Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-08-23
LUCKY, JglT KEENE..

Cotton Corner From q Cheap Gsverl
| TO a Marble Palace.
Lucky dog! He has just made an
OF er hit, big enough to place hun
drrd families in comfortable and indie
pendent Positions" was the ejaculation
that greeted the APPEAL reporters
ear yesterday afternoon. The enthu-
siastic excl'imer happ ming to be an
acquaintance of the APPEAL man, the
latter, who was just passing as the re-
mark dropped from the speakers lips,
turned on his heel and queried ::
L" Who is the lucky dog to whom you
refer ?''
"Why, Jim Keene," replied he,
Pc just received a letter from a
friend in New Orleans, who, among
other gossip, tells me that Jim recently
g; cleaned up a cool five million in 2 cot
ton "corner" in that city. Strange the
telegraph dispatches have said nothing
abouc it !" Warming up with the sub
ject, the speaker said: 81 knew
Keere over twenty years ago in Shasta
county, California, where he WAS
turnkey in Il little tavern in Whisky
town. He was Il bright chap, and the
late Judge Daingeriie!d, of San Fran
cisco, who lived in Wniskytown at that
time, took Il fancy to Jim and induced
him TO study law in his office. Keene
studied hard, and some years after
wards married the Judges sister-in -
law. III the sixties, finding the chances
for getting ahead fast enough in Shasta
county rather slim keene went 10 San
Francisco and became member of the
''oid" Stock Board, where he for many
years barely made a subsistence for him
self and family. In 1871, however, the
bad luck which had lersisten,!y fol-
lowed him for so many Years forsook
him and good fortune began to smile
on him most lavishly. He made sew
eral good turns during the first Crown |
Point rise, realizing between $4,000 |
and 100000 His sudden accession to |
comparative wealth did not "turn his |
head" it rather made him clearer
minded than before and stimulated
his desire to become one of the money
princes of the land. The unparalleled
stock excitement of '73 gave him an
opportunity to achieve great things in
the way of money getting and he well
cleaning up 100000 III
Belcher and Crown Point alone. How
much he realized in other investments
during that wonderful year is not
nOwn, but 1t Was estimated in the
early part Of 1873. that he was worth
nearly $5,O0O,OOO. From that period
jim Keene was regarded as the fore
most broker on California street, and
those who in by gone days looked down
upon this favorite of Fortune IS an in
significant tadpole in the puddle, be-
gan to "bend the pregnant hinges of
heir knees to curry favor with this
created power of the street.
The rise of'73 and IA added several
mere millions to his already enormous
wealth, al! of which he knew we'll how
70 keep fer Jim Ke"ne. But his coup
lie na0itre he made in IA and rs, when
t is said he realized $i9,O0O,000.
About this time his health began to
all him consequen, upon the great ex-
element he had undergone in the
process of rapid acquisiti~ of wealth,
md he Was ordered by his physicians
. leave the street and retire to quiet :.
lie. A year after that, in 1876, /.
IL went to New York with the deter
to engage in mo more busi- d
less, but merely to enjoy his gigantic
wealth. But upon his arrival there the
tir on Wall street would not permit
i'm to rest, and he again SHE'D his
us.ut into the money ring. His G
hrewd opera ions and wonderful sue
ess soon won recognition for him from
money kings Of the great metropolis,
nd in short time he was engaged in ?
Ia tinns Of the praatpSt mapni tIIdtA | Il