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Show oo 'EDDIE' MILLER DIES AFTER I SHORT ILLNESS Another of Ogden's best known citizens cit-izens and railroad men. Edward ("Eddie") ("Ed-die") Miller, died yesterday afternoon in his room at the Lincoln hotel of heart failure, superinduced by an attack at-tack of la grippe. He was a bachelor and his closest surviving kinsmen are Frank Davey of Ogden and a brother and sister living in Toronto, Canada. The funeral will be held Sunday at 2 p. m., at the Elks' home, under the auspices of the lodge. Interment will be in the city cemetery. .Mr. Miller was born in Toronto, Canada, March 17, 1852, and in early youth crossed the Canadian border and located in Boston, Mass He was a skilled baseball player and became a member of the Boston baseball team.! Later he joined the Brooklyn teana. While in Brooklyn he was a close companion com-panion of Sidney Farrar, father of Ger aldine Farrar, the opera singer. Tiring Tir-ing of baseball, he left Brooklyn and went to Michigan, where he took up railroad work. In the following year or two be had a varied experience in railroad building, from section hand to construction foreman. He first became a telegrapher in 1870 and followed that line of work until the time of his death. He was the old Bl dispatcher, in time of service, serv-ice, on the Southern Pacific system, and in his forty-seven years of telegraphing tele-graphing his record fails to show a single railroad wreck. In 1905 the veteran came to Ogden and, with the exception of brief intervals, inter-vals, when he was employed in California Cali-fornia and Nevada, this city had been his home since that time and he was employed in the local Southern Pacific Paci-fic dispatchers' office. He was a member of the local Elks1 lodge and became generally popular in l he city through the expression of his fun-making proclivities in annual Elk shows, until four years ago. It is 6aid if him that lasi year was the first time he had missed attending the annual convention of train dispatchers. no |