Show COL PAT DONAN DEAD receded in suit lake yesterday brought the sorrowful ful news of the death of colonel put donan at hia home in portland bast sunday it is knon that the wl known newspaper writer and magazine contributor had been in failing health but hia friends here were not to hear of his demise during the boom throes a dozen years ago colonel pt donan came to salt lake ilia fame as a brilliant dashing and flowery writer had preceded him and while there he won added laurila la urcla it was he who coined the word utahn to designate i resident of utah and he named his weekly journ cl which lie published with varying sw ce several bearg ago after the word of jus coinage sonia half dozen years ago colonel donan went to the northwest and later became the advertising of the oregon railroad corn pany which position HP iteld at the time of his death very many of alio literary pages in western railroad folders were from hin facile pen probably no man ever achieved the large measure of success that colonel donan did in writing boom literature it h related of him that he out did all rivah by ending his arti clea on the resource and attractions of western states to eastern publishers who c used hig advertising matter without pay y colonel dobana articles of ana k possessed such literary merit that tho big eastern newspapers published columns 0 hia writ ingi on the boom order without annit and craved for bior colonel donan ha ta in utah J donnan a former newspaper reporter of tass city and donnan the proprietor of ane upper fall falli i resort canyon it h rather an oddity hat jhc thc two added a letter 0 o the name of donan |