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Show F. AUGUSTUS HEME DIES AT SARATOGA Saratoga. .V Y Nov 4 F. Augustus Augus-tus Helnie, copper king and flnan. jrr. died at 5 30 o'clock this afternoon at the home of Judge Nash Rockwood. MJr. Helnze whose legal residence was In Saratoga, although he spent most of his time in New York, came here yesterday afternoon to vote In the state election He went to Judge Rockwood's home as a guest and was suddenly stricken late yester-daj yester-daj afternoon, growing steadily worse through the night and being unconscious uncon-scious most of today Mr Helnze had been ill with cir rhosls of the liver since last June, and had been tilting the waters at Saratoga in the hope of regaining hia health. His only son, F. Augustus Heinze, Jr., is here in charge" of a governess, Mrs. Helnze having died about a year ago. Mr? Fllt.tman of New York sister of Mr Helnze, arrived here tonight and will take the body to New York lomorrow, the funeral being set for Friday. Mr Helnze was 45 years of age and was reputed to have mado more than $25,000,000 In copper. F. Augustus Helnze was born in Brooklyn of German and Irish parents, par-ents, December 5, 18fi9 He was graduated from the Columbia university universi-ty school of mines in 1889 and went to Butte, Mont , there to lay the foundation foun-dation for the gigantic fortune he later amassed He was almost constantly con-stantly involved in litigation In his picturesque career he waged tremendous tremen-dous flghtp against the Standard Oil company, the Amalgamated Copper company and other huge corporations At one time he had sixty lawsuits on his hands but that did not detrr htm from waging war against all Wall street. Before he got a real start iu the fopper business he edited a mining trade paper Then he leased the famous Estrella copper mine and launched forth upon his career of legal le-gal and financial warfare. In Butte he became allied with William Wil-liam A Clarke and began to fight H. H Rogers, Marcus Daly and tho entire en-tire Standard Oil company. It was Boon thereafter that Rogers tried to compromise with the fighting Helnze, but failed, and so many lawsuits fol-j fol-j lowed that the Montana courts could j transact no other business except that ' in which Hoinze was involved. |