Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-14

Steele mine created a profound sensa.
ton throughout local mining and legal
circles yesterday. He was actively be.
fore the public In the recent campaign
and was Democratic candidate for city
| Judge. His many friends who knew
him as an active man, IN the best Of
health, could hardly believe the news
Of his sudden death from such a cause
as heart failure.
The visit TO Park City yesterday was
| the result OF the receipt OF news that
good strikes had been made IN the
Steele mine, In which Mr.. Sommer was
heavy stakeholder In company with
j. r. Steele the mine foreman, he went
TO the property yesterday morning The
two men descended into the shaft about
noon, From the bottom OF the shaft,
twenty-five feet down, they walked
about 50 feet along an incline 10 where
the ore had been encountered. After
securing samples they started back,and
arrived at the foot Of the ladder, APP
parently all right. Mr.. Steele started
up followed by Mr., Sommer. On
reaching the surface, he noticed that
Mr.. Sommer was resting about II feet
from the top Of the ladder and called
out 10 him Are you all right" Mr.
SOmmer called back Yes, I'm all
right, and III be up there In a min
ute"
The next moment Mr.. Steele was star
tied by seeing him lose his hold on the
ladder and plunge downward 20 the
bottom Of the shaft. distance OF about
10 feet. steele hurried down the lad
der and picked him NJ asking how
badly he was hurt. Mr. sommer an
swered
Not badly I'm all right"
Steele then left him long enough TO
run up the ladder and send for doc
tor. When he returned, after an abb
sence Of only few moments, Mr. som
mer was dead,
AS soon as help could be secured the
body was carried 70 the surface where
Il was viewed by Drs, LeCampte and
Bardsley. They concluded after an
extended examination that death re-
suited from heart failure. They could /
nnd no bones broken, or evidences OF !
fatal injuries received from the fall
His heart, they decided. must have be- |
came weakened from the climb 20 the I
mine. and that the shock Of the fall |
augmented the attack on the heart with |
fatal results.
The body was removed after the ex-
to Richardson's undertake |
Ing apartments 10 await the arrival OF
the committee from Salt Lake.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
The sudden death OF Mr. sommer re-
moves an active spirit from many To-
cal activities. Today he was to have
taken part IN the fourth reunion OF the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite OF
Free Masonry, which began at $3.50
o'clock. He was thirty-second degree
Mason, ana last night Il was decided
hat his funeral should be held under
he auspices OF the Masonic fraternity.
In the field OF politics he has been
most prominently known. He has been
present at every Democratic convention
llnce statehood Twice he has been
candidate for tine city judgeship, IN Re-
publican yearr. His frst oftice he was
appointed to by Judge Merritt soon after
,eing admitted TO the bar II was that
II United States commissioner, and he
He'd the Office with credit. For two
'eara he served as justice OF the peace
q the Second precinct. and after retlr-
ng took up the practise OF mining law,
\ which he was a specialist up TO the
line Of his death.
The story OF hIs life IN Utah Ia one IN
ghloh hard study and determination 10
Mn, matched against extremely adj :
ersc circumstances, finally won out,
through years OF hard work. and CON /.
tant study, .
Mr.. sommsr died at the sso Of H. Ito