The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-11-24
A or ALI. D0TEN

a Nevada dispatch. last Sunday.an-
ncunced h on the previous Thurs
day. All Doten had been found dead
in MS room al a Carson City hotel
He was in his seyenty-ffth year, "A
~ Argonaut For more than a cen
fury he was a toiler on this coast He
was Of superb eastern stock-a bora
thoroughbred. 50. naturally, when he
was prosperous he was genial. kind
and true. when misfortune came he
was brave enough to meet it without
plant and 10 find ard work a pal
liative for every wound made by the
javelins the unkind Fate hurled at
him. he wore MS battered harness
TO the last, and like a wounded lion,
died alone in his lair. He and the
writer Of his formed a friendship in
The long ago which never knew a
chill. and the writing Of this Is but
complying with a request from him.
made when n SKY Of ms life had not
one cloud. that If he was nrst called
II should be aid Of him that he was
an honest man who loved his friends.
who tried 10 have no who
never wronged man OF woman, who
tried 10 u right as God gave him to
see the right, who loved his life here,
but Who had courage enough 70 meet
any fate in store for him that as he
came 70 This world without Know
ledge and had found 80 much OF hap
piness. when the time came for him
70 pass 10 another undiscovered world
ne would 60 without fear. trusting
that more happiness might be in store
for him, beyond the folding doors
which hide from our eyes the Beyond
He was a typical Argonaut. The
best was not too good for him. but
the worst was not worth complaining
about. he was first a miner. but in
his cabin was given 10 rest himself
when the days work was done by
putting his restless thoughts on pa
per. and so, naturally, gravitated into
a printing office n at last became
proprietor and editor Of the Gold Hill
CNey.) News. When the Belcher and
Crown Point bonanza was found be
became very prosperous; when a lit
tie later the great c. & c. bonanza
was and explored be be-
came very wealthy.
He might have retired then com
Portable for life. but when a stock
jumped from % cents TO $l,s0O within
or from 800 to $4,000 within eighteen
months as lid Con. Virginia, was il
not natural 10 invest in them? And
when they began to slump what was
more natural then 10 call it a tenn
pOrary depression and to buy moreI
50 when the bottom finally fell out
was in the same boat, people coula
not pay for the paper and so not MY
was the surplus exhausted but tn.
means TO MAKE more had been taken
away. But to a hopeful nature il
was impossible TO believe that the
great Comstock had no more Donan-
sion before, but they did not count
when measured by the fruition that
came between 1863 and 1873 n so il
was natural not only 10 hold on bur
to go a little in debt. Then came the
final stage by hard work to live and
10 pay the debts.
So Tor twenty years Doten has been
working as a reporter and eorrespon-
dent, giving up one by one the hopes
Of the long ago and following the
path of duty that every year present.
ed more rocks and thorns TO his
weary feet. until. finally, his work
being finished, he fell asleep. II 10
usual to speak words of sorrow over
the dead. but they should not be
spoken over the grave of Aft Doten.
1t is right to recall his genial nature
his high thoughts, his sterling work.
rs innumesable good deeds but for
him now ehefe shsiad be congratula-
lions onlv mat th5 final rest has
come TO him.
The whole west is sanetined WitA
graves like his, the graves of men
who asked for nothing but the ability