The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-10

got out and slipped around to the locomo-
tive and was soon riding with the engineer.
Alter few moments conversation the
engineer detached the locomotive from the
train and it steamed on ahead into Sioux
Falls, which was three miles away, leaving
the train with Pettigrew's rival in it at
the water tank. Ten minutes later the en-
glneer moved back and half an hour after
Fettlgrew's deed was in the hands of a re-
corder, carriage dashed up to the court
house and Pettigrew's rival rushed in and
said that he wanted a deed recorded i'm
mediately. The recorder looked at the
paper he handed him and said that he had
just finished recording a deed for that
property to Frank Pettigrew. and the man
knew that he was beaten. PettigreW by
that days operation, made $4,000, and
this formed the basis of his fortune.
THE MINNESOTA SENATOR'S.
Both of the Minnesota Senators are self
made, though Washburne comes Of noted
family, and all of his brothers have made
fortune and fame. Old Israel Washburne,
OF Maine, had seven sons, and the cradle in
which the boys were rocked is kept in Nor
lands library in Maine. 1t is made of pine
boards an inch thick, rudely dove tailed
together, and its solid pine rockers are
shaped like half moons. 1t is painted
dark green, and has been Drowned by age.
In it Senator Washburne was rocked. Two
OF his brothers, who were ministers to for
eign countries, slept in 1t, and 1t has held
four Congressman and two governors.
The father of all the Washburnes was a
farmer, and the present United States Sen
ator was raised ON farm, and until he
was twenty he worked in the corn fields
and the hay fields in the summer and went
TO the common schools in the winter. He
was sent to Bowdoin college, and studied
law with his brother Israel, and then went
out to Minneapolis, where he settled about
thirty five years ago. His life there has
been an active one. He has made and lost
one or Two fortunes, and is said to be a
rich man to-day. He looks more like a Pres
byterlan preacher than anything else His
black whiskers are of q CalvanistIc
cut, and his blue eyes look out of severe
and cultured features. He is very popular
in his section, and IS man of weight. He
has magnificent house in Minneapolis,
and he rents at Washington the prison
like structure which belongs TO Senator
Edmpnds.
AN ADMIRER OF NAPOLEON.
Senator Cush Davis, tbs other Mime
sofa Representative in the Upper House,
is the direct opposite of Washburne. SEN
ator Davis looks like Ben Butler. He was
taken for Ben Buffers son not long ago,
| when he and Butler were stopping at the
Fifth Avenue hotel together, ana it is said
that Wien he was counting his wife, with
whom it seems he fell in love at almost
the first sight, she insisted that she had
photograph of him taken when he was
soldier. He told her that she must be mis-
taken, and asked to see it. She then
brought out a locket in which there was a
photograph Of Ben Butler, taken when he
was In the army, and it looked, in fact
very much like the picture of Senator
Davis as be is to-day. Senator Davis was
born in New York He went into the
army as private and came out as lieu
tenant and after the war was over he went
to Minnesota to practice law. He was
governor of the state when he was thirty
five years Of age, and he has had for years
one of the biggest law practises of the
northwest His practise is said to be
worth from twenty to thirty thousand dol
lars year and he might be rich man if
he cared anything for the saving and &C
cumulatlon of money. As it is he spends as
fast as he makes, and in 1881 when he
withdrew from the firm of Davis, O'Brien
~ wilson. he was $4,000 in debt. Since
that time he has paid off this debt and has
made enough to buy himself mfortable
home and to make little nest egg for the
future. l doubt, however, whether he
| knows actually how much he is worth and
doubt whether he cares. He is a student
and lover of books more than lover of
: money. He speaks and reads two or three
/ languages, and is to some extent a hero
/ Worshiper. One of the greatest men who
ever lived is to him Napoleon. He reads
l everything he can get about Napoleon anC
has large collection of pictures of him
he mas 3UO books relating to him and his
/. time and he says his collection will not be
i complete until he can go TO Europe an6
2 pick up about three hundred more He is
a lover of the classics and he thinks two Of
' the greatest heroes of the past were Alex
2 ander the Great and julius Caesar He is
5 man OF wide reading and he can speak OF
S his feet about as well as any man In The
Senate He is a devoted Sbakespeariar
I scholar and is well up in all of the genera
5 literature of the day.
! JUST FROM NORTH DAKOTA.
f Another man of culture among thes,
4 northwest Senators is Senator Casey H,
is a farmer aud has the management of F.;
t hundred thousand acres OF land or so il
' Dakota. self-made business man, b,
S talks several languages has Travelled
: widely in Europe and looks more like
= New York club man than q farmer from
. the wild and woolly west He is thorough,
a practical In his views however, and he i
y enthusiastic as to the prospects of his sec
e ton.
Senator Eansbrough began life as
t printers devil, got his education at a type
e setting case, fought the Goddess of mis-
i fortune in half dozen different states o
/ the union and now at about forty year
: of age he is United States Senator. Full
S of life, enthusiastic as 10 the future b.
K believes that the northwest will be tn
q richest and greatest part of the Unite,
d States, and says il will supply within
q few years from now, 90 per cent. of all tn
: food products of this country.
n SENATORIAL FIGHTERS.
e The northwest has two senatorial fight
L ers. These are men whose lives have bee
spent in the widest parts of the frontie
and who have grown strong with fightin
among the Indians and the desperadoes.
s refer to Senator George Shoup, OF Idaho
L and Senator Wilbur L. Sanders, c
4. Montana. Shoup is tall, straight broat
It shouldered, blue-eyed man. There is n
n hair on the top of his head and he mas NJ
:. even a scalp-lock. He lost his hair natur
" ally, however, and he has bad number G
/ scrapes where be might have lost it frol
e the Indians. Born in the east he starte
If out for Pixies Peak when he was TWENTY
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