Arizona republican., 1906-03-20
MAYOR MOSS
 SUDDEN DEATH
Acute Indigestion the Fatal
 AiIment
The End Came Last Night Within Three Hours After He Was in Full Health.

Acting Mayor Frank B. Moss died suddenly last night between 9 and lC o'clock at the city hall presumably Of fatty degeneration of the heart or a heart clot induced by acute indigestion. The exact facts can not be determined without an aulopsy' put the symptoms and conditions prevailing during his brief illness of two or three boure make it unQuestionable that death re- suited from natural causes. There was no evidence of poison of any kind either peomaine or drugs. and no con Vulsions or other outward manifesto tiOn
 Between ' and s o'clock MT. Moss came to the city hall placed his bi- cycle in the rack and started to go to the entrance, stumbling as he aid so. Wnereupon Robert Hudson. the city hall gardener, thinking it was a po- hceman. begain joking him and ask ed him if he was drunk. He replied that he was not drunk. but that he was awfully sick, and then Hudson discovered who it was. He was help ed into the office Of the city assessor and Dr. Bell was called at once Mir. Moss had previously told some Of the men at the station that he was afraid he would not be able o ee- that far. and that he had vomited on the street. which chagrined him. as he feared that people would think he was drunk. though he had not tas,ed liquor for months. He said he had been working very hard all day and was very tired
 When the doctor arrived he found the mans stomach very much distend- ed, and in reply to questions. he said he had eaten a very hearty meal about . 6 o'clock. consistir~ of a great variety of things. He was suffering intense pains in the center of the chest. but some distance from the region of sne heart. His pulse was good and his heart beat strong. The doctor at once gave him medicines for the relief Of his stomach, as he could make nothing out of the symptoms except a very acute case of indigestion, to which MT. Moss had been subject for a mum . Der of years. He sO-n began to feel better and a cot was arranged for him in the room and he was told to lie down and sleep if he could. The doe tor again examining his pulse, was ! satisfied and left for horne. He was just retiring when a pnone message , announced that MT. Moss was believed to be dying and the doctor hurried back to the city hall. When he arrived ! there was no pulse and the stetho- scope failed to announce a heart beat. The doctor at once began efforts to produce artificial respiration. but they were unavailing.
 The coroner was called and a jury carefully questioned all witnesses and agreed that death was natural, though the verdict will not be announced un- til today The body was then placed in the care of Easterling & Whitney
 Frank B. Moss was fifty-three years old the 18th of last September. He was born in Wisconsin and lived there un- til he reached mans estate, when he turned his eyes westward, coming to Arizona about twenty-eight years ago. He spent the first four years of his Arizona career in the southern part of the territory, in the vicinity of Harshaw and Tombstone, coming to Phoenix about twenty-fOur years ago. He has made this city his home eyer since. He was a wagon maker by trade and has devoted the larger part of his life in this city to that busi- ness, in his later years owning and conducting a blacksmith and wagon shop combined on his property on Fourth avenue between Washington and Jefferson streets. Incidentally, he has always been interested in horses and cattle. and at one time or anoth- CT has had considerable range prop erty. his horses and cattle grazing in the New River country north of Phoe- nix.
 Politically, he has always been a