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Show Succumbed to Heart Failure While Taking Warm Plunge; Death Came Instantaneously; Medical Skill of No Avail; Deceased a Pioneer of Utah, Widely Known and Highly Respected Throughout the State; Large Posterity and Host of Friends Mourn His Loss. 4 The people of Ogdcn -were Inexpressibly Inex-pressibly shocked yesterday afternoon after-noon to learn of the sudden death of Hon. Lorin Farr, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Ogdcn, and the state as well. It was first reported re-ported that he had been drowned at the Hot Springs, his death having occurred occur-red there. It was later ascertained, however, that death bad been probably due to apoplexy. As had been his weekly custom for many years, he had gone to the springs to b'athe in the warm waters there, it being his belief that he was much benefited thereby. He went Into what is known as the south plunge, which Is of a medium temperature, about 3:30 p. m. He went alone, "but was in the company of Sheriff Wilson and Recorder Recor-der Joseph Wallace for some time, until the latter gentlemen left for the hot plunge. They had been there about 10 minutes, min-utes, when an attendant came running In exclaiming that all was not right with Mr. Parr. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Wallace ran at once to the other plunge and discovered Mr. Farr standing stand-ing rigidly in the pool about two feet from the enclosure, where- the water was about four feet deep. His head, had dropped forward upon his breast, and when taken from the water nig body was yet warm. His faco and head were entirely dry, showing that his death "was not due to drowning, and It was later decided that he had Mississippi, and traveled across tho territory of Iowa on his way to the Rocky Mountains. From the Missouri river, where ho remained until the summer of 1S47, he Journeyed westward In the companies that followed immediately behind tho pioneers, leaving the Elkhorn in Juno. These companies comprised about COO wagons with 1,500 human beings and 5,000 head of stock. His individual outfit was a wagon, two yoke of oxen, two yoke of cows and' provisions to last hJm and those dependent upon him 18 months. His family was then small, consisting of his wife and his little son Enoch. He first traveled In A. O. Smoot's hundred and George B. Wallace's Wal-lace's fifty, but during the latter part of the journey, he was in Daniel Spencer's Spen-cer's hundred and Ira Eldrldge's fifty. He reached Salt Lake valley, September Septem-ber 21, 1847. After living a while in the Old Fort, he moved Into a lot northwest of tho temple clock and adjoining tho corner now occupied by tho residence of tho Hon. Moses Thatcher. His first domicile domi-cile In the valley was his wagon box, taken off the running gears and mode Into a temporary abode; but he and his brother Aaron soon hauled logs from the canyon and built homes of a more comfortable character. Their houses in the fort had woipsawed lumber floors and were among the best constructed con-structed thene. Lorin had brought with him from winter quarters, ail kinds of seeds and these ho planted In ho tnrlnrr -f 1CJO rt iha nmn . wives surviving him are Olive A. jones and Nicoline Krlckson. He recently re-cently married again. Some years ago I Mr. Farr met with an accident, a very 1 painful fall at Pocatello, which at I first threatened to be fatal, but he re-j re-j covered and regained much of his old time sprightly vigor. The funeral is in charge or Larkln & Sons and services will be held at the Ogden tabernacle Sundny afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Weber Stake conference, confer-ence, which is scheduled for that day at the tabernacle, will conene only In the forenoon, the afternoon servicos to be dispensed with in deference to tho deceased. WHEEZER OR SNEEZER? Have You Heard of HyOmel for Ca-tarrh, Ca-tarrh, Asthma and Hay Fever? If you wheeze or sneeze, hawk or spit, snuffle or blow, something Is tho matter with the membrane of your respiratory tract, and you need Hyo-mci. Hyo-mci. And you need Ilyomel because it will cure you of any catarrhal or Inflammatory Inflamma-tory condition that exists. It isn't a stomach medicine, or ppray, or douche, tut a very pleasant, healing .antlceptic balsam, from the eucalyptus forests of Australia. You breathe this balsamic air through a small, hard rubber inhaler, and It reaches every nook, corner and crevice of the membrane, and promptly kills the catarrh germs. S. W. Badcon will sell you a complete Hyomei (pronounced (pronounc-ed Hlgh-o-me) outfit for $1.00, on toe money back plan. "The use of Hyomei cured Mr. Cutler Cut-ler of catarrh in ( 1904. .He has strongly strong-ly endorsed the use of Hyomei in many Instances, and. wo arc glad to go on record regarding this marvelous catarrh ca-tarrh cure, and-endorse it." Mrs, A. Cutler, 201 Post avenue, Battle Creek, Mich. succumbed to heart failure or apoplexy. The sanitarium p'ojsician was called and examined the body Immediately after it was taken from the pool. It is thought that death came instantly and only a moment or two before the attendant at-tendant discovered him. The long, useful life of this prominent promi-nent citizen is finally ended, despite his oft-expressed determination to live to be at least a hundred years of age. As he was so widely known throughout the state, a brief sketch of his active life will bo of Interest to our readers. Than he, none of the founders of our slate has made a more honorable record. rec-ord. To speak of greater gifts and larger opportunities is not to disparage those possessed by a man whose abilities as a scholar, a lawmaker law-maker and an executive are so. well known and recognized. The simple fact that for 22 years Hon. Lorin Farr was mayor of this city, is an eloquent tribute to his worth and the esteem in which be was held by rai3 fellow citizens. Thojo were times, too, when tho best men were sought for and put in office. Men of honesty and integrity who could be relied upon to expend the public revenues rev-enues wisely anl economically and administer ad-minister the affairs of government in the interests of the entire people. No man was given office for political service; partisan politics were almost unknown and the spoils system had no place In public life. For a period of equal length to that during which he was mayor of Ogden, Mr. Farr presided pre-sided over" the Weber Stake of Zion, and for 28 years he represented Weber, Eox Elder and Cache counties and some of the time, Carson county. In tho territorial legislature. Lorin Farr was born July 27, 1820, in Waterford, Caladonia cdunty, Vermont. Ver-mont. His parents were Wlnslow and Olive Hovey Freeman Farr, and his earliest American ancestor was Geo. Fe.it, who emigrated from London, England, in 1C29, as a shipbuilder for a Boston company. His father was a well-to-do farmer, prominent and Influential, In-fluential, holding the office of judge of A,.r,fi- rhrn lrln Farr was was devoured by the crickets before they were destroyed by the gulls, but j he raised enough. to support his family until another harvest came and had I considerable to spare. Some of his neighbors were forced to eat thistle roots, rawhides and even wolf meat. Many put their families on rations. He was not reduced to the necessity owing to the fact, he Bald, that he had an economical wife who managed so well tli at the family had enough to cat and something to give away. ' In March, of 1850, by special request of President Young, Lorin Farr removed re-moved to Ogden "to locate and take charge of the northern colonies." He with Charles Hubbard, built in the summer of the same year, the first sawmill and grist mill north of Salt Lake. In the fall. he bought out Mr. Hubbard and conducted i the milling business alone for several years, after which he took in as a partner, his brother Aaron. In the fall of 1831. the colonists of Weber had considerable trouble with tho Indians, caused by the accidental killing of the Shoshone chief, Terakee, by Urban Stewart, one of the settlers. The chief, who was a noble specimen j of his race and friendly to the whites, ! had gone Into Mr. Stewart's corn field one night about 11 o'clock to get his horses out of the corn; when the ' owner, hearing a noise and supposing It to proceed from some animal, wild cr tame, that had strayed into his en- , closure, imprudently fired his gun in ' that direction. The bullet struck Tc- rakee. killing him instantly. Much be- j loved by his people,' the chief's tragic ; death was deeply lamented, and for a time It seemed that the Shoshones I could not be pacified, but would take j revenge on the whole colony for the I unwise act of one of Its members. As ! it was, on one of the days following ; the accident, they shot and killed one of Mr. Farr's men, his best mechanic, while at work upon his mills. Mr. Stewart regretted his rashness as much as anyone, but that did not bring the dead to life, though his explanations explana-tions and apologies with the protestations protesta-tions rf his nsnnrfatca did much to morning and ended at about 6:41 a, m. The third earthquake began at 7:22.20 this . morning and ended at about 7:53. The recorded disturbance I was very small and were no doubt caused by distance earthquakes, but the record Is not sufficient to estimate-the estimate-the distance. THREE EARTHQUAKES RECORDED IN ONE DAY Washington, Jan. 12. Three earthquakes earth-quakes hae been recorded by the seismograph seis-mograph at tho coast and geodetic servey magnetic observatory at Cheltenham, Chel-tenham, Maryland, during the past 24 hours. The first began on January 11, at 7:05:43, 75th meridian, mean time, and lasted until 7:12:40. Tho maximum maxi-mum occurred at 7:06:10. The second began at 5:22:30 this about S years old the family moved to Charleston, Orleans county, 40 miles north of their former home, and it was there they became connected with Mormonism. They were converted under the preaching of Orson Pratt, who, by the laying on of hands.i was instrumental in healing Mrs. Farr of consumption and other ailments, from which she had been a sufferer for five years. The healing was instantaneous and permanent;' she who was then, an invalid in-valid 32 years of age, living until she was 04. " . Lorin was baptised a Latter Day Saint In the spring of 1832, being then 12 years of age. Five years later, he removed with his parents to northern Ohio, and in the general Mormon migration mi-gration from that part to the state of Missouri, he and his brother Aaron, walked the whole distance from Kirt-lnnd, Kirt-lnnd, Ohio, to Far West, Mo. This was in the spring of 1838. The following winter he was in the exodus ofjhls people peo-ple from Missouri to Illinois and while in both bf these states, he lived a good deal of the time in the family of tho Prophet Joseph Smith. Hitherto a farmer and a carpenter, Lorin, who had received a good common education, now turned his attention to school teaching. He taught for a number of years at Nauvoo and' vicinity, the children chil-dren of the Prophet and those of Brig-ham Brig-ham Young, Heber C. Kimball, John Taylor and other leading men being among his pupils. In tho spring of 1842, hy the direction direc-tion of the prophet, he was ordained an elder of the church and in the fall of 1844, under the hands of Elder Charles C. Rich, was ordained to the-office the-office of high prleet, Whllo still at Nauvoo, on New Year's day, 1845, ho married his first wife, Nancy B. Chase. Early the next year he bade farewell to that city and the state of Illinois, and with the main body of exiled saints, passed over' tho frozen . appease the wrath of the red men. The settlers, however, fearful ; of a massa- ere, lived for Beveral years In forts. , A large portion of the Immigration of 1851 was sent to strengthen Weber county settlements. The first military j organization of the county was formed about this time; it comprised all the militia in the territory north of Davis county and was organized hy President Lorin Farr. Elected mayor of Ogden in the spring of 1851, he was elected every two years until he had served ten consecutive con-secutive terms of office. He retired In November, 1870, but in 1876 was again elected for two yeans, making his aggregate ag-gregate period of mayoralty, 22 years. From 1852 until 1880, he was a member of the Utah legislature. In the meantime, mean-time, in tho summer of 1SGS, In connection connec-tion with Chauncey W. West and Ezra T. Benson, he took a contract from Governor Leland Stanford, of California, Califor-nia, president of the Central Pacific railroad, doing tho grading for 200 miles of that road west of Ogdcn and being selected to drive the golden spike, thus completing the first railroad rail-road that linked the Pacific coast with tho Atlantic. When the cut off was finished In 1906, he was accorded tho honor of again driving the last spike, Just 40 years after the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. In November, 1870, President Farr took his first and only foreign mission, which was to Europe". He had always been of a religious turn and had dono much preaching in his time, but his ministerial labors were generally at home, where his services were most needed. He not only preached1 the gospel, gos-pel, but practiced it, "trying to pur-guado pur-guado men, womon and children to live better lives In every way, I have labored la-bored all my life," he said, "to promote religious sentiment anil make laws to protect the same. I have tried to do all the good I could and as little harm as possible." Mr.Farr was a member of the constitutional consti-tutional convention which, in 1895, framed the state constitution upon which Utah was admitted into the Union. Since then he had led a quiet, uneventful life at his homo in this city. He was the father of 40 children. His first wife, who has been named, I and his plural avIvcs, Sarah Giles, and Mary Bingham, are dead. HU |