Arizona silver belt., 1902-07-03
DEATH OF CHAS. D. P0ST0N
They"Father of Arizona" Passed Away, June
 2A, at Phoenix.

VI AllHpud duu uloJ ucltSdO' bp Noh' greSs, died on Tuesday afternoons June 2l, at Phoenix, alone and amid squalid surroundings.
 His body was found in the doorway connecting the two rooms in which he lived. lIe was lying on his face, his arms doubled beneath him in such a manner as to indicate he had made nc effort to catch himself as he fell, so that he must have simply dropped dead. He must have suffered great agony for some time before his death, He had torn pillow open and scat tered the feathers over every thing, and had evidently passed back and forth from room to room several times as the feathers were scattered in both rooms,
 The funeral was held Saturday morn ing at the undertaking parlorS of MOhn X Easterlng, there being a fair at tendance of his Old.time friends and acquaintanceS. Among them were Col, A. 0. BrOdie and Secretary Isaac r. Stoddard. The pallbearers were ex-Goy. Lewis Wotley, John T. Den his, Leo Goldman, w. B. Lount Judge W. II. Stilwell and Geo. II. N. Luhrs Rev, c. V. Cowan and Rev. pr. Hal Sey conducted the short service, and intermcnt was made in the Porter cemetery.
 The Phoenix Republican publishes the following sketch of his career:
 Charles D. Poston was born Tn liar din county, Kentucky, April 20, 1895. At l2 years of age he was placed in the county clerks office, and served an ap- premiership of seven years, learning the rudimentS of law. Ho then passed three years in the office of the supreme court of Tennessee, at Nashville; stud. jed law and was licensed to practice.
 Upon the acquisition of California he joined the ArgouautS and was hon OTed with tirstclaSs appointment in the custom house at San Francisco. Upon the conclusion of the treaty with Mexico for the purchase of Arizona he embarked with a company of about thirty men for exploration of the new territory, arriving at GuaymaS in Jan uary, 1851 After examining the ter ritury and taking specimens of its mineral wealth, he returned to Cali fornia and thence by Panama to New York, Kentucky and Washington, where he spent the year 1855 enlisting interest in the new possessions.
 In 1856 he returned to Arizona with a company and funds for opening the silver mines, and continued this ardu. OuS and dangerous occupation until re- lIeved by General Heintzelman the president of the company, in 1858, when he transferred his activities tO the office of the company in New York Upon the commencement of the civil war he was in charge of the company $ business in Arizona with a plant which had cost nearly a million dollars. When the country was abandoned by the United States troops and after sad havoc by MexicanS, lndiauS and Americans, he left the country in ru- ins, with only one companion, ProfeS- sOr Pumpelly. Repairing to Wash ingtOn, he served as volunteer aide to his old friend, General Heintzelmau.
 In 1863 he was appointed b Presi dent Lincoln uperintendentU of Indian affairs for Arizona. Upon the organi zltion of civil government in Arizona he was elected fret delegate to con gress. At the conclusion of his term he made the tour of Europe visited the Paris exposition of 1867, and wrote a little book called Europe in the Summer time. Returning to Wash ingtOn, he resumed the practice of law in partnership with Judge Bolts of California. When the news of the Buriingame Chinese embassy came over the wires it fired au old ambition u see "the Splendor and havoc Of Asia, and he obtained an honorary commission from Mir Seward to visit Asia in the oStenSible interest of i'm migration and irrigation, and was also commissioned as bearer of dis  patches from the Chinese embassy to the emperor of China. He was ac- companied on the voyage by his old friend and travelling companion, Ross Browne, minister to China.
 Before the inauguration of PreSi- dent Hayes he was appointed by Pres ident Grant register of the land office in Arizona, and like an Arab, returned to the desert. He also served as con. sular agent at Nogales, Mexico, and military agent at Fl PaSo. He was, for five years in Washington, engaged in promoting the interest of irrigation by the government on the arid lands of the west. Since October, 1890, he WAS agent of the deDaTtmpnt of auri.