Arizona republican., 1896-04-05
He Suddenly Expires of
 Heart Disease.
A Life that Abounded in Good
 Works.
His Record In Nevada, California and Arlzona-The Funeral
 Monday.

Clark Churchill is dead. A noble soul has gone to rest. A citizen high in the councils of the people is missed. A chair is vacant in a home where peace abode.
 Few are the Arizonans who did not know him. Throughout dhe territory, as throughout the west, was he rated as a leader, and his genial presence gained him friendship on every hand.
 The death was of heart disease, fatty degeneration it was called by the doctors, and it had been appre- ciated by the patient that his life hung by only a slender thread. Yet the end came with a swiftness little expected by any.
 General Churchill for the past week had been ailing, yet was physically able ito attend to all the details of his business. Yesterday morning he lay longer than has been his wont Shortly after Mrs. Churchill left him to at tend to household cares, receiving the assurance that all was well with hEm and that he would soon arise. Only ten minutes later she returned, but Death had come during her absence. The end was peaceful and probably with out pain.
 The body lies attended by the faith CTS of the Franciscan order, as de- ceased for a number of years past had been a devout and consistent believer in the doctrines of the Catholic church The funeral will be tomorrow morning from St. Mary's church on East Mon roe street. There at 9 will be ceie- brated solemn mass for rtlie repose of the departed soul, rendered with as- sistance of full choir and orchestra.
 Interment will be in the city ceme- tery, and the remains will be escorted to the grave by flies of the citizen so,diery, whose chief he once was District court will adjourn as a mark of respect and the grief of the city will be made manifest.
 Clark Churchill was born in Penn sylvania in June, 1886, therefore lack ing but a few months of attaining his siNtieth year. His early education was obtained under difficulties and in 1881 he had travelled to San Francisco in tine hope of betterfng his fortunes. He had studied Jaw and soon became known as one of the brainiest young men of the golden state. In 1863 he removed to Virginia City, where he was made the junior member of the law krm of Keeney, Lee 6 Churchill, with them also being associated Gen. eral Chas. H. g. Willis, the association being declared by his old friend, Thomas Fitch, to have been combi- nation of the brightest legal minds on the Comstock. Churchill later went to Pine Grove, Esmeralda county, Ne | Uada, where in min es he sunk a large amount of the capital he had amassed | in the law.
 l From 1866 to 1877 he resided in San Francisco winning new laurels at the l bar.
 Thereafter ile removed to Prescott, then the territorial capital, and in 1880 became citizen of Phos1lfx Here beside his legal and official duties he was one of those who successfully car ried through the great project for the Arizona canal. His business affairs have since also been prosperous, his estate consisting in several valuable sections of farming land and in the valuable Churchill addition, now viT- tually included within the city.
 In public life, General Churchill has sbeen often honored. He was city at torney of Virginia City in '65. was ad- l jutant general for Arizona for four years and attorney general for six years. For a term he was a member of the National Republican commit tee and he ever has been a consistent worker in that his party, filling on oc- casions many Important administra- tive positions in the partisan ranks. He was a Mason of high rank, a mem
 Der of the Golden State commandeTy
 (San Francisco Knights Templar, in the uniform of which degree he will
 be buried.
 He had been married twice, there be- ing no issue from either uni0n. I