Omaha daily bee., 1889-12-08
SENATOR'S.
Watson @. Squire of Washington
and His Curious Ways.
ONE OF oAkoTA's sRAlNY MEN
How Judge Moody Came Into Prom
~inence-Staofor ford aud Sunol-Sen-
alto Mandcrson's Magnificent
Turnout.
Pen Pictures from Washington.

BBE. inc senate mas n new WllllOnalre
this session in the person of Watson G.
Squire, of the state of Washington. Senator
Squire is worth 2,OOo,0 900, and his income IS
$4,000 a month. He can spend $780, 900 n
season in Washington and not miss it, and |
am told that his entertainments will be fire.
quent and liberal. He will live at the
Arlington hotel, and his family will be
among the Leading figures in Washington so
ciety. Senator Squire was born in Ohio, has
lived in New York, and has made his for
tune in Washington territory. He married
into the family of the R~emingtons, the noted
gun and typewriter people, aud it was soma
years ago that he moved TO Seattle and
began to speculate in real estate, He
now owns houses and lands and
his property increases in value every
year, and his buildings bring him in gold
galore. He looks more like a New York club
man than one Of the newest of the western
senators. He has the tastes of a club man,
too, and his well filed out front will not be
out of place among the fat gold bags of the
senatorial chamber. He is n good talker
} and a man of ability. ] asked an Indiana
% congressman who knows him well tonight
what kind of man Squire is. He replied,
Wei, he is u curious kind OF a fellow. He
isfull. of good nature, has the accomplish
ihObto - u III iI-uDOuI tttNu, al u BObu SlbTN-
teller, aud is u combination of generosity
and the reverse. He will be ugly with YOU
rs TO the difference of q quarter, and VIII
spend SO in champagne in explaining the
matter TO you. They tell a story OF a letter
of Introduction which Nicholas IL, Owens
once gave Squire in introducing him to a
friend of his. This letter said:
MY Dear Governors; This will introduce
you TO my friend Watson c.. Squire. You
Will lind him a hog in little things and a
nrIn ~ i'm hin fhtD ~
{signed.) NICHOLAS H. OWENS"
This story, however, IS probably unfair
to the senator. Like all good business men
he has to watch the corners closely in his
money transactions. and he does not believe
in mixing up business and charity. 1 IN
told he is one of the most generous and
charitable OF men, and that he believes in
spending as well as making fortunes.n
Another bright senator from the new
states who is considerably well TODD, is
Gideon G. Moody Of South Dakota. Moody's
home Is at Deadwood in the heart of the
Black Hills. He is the leading lawyer of
his state, and a good share of the metals that
come out OF this mineral region drop into his
pocket IN the way of fees. am told that his
income is at least Sl0, 600 year from his
practice, and he is possessed of lands and
stocks. He is a straight, broad-shouldered,
well filled out man. of about fifty
years of age. His hair is as white as newly
Stacked lime, and there are silver strands
among the gold of his full beard. HIS face
Is lair and free from wrinkles, his forehead
Is high and his eyes are as blue as the skies
OF Greece. He dresses in the conventional
statesman's black froclS coat, wears a black
Derby hat, and has the free and easy air of
the great northwest, He tells me that he
was born in New York. and hat he moved
TO Indiana at manhood, intending to remain
therefor ten or twelve years and then come
back to Washington as president or senator
from the wild and woolly west. Indiana,
however, did not need new senatorial tim
Der and he never got higher than the legisla-
ture. He was in the legislature at the be.
ing tines of 1861 he showed him
sell bold and fearless statesman.
3He-left Indiana for Dakota about twenty five
years ago, and when he settled with his
family on a farm just outside of Yankton his
%neighbors in the vicinity thought him fool
hardy on account Of the danger from In
dams. There was no house between him and
the north pole, and the only signs of civiliza-
lion were IN the town near by: This farm
OF Senator Moody's is now divided up into
building lots. He paid % an acre for it and
1t Is now worth more than Sl00, DOC. l don't
know that he owns any of it, but he I'M
doubtedly made q good thing off of its sale.
When he left it he moved to Deadwood and
this was fourteen years ago. l met him first
when he was here in Washington as one of
the senators from the then organized state of
Dakota, which was planned by the people,
but which was not recognized at Washing
ton. Senator Moody had, by the courtesy of
the senate, a ylace In the chamber while the
question OF the legality of Dakota state.
hood was pending. On its being decided
illegal he went back to Dakota and bided his
time. He now comes to Washington with no
cloud upon his title, and he has taken quar-
ters just across from the cap .tol, where his
face can look out upon that great marble
building IN which for the next six years he
will have a chance to make for himself u
national reputation.
The lovers of horses among the states
men OF the capitol have spent considerable
time in the cloak rooms of the house aud
senate this week in talking about Sunol,
Senator Stanford's great ~trotter, which he
lately sold to Robert Bonner. No stock is
taken in the statement that George Hearst
offered Stanford $3.50, 900 for the horse after
she was sold to Bonner, and the probability
is that the price paid for 1t was about so, 600.
i chatted with Senator Stockbridge about
this this afternoon. Stockbridge has one of
the finest breeding farms in the northwest.
One of his horses took the first prize at the
Chicago horse fair this year, and he is q man
who makes money out OF fine horses. Speak
ing of Sunol, he said:
stanford naturally feels very pround of
the work OF Sunol, especially so us he Is tho
result OF his theory OF breeding which he
holds IN opposition to the best authorities.
Senator Stanford believes that the best
strains of thoroughbred blood ought to be
: crossed with the best of the trotting stock to
produce the great trotter of the future, and
this is one evidence that he Is right. Robert
Bonner will have to be very careful of Sonul,
and my partner, who is one of the best
posted men on the breeding of horses 1
know, says that he ought not to be pushed
Tor a year or two at least. He ought TO be
allowed TO Jog along and kept in good train
ing, and at the end of that time he would
probably reduce his record to 2-3 or 4"
"By tho way, senator, do you still own Bell
Boy, the horse you bought of Senator Stan
ford q couple of years agol"
"No,n replied Senator Stockbridge, 'I
sold him. 1 paid IS, 900 to Senator Stanford
for him, and sold him for S35, 900. He was
lately sold again At a horse auction in Ken
lucky and brought S5l 900.
Among the finest tournouts seen in Wash
ington this winter will be that Of Senator
Henderson OF Nebraska. Henderson is a
great horse lover, and he has brought from
his farm near Omaha a couple of high step
ping chestnut mares. These are the result
OF careful breeding for more than twelve
years. They are HambletOnians and they
can trot easily = in three minutes. They are
thoroughly broken, but so spirited and grace
full that they will attract attention on any of
the avenues. Senator Henderson brought a
:, high bred colt along with them, and this
Is DOW in the hands of Mr..
Morrow, the horse trainer at Bright
wood. His pony Comanche which he rode
last year is also In the trainers hands. This
pony Is Of the best blood Of the plains, being
from a fine mare of the American wild horse
species crossed by Gold Dust, 1t has ali ths
rnira ~ all mall a,nA ls-