Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-03-12

medical attention, a steady and uninter-
tupted decline was observed, and it was
seen several weeks ago that his case was
q hopeless ohe The remains will be
taken to San Francisco for nterment.
George Hearst was born in Franklin
County, Mo, Sept. 3, 1920. His father
had gone to that State from North Car
olina in 1919. Tho son received only
such limited education as the common
schools afforded in that day. He wOrkt d
on his fathers farm until 1850, when he
Caught the gold fever and went to Call
fornia For several years he was miner
and prospector, and subsequently by lo-
cation and purchase, he became the
owner of valuable mining interests and
n large employer, having at one time as
many as Zoo men at work in his mines
alone and operating quartz mills that
crtished 100 tons OF ore per day.
The increase OF his wealth was steady
and rapid, and for sohlc years past his
incoms has been something like 81 ZOO
per day. He has been for long time
chief partner In the extensive mining
firm OF Hearst Haggih, Lewis & Co.
He owned above 10000 acres Of land i'll
San Luis Obispo County, California,
ranch of 100000 a~res OF grazing land in
Old Mex co, stocked with very large
herd OF cattle, and a fine stable OF thor
oughbred horses He was also Interested
in large tract Of land near Vera Cruz,
and in railroad building in Mexico His
fortune at the time of his death was es-
timated at SEQ, ,9Oo,00o.
Senator Hearst leave widow and but
one child, William Il. Hearst, proprietor
of the San Francisco Examiner.
The following tfibute to the late S6na-
tor is from the pen OF a we,l-knowh Cali
forniah;
"Fof thirty years or more George
Hea st has been one Of the vital mon OF
the West, one of the individual forces
which have inspired and given direc-
tion to that quick and vast de-
vclopment of its resources which Is
one OF the material miracles of the
century. But 1t is not rs the min
ing expert, tho organizer OF gigantic
enterprises, or the possess)r OF n great
fortune that he will be mourned. 1t Is
not an obituary commonplace, but the
simple truth TO say that his death will
bring sorrow t) thousands OF hearts
Change of fortune made no change in
the man AS Senator q the United
States h. was the same simple, unaf-
fected, clear headed, warm-hearted
George Hearst, who mined on the Feather
and Ynba Rivers in the fifties, and took
his share of the rough, FREQ life OF the
claims and cabins To the thousands OF
the comrades who knew him he remaire ed
always as a comrade. Ostentatlon was
abhorrent to man formed on his rugged
lines, and 1t will never be known how
many successful mon owe their begin
l. l. ltsno
were made castor to live because OF his
upon hundred of the associates and even
the acquaintances OF pioneer times he
was good providence.
"Because he was so thorough a Cali
fornian Mr.. Hearst was he'd In affection
by all Calfornians whose experience
reached back to the days when railroads
and the sharp competition OF commercial
life were unknown on the coaSt His
years OF hard work and intimate min
Cling with men of every social and intel
lcctual grade gave him knowledge OF
human nature and a sympathy with its
defects and weaknesses which kept h m
free from the pride Of pur and ha d.
ness OF feeling that sometimes 60 with
the riches of the selfmade man, and
while he had a sinyularly keen percep.
tion of character, and shrewdness that
bafilcd all prctenders, his heart was ten
der, his charity great, and his ca acity
for forgiveness inexhaustibo.
"His death is a serious public loss not
only to California but to the entire Pa
clfic coast, and peculiarly to the miners,
whose special friend and advocate he
was In the death OF George Hearst a
strong man, an able man, a good, and
very humble man has been taken away.
He had a manly, a gentle, and loving
heart There will bo moist eyes IN
thousands of'Western homes, grand and
humble, at tho news Of his death, and
the sorrow will not be least in the cabins
dotting the canyons and streams Of the
Sierras."