The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-03-11

medical attention, steady and uninter-
rupted decline was observed. and il was
seen several weeks ago that his case was
q hopeless one. The remains will be
taken TO San Francisco for inteFment.
George Hearst was born in Franklin
County, Mo, sept. 3, 1920. His father
had gone TO that State from North Car
olina i'm 1919. The son received only
such limited education as the common
schools afforded i'm that Gay. He worked
on his fathers farm until 1850, when he
caught the gold fever and went TO Cali
fornia. For several years he was a miner
and prospector, and subsequently by To-
cation and purchase, he became the
owner of valuable mining interests and
a large employer, having at one time as
many as 2,0o0 men at work in his mines
alone and operating quartz mills that
crushed 1000 tons Of ore per day.
The increase of his wealth was steady
and rapid, and for some years past his
income has been something like 81. 900
per day. He has been for long time
chief partner in the extensive mining
firm of Hearst, Haggin, Lewis & Co.
He owned above 10000 acres of land in
San Luis Obispo County, California, a
ranch Of 100, 600 acres OF grazing land in
Old Mexico, stocked with very large
herd Of cattle, and fine stable OF thor
oughbred horses. He was also interested
i'm large tract OF land near Vera Cruz,
and I'm railroad building in Mexico. His
fortune at the time Of his death was es-
timated at soc, 00e,0 600.
Senator Hearst leaves widow and but
one child, William X. Hearst, proprietor
OF the San Francisco Examiner.
The following tribute TO the late Sena-
tor is from the pen OF a well-known Cali
fornian;
"For thirty years or more George
Hearst has been one Of tho vital men of
the West, one Of the individual forces
which have inspired and given direc-
tion 10 that quick and vast de-
velopment OF its resources which is
one OF the material miracles of the
century. But IL is not as the min
ing expert, the organizer OF gigantic
enterprises, or the possessor of n great
fortune that he will be mourncd. 1t is
not an obituary commonplace, but the
simple truth TO say that his death will
bring sorrow % thousands Of hearts.
Change OF fortune made no change in
| the man AS n Senator Of the United
States he was the same simple. unaf-
! fected, clear-hcaded, warm-hearted
| George Hearst who mined on the Feather
and Yuba Rivers i'm the fifties, and took
| his share of the rough, free life of the
| claims and cabins To the thousands of
the comrades who knew him he remained
always as comrade. Ostentation was
! abhorrent 20 a man formed on his rugged
/ lines, and IL will never be known how
! many successful men owe their begin
nings to him or how many broken lives
were made easier TO live because OF his
hidden, helping hand To hundreds
upon hundred OF the associates and even
the acquaintances OF pioneer times he
was a good providence.
because he was so thorough a Cali
fornian Mr.. Hearst was held In affection
| by all Californians whose experience
| reached back 10 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
lectual grade gave him knowledge OF
human nature and sympathy with it's
| defects aud weaknesses which kept him
free from the pride Of purse and hard
ness OF feeling that sometimes 90 with
| the riches OF tho self-made man, and
while he had a singularly keen percep.
tion Of character, and shrcwdness that
batlied all pretenders, his heart was ten
der, his charity great, and his cal acity
for forgiveness inexhaustble.
"IIis death is serious public loss not
only TO California but TO the entire Pa
clic 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, q good. and
very humble man has been taken away.
! lie had a manly, n gentle, and loving
heart. There will be moist eyes I'm
thousands of Western homes, grand and
| humble, at tie news OF his DEATH and
the sorrow will not be least in the cabins
dotting the canyons and streams OF the
Sierras"