The record-union., 1895-04-27
DEATH OF IRVING W. MILLS.
Sudden Death of a Young Man O
High Promise


High Promise.
The large circle of friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. William II. Mills in this city were
painfully shocked last evening by re-
ceipt of news of the sudden death of their
son, Irving W. Mills. He died after but
one days illness, at the home of his par
ents in San Francisco, at o'clock yester-
day afternoon. He will be buried beside
his brother in the family plat in the City
Cemetery of Sacramento on Monday.
Irving w. Mills was born in Sacra-
| mento tWenty-four years ago. The
greatest number of the years of his
promising life were passed in this CITY.
where ms circle OF young and adult ad-
| miring friends was remarkably large.
From his childhood, and we have known
him from the time of his birth, he de-
velOped notable intellectual strength,
W bile loving the sports of youth and the
society OF congenial souls, he was a lover
OF knowledge also. Somewhat restiye
under the hard and fast rules of school
courses, his whole drift of intellect was
toward the storehouses of knowledge
At an age when very few youths are IN
clined to solid reading, he was a remark
ably well-intormed historical student,
and took keen pleasure in tracing and
analyzing the histories of nations and
peoples.
He grew up to young manhood spirited
and free, without indulgence happy and
hopeful, without vanity; full of Kindness
and regard for his fellows, without fawn-
ing. While he was independent, quick
TO resent and manly to defend, he was
genial, atfecLionate, and had a smile and
| a hopeful word for all VINO claimed him
friend.
When he approached his majority he
began to develop more thoughtful. and
still stronger intellectual traits, indicative
OF his pareutage, and that have so dis
tlngulshed his father as thinker and
publicist He took up the study of the
law, pursued it with diligence, and less
| than two years ago was admitted to the
bar Of the Supreme Court. Almost i'm
medlately his marked capacity, rapidly
developing ability and well-stored mind
secured tor him an im portant post in the
Law department Of the Southern Pacific
Company.
There opened then before him career
bounded on all sides by high promise.
and torecasting for him as bright future
as any young and aspiring man in the
hrSt OF professions could hope for
That 1t should be true that he is cut
down at the very threshold of such an
opening career OF rich promise it is more
than difficult for his multitude of friends
to realize. To think that Irving Mills,
the spirited, intellectual, manly youth
who but q few days ago greeted the many
he knew upon our streets with his
frank and engaging smile and
open palm, strong then in health,
buoyant with high hope and noble
aspirations, should be now dead
is seemingly impossible. Only the other
day he was with us in Sacramento,
warmly greeting and greeted on all sides
and saying he could not keep away from
his old home, and should come often
and often. Alas that he should come
To US so early as next Monday, but with
voiceless lips and eyes closed in DEATH
his friends would tain believe a dream
and question it's possibility. To the torn
hearts of his parents what words can
bring comfort, what condolences be
balm? In this sore hour of their trial,
when they move in the valley and
shadow of woe and are about to lay their
last son beside their first, the best that
friendship can do for them is to keep
silence and make sympathy manifest by
evidence of incapacity to express it.