I & S'WL 3HT AND SATURDAY; NOT IM C" fc f J JCH CHANGE IN TEMPERA- - ,'iM I t5 W '"'"' IK I ; ggABLESB, INDEPENDENT, PROGRE SSIVE NEWSPAPER. EEEEETT-- OGDEN : I CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6 I9T2 W - 1 Second-clas- j!JiW BT ' Entered aa s Matter at the Onden. Utah DAV,D ' '. Postofflce. ECCLES DROPS DEAD In SALT LAKE CITY I 1 other papers and bearing power cau-yo- n. letters his plant In Blacksmith Fork oal mines In uame, which were In pock- at ScoHeld. Theso turn Mr. Eccles In the lumber business, notified Tho man to bo life- - found his wore prori table. seemed x H et.- This Identification was verified William Eccles, was greatly affected when the uewd less from tho time I caught him." by father of David Ec- With money ior Investment, Eccles was to H police officers, who were person- cles, died aboat olght years ago, broken him. ally acquainted and thought again or tho rorests of Ore- "Mr. Eccles was a great man," said LOGAN with Mr. Eccles Sarah Hutchinson Eccles, his moth- gon FAMILY RECEIVES NEWS Chief of B. He went there In 1880 and bought Mr Scowcroft, "and his death will Logan, Dec. Police P. Grant noti- er, about four years ago limber C Whon news of the HI fied lands, rorseolng future events bo a calamity to this city I do David C Eccles, In Ogden, of Brothers and sisters of Mr not niddon death of David Eccles reached the Eccles In 1SS9 he was one of the organizers know any one man who has done eo hero H death of his rather A spcclul car who survive him arc William Eccles or last night his many frlend3 ancf H over the Salt & the Oregon Lumber company, of much for the community U is a piiv business associates were Lake Ogden railway of Baker City. Oregon, prominent which ho shocked and H was chartered within has remained president and that a man of such worth should be at first refused to bellove It. Mr. Ec- - ami half an hour railroad and lumber man, who was general manager but was Mr. three-sons- , this not all cut down so suddenly. I had a meet- I'les hnd been closely after Eccles' death his closely associated with David Eccles He Identified with C saw lumber camps need railroads ing with Mr Ecclos yesterday morn- Logan David Eccles. Ieroy Eccles in several busiuess Stu- and Its Interests for many M enterprises, C. W Nlbley, now presiding bishop of ing and ho appeared In of ears. Ho and Joseph M Eccles, were on their art Eccles Ogden. who Is tho best was Interested In nearly of promi- the Mormon church, jolnrd him In the health quite Jolly. He looked way from Ogden to Salt I ake They nent cccleslastlrnlly u and as "very enterprise which has hftlped o M the Mormon building of tho Sumpter River rail I reached Salt Lake at 11 o'clock, .lust church, having well ns ever have seen him. At "mild up the town and his business as- - M served ten years In the road, running from Baker City to tho 10 I at the moment that the three soub he and walked to tho lumber lociates and friends were numerous. M Scottish mission field and at present John Day company. A I rtached the of Jo- second road, yards together. saw him later while ills second wife and her nine M undertaking looms preparing to leave again for the same the Mount Hood railroad, running children seph William Taylor, whither the body mission he was on tho way to tho Bamberger Ivc In the finest homo In this H field, John Kcclqs of Baker from Hood River City to Mount Hood, 2 They clt. had been taken from the police sta- City, Orcgou. a prominent station to take the o'clock car for received the shocking lnforma- - H lumber was also begun Numerous Eccles Salt Lako. I have known hlra for 25 lion last night. tion, Mrs. Vida Eccles Davis and Lila man, Mrs. Sarah H. 271 Baird of East mills began to. spring up amid Oregon years. Is " Up wus ) Eccles, a student at the University Eighth South street, His death a terrible shock the directing force in many lil of Salt Lake, who forests. "Mr. Eccles was tho biggest busi- Cache county enterprises, including Utah, both daughters of tho late Is at present visiting In Baker City, Pi jjH millionaire, arrived of its Increasing, he becamo in ness man In tho country," said W. H Thatcher Bros.' Banking company, at tho undertak- Oregon, and Mrs Margaret E Schwlu-"hc- r 1892 a stockholder In ing au- and director the Wattls, vice president and manager High Creek Power company, Black- - establishment in Chief Grant's of Baker City, Oregon Commercial National tomobile. There was an affecting bank of Ogden, of the Utah Construction company smith Fork Power company, the Lo- - scene Brilliant Career. then with the First National bank, "I had known him and been associat- nn ilapld Transit company and two J at the undertaking rooms when then with Ogden Savings the sons daughters David Eccles was the foremost fig- the bank. He ed with him In business for 10 years dugar factories. In addition he own- - M and gazed on the was lat- ure iu business circles In west-c- later made president of the Mr. Eccles was loyal to Ogden and rfd many large farms in tho vicinity FalI?l!np the Ams a Conveyed lifeless form of tho great business three two organizations. H I Stranr, Is to man. states He was one of the rich- ter tho northwest, His loss will he great- ind much business property in town. H Emergency He first became prominently iden- ly "Utah." Hospital and Dies Before Friends Take CHarge. est men In the entire west, and his felt outaido of the state of business connection Included many of tified with the banking business In John Watson, a business associate II , His Before tho children of Mr Eccles 1S92, when he was elected to tho di- Identity Is Known. tho larger enterprises In Utah, Ida- in the banking and lumber business, arrived, Bishop C. W. N'Ibley and W ho rectorate of the Commercial National Mr. W. and Oregon Ho was a man of said he had been associated with Ritor, lifelong friends and busi- wonderful bank of Ogden Shortly afterward he Eccles for 30 years and considered ALCOHOL IS ness associates Mr. business acumen and made of Eccles, had a success of practically became an official of the First Nation- him not only ono of the biggest men learned of the sudden death tl everything he I and undertook He had a keen mind, good al and Ogden SavlngB banks From In Utah but In the northwest. took charge of the body that tlmo his rise In the world or fi- APOPLEXY Mr. judgment and tireless energy His "He was ono of the greatest and OF Eccles left Ogden early yes- nance was rapid In 1900 he purchas- in country. ' SOTKCiSE DEATH terday industry was a great factor In the keenest financiers the BAFFLING afternoon for Salt Lake He success ed the Ogden street railway system, said Mr Watson. "He studied overv I was In good of his undertakings apparently his usual Born and reared In poverty, then In a badly crippled condition detail of each business in which he I David health, though members of his fam- present Eccles rose through dint of persever- The efficiency of the system Is wa3 Interestod. He was a flno man ily said that ho appeared a little pale due almost entirely to ' ance. During the last 10 years Mr. efforts In every way and his death will he a I Was and that while ho was not at all HI. Chief Surgeon the Wealthiest Man in This Region, In-I- Eccles accumulated a fortune of from His Sugar P. jeets. great loss to the community." Finds It With I they had expressed the fear that he ten to The most Importnn enterprise witn City Commissioner Thomas S J had been working too hard. After twcho million dollars. He Worst Obstacle ASts Extending All every which ho became was Browning said the loss was irrepar- to Over the West Body in ?ave ono of his big businesses connected the I arriving Salt Lake he visited the his ca- sugar Industry In 1808 He was one able for Ogden. Utah-Idah- close personal attention His Progress Arrives From 1 offices of the o Sugar com- in Army Salt Lake at O'clock. pacity foi work passed all untler-ftaudl- of the promoters of the Ogdon Sugar "David Eccles was always a friend H pany, of which was largest if he tho or his associates company In the same year he or to the working man," said Postmaster individual stockholder. There he dial ganlzed a L. W Forced by circumstances to assume sugar company at La Shurtllfr. "He has done a great New York. Dec. 6. The use of al- - ted with George Austin for about an Grande, 1901 or good. I cohol 111 ii early responsibility. Mr Ore In he built the deal think that ho was a among ofricers Hill MWWBMrBBlrnrMBrrgm in ii i hour. Eccles was of tho army IsB most particularly of typo sugar factory at Logan. The next really great man." and navy Is declared Made Visit to that that the "most baf- - HH Bank.