Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-10-20
END CAME WITHOUT PAIN
Dissolution Took Place While Ply
stefan Was Testing Heart
Action of Patient.
IOWA M0URNS A LOYAL SON
For About Twenty-Five Years Jona-
than Prentiss DoIIiver Had Signally
Honored His District and State in
National Affairs.

FIT. Dodge, Ia, Oct. 17-Jonathan
Prentiss Dolliver, senior senator
from Iowa, died at his home here at
1880 o'clock Saturday night, while a
physician stood over him making an
examination with stethoscope.
Death came without a moments
warning, and DR.. E. M. Van Patten,
making the examination when the
instrument stopped, thought the
stethoscope had been broken.
He looked up into the face of the
senator to find that silently and with
tragic suddenness the death messen-
ger had called the soul of the great
statesman.
Senator Dolliver had so far recov-
walk about his lawn. He had been
up all day, and Saturday night en-
tered his sitting room for the daily
consultation with his physician.
The senator informed DR.. Van Pat
ten that he was feeling much i'm
proved, and that he believed he had
about recovered his normal strength.
DIR. Van Patten cautioned him about
becoming too anxious to again re-
sumo his work, and then began the
examination of the heart.
The senator was sitting in large
Morris chair when the physician be-
gan the examination of his patients
heart.
The Senator Cheerful.
While making the examination, the
physician kept up a conversation
with Senator Dolliver and asked him
how he was feeling.
Il am really feeling better than at
any time since my recent Sickness"
he said. "But I suppose the wolves
will be set bowling about my success
or" and the senator laughed. He
had frequently expressed in a humor-
GUS manner, his opinion of having the
people pick his successor while he
was yet alive.
His death followed an acute at
tack of stomach trouble which af-
fected his heart. His physicians an
nounced that his death was directly
due to dilation Of the heart.
Wife Not Aware.
Even Mrs. Dolliver was not aware
OF the senator's serious condition.
While she has had dread of the
result, she had continually thought
that the senator was not seriously
ill.
Mrs. Dolliver said that the senator
while in Washington studied tariff
schedules constantly, far into the
night, taking little time to eat or
sleep.
Senator Dolliver the past week had
suffered intensely with his heart.
For several days he had breathed
with difficulty, but for two days, he
had shown considerable improvement
In response to telegram Satur-
day from the senator's sister, Mrs.
e. E. Graham of Evanston, ILL.,, the
physicians answered that the senator
was doing well, and that there were
no alarming symptoms.
Had Been III for Long Time.
0cudlOT DOlllNSI . lllu6SS UdL6S
back over year and half ago. Be
fore going to Washington for the
last session of congress, he had been
slightly i'll, brit it was not regarded
as especially serious.
Last spring he had trouble with
his eyes, and submitted to an opera
ton. A few weeks later word was
received in Fort Dodge that he was
confined to his bed on account of
Illness, the exact nature of which
was not made known. 1t was given
out here by his intimate friends that
he was threatened with a general
physical collapse.
At the close of congress, Senator
Dolliver announced that he would
take long rest, and that he would
go to New Mexico to recuperate his
health. He spent a few weeks IL
that state and returned to Iowa, de
clarine that Iowa climate was good
enough for him and that he would
remain in this state until congress,
convened again.
Senator Dolliyer believed befor,
the republican state convention ii
Iowa that he was in the best O
health, and that his rest had restoret
his normal health. He was chosel
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