Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-01-04
DEATH OF HON. W. G. HAz1zDIyz.


Hon. w. G. Hazledine died at his
home at Albuquerque at o'clock
Saturday morning. Until the message
of death came it was not even known
that Judge Hazledine was i'll. The
fact is, he had been sick but a few
days. Early in the week he returned
home from California. His business
as counsel for the Atlantic q Pacific
railroad company has kept him on
the Pacific coast nearly all winter.
He had two cases to argue in the Cal
ifornia courts of momentous import
to his company. One of them, the case
of the U. S. VS.. A. d p. road, and in
volving the sale of the company's
telegraph lines, was a specially COM
plicated case, and one upon which
Judge Hazledine had been at work
for months; he regarded it as the OPP
portunity of his life for making a
record in the eyes of the jurists of
the nation, and his best thought and
study had been given TO it. While
engaged on this case he was taken
ill, first with severe cold, then with
la grippe in its worst form. The
humid atmosphere of the coast region
only tended to aggravate his malady
and few days since he came back to
sunny New Mexico, the land which he
loved so well and of which he was
always so proud-but it was too late!
He was a native of Michigan, age d
about As years. Very early in
life he began the study of law in
his native state, was in due time adj
mitted TO practice and shortly after
the termination of the war he en-
igrated to Arkansas. There he soon
took prominent rank in public
affairs while engaged in the prac-
tice of his profession. He served as
a member of the Arkansas state leg
islature, and afterward, when but
81 years of age, received the APP
pointment of Judge of the I'd judi
ciai district of that state. 1t re-
CURED great tact, good business
judgment and skill for Republican
from the north TO serve the people of
that section in those trying times,
but these qualifications were a part
of the every day makeup of Judge
Hazledlne, and he served the people
most satisfactorily. He came to
New Mexico in 1875 and located in
Santa Fe, two years later removing
to Albuquerque. A few years later
he represented Bernalillo county in
the goth legislative assembly as
member of the council and made an
excellent record for himself as a
painstaking, progressive legislator.
Amongst other positions he has held
may be noted that of county com mis-
sloner Of Bernalillo county, chair
man of the Republican county cen
trail committee, member of the con-
stitutional convention, president of
the Bureau of immigration, pres
ident of the Bar association, and he
has also been honored by various
prominent positions in the Episcopal
church.
In the death of this distinguished
citizen modern New Mexico loses a
most jealous, faithful. friend. His
loss is a public calamity. Whether
at home or abroad his voice and his
labors were always along the same
line--for the advancement and pros
perity of New Mexico and its people.
In the truest sense of the term, he
was broad viewed, intelligent, in
dustrious citizen; an able advocate;
a brilliant orator; staunch church.
man, kind husband and father. He
leaves a wife and three children.
Judge Hazledine was also Jealous
and valuable Mason in high standing,
a past master of Temple lodge, past
high priest of the r. A. chapter and
a past eminent commander of Pill
grim commandery, and has held i'm
portant offices IN the grand lodge of
New Mexico.
Death finds him serving his sec
ond term as the president of the New
Bar association. For some
four years past he has ably repre-