The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-23

ureS IN winch he IS financially interested.
When he was nominated, this was the view
held by the legislature A number Of other
candidates were in the field AL Of them
were railroad men, and were in measure
the under strappers of Stanford and Hunt
ington. Stanford was not a candidate,
until one day member from the lower
part of the state got up and proposed his
name, saying, "All of these candidates are
railroad men. They are the puppies of the
Pacific system, and if we have got to vote
for railroad man, / don't propose to vote
for one of the puppies. We had better
send the old dog himself, and [ propose the
name of Leland Stanford. Stanford was
then asked if he would take the place. He
replied OF course he would, and he was
elected. Four weeks ago, he did not much
care whether he was returned of not. He
was in Germany at the time, when he got
back here he found that Huntington was
fighting him. The opposition stirred his
blood and he went into the campaign, and
made California Republican. He will now
come back to the Senate for another six
years.
sTANFoRD's UNIVERSITY.
Senator Stanford spent great deal of
time while he was in Europe this summer
looking up matters concerning his univer-
slty. He expects to have the President
and the Cabinet and number of the most
noted statesmen here, go out to California
when the institution is formally dedicated,
and he is already laying his plans to this
effect. looked over some of the accounts
which were sent in by the workmen, now
engaged upon this institution, and the
amount of money being spent is enormous.
The monthly outlay in some cases is as high
as hundred thousand dollars, and the Sen
ator gets an itemized account of every
thing. The papers concerning the univer-
sity would fill dry goods box, and he has
received over seven hundred applications
for professorships, from prominent educa-
Gators in this country and in Europe. He
offered, l understand, Huxley so, 900 a year
if he would come from England to Califor-
MIA and take a professorship, and he pro-
poses to get the very best men he can, re-
CARELESS of expense. Heis buying great
quantity of articles for the new museum of
the university, and during the past weeks
a box of photographs as big as shoe box,
was shipped to him. This box contained
photographs of the mummies and antiqui-
ties which he had purchased during the
summer, and there is no doubt but that his
museum will be Que of the finest in the
country. He will get great quantity of
articles from Greece through the explorer
Schlieman and | understand that he furn-
ished large part of the money with which
Schlieman made his excavations on the site
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antiquities is already very fine, and the
library of the new college will be one of
the finest in the United States. Senator
Stanford looks upon this college as his
monument, and he proposes to make it one
of the most remarkable institutions in the
world.
THE OLDEST MAN IN WASHINGTON.
The Oldest man in Washington is sup
posed to be George Bancroft, who is just as
old as the century, and who, I am told is
falling rapidly. He has given up his liter
ary work, and spends much more of his
time within doors than he has ever done
before. Three years ago he told me that
he could ride on horse back thirty miles at
time without firing. He has been doing
no riding at all this fall, and he seems to
have given up the long walks that he took
last winter. He is not, however, the oldest
mau in Washington. There is a rare old
character who haunts the leading Washing
ton hotels night after night, who SAYS he
was born in 1892, and who is now ninety
eight years of age. This mans name is
Arnaud, or Arnot, and he has had life as
wild and varied as that of any hero of fic-
ton. He was born in West Virginia, and
he tells me that he ran away from the
Block house where his parents lived, and
joined the Indians at the age of thirteen
He was for time Cherokee chief, and he
was contractor here at the time that
jackson was President. He has seen all
the Presidents back to Jefferson, and
Washington died when he was seven years
old. Before the building of the Pacific
railroad, he ran a pony express across the
plains, and of late years he has been en-
ployed in the government departments.
He is a thrifty man, and appreciates, am
told, the value of interest, and his chief
business now is lending money to govern
ment employees, at high rate of monthly
interest. One of the most remarkable
things about him is his dress, and this at
tracts attention to him wherever he goes.
He wears an ld-fashioned shad- bellied coat
with brass buttons. A ruffled shirt, a low
cut vest and curiously cut pantaloons,
which come down over patent leather
pumps decorated with large silver buckles.
He wears silk hat, white collar and a
white stock, and he has a gold watch-fob
| hanging out from under his vest, TO which
is attached gold seal, as big around as a
trade dollar. He is not pious old man,
and he has not high opinion of the Presi-
dents and statesmen of to- day. He saws
| they are pigmies compared with the great
men OF his youth, and he speaks of the abil-
tiles of Cleveland and Harrison in terms
that are far from Complimentary. He at-
tributes his ripe old age to a good constitu-
ton and freedom from doctors. He both
smokes and chews, says he has drunk
enough whiskey to float ship, and has
married three wives and buried them all.
He tells me that his health is perfect and
that he expects to live to be at least one
| hundred and ten.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.