Citizens of Idaho Falls were shocked on Wednesday morning to learn of the sudden death of Charles C. Tautphaus which occured on Tuesday April 3, 1906, near Tonapah, Nevada. Mr. Tautphaus left with his outfit on March 5, for Tonapah and while waiting to take up a grading contract he went to freigting goods to Ryepatch, a point 15 miles from Tonapah, and from which the water supply of the city is flumed. While making a trip on Friday, in company with his head man, he took suddenly ill with a hard chill and was unable to go further. He was left at the first stopping place they came to, and a physician at once summoned. It proved to be an attack of pneumonia and as that disease is extremely fatal in that section, there was no hope of his recovery from the first. He died the next Tuesday. The remains arrived in charge of Hermann Kunkle, on Monday morning and the funeral was held from the residence of the deceased on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Charles C. Tautphaus was a native of Germany and came to America with his parents when he was only six years old. He spent the most of his early manhood in the west, living in California and Montana, and came to Idaho Falls in 1886, and took up a large body of land south of the city. He owned one of the best ranches in the county at the time of his death. He was 65 years old and was well preserved for a man of his years. although he has done much hard work in his contracts for road and canal building.

Mr. Tautphaus leaves a wife and four daughters, one daughter having died some time ago. The daughters living are: Mrs. E. P. Henry, Mrs. Johnson of California, Mrs. John Kinney of Pocatello and Miss E. M. Tautphaus.

A host of friends will learn of his demise with sincere regret, as Mr. Tautphaus was a man of sterling worth and an active, energetic citizen who has had much to do with the development of this seciton of the state. -------from The Idaho Falls Times, April 10, 1906