Arizona republican., 1917-06-24
TWENTY MILLIONS MORE IS RED CROSS GOAL
Today and Tmoo Sees Close o Great Dive y Hundred MIom Fund
FRANK N. MURPHY DIES AT PRESCOTT
Especial to The RepubIican)

Special to The RepubIican)
 PRESCOTT, June 23.-Frank M.
 Murphy is dead. The man who for
 forty years had been closely iden-
 tified with the progress and devel-
 opment Of the southwest generally
 and Arizona particularly. breathed
 his last at COS o'clock this even
 ing. He had been gradually sink
 ing for several days and at times
 it appeared 10 his physicians that
 the end was but the matter of a
 few minutes. Two days ago it was
 not believed he would live through
 the night.
 Death came like peaceful slum-
 ber At the bedside were the wife
 of the empire builder and the phy-
 sicians. Mir. Murphy has been in
 poor health. but continued his in
 tensive business habits for the past
 twenty years.
 The first breakdown. presaging i'm pending death, came about a year ago since which time he lived as an invalid. but never lost his tight grasp on his affairs Up to the very end he re- mained in possession Of his faculties and recognizing that his erd was near, continued to hold intercourse with his secretary and members of his family.
 Mrs. Murphy and Frank Murphy Jr, the adopted grandson of Governor Oakes Murphy, brother of the de- ceased, are the only surviving mem- bers of the immediate family There are sisters residing in the east
 The funeral services will be held form St. Luke's Episcopal church to- morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. and the body will be sent to Ontario. Cali fornia fer interment in the family lot The active pall-hearers will be H. C. Storey J. A. Jaeger. C. A. Randall F. r. Cruice, C. D. Morris and T. G. Nor ris. all members of the official family of the Santa F'e. Prescott and Phoenix Railway company. There will be six honorary pail bearers. each q pioneer Of Prescott or Yavapai county.
 Frank Merrill Murphy in the forty years of his residence in Arizona made a deeper and broader mark on it than any other man. No other contributed so much to it's develop ment, and though many of the en- terprises resulted in little or no per sonal profit to him, they stand no less as monuments to his foresight and his tireless energy.
 MT Murphy was born in Jeffer- son, Maine, in 1854. At an early age he went west. first settling in Wis consin. In 1872 he went to Cali fornia and remained there until the i-.f" ta's engaged in stage line trans portation About that time his brother, N. o. Murphy. afterward twice territorial governor and delegate ir congress- had come to Arizona az secretary to Governor F. H. Tritle Mir. Murphy followed and engaged ir mining, in which he was interested throughout his entire career of rail road building and financiering.
 The only public office he ever held and he never sought any other. was that of commissioner to the Cottor Centennial Exposition at New Orleans in 1884. Soon after that he asso- ciated himself with Diamond Joe i Reynolds. who had acquired the De ! Pasco mining and milling property 1 in the Bradshaws, and about tn, same time became interested in the United Verde property with Governor Tritle. MT. Murphy was largely in strumental later in the sale of that now famous property to ". A. Clark
 In the meantime, Reynolds had ac- quired the Congress mine and i was under the management of MT Murphy. At length, the problem o the transportation of ore became : serious one. and the idea of the Santa Fe. Prescott & Phoenix railroad was born in the brain of MT. Murphy. Al that time he probably had no noti0r that it would ever bear that name oI that it would occupy the territory Continued on Page Two)