Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-19

be held at Chicago where his body Will
be cremated. following a private fun
eral. one of MIR. Lanes last requests.
Mr.. Lane was operated on here May
S for gall stones and appendcities and
was said to be recovering. when heart
disease. from which he had suffered
from time to time during the last eight
months developed Hospital physicians
expressed the belief that the operation
would relieve the heart affection. but
an attack carly today developed fatally.
Immediately after he had recovered
from the influence of the anaesthetic,
Nr. Lane said
y 81 am surprised to be alive, l hope
/ to be able Ia live long life, doing
good things for others without thought
of money"
MIR Lane left no estate.
Following his resignation from the
Wilson cabinet, Mr. Lane sought to
recover his health and came here in
January of this year. He was advised
| to spend the winter in warmer cli-
mate and visited in California, return
| ing carly this month. His condition
was favorab bic for an operation and
continued improvement was noted until
the heart attack which caused dcath
Washington. D. c.. May 1s.-Word Of
the death OF Franklin X. Lane came
as a peculiar shock today to the ma
tiOn capital. TOT so many yehfS, eNtH
moro his home than California. There
wcre ma nifestations of grief from the
president down to the messengers in
the interior department. who had
known so long the kindly. humorous.
but efficient public servant.
Messages of sympathy went to Mrs
Lane from the president and Mrs.
Harding. Former President Wilson and
scores of others.
Mr.. Wilson did not make public what
he had said to Mrs. Lane or tho man
who stood by him in his cabinet for
seven years.
Tho blow fell most sharply at the
home OF Mrs. Philip c. Kaufman, his
only daughter.
To somc of the former secretary $
most Intimate friends there hsd come
before his death remarkable mes
Rochester Mimi. after the operation.
Tho message showed that he had un-
dcrgone the operation with full con-
scsousncss and acceptance OF the fact
that he might not survive.
Tho message follows in part.
1T Is Wednesday afternoon and I
am row sitting up in bed talking to
my good friend Cotter. Until yectcr-
day did not clearly visualize any ono
thing in this room and did not know
that i, had window except that
there was place that noise came thru.
but | did know that II had n yellow
oak door that stared at me with its
great big square eye all day and all
night. Last Friday. you see. about ten
in the morning. I took the step that
should have taken months, yes.
years ago. Today most tentatively L
crawlcd onto a chair and ate my first
mouthful OF SOLID food. But four days
ago. I managed to shave myself and
am regarded as pretty spry.
81 have seen death come to man In
various ways. some rather novel and
western. I once saw man hanged.
And | have seen several men shot and
came very near going out that way
tho other fellow aimed poorly. I was
being shot at because I was n news
paperman and should have been shot
at There must be public concern in
what is printed as we'll as its truth to
Justify it. That is something newspa-
pcrs should get to know. After tho
earthquake in San Francisco. I saw
walls topplc out upon man. And ]
have had more intimate Elrnpses still
Of tho picturesque and of tho prosaio
ways by which men come to their TAX
Ing OF.
''Rut never before have been called
upon to deliberately walk into tho val
lev OF the shadow and. sCy what YOU
will IL is great act. / have said
during the past months of endless OK
animation that n man with little curl
oeity and little humor and little
money who was not in too great pain.
could enjoy himself studying the ways
of doctors and nurscs as he iournoyed
tho invalids Path. II has. indeed.
made n flowcry path for me. as much
as any path could he in which a man
suffered moro humiliation and distress
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