' 11 infantry and was stationed at Fort For Fort t Douglas Utah I l f There in 1885 he married Luella Billings and the couple celebrated their second fifty-second anniversary last September 1 15 I I In 18 S he came carne to Washington published the Washington Farmer i land fand nd Dairyman and w s an associate asso asso- fate editor of The Post Post-Iut Post gr er r from 1903 to 1909 At the time the be he had a farm home near Tukwila nd used used to canoe down the Duwa- Duwa River to Elliott Bay and the 0 office fice I He was appointed chairman of the Washington Stale State Co Conservation League League Lea Lea- gue by President Theodore Theodor Roose- Roose Roosevelt velt and aud called the first convention He also was instrumental 1 tal in the formation of the Columbia Lasin IAsin Reclamation on Association He was former national commander comman comman- der of Indian War Var Veterans of ot America and recently national chappl chap chap- pl plain plin hm of the organization I rrt Jit He is survived by his widow I II I who lives at the family home JJ Ave two sons sous Blaine Elaine and Winfield and two daughters Mrs Nancy mancy lanc Brown and Mrs irs Laura Bate- Bate Lam tant and aud t two YO sisters in the East Funeral services were held at t the I Elf Hz funeral funer l parlors Wednesday at 2 p p. p m. m |