Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-19
ODD MILLIONAIRES.
DAME FORTUNE SELECTS SOME
VERY QUEER FAvORiTES.

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One Man Who is Rolling In Wealth Lives in
Miserable hoveI Near Tombstone, Ari-
zona-Another Was Found Dead on the
Floor of His Shanty In New Mexico-StiII
Another Lives With His Mexican Wife, in
Dirt and Rags. in Mohave County, Cal.
How would you like to have an in
come of SAC, 600, S60, 600 and $50, 900 a
year and know that there was ample
capital or resources in your possession
to yield such an income all your re-
naming days?
But there are half dozen million
aires down in the territories, who have
incomes as large and larger than
these, who have no more idea how to
use them than a Hottentot knows how
to run battleship.
George Bennett lives with his wife
and children in a miserable hovel
seven miles from Tombstone, Arizona.
There are great wastes of alkali,
ranges of sunbaked, dreary mountains
all above for miles and miles. A more
lonely, uninviting, dead and desolate
region for aresidence one could scarce
ly find. The millionaire's family
know no other life. They live like
the half-breed Mexican and Indian
families in the same locality, and
they have never been out of Arizona.
The eldest daughter recently married
a Mexican vaquero, who cannot read,
and another daughter. aged 16, will
soon wed constable in Cochise
county. Some day these young wo-
men will inherit several hundred
thousand dollars each. of their fathers
wealth.
The Bennett family of seven does
not spend altogether 5000 year, yet
the fathers annual income has varied
from $4,000 to $50. 900 for some years.
For several years George Bennett had
tin can OF gold coin (about $4,000
in all) hidden in the mud floor of the
ramshackle structure known as the
family home. The mother and the
daughters seldom wear shoes and
stockings and their idea OF being
dressed up 10 70 don red calico
gown, put on shoes and sit about with
frizzed hair. When Julia was marred
her father gave her herd of 500 four.
years-old critters, which she afterward
sold for $3l head.
For instance, there was Felix
Doherty, who was found dead on the
floor of his miserable shanty at Nc
Carthy's station on the Santa Fe
route, in Valencia county, N. M. He
was worth at least $3.50, 900, and pos
sibly 5000, 900, in copper properties. in
sheep and cattle and land. He had a
deposit in the Albuquerque National
Bank OF over $50, 900, and his net prof.
fits last year were over $4,000. 1t is
doubtful whether he ever spent in any
year over $400 for himself and wife.
His sole amusement is playing pedro
for five-cent cigars, and if he can win
a pocketful in the course OF an after
noon he is happy. He has never been
known to stand the loss OF more than
a half dozen cigars in the course of
his pedro gambling in one day, for he
will quit when the tide of luck is run.
ming SO hard against him.
Patrick Driscoll, who owns four of
the best paying silver and gold mines
in the Chlorida valley OF Mohave
county, is commonly supposed to be
worth $1,250,0OO. His income from
his mines is about $4,000 a month,
and he has block Of stock in the
Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix rail.
road that pays him some $3.50 a
year in dividends. He is a bachelor
without kith or kin in the world that
he knows OF and he spends on himself
less than $50 month altogether.
Twenty years ago he was a poor
cow-puncher and 40 a month and
found" was the essence of his ambi-
tion. He took care of a poisoned
miner, and when the latter lay dying
he told Doherty the location of the
Antrim silver and lead veins over in
Bernalillo county. In two years
more Doherty was taking out between
6,OOO and 5000 ounces OF silver
month from the Antrim. He sold
that mine in 1889 for $4,000, and
from that day he added thousands of
dollars every year to his fortune. He
married Mexican wife, and they
were perfectly contented to live in
shanty. to dress in vile rags and to
cook their primitive meals over fire
built on the earth wherever they hap
pened to be among the fiocks in the
mountains or valleys.
To bny land, to have his focks in
crease and to get mining properties
for mere songs were Felix Doherty's
sole ambitions in life. He thought it
a huge joke when strangers took him
for a poor tramp cow.puncher. He
once went to Los Angeles on business
and twice to Ell Paso.
THE postoffice at Wallula, was en-
tered by burglars the other night, and
the safe blown open, the robbers Sc
curing $3.50 in cash, gold watch and