Prof. C. O. Knepper Dead.

Prof. C. O. Knepper, of the normal, a brother of the president of that institution, died at the family home on the hill last Monday morning at three o'clock. Prof. C. O. Knepper has been engaged as a teacher in the normal, only during the present term of school. He has, however, been a resident of this city for about two years, during which time he has made may friends and earned the respect of all classes.

Prof. Kneppner [as written] has been an educator for over forty years. He earned a reputation that is far more than local. He is authority on subjects related to mental science in the highest circles in the United States. His search in psychology has been of inestimable value in educational circles. He was recognized as authority on this and kindred subjects. He took a full theological course in addition to the usual classic college course, for the single purpose of fitting him for his life-work of teaching in the schoolroom and through the medium of the press. He spent many years in the classroom and as superintendent of high school systems. He was then called to a chair of belles lettres and literature in the college at Mercersburg, Penn., where he remained for the period of nineteen years. He filled this place with a degree of proficiency that gained for him a wide reputation as a thinker and a writer along special lines.

He then became associated with his brother Prof. G. E. Knepper in the publication of the Santa Barbara Press for a term of four years. He left that post to establish and educational journal which would be in line with his chosen work. The Inland Journal of this place was the outcome of that desire. This Journal was the idol of his heart. He may have failed of the realization of the good work he hoped to accomplish without delays but he hoped even to the last to make the inland Journal a power in the western education field.

The loss of the distinguished educator is a serious one. The destruction of an edifice that may have been the handiwork of an artist is not a distinct loss compared to a bright mental light extinguished. The artisans of the world cannot replace the great mind in the sphere from which it passed in death. Lewiston mourns the loss of a good man, and the work he laid down will be interrupted for a long time before it can fully be taken up by another, equally efficient.