The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-03-02
JUDGE HENRY RIyEs DEAD.

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had been in failing health for
months, and within the
last few weeks was taken to the
hospital, where for a number OF
days his death has been ex-
pected. Judge Rives was a wild
over but is survived by three
children, the widow of the late
DR.. w. T. Daily and two other
younger children now in Cali
fornia with relatives.
Judge Rives came to Salt Lake
from Nevada, where for many
years he had been prominent
both as practicing attorney
and as a Judge on the bench.
He went to Nevada from Vir-
GINA in 1870 and studied law
under Judge A. G. Ellis Of Salt
Lake City. For twelve years
he was Judge of the Sixth dis
trict of the State, living here.
He was attorney for the famous
Raymond &c Ely mine at that
place in its palmiest days. His
father was a Colonel in the Con-
federate army and was killed in
the service. He was also a rel
alive Of Amelia Rives, author of
"The Quick and the Dead"
Judge Rives was a gentleman
of the old school and of the
Southern type; courteous and
polite and considerate of others
under all conditions and circum-
stances. His air of Difference
to courts and fellow members of
the bar was another striking
characteristic. He possessed
unusual ability aud was consid-
cred authority in all phases of
mining law.
Judge C. C. Goodwin in the
Salt Lake Telegram pays this
tribute.
The death Of Judge Rives is
most sorrowful, in the sence that
an acute and cultivated mind
has gone into the shadows, that
a naturally high and brave soul
has taken it's flight. On the
other hand there is a sense of
relief that one who has been SO
long a sufferer that life had be-
come a burden has found rest.
Judge Rives was of the best
stock Of the south; he had all
the accomplishments of the
schools, he was a trained law.
yer, an able Judge. When in
his youth the war came he
fought it through; he had a won.
derful faculty of drawing tc
himself friends; he was one OF
the most genial of men; he hac
the face and bearing of g
thoroughbred; he loved hi:
friends; he wanted to be on gooC
terms with all the world; his
weaknesses were those of a gen
ial nature, and he never had al
enemy half so cruel to him as hi
was to himself. He haI
been failing in health fol
several years; for a year past hi
decline has been most marked
and his infrmities progressed
until at last he looked upon ap
preaching death as upon a wei
come friend that would bring t,
him a curcease of sorrow ant
pain. He came from the battl,
fields of the East to the battle
fields for fortunes in the desert.
of the West. He served for tw,
terms, if we remember correct
ly, on the district bench of Ne
vada; he came here as the at
torney for the De Lamar com
pany some twelve years ago, ant
this has been his home since
He has many friends here,
great host of friends in Nevada
but of late years he has passet
through that most sorrowfu
period of a proud mans life
wherein the admiration O
friends turns at length into pity
and he has had to walk arount
for years, and feel that pit,
when he looked in familiar ia
ces, and knew that for his owl
sake those friends would feel
relief when they knew that hi
battle of life was over.
Government Timber Men.