The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-04
SLOWER PASSES TO
THE GREAT BEYOND
Had Been AiIing for Five Years,
but Gameness Kept
Him Alive.
WELL-KN0WN CHARACTER
on AMERICAN TRACKS
Leaves Immense Fortune, Per-
SOnal and Real. to Sur
yiving Wife.

Harry Stovcr is dead. Such was the
news that ran like wildire through
the hftting ring at the fair grounds
Thursday afternoon. Just as the price
makers began to call up odds for the
opening race. Many stout hearted
soldier of fortune stopped on his way,
made comment mad perchance wiped
n tear, for in all the lexicon of we'll
known characters upon the American
turf none there was more affectIonately
esteemed by his close friends than the
same Stover. In thousand papers IN
ell parts of the country today there
Will appear, under Salt Lake date
line, the facts and circumstances of
Harry Slower death He passed
away shortly before the noon hour at
his apartments on Utah avenue. near
the fair grounds. after a lingering Ill,
ness due to consumption, The end
was rot unexpected. for only the su-
preme nerve Of the man had kept him
alive these past two months. He had
been growing gradually weaker since
last Sunday, and early yesterday morn
ing he entered into slight coma. Later
he rallied, only TO fall into quiet
slumber from which he dropped quietly
and peacefully into the bourne of the
great beyond Mrs. Stovcr and one
or two intimate friends were about the
turfman in his last hours,
Leaves Big Fortune.
Up TO q late hour last night the
place Of intermeDt had not been de-
cided upon. Frank G. Stover. Il wealthy
cattle buyer and stockman of Kansas
City. Mo. is n brother of the deceased,
and his only surviving blood relation.
Mr.. Slower was 40 years of age. and
ALWAYS spoke of Petauma, Cal, as his
home town. There he has pretty lit
tie suburban place and magnificent
ranch, valued at about S2S5.000, He
kept few books or accounts and TO
estimate his wealth would be a hard
matter. In his name and title is prop
erty to the value of about 100000,
but as TO how far this is encountered
remains TO be seen. About five years
ago Mr. Slower commenced to COM
plain Of lung trouble at New Orleans.
to be on his last pins, and only his
sheer pluck had kept him among the
living since then. He wasted from a
man of $50 pounds TO about 1O9 pounds
At his death.
Makes His Fortune,
Mr.. Slower was one of The char
acter studies of the turf. He often
said the two things in life he liked
best were his horses and his friends:
No man had a more indulgent or loyal
friend than Mr.. Slower. His quiet, un-
obtrustive acts Of kindness VIII be
never full known, but III the hour of
his demise it is safe to say that hun
lreds of mis- beneficiaries In all parts
of the country Will send up word of
gratitude 10 the friend who helped in
the hour of need Mr. Slower was
born and reared in Kansas, but some
ninetecn wears ago went 10 Eureka,
Cal. There he drifted into stock rails
ing aud soon became possessed of
very fast quarter horse. He won fifty
four match races with this horse about
the county fairs and then organized
large stable for campaign upon the
eastern and California courses. He I'M
derstood a racehorse from the ground
I'D and WAS always good money
maker He liked all sorts Of animals,
and il was not strange thing 10 see
two or three dogs, a couple of kittens
goat and q horse following him about
his stables. He was chicken pitter of
renown and MANY is the battle his
California,
Game to the Last.
On Wednesday Native Son won A
race at the fair grounds under the
colors OF Stover's Kenilworth Farm
winner. lie had nice stable at the
fair grounds. which Will he sold tomor
row II includes Seventh and other
fair performers. Mr.. Stover was the
principal promoter of the recent meet
ing at Ogden. and AT the time Of his
death he held the controlling interest
in the meeting at Butte, Mont, sched-
uled to open late this month. ALWAYS
full Of ambition 10 acquire riches and
y substantial niche in life. he wrote
''Tobe' Ramsey letter only yester-
day morning. asking him To attend 70
some stable details. He was q man Of
undyiug hope right 10 the end. He
named his farm AT Petaluma after
Wentworth, the best horse he ever
owned, and to whom he was much at
tached. and Mt one time he refused
100000 for the animal,
Mr.. Stover was unique in appear
ance. always wearing slouch hat and
high water trousers, either upon both
state and ordinary occasions He was
known on every racing course in Amer
lea. Among his siaunch friends Of
wears standing is w. " Finn of the
Utah Jockey club, Finn, '|TobeN
Ramsey and other Of StoVer's cronics
gathered in little knots about the pad
dock yesterday, and, in The grief that
unlv real men OF the real world know
mournfulIy discussed the passing on
Of trne friend and one Of the ganest
Mr. Stovcr is survived by MS wife
but no children. He has n brother
John Stover, in Kansas City, and sis
ter, Mrs. l.. Dart, in San Francisco.
Latonia Races.