The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-01-09
ROOSEVELT'S CAREER
REACHES ABRUPT END.
National Leader Passes Away In
Sleep Early Monday Morn
ing.-Funeral as Plain
Citizen.

Oyster Bay, JAM 6.-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt died in hi
sleep early today at his home OF
Sycamore hill in this village
Death is believed to have beel
due to rheumatism, which affect
ed his heart.
The colonel suffered severe
attack of rheumatism and sciatics
on New Years day, but none be
lieved that his illness was likely
to prove fatal.
The former president sat uI
most Of Sunday and retired al
II o clock last night. He came
to his home on Sagamore hill
from the Roosevelt hospital on
Christmas day, but week later
was stricken with a severe attack
Of rheumatism and sciatica, from
which he has been suffering for
some time. The rheumatism af-
fected his right hand and it be-
came swollen. He remained in
his room and efforts were made
to check the trouble.
Gable messages and kilograms
Of coincidence, from fellow coun-
trymen of high and low degree,
and distinguished citizens of many
nations, were pouring into Oyst-
er Bay tonight by the hundred.
The death of Colonel Roosevelt
is believed by the physicians who
attended him to have been hasten
ed by grief over Quentin's death,
coupled with anxiety over the SER
ious wounds suffered by Captain
Archie Roosevelt while fighting
in France.
Theodore Roosevelt was buried
Wednesday as a plain American
citizen, and not as former presi-
dent Of the United States, in ac-
cordance with his own wish. His
body was laid to rest in a plot of
his own selection in the village
cemetery not far from the Saga
more Hill which he loved so well.
The only funeral rites were the
simple Protestant Episcopal ser
vice, read by the rector of the
little country church. where he
had worshiped with his family.
There was none of the pomp and
circumstance associated with the
passing of great men.
Of Dutch ancestry, born in
New York City on Oct. 81, 1858,
in house in East Twentieth
street, the baby Theodore was a
weakling He was one of four
children who came to Theodore
and Martha BulloGh Roosevelt.
The mother was of southern stock
and the father of northern, sit
uation which during the early
years of Theodore, Jr's, boyhood
was not allowed to interfere with
the family life Of these children
during the Civil war days.
A few months after his grad
uaaion, Roosevelt married Miss
Alice Lee Of Boston. She died
in 1884 leaving one child, Alice,
now the wife Of Representative
Nicholas Longworth of Ohio. III
1886 Roosevelt married Miss
Edith Kermit Karow Of New
York, and to them five children
were born-Edith, now the wife
of DR.. Richard Derby, and four
sons, Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Arch
ibald and Quentin.
The public career of the man
who was to become president
began not long after he left col
lege. His profession was law but
the activities that were to come
left him no time in which to prac-
tice it. In 1882, 1883 and 1884 he
was elected to the New York
state assembly, where his efforts
on behalf Of good government and
civil service reform attracted at
tention. When the republican
national convention Of 1884 was
held, in Chicago, he was chairman
of the New York state delegation. |
The Colonel's s military title was
gained through his having organ
lied and being given the command
of a regiment Of rough riders"
which had brief but strenuous
experience in the Spanish-Ameri- |
can war. The organization Of
this regiment might be considered
result of Col. Roosevelt s acq-
uaintance with western riders and
their customs during his two
years ranching experience in
North Dakota.
Returning from the Cuban bat
tlefields, Col. Roosevelt was made
governor of New York state, and
in 1900 he was elected vice-presi- T
dent Of the United States.
Called to the White House in
1901 after President Mckinley
had been asSassinated. Colonel |