Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-02
OREGON SHERIFF
DIES OF INJURIES
Harvey K. Brown SuCoumbs to
Horrible Wounds inflicted
BY Dwamiters.
BLAMES IT ON FEDERATION.
Dead Omccr Was Terror Co E'l Doors
Served two Terms ou reform
Tickct--Fnir and Ju~t Man.

baker city or. oct Harvey IS.
Brown. cx-sheriT off B1kcr county dled
this afternoon at Che hospital at $40
O'Clock AS thc result nf the horrible
wounds hc received from the explosion
of bomb at his front gate as he en-
tered his home at l0.ij Monday night
Harvey K. Brown, the Baker Guy
sberin who was dynamited To- death Ia
that city Monday night was Wen
known throughout the northwest
country" said a gentleman from Baker
Citv today lie was terror Co e'l-
doers during his term Of four years ln
Inc sheriff. office n Baker county
oregon. and his activity 300 cunnee ll'h
with the stcmenberg assassination,
evidently marked him for "a similar rate
az that suffered boy IdahOs former goV-
crnor. and as the dead man atefred
sn his OFFICIAL antc-mortem statements.
he knew ne was marked for slaughter
by the same hands that slew Gov
Steunenberg.
CLOSED UP GAMBLING.
Harvey Brown was a man OF splen-
did physique and of "a kindly gentle
nature NNA as TIT lu an N iNNN 'lf NiA'
matter Of preserving law ana order He
was elected on reform ticket iu Ba-
kor City ~ a time when the town and
county were running wide open, with
the gambling and saloon element iu
control and when matters had reached
such n pass that the self-respectlng
element was forced TO combine on "a
ticket 10 maintain the respectabiity
OF the town and county Brown was
or1rnfnH 3 nnrHfffHnfn anHrIm and
was elected by an overwhelming ma
FORTY. lie carried out his pledges OF
reform. and inside OF two years closed
up every gambling Joint ga Baker city
as well as IN sumpter and every miu-
ing camp IN the county. And he not
only closed them, but kept them closed
during the remainder OF that term of
his OFFICIAL incumbency. but during a
succeeding term. TO which he was
elected as sheriff. He drew down up
on him the enmity Of all the lower ele-
nent OF the county but was appreciat-
Cd by the law-ahiding class who found
in him an officer who never shirked
his duty.
"A year ago Harvey Brown was nom
finated for governor Of oregon by the
reform element OF the state, and the
vote be polled throughout the state was
an object lesson TO some Of the other
candidates
THE ARMSTRONG HANGING.
I'm connection with the charge that
he was doomed man from his conuec.
ton with the Adams and the Steunen.
berg cases. another incident may b.
mentioned that may have a bearing OF
the diabolical outrage During sheriff
Browns term OF Office he conducted the
execution Of n hanging IN Baker coun.
~. A man by the name OF Pleasant
Armstrong IN a nj OF jealousy killed
his sweetheart. and was tried and con-
demned TO be hung. Under recent
enactment the oregon legislature had
just saddled upon the counties the car
rying out of their own executions and
sheriff Brown was the first official 1,
be compelled TO superintent a hanging
I'm the state IL was said that certnir
relatives OF Armstrong made threats
that they would even up with Brown
at some future time.
This Incident taken in connection
with the dead officers well known meT-
Uiless attitude toward crime and Grim
inals, may have had something TO DO
with the plot which was Matched %
take his life.
FAIR AND JUST MAN.
Harvey Brown was a man loved by
all who knew him. He was the soul OF
honor. was always fair and just iu his
business dealings, and had model
family His devoted wife and Uttle
daughter will feel the shock most terri-
bly,. and they viii receive the uuaui-
NOUS and heartfelt sympathy OF the
dead mans legion of friends And ao-
companyng this will De the feryent
wish that the dastardiy assasslns may
be run Co earth and receive such pune
ishmeut as may ht the terrible outrage
they inflicted upon one OF oregon s best
citizens ana most efficient officers.