The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-03
Eugene F Ware Fails Victim to
Heart Disease While in Colo
RADIO on Business.
HAS NATIONAL REPUTATION
Served as Commissioner of Pen
sions for About Two Years Un-
der President Roosevelt,

COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo. July , -
| Eugene F. Ware. United States pension
commissioner under President Roosevelt
and one OF the best known LAWYERS I'm The
west. died suddenly from heart disea SC
| last nlght at Cascade, a summer resort
a few miles west of this city. Although
! he had been affected by the heat at his
farm near Fort Scott. Kan, before his
arrival here last Friday to spend the
summer, he seemed in his usual health
Saturday afternoon.
Ware went TO his cottage about II
o'clock last night to retire 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 Nell
son X Ware, Kansas City Kan.
The deceased. who had national repu-
istlon as n wit and poet. was attorney
IN the United States distric, court In
Colorado for plaintiffs l.. A. Bigger OF
topeka and the Cascade Town company
0I cascade Colo. against the Empire
water d Power company OF Colorado
Springs In this suit Ware re- lsed for
The first time In law annals the value Of
natural scenic beauty and secured an in
junction against the water company re-
straining IL from Interfering with Cas-
Cade CANYON by building pipe lines etc
The case was appealed to the United
states court OF appeals
Wife Present at End.
In addition TO his widow. Mrs. Jeanette
Ware. and daughter, Miss Amelia Ware,
IN me onlv members OF the family with him
IN Colorado. he Is survived by two other
dauehters Mrs. Or. Neiss OF New York
City and Mrs. Ralph Nelson. who lives in
Idaho and Eugene F. Ware. Jr,
Eugene F. Ware was born In Hart
ford. Conn. MAY %. 1871. and when a
Young man moved 10 Iowa with his mar
snts When ls years old he Joined the
Erst Iowa volunteer regiment on the dav
fort sumter was fred upon, and served
throughout the civil war. He was mus
tered out as captain Of the Seventh Iowa
cavalry.
After The war Mr.. Ware moved to For,
Scott, Kan. and later went to Cherokee
county. II was there that he became In
,erested in the study of law. According
TO The story told hy Mr.. Ware. in south
eastern Kansas. where at that time while
men were few he spent his leisure time
In the office of Justice OF the peace,
and in many cases when the Justice was
required 10 decide points he would ask
Mr.. Wares opinion This started the
kansan to study law and after being ad
mitted to the bar he returned to For,
scott "here he began to practice.
Active in Politics.
Until few wears ago Mr. Ware tool,
an active part In politics. having moved
from Fort Scott To Topeka I'm 1898 He
served i've terms in the Kansas senate
and was appointed commissioner OF pen
sions by President Roosevelt in 1902 He
resigned two years later
According TO close friends when Mr.
Roosevelt offered Mr.. Ware the place
he declined. saving he did not like the
work.
To this Mr.. Roosevelt replied. THAT Is
lust the reason / want YOU 10 take II
The longer YOU hold the Job the less
you'll like it,"
me kansan accepted the position Nav
10, 1907 and II is said his resignation
was placed at the disposal of Mr. Roose-
welt MAY IL, 1902. 10 be accepted two
years later.
AS Iron Quilr' Mr.. Ware became ia :
nous for short poems he published. |
one OF these that attracted much atten-
lion was that referring to Dewey's vic
lorS over the S0anish fleet in Manila bay |
Probably the poem which brought Ware
me greatest recognition was The Wash |
Song"