Col. E.F. Hooker died yesterday morning in his rooms at the Paxton Hotel, Omaha, at an advanced age (83). Col. Hooker was years ago superintendent of the old National Stage Line, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio. He followed the stages west and became superintendent of the Western Stage Line, with headquarters in Iowa City and Des Moines.

He went to Iowa City in the fall of 1855. Col. Hooker left the Western and went to the coast, where he became the superintendent of Shasta Stage Line from Sacramento and San Francisco to Portland and with a dozen branch lines. He left California, going to Salt Lake, thence to cheyenne and later came to Omaha as the live stock agent of the Rock Island road.