The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-04-15
GOVERNOR JOKES DEAD

Governor John E. Jones, OF Nevada
who has been undergoing treatment
in San Francisco for several months for
cancer OF the stomach, died in that city
at 5 80 o'clock Friday evening.
His death was not unexpected, as he
had suffered a relapse and vas reported
as gradually sinking. The end was
painless and he retained consciousness
to the last. The news of the Governors
death will be received with profound
regret in every town in the State. The
~Governorship will be assumed by the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Reinhold Sadler.
John Il. Jones was born in Wales,
December 9TH, 1910. At the age of six
teen he migrated to to this country with
his parents, and located in Iowa, where
he was educated in the public schools,
later graduating from the State Univer-
sity. He came west and followed the
vocation of a miner in Colorado, Wyo-
ming and Nevada. In 1888 he was APP
pointed United States Internal Revenue
Collector, with headquarters at Eureka,
In 1885 he was elected on the Republi-
can ticket to the Surveyor-Generalship
OF the State, and was reelected in 1890,
which office he held until elected Gov
ernor in 1894, being inaugurated in 1895.
His interest in irrigation, which was his
forte, has attracted the attention OF the
Pacific Coast ana won him many plau-
dts.
He was a %thirty-second degree Mason
and a member of the Consistory. He
was on the roster OF Euceka Lodge, No.
is, F. and A.. NJ, and Eureka Chapter,
No. B, X. A. NJ. In 1893 he was Most
Worshipful Grand Master of the F. and
A. NJ. of Nevada. He was also q mem
Der of Beatific Lodge, X. of p, of Eure-
ka and OF several civic organizations. ),
Governor John f. Jonec has gone to
that bourne from whence no man re-
%turnetii. Nevada has met with a great
loss in the demise of her chief executive.
His soul, his heart, his being, was wrap
ped up in the Sagebrush State and her
welfare. He labored early and late for
the prosperity of Nevada's people and
his work for irrigation has attracted
widespread attention. He was a man
Of the people and the people loved
him as such. He was always APP
proachable and the poor was as we'll re-
ceived as the rich. The chances we're
aver that the caller would find the Gov
ernor in jeans or broadcloth either COW
cred the same kindly spirit, the same
large heart, the same SOULFUL John E.
Jones. The State mourns and the fam
lily shares sorrow and grief with the
multitude.
At 9:45 Monday morning the funeral
car containing all that is mortal OF Gov
John 4, Jones arrived in Carson.
A detail from Company +, N. N. g., I'M
der command OF General Galusha and
Lieutenant Carney WAS waiting to escort
the casket to the Capitol, and a close
carriage conveyed the relatives to their
home. Even in the car the casket WA
covered with lilies and other flowers.
The State officers and a number of cit-
liens accompanied the remains to the
State House.
The body was reposed on a bier of
black cashmere in the hall. Flowers
nearly cover the casket which is OF rose
wood with elaborate trimmings.
The body was in charge of the Militia
OF Nevada and the Adjutant-G General is
sued the following orders:
"The remains OF the late Governor
Jones will lie in state in the halls of the
Capitol bnilding until the funeral takes
place Wednesday afternoon at 80
o'clock. The public will be admitted
Tuesday from 9 o'clock and on Wednes-
day from 8 a. m. TO II m. The militia
will surrender charge at l o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon and the remains will
be placed in care OF the Grand Lodge of
Masons of Nevada"
c. II. GALusHA,
Adjutant General.
This morning the militia of Nevada
will report for duty in Carson under
command OF Colonel Lord. Companies
A, B, Battery A, and the Battery Band
OF Virginia City &c, OF Reno; f, OF Car
son, and two companies OF cadets from
the State University will escort the re-
mains to their last resting place.
At Reno, Monday morning, a detail of