The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-29
SPENDTHR|FT
GATES IS DEAD.
Passed Away in Private Car
Just Before Starting Home
After Hunting Trip
in Wyoming.
HAD FORTY MILLIONS
Made Hundreds OF Gifts for Charity
and Was Noted for the Big
Tips He Has Handed
Out.
HAD FORTY MILLIONS

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
CODY, Wyo., Oct 29.-Coroner
Louis Howe declared today he would
not hold an inquest over the body OF
the late Chas. G. spend a million
Gates, who died suddenly in his priv
ate car here. Physicians who were
with the millionaire when he died,
say there is no doubt that heart fail
lplaining of feeling poorly for several
days but it was thought to be nothing
serious until he was seized with con-
vulsions while sitting in his car
waiting to start to his home in Min
neapolis.
| Gates death followed big game
hunt lasting. thirty-three days, which
/ he and party of friends had conduct
ed in the mountains near here. Fiji
teen minutes before his death Gates
had expressed his satisfaction over
the trip, saying northwestern Wyom
ing was the finest big game country
in the world and promising to return
/ for a months shooting next year. He
and his party had made the biggesi
4 killing of elk, deer, bear and other bis
game In the history Of this section
/ Several days ago Gates returned from
his trip and Immediately spent $7,c0
buying fur coats for his friends. H,
!. lalso handed Ned Frost, his guide dur
ling the trip, a tip" of $4,000 an
gave his chauffeur $4,000 In cash. H
said he had just made $4,000 on tn
board of trade and wanted to leave
, all in Cody. He had almost accom-
lished his purpose when death came
;, Gates fortune was estimated a
about $4O,0O0,000, having been lei
that much by his father, the late Joh
w. Gates.
Had Many Real Friends.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 30
$ Friends Of Charles G. Gates, th
d young Croesus, who died on a huntin
t trip in Wyoming, are mourning hi
+ death today.
Despite his mania for special trair
to cross the continent and his desir
to give large amounts of money fl
= small favors, he had many true FRIEND
: here who loved him for his iovial goc
nature Many instances are beir
5 related today of how he has carrie
thousands of dollars in his purse co
tinually.
He has made hundreds of gifts
) charitable institutions These we
:. made without ostentation and no OF
,. will ever know the good his money HI
:. done except the poor he aided. H
new S1,000000 residence is nearil
- :, completion here and had he lived
= would have been occupied this sprin
= Speed, Speed!
D. NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-"Spee
IL speed, my boy that's what / want.
n. am spending million dollars a We
IS and ! hope die POOR
,g The death of Charles Gates
Wyoming, today recalled to his frien
IN here for his wife and mother but h
t. when he arrived in New York last su
" mer on one of his rushes across t
country in a special train. One
Gates ambitions was to die poor.
spent money right and left on spec
- trains and tipped lavishly. Cat
maintained suite in the Plaza Ho
here for the wife and mother but h
new $1,000, 0 residence near co
@ pletion In Minneapolis. Gates frien
- here today remarked on the que
y twist of fate which resulted in I
an millionaire dying on railway ira
lh' Trains were among Gates hobbi
III, He never rode fast enough and
NJ every chance would engage a spec
an to rush him from one place to anoth
a. @ His penchant for hiring trains q
- travelling at top speed across the co
= try brought him as much fame as
,r speculations and wealth.
nd.
an Government Mum Show.