Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-07-16
DAN De GUILE.
A Tribute From the Pen Of c. c.,
Goodwin Of the Salt Lake
Tribune"
Tribune.

" IN Wright-Dan De Quflle-
mas left. or is about to leave VirVinia
City, New for Iowa, to spend the res.
OF HI" life. He has worked on news
payer work in Virginia City for six
and thirty. Years. The amount Of
work h a he has done and the quality
Of it are alike wonderful. On An
average, he nusi, for twenty five
years OF that time, have laborrd sig
teer hours a day. When uot directly
at work for the newspaper he vas
either studying the mines and their
p~ecuiiarItles, OF the ore they contejn-
ed He was twenty tiv" years ago
the most wonderful Of re; Urttrs- He
could describe anYthirg, TO matter
how the passion Of Enpn We're wrought
ap, without giving c~tfeps-; 80 matter
what the material was, NDerhev of a
mine, "A discovery, a ntw process or
scandal, II was always stated correctly
and IN a way to satisfy all classes Of
people. Then, for relaxation, he
would go down into his own fancy
and write up some story, either to
point some moral, or TO state the pos
STOLE application to practical affairs Of
some great principle, or reel off a
Strlhg Of legends, or to satisfy the
droll streak in his nature. which was
always seeking expression. His
Solar Arwlor' was a sasrpIe OF this
last. Ii was the description Of u de-
vice for a man TO put on and wear 10
hot weather to take away all the dis
comforts OF the heat. Il was a sort Of
automa air compressor and refrig-
orator combined, the beat being the
motive power for the apparatus. so
that the more intense the heat the
more active would be the cooling
forces and thus keep the subject at a
normal temperature. The description
was go minute, 50 ample and reason
able OF detail that the London Times.
in a profound article Of over a column
declared that the ~p:inclple WA ab-
solute'y without flaw. Dan had he
inventor put Oh his armOr and start
across Death Valley one awful dav in
August, He did not return Fis
friend. after a day or two, ecam
alarmed, organized IA search pat1v
md went to fird him. They did. The
Thermometer stood 120 degrees when
came Upon him, but be was dead. &c
had frozen to death, and an icicIe
twenty inches long was attached St
one enc Of his nose He had miscal-
cuiated the intensity Of the heat-the
motive ~power-had not put hampers
and cut offs enough in tho machine,
and, OF course, the more The heat, with
b more power the reacsing agents
had worked. with the result that when
the seaEchers got the body back to
camp it was frozen absolutely stiff.
Poor PAM! He is now old, i'll and
poor. There is nothing left to show
for all the splendid work that he has
done, So ill has be been that for
months he has been able to leave his
home. Els friends whether he will
ever reach his old home alive. but in
a note received frOm him a few DAYS
ago, be says he will
He has done for minihg than
almost any other man. His whole
time, almost, was absorbed in il for
thirty years. and now, ike the old
lode over which he lived so long, his
life is about exhausted. Poor, good
hearted Dan may he be spared from
pain aud care for the future. and
may his twilight merge into the night
without Il jai.