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Show ' - F' Charles B. Hopkins i Dies at Rochester j I- 1 SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 5. Charles B. Hopkins, a pioneer telephone man . j. of the northwest and former U S. mar-,; i shal for Washington, died in a hospital !r' at Rochester, Minn., today following fJ an operation, according to word re- V ceived here. j; ; Mr. Hopkins established the Palousc, i , Wash , Gazette in 1S77 and was inter- '.' ested in the ownership of the Spokane Chronicle in 1SS2. He took over the military telegraph line between Colfax ,C h and Almota, Wash., in 1S83 and con-a Inverted In-verted it into a telephone system. In i f 1S89 he became president of the In-J. land Telephone company here. j J 'Mr. Hopkins was G3 years old and Is). survived by his widow and daughter. 00 f. |