The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-31

alley. Cortina was seated on hi. horse directing
timer. siill alive, and who was for many ycars
tho county clerk Of Cameron county, who had
o,d scGtes to settle r s.d S9r n LsS
down on him from small rear window. and would
most surely have killed him.. when Belden, fear.
would kill them ali and burn the store and per
haps the town. threw up the mu zylc OF Glaeyecke
CUP ana Tor the time SAVED CoIsn nrsb b.e old
time house that made. great deal Of money.
the head and several Of the members Of the nrm,
business was apparently carried on In the loosest
style. For example, the mouth OF an ixilc moral
charged in The books TO petty cash and all small
not Of he house, were paid from 4, and no account
kept of the sums, and any one OF The nrm waning
a few dollars would help himself from the ever
open sack and use IL Tor his own needs and no
and open table were kept for the members OF the
Arm, the clerks and the friends who might csll.
S@a s S market ,%{s' co %G aSd I've The ss
of Spain and France were as, water ON the table
and nothing that money could buy was wanted;
money they needed and as much az they cared
Tor keeping only account Of the larger sums.
when old lion Jose retired from the house, Ia
characteristic 81 the firm and the man and ms
way and {" doE hey m. made op iban 'a ea
the house owes you two and have set the sum
more than has simon and your share should
be less. So ON the old mans suggestion, I'm
neatly scwsl $1,000 each in Its clean ixtle sack.
and Don simon took the rest and everybody
was perfectly satisfied.
The big steamboat owners King and kennedy
who came to the frontier during the wnr OF l848 ~
and laid the Foundation Of their wealth carrying
millionaires though King was considerably the
richer, being more shIewd and cntcrprisng
s&s, GSn D ssnSes, ThSpsH nS &. not
81 the great river of the north yenrs before they
either Of them ever had heard Of IT,. or as early
as 1886 and at that time general description
~ the country was given by a writer who mentions
NE os steamboat and also speaks Of i9s coal
Negras, now Porfrio Dial, said 10 have been 40
lately discovered. for the first time by a gentle
man who had as recently discovered that there
was such place as the lower Rio Grande Valley
lived there before.
But to come back to kingand kennedy. They
held control of the river trade until the time Of the
part Of the ready money they had This they
prices and became the largest stock rsisers in
the world in their day. As has been said. King
he undoubtedly was. and Kennedy was not lar
behind him. aud was the main factor In building
that great Texas railroad system known as the
AtansaS Pass King died worth some four
or Ave millions and Kennedy though at one time
somewhat ansl hampcred by his g1ea, holdings IL
",
worth as much. II n, more.
-, Major Hewlett neat dappor little man was
the head boOkkecpcr 81 the old Arm. and though
always lcnienty dealt with. lost his place In a
curious manner and through kennedy. who was
much st'icter than King, though not 80 pa ssion-
ate: Hewlett was playing a game Of billiards
at Miller's saloon when KENNEDY, who had some
pressing business for him 10 do. sent for him
several tines and the last tine the messenger
said: Capt, Kennedy says for ME 10 tell YOU
that he is In a hurry"
Tell Capt Kennedy" said Hewlett who had
ar IA hai In
in n hurry
In moment the messenger returned with note
from Kennedy saving that the n rm would no longer
need Major howlctts services, II they could not
have them when they wanted them and not when
he was ready to work. aud do What he might, How
lett never got back into the good graccs of the ARM
and died in comparative poverty.