The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1924-11-13

FLAGS were half masted through
ont Los Angeles recently for Corr
nellus Cole, United States senator
Of Civil war days, who died at his
home here. aged 1902 years and two
months. The venerable iegisia-
tor and "forty- miner" had been In
failing health for several months.
Death was attributed to incipient
pneumonia, a touch OF heart
trouble and old age.
cornelius Cole was a survivor OF
the most striking and PICTURESQUE
nariod in the history OF California
the era OF the placer miner the VIZ
ilantes, the pony express ana Tue
transcontinental railway builders OF
momentous political and social con-
troversies, startling crimes and sum
mary punishments.
He arrived in California with the
first marty of gold seekers to reach
Sacramento overland from the east IN
the rush of 40 and was aleader III
many of the most memorable eVen.s
that followed. He mined for goiu'
served as district attorney Tor Sacra-
nento county when the legally con-
stituted authorities began taking out
az the hands of the vigilance commit
toe the establishment of law and or
der and led in the fight TO place Cal
ifornia in the list of free states. ne
initiated the organization OF the re-
nublican party in the state and serV-
Cd as the first member OF the repup-
lican national committee for Caa-
fornia.
Az an indication of the extent OF
his political career and that Oh ms
Wife who shared his early exper-
fences. he was chosen q delegate 70
tha convention which nominated Ere
mont for president and she was !
rnamber of the delegation TO the con
vention that nominated Cnaries H.
q Hughes for the same office more
than half century later during
the Civil war MIR. Cole occupied
seat in the house OF representatives
ana later in the senate where ne sefV'
ed as chairman Of the committee Oh
appropriations.
He was one OF the group OF
dozen men who met In the law offics
of Coils p. Huntington and MARI
Hopkins in Sacramento and organiz
ed the Central Pacific Railroad com
many and, as member OF congress
brought about the enactment OF law
that made the building of the trans
continental railway possible.
Mr. Cole was born at Lodi, y.
saptember II, 1922. He studied la'
IN the office of William II. Seward
who later became secretary of stat
under Lincoln. In 1S49 he went I
sacramento, Cal, and with thre
comnanjons, "panned" gold VII
VARYING success until In famed ore
gon gulch, they struck rich poke
one DAVIS work on which Melted tner
$3.50. They soon sold this ciaiI
for $1,000. The locality subsequent
ly became famous under the name {
Sailors Slide or Mamaluke niii' rroi
which millions of dollars In coars
gold we're taken.
For the next ~ years Mr.. Co
practiced law in San Francisco ana
1853 he married Miss Olive GO
grove. In 1863 he was elected
representative in congress.
AS a member OF The United Stat
senate he actively opposed b
granting Goat Island in San Fra
cisco bay to the Central Pacific Ral
road company as terminal site az
thereby, he felt. incurred the enmi
of his former friends and associate
To their opposition and that OF u
so-called whiskey ring and nation
banking interests, which he had a
tugonized. he attributed his defeat I
rejection His term In the senate
tended from 1856 to 1873.
Mr.. Cole was on cordial terms WI
President Lincoln.
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