The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-08-31
THE DEATH OF A. c CLEVELAND

tErOm GOCQWln weekly
The announcement Of the death CT
Hon. A. c. Cleveland of Nevada 10
most sad news. It comes a personal
bereavement. for the dead nan and
the writer Of this were long near
neghbors and the friendship between
them never had a break or jar or
doubt during the forty years since it
began.
Mr.. Cleveland was a native of Maine
and went TO California in the late
ffties. He went with the crowd TO
the Comstock and was all his life
thereafter a resident If Nevada.
His first work in Nevada was the
supplying of tlmbers 10 the Gould &
Curry mine. In 1869 he removed to
Hamilton. Nevada, and three years
later removed to his farm in eastern
Nevada. where his permanent home
was made. He was as brave a man
and loyal as ever walked the earth;
one OF the most genial and light
hearted of men: he was q shTewd
judge Of human nature, a natural dip
lCmat and altogether loyable.
His farm has been a free stopping
place for travellers for years. He was
several terms a member OF the Nevada
Legislature. was twice a candidate for
governor, and had the necessary votes
pledged 10 elect him senator III. ee
years ago. He he'd many other places
CT trust. He was a sterling, honest.
high-minded, tender-hearted. splendid
Iaan. He would not permit a gun 10
be fired near mis- home, least il fright
en- away the birds; he saw TO the
feeding OF his eats and dogs person.
ally and still he was ready to fight
at any odds if aroused-and he was
easily aroused, and up to a few years
ago if there was a horse on the ranch
that the men feared TO mount Cieve-
land always rode him.
He built up probably the finest farm
in Nevada, and it has been said of
all his thousands of live stock that
they are all thoroughbreds.
When the Nevada Legislature met
three years ago, he went to Carson
City, was suddenly seized with pneu-
monia, and though he recovered, the
disease left his heart in a precarious
state, and never thel eafter did he re-
gain his old rudy complexion or his
old elastic step.
We cuunart mis- hoarf c4d1a-1v ctop-
ped. for only a few days since a friend
here received one of his old Jolly let
tiers which contained no hint of ill
ness. Praise God that when the final
came it was painless.
In his death Nevada has lost one
OF its foremost and most distinguished
and respected citizens, and the grief
over his death will be universal in
that state. He was not only one OF
the best. but one of the most pubic
spirited men of the state, and the bes
work OF his life was in trying 10 fur
Their its interests. His wife and the
relatives in the east will have the
deepest sympathy of all who knew
the brave man who was her husband.
and if it will be any comfort 70 them
they NAV have the consolation Of
knowing that their sorrow is shared
by hosts of people from every rank
in life, from the ab.est fnanciers that
were ever on the coast. to the humb-
lest prospector who ever faced the
desert in search Of a mine.
One by L the old band is passing.
A strong and true and generous com
pany were they. Their natures were
in a little way typihed by the mann=r
of A, c. Cleveland's death. There was
a supreme trial to meet. there were
no repinings; no forebodings; 10
troubling of friends. The summons
came in a moment the hush Of eternity
had sealed the mirthful lips aud the
fearless great soul had fed.
Self-contained and u~npretentious
were they. They absorbed into their
lives something like the silence Of the
desert, so their purposes were not adj
yertised, their exploits were not much
heralded, but they were trail blazers,
path hnders-conquerors. They found
the desert wrapped around with serge
and guarded by heights which Desola-