The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-04

/, with affairs at the time tell me that | they thought Clark's claim just one; l but Don Juan always thought more Of 1 fun than money, had an lrishman's 8 knack of capping verses, and about that 1 time made Milmo the butt of one of his 1 jokes The latter thought the erses | were intended to lampoon him. and had but little goodwill to pay more than he
 was obliged, and so Clark never got his
 money. The old-time merchant and | bon vivant, now hard on eighty years old, after having spent dozen fortunes, is not over well off in the goods of this l world, and it would be graceful act on
 the part of the Milmo heirs out of their
 millions, to recognize, even in part the
 claim that should have been paid SO
 many years ago.
 Another man who lost fortune about this time, but in another way, was Don Fred O'Boyle. The steamboat rates for
 carrying money were very high, and OBoyle, who wanted to bring twenty
 thousand dollars in silver down from the head of navigation at Roma some
 how had got hold of a metallic life
 boat. The river freight rates were high and the roads infested by bandits, so OBoyle determined himself to bring it down in the lifeboat. When about half
 way between Roma and Rio Grande
 City the steamboat passed him, and
 whether from intent or accident went
 by at full speed near him, the waves raised by her wheels swamping the life
 boat, and down she went, silver and all,
 in some twenty feet of water. O'Byle and his men walked into Rio Grande
 City, and arrived there while a ball was
 in progress. He borrowed a dress suit and joined in the sport. The next day
 he went back to the place with divers,
 and later sent down to Bagdad and
 brought up at heavy expense a subma- rine diver and his armor. The bed of
 the river for a long distance was thor
 oughly searched, but neither the boat nor trace of the lost treasure was ever found
 Another one of the old-time rich men was Jerry Galvan, also an Irishman, who came out in 1S46 with arms. While on his way to Monterey shortly after
 while in the flat between Ramos and Martin the government train was att tackled by five hundred Mexican horse under General Urea, and notWithStand- ing a stout resistance made by the American soldiers who conveyed it. 1t was captured. number of men, among them a merchant named Peter Burns, was killed, and Galvan with the rest captured and marched on foot to the federal capital He was afterward taken, still on foot to Tampico, from which place he made his way to New Orleans, Here he met fellow country man from his native town, Cork, one John Trenwith, who took him with him to Durango as a clerk, under a three years contract At the expiration of that time, in 1850. he was sent to Mata moras by his employer, on his way back to New Orleans. While waiting for a steamer Clark got him a job with Phelps &; Whitney an old-time house and shortly after he was admitted to partnership, and later started in busi- ness for himself. His advance was most rapid and in 1855 he had a large and well-stocked/ business place of his own in a large house belonging to q MT. Beldin.
 In 1857 his house accidentally caught fire from a candle left standing on a barrel, which was overturned by the rats. A belated citizen going to Miller's