Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-07-03
EUGENE WARE DIES
SUDDENLY IN
COLORADO
FAMOUS KANSAS POET
HEART DISEASE VICTIM
Served Through Civil War With
Distinction, Was Noted Law
yer and Commissioner of
Pensions Under Roosevelt.
tBy Morning Journal special Leased wirel

tBy Morning Journal Special Leased wirel
Colorado Springs. Colo. July -
Eugene F. Ware. United States pen
sion commissioner under President
Roosevelt and one OF the best known
lawyers in the west died suddenly
from heart disease last night at Cas-
cade. a summer resort few miles
west of this city. Although he had
been affected by the heat at his farm
near Fort Scott, Kan. before his ar
rival here last Friday to spend the
summer, ne seemed IN his usual
health when he talked all saturday
afternoon with friend, d. W. Heiser
/ former mayor of Colorado Springs.
F. Ware retired to hts cottage about IL
o'clock and started to undress. sud
denly he fell back upon the bed and
died five minutes later. Last May, on
his SEVENTEEN birthday, he retired
from the law firm OF Ware. Nelson
and Ware, Kansas city kan, The
dead man of national repute as a
writer and poet, was attorney in the
! United states district court In Colo
irado Tor plaintiffs l.. \. Bigger Of To-
( pska and Cascade town company OF
Cascade, Colo, against the Empire
Water and Power company of Colo
RADIO Springs. In this suit Ware
raised for the first time in law annals
| the value of natural scenic beauty,
land secured an injunction against the
water company restraining il from in
terfering with Cascade canyon by
building pipe lines, etc. The case was
1appealed to United states court of
Appeals.
In addition TO his widow, Mrs. Jean
cite Ware and daughter. Miss Amelia
| Ware, the only members of the fami-
| ly with him In Colorado. he is sur
| vived by two other daughters, Mrs.
DR. Nelss OF New York city and Mrs.
! Ralph Nelson, who lives in Idaho, "A
married son, Eugene f.. Ware Jr,,
aged twenty six, recently gave up the
practice of law to settle with his faith
er on his big farm near Fort Scott.
Eugene Ware was born in Hartford,
Conn, May %, 1S4l, and when a
young man moved 70 Iowa with his
lparents When nineteen years old he
Joined the First Iowa Volunteer regl-
ment on the day Fort Sumter was
fired upon. and served throughout
THE civil war. He was mustered out
ss captain of the seventh Iowa cav
airy.
After the war Mr.. Ware moved to
Fort Scott, Kas. and later went to
Cherokee county II was there that
became interested in the study OF
law. Accordino to the story told by
Mr.. Ware, in southeastern Kansas
where at that time, white men were
Few, he spent his leisure time in the
office of Justice o. the peace and in
many cases when the justice was re-
qulred to decide points he would ASH
Mr. Wares opinion This started the
Kansan to study law, and after being
admitted to the bar he returned to
Fort Scott where he began TO practice.
Until few years ago. Mr.. Ware
took an active part In politics. having
moved from Fort scott to Topeka In
1883. He served 1--WE terms IN the
Kansas senate and was appointed
commissioner Of pensions by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in 1909, He resigned
two years later.
According to close friends, when
| MIR. Roosevelt offered Mr.. Ware the
place he declined saying he did not
like the work
10 this Mr Roosevelt replied:
'That is just the reason want you
to take it. The longer yoh hold the
job the less you'll like it,"
The Kansan accepted the position
May 10. 1902. and it Is said his resig-
nation was placed mt the disposal
p, Mr.. Roosevelt May /, 1902, to ne ac-
cepted two years later.
! As "Ironquill' Mr. Ware became
| famous for short poems he published.
one of those that attracted much at
tentiOn was that referring to Dewey
lVictory over the Spanish fleet In
Manila bay. Probably the poem
which brought Ware the greatest
recognition was "The Washerwoman's
| Song"