The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-02
SURPRISE AND SORROW.
News of the Death of Mrs. Stanford
in San Francisco.

News of the Death of Mrs. Stanford
in San Francisco.
San Francisco. March 1.-The news
Of the death of Mrs. Jane L. Stanford
at Honolulu last night was received
here today with surprise and sorrow.
to which was added horror when it was
learned that probably she had been
poisoned. Her brother, Charles @.
Lathrop. who is treasurer of the Le-
land Stanford. jr., university, refused
to believe that her c cath was due to
other than natural causes, and her
attorney, Mountford S. Wilson, posit
lively declined to discuss the report that
a previous attempt to poison her had
been made in this city. Mr.. Wilson is
awaiting advices from the Honolulu
officials before taking any action re-
gardtng the business affairs of Mrs.
Stanford, which are intimately con-
nected with those of the great univer-
sity which she and her husband found
ed at Palo Alto.
Great Excitement.
This institution has already been en-
dowed with $1,000, 600 in property and
coin, to which may be added about $1o.-
100000 from Mrs. Stanford's personal
estate. She took deep personal interest
in the university and to her wisdom
and business sagacity is due much Of
by its president as we'll as the students,
nearly all Of whom knew and loved
her
University Closed.
The university was closed today and
is not expected to reopen until after
| Mrs. StanfOrd's remains have been
1 placed beside her husband and son in
their nlausOleum near the college cam
ous.
In = I, -,
legislature adjourned today and flags
were placed at half mast throughout
the city and state.
Attempt at Poisoning.
The story Of an attempt to poison
Mrs. Stanford in this city was first
made public on the 18th of last month,
! when it was declared. that strychnine
| had been found in a bottle of mineral
water, of which she had taken several
| drinks. She was made i'll and an analy-
/ sis showed the presence of the deadly
4 drug in the water To DIR. William
Boericke who attended her Mrs. Stan
/ ford told the story of what she be
/ lieved to have been an attempt upon
| her life. She suspected no one and on
] the physicians advice soon went to
/ the country. Returning here, appar-
emily in improved health, she sailed
/ for China and Japan, by way Of Homo
I lutu Oh the Slt-IlIlteI lNOied- 4 eD- Is,
arriving at the Hawaiian port five days
! later.
No Results Obtained.
The alleged attempt TO poison her was
/ investigated by a detective agency. but
/ no results were obtained and the mat
/ ter apparently was dropped.
/ In her California street residence
I the first Of the handsome mansions
| erected on Mob hill, there were ten
! persons at the time OF ner Illness
( which began with her drinking the wa
/ ter on Jan. "a. There were. besides
( Mrs. Stanford: All Wing, the Chinese
/ factOtum who had been in Mrs. Stan
( ford's employ for twenty-five years;
/ An Young the house boy: Yeng. the
/ cook; All Lee. the second cook: Wong
! the second butler: Nora Hopkins. the
/ house maid Eliza beth Richmond, tbs
! ladys maid William McWhinney. the
/ butler. and Miss Bertha Berner. Mrs
! Stanford's secretary, who accompanied
4 her on her voyage to Honolulu.