Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-24
"OLD GRIZZLY'S" VISIT.
A Man Of Ups and Downs Experience
ing one of the Downs.

Ing one OF the DOWnS.
Surrounded by a half score of old
mining cronies and indulging in rem
iniscences of old mining days, Re-
publican reporter found the Hon. A.
w. Callen of Placeritas, Arizona, last
night. Mr.. Callen is better known as
"Old Grizzly" the cognOmen being
attached to his personality because OF
the grizzly gray beard which surrounds
his face, standing out in hazel-brush
style and white with age. "Old
Grizzly" was born III New York 20
years ago, ard wears his age lightly
for a man who has passed through so
many vicissitudes. He has been law
yer, legislator, merchant, miner and a
little of everything else. Has been up
and down as almost every man has
who has followed mining. "Old
Grizzly's' remarkable career as briefly
sketched to the Republican reporter
last night has been a very interesting
one. He was educated at Centerville,
New York, and graduated at Coal
bough's lawn school.
He came west at the age of % and
was for several years in the employ of
the Green Bay Fur Co., trading among
the WinnebagOes and the Sioux. He
was married at the age of % to an old
school-mate and has raised a family
consisting of two sons and two daugh-
tiers, all of them living at Junction
City, Kansas, except one son, the noted
Jim S. Callen, of San Diego, California,
who stumped the state for Harrison
and lost democratic partner as a
result of his hard work for the republic
can ticket.
"Old Grizzly was Wing until the
organization of the republican party,
when he joined the republicans and
has voted with them ever since. He
was.a member of the Kansas legisla-
ture for three terms, has been sheriff,
probate judge, member of school
boards, and held about all the local
offices provided for by the Kansas
statute. He was '49er, was one of
the first in at the Pixies Peak excite
ment, and joined the rush to Leadville.
In 1878 he took an expedition to Ari-
IONA with his own teams and wagons
and men hired for one year, but the
noble red man took hand and the
expedition proved a failure. He re-
turned to Colorado in 1875 and located
some mines which he still owns.
Among these are the Little Prince and
the Ada and Alice. He operated in
Leadville in 1881 and 1882, and was a
member of the firm of Callen, Stricken
& Co.
Along about this time he took trip
to New York, and dropped about
$500, 900. He returned to Arizona in
1888, and has remained there since
that time with the ups and downs in
cident to mining life.
cat the present time" said Mr.. Cal
len, 81 am down, and owe every mar
in Arizona, and good portion of the
population of Kansas, but am still il
hopes of making a raise and being
buried in a fine metallic casket al
Junction City, Kas." Mr.. Callen nov
owns the Placerita and Carbonate
mines, thirty five miles from Prescott
Arizona, and numerous smaller mines
He is in Denver now with J. w
lO'Bryan, noted mining man, VIII,
visited the Arizona camps in the in
terest of himself, G. W. Badgley ant
other mining men of Colorado. MI
O'Bryan brought back with him half
ton of samples from about twent
mines, all of which have been assaye,
and run from $40 to Sc, 200 to the to-
in free gold, which naturally make
"Old Grizzly" feel good.-[Denver Re
publican.