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Show i. G. WHITNEY PUSSES AWAY Former Business Manager of Deseret News Dies In Salt Lake ALT UAKH. ct 26 Horace G.J Whitney. se-r tJry-treanrer of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, and for more than t:i; wum bualnSM man- uRer oi in' Ufwrvi uiru ouu '.i. niy t hla borne. S2 Second avenue, i yesterday. Mr. Whitney imi been t-t tending to his duties at the migir com-, panys offnes ysatarday morning but. I upon not feeling very welh, r-turnelj to his home. About noon he aa tak-l en seriously III. Ir Gill Richards WtUI all-.l. but the patleot died before' , three o'clock of hemorrhage of the brain IN POOR Ml 1 1 III I Mr. Whitney had bean In poor health: for more than a year and hud gradual- ly had to lay down some of his more arduous labors. n April li. of thlsj year, the first presidency of the church) accepted his resignation from the staff of the Xew.s, he having been bUKnoa, manager since New Year's da. Il9t. Mr. Whitney also acted aa music and drumatli Hi and editor. Hls( appreciations of the more Import. i"t productions to visit Bait Lake had long been a feature of his p.-iper reputation rep-utation as a dramatic crlth r-t- ofnised throughout the theatrical iio- fepslou generally. I When the Caiinon brothers" lease on the News expred Mi Whitney took j over the manajntinenl of Uk paper, -.vhlrh returned to the control of th! churi h. The agreement was that, if the paper pr.l suco-ssf ill, new qua r - I Itm v.ould I., ur'.-iugxii foi it, the p..-p-r at that time being printed In lh old tithing house office, on the corner cor-ner where the Hotel 1'tah now stands-The stands-The structures at present used jointly uy the ;. .. ntiil tne riregon Snort lAr.e general offlt es was the result of that promise. i kip l OR m kll il l Pollowlng his rellreinent from the Sows Mr Whltne) took an extended trip to the Pacific const for the benefit of ins he-ith. and returned apparently UUICh beqeCitod. ll- returned to assume as-sume some of bis former drtlea and earned tiiom on without inierruptleui. save for u recent business trip to New York, Which had become an annu.il affair with him. lie was apparently much benefited by this Journey, and It was believed he had almost entirely recovered from his Indisposition, a fuct which made the alt i; of yes-(erdoj yes-(erdoj seem all the more sudden. Mrs. Whitney; who survives I er husband, hus-band, the daughter Of Mr. and .Mrs. 11. P. Beattie. She v.as with him when death i-aiiic. as vrr th--ir . hildren, Airs. Marion Whitney Pelt, Horace B Whitney and Frank Whitney. Surviving Surviv-ing brothers and Bisters', all living in Salt J.ake. are Adolphua Whitney, Clark Wbituey, Lafayette Whitney., Mrs. George I). P per. Airs. John D.I Oweq and Bf rs Sldne) Seville The funeral arrangements hive not; been announced, psndlhf receipt of, word from Mr. Whitney's half brother ! ApoStfe Orson l" Whitney, who ia in' the eajl. Oil |