regarded by many as an authority on mining law, and took a prominent part in many of the cases involving apex rights in the day when the law on this subject was being developed by the courts.

William Henry Bryant died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on April 6, 1914, in his fifty-first year. His death can not be regarded but as a calamity to the State and a distinct loss to the legal profession, which he constantly adorned and which found in him one of its most brilliant members. His love and devotion at home, his professional courtesy and ability, his uniformly genial, pleasant and accommodating manner, and his devotion to and energetic work for the community in which he lived. and whose welfare he ever sought, will always be missed.

Charles Wesley Franklin

Charles Wesley Filin die

ber 26, 1913, aged fry five years.

Booneville, Missouri, at *I at his do go 4 g↑ Sedalia, th

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Early in life he entered a pong estabest gent at Salt so, l after service as "devil", ty sitter, and reporter and editor. He was eques

the public schools of Sedalia, Misson S and studied at Central College, Fave versity of Missouri at Columbia,

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printer, bec

ry schools and

Lernworth, Kansas.

In 1880 he came to Lead ile g ely mining boom, and there merkes a all", and as manager of the b petite The following year he resurged the

a time vas in the office of Patterson & Thome

and the Uni

do muist of its repon the the "Chronhaw and for

14,5 Ville and of

G. G. Wai e at the same place. He was also assistant district atterrey in those tredent days of Leadville's history. Equipped with an excellent practical Knowledge of the law, hence more cok up its technical side, the time at the University of Michio and, upon graduation ** tt: Leadville and was

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Suted assistant disti

Franklin had been one

camp of Aspen. He was

hat country over the Indepenin

tatorship for the practice of law

at Aspen, which shared in all the suces
mp. During this time he was identified
legal contests over mining rights whii. h.
the most notable being the "apex cases”.
says engaged to a large extent in mining aw
line presence, a ready speaker, and exceptio