Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — STANFORD IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

STANFORD IS DEAD.

Heart Failure Caueei the Demise ot th* California Senator. The death of Senator Leland Stanford, the most noted of Californians of the present day, occurred at his magnificent Palo Alto residence Tuesday night. For many months his corpulency had increased so rapidly that it was with th e utmost difficulty that he could walk. He was warned some time ago that he must enter upon the most severe treatment or invite the most serious results from a neglect to do so. But he shrank from beginning such a course and delayed it from month to month until about six weeks ago, when he suffered himself to be subjected to a most rigid course of dieting. From that time until his death he was allowed to partake of nothing but chopped moat and hot water. He was much encouraged by the results of this heroic treatment and began to hope that it would not be long before he might again return to his public and philanthropic enterprises. Within a few days of his death, however, a stiffness of his joints and increasing weakness warned him that his hopes of recovery might prove deceptive. During the afternoon of the last day of his life he ordered up his carriage, was driven about his stock farm, retiring at about 10:15 in the evening. At 12 o’clock the household was aroused by the Senator’s valet, who had gone tp the Senator’s chamber and found him fast in the quiet slumber of death. Heart failure is given us the direct cause of his death. Senator Stanford was born in Watervliet, Albany County, N. ¥., March 9, 1824. He was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Port Washington, Wis., 1849. He was married to Jane Lathrop at Albany, N. ¥., 1850. He removed to California and engaged in mining in 1852. In 1860 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention that nominated for President Abraham Lincoln, of whose nomination he was an earnest advocate. He was elected Governor of California in 1861, elected President of the Central Pacific Railroad Company in 1871 and elected United States i senator from California in 1885 and re- ’ elected in 1891. He was ohe of the millionaires of the Pacific slope and a man of great benevolence. His son died a few years ago, and in his memory the I senator endowed with 820,000,000 the ! great California school which is t known as the Leland Stanford Jr. i university. Ex-President Harrison i has accepted the law chair of the school, which was offered him after the expiration of his term of office. Senator Stanford was better known as a horseman than either a politician or millionaire. His fancy for horses was a prominent feature in his character from boyhood, and nothing was ever allowed to stand in the way of its gratification.

THE body of an unknown murdered man was found in the river at Topeka, Kan., a stone being attached to his body by a surveyor’s chain.