Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-04-05
DEATH OF JOHN JAMES.
The Assistant Superintendent of the pententlary Sue
cumbed Suddenly 10 Death at Santa Monica

| John James, assistant superintendent
of the New Mexico pententiary, died at
Santa Monica, Calf, last evening of
heart trouble and other complications
(which set in on account of severe
cold contracted some few months ago.
The deceased had been sick In bed at
| the penitentiary for something over
four months and upon advice Of his
| physicians he was taken to California
altitude with the hopes that he might
obtain relief. He stood the trip well
considering his Or 2ebled condition and
tit was thought an the start that ne was
on the way to recovery. He afterwards
had relapse from which he was una
BILE to rally and gradually became
worse until the end came. At his bed
side during the last hours were his
wife, Mrs. Agnes James, and son,
John James, Jr. All that medical skill
and faithful nursing could do was
done, but without avail. DR.. David
Knapp, the penitentiary physician, ac-
companied the deceased to the coast
and attended him until the last.
Mr.. James was an old resident CT this
territory, having located here in 1882,
when he came from Braidwood. Ills,
and assumed charge of the Carthage
coal mines then operated by the San
Pedro Coal and Coke Company which
property he successfully managed for
several years. He afterwards assumed
the general management of the Santa
Fe coal properties at Rockdale, Colo,
and later on acted as superintendent
for the Aztec Coal Company at Gallup.
After leaving Gallup he retired from
active coal mining and took up his res
idence at Albuquerque and engaged in
the hotel business, running the High
land House for number Of years. He
was elected and served with credit as
member of the school board at Albu-
querque. In 1899 he was appointed as
sistant superintendent of the New
Mexico penitentiary by Superintendent
HI. o. Bursum, place which he has
successfully and faithfully filled up to
the time of his death. He was at one
time prominent member of the Nat
ional Federation of Miners Unions, be-
ing the first secretary of the organiza-
ton in the early COS and rendered val
liable service to the cause of union la
Dor.
He had exceptional talent as an or
ganizer of men, was thoroughly famil-
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his ability and efforts in behalf Of the
miners We're recognized through
out the United States. He was always
true to his friends and his motto
through life was honesty and fidelity to
the trust reposed in him. BY his death
the territory loses valuable citizen.
Mr.. James was about ga years of age.
He was born in Scotland. He leaves
a widow and two children, Mrs. Mary
L. Scruggs Of Albuquerque, and John
James, Jr., of East Las Vegas; also a
brother Harry James of San Antonio,
SocorrO county.
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