, 1902-07-31
Judge Hayford Dead.

oIu WIS TtctINtu utit utS-
day morning of the death, at his
home in Laramie, of Judge j. H.
Hayford, at the hour of I0:40. p.
m. the day before. at the age of
rs years. The Judge had not
been well for some time and was
taken to Salt Lake City, some
weeks ago, by his daughter Mabel,
to see if the change would not
benefit his health. While there
he received an injury from a street
car, which compelled his daughter
to return home with him at nee
and he never rallied from the
hurt.
Judge Hayford was one of the
land marks of Wyoming. Com
ing to Laramie in the early days
he engaged in the publication of
the Sentinel, a weekly paper,
which he edited for 26 consecutive
years and only relinquished the
work when appointed Judge of the
Second Judicial District. He was
an able %jurist. and as such had the
respect and esteem of the bench,
but it is as a member of the Wyo-
ming Press that he will be remem-
bered best. He was a remalka-
bly, terse, logical writer, a master
of the art of condensation and he
could say more in a paragraph of
four lines than most newspaper
men in a quarter of a column of
matter. He vas always a consist
ent, loyal friend, devoted to the
advancement of his adopted state
and one of the leaders in the
great and powerful thought of the
day. There eve was any nicer
tain sound about his voice and it
was always raised in the defence
of the right.
The Borrowing wife and father
less family have II" sincese sym
pathy of the entrc state in their
bereavement.
We clip the following eloquent
tribute to the deceased from the
Laramie Republican.
Judge Hayford is dead.
The end came a little before ii
O'clock last night, and with it the
passing of one of the most remark
able men i'll the history OF the
state; in fact, the history of Judge
Hayford as a citizen of the COM
monwealth is linked and interim
ed with that of the commonwealth
itself. The man came before the
state and for years was a part and
parcel of it. filling a niche vouch-
safed to but few men in a young
state and doing his part in d way
that will leave it's impress upon
the future of the state as indeli-
bly, as the mark of the chisel upon
the enduring monument or the
sculpture of the master of that
art.
The passing of Judge Hsyford
rounds out a life of great useful
ness-a life fraught with good
deeds well performed-deeds per-
formed with the right hand when
the left knew not, and when the
records come to be written, like the
prophet of old, it will be found
that his name leads many of the
rest.
To write of the life of this good
man is like telling a tale oft told.
He was a familiar figure in the
city, goiug and coming, of late his
form bent with the weight of
years, his step was slow and tot
tering, but his mind as clear as
the Wyoming sunlight, his lips
moving with the telling of some
incident of his or the states n
reer, his best thoughts for his fell
low mar. His official position
brought him in contact with the
rougher element of the communi-
ty, but not a word has escaped his
lips in any of the many sentences
of punishment he had to pro-
nounce that would wound the
moral sensibilities of the victims
of the laws stern mandate. He
was temperate in his punishment
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