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Show VETERAN DIES IN THEJEKVICE James Barton Adams Finds ; War Strain Too Great for Advanced Age. VANCOUVER Wash.. April 23 Tames Barton Adams', western newspaper news-paper pet and 76 year-old volunteer of civil war service, is dead here today. to-day. His patriotism r.03t him his life. Adams, despite his ugo, offered his services to the government in army post telegrapher here and for monlha has worked daily in that capacitv, in addition to writing for various papers. The strain was too great for his constitution con-stitution and he contracted pneumonia, from which ho died late yesterday. Adams worked for years in I'enver and came to the Pacific coast two years ago His last patriotic poem appeared in a Portland. Ore., paper a few hours before his death. |