for seven years, established a weekly paper at Independence called The Jackson Examiner, in connection with a job printing bifice, that was a phenomenal success in all departments, and is now issuing a daily paper also. Frank B. Hearne also received the appointment of U. S. census enumerator of live stock, for the control and management of seven states. He also frequently wrote articles for various stock papers. and delivered addresses at the stock conventions, and managed many stock sales, compiling the catalogues. Being of pleasant address and manner, he was immensely popular witb all classes of people, and he had an unusually promising future. He was industrious and full of energy, pushing all his work successfully. His health soon failed, tubercolosis of the lungs developing, made rapid inroads on his constitution, which was never strong. He went west to Arizona and New Mexico, hoping be might be restored, but all to but little purpose, and Feb. 15, 1904, he died at the Oakes Home Sanitarium (Hearts Ease), in Denver, Col. His body was brought back to Independence, and buried in Mount Washington Cemetery. April 25, 1899, he married Miss Roberta Lee Crumbaugh, of Columbia, Mo., whose parents were of Virginia and Kentucky. She was faithful in all his illness and with him when he died.

Jackson Examiner:

"While the news of the death of Frank B. Hearne was not unexpected by those who knew of his condition, it nevertheless came as a distinct shock to his many friends. He had been for several years a sufferer from consumption. All that money could do, all that close nursing and best attention could do, all that his friends could do, was done. He left his home and became an exile, in the futile hope that the higher atmosphere and the warm sun- shine might check the ravages of the disease. He boped always and planned for the future, even when others had abandoned hope and knew that the loving care was merely now to make as pleasant as possible his last days of life. Frank B. Hearne was an especially lovable character. There was nothing he would not do for his friends. He was ioyal to them and his own convenience was not consulted when a service was asked. His nature was kind and considerate. It was hard for him to say no to anyone. He was endowed with more than the ordinary ability and had a quick comprehension of matters in which he was interested. His work with

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