Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-21
Unique Character Who Orga.
nized the Union Pacific
Railroad
A RECORD BREAKER.
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NEW YORK aaa ii Citizen,
e Francis Train y dead the
sud cane lass nlghs ii / H,Ne room
On he TOP floor 81 Mtls hotel No. /.
where fe haa llsea sine the hotel vas
built. Heart disease 3as ihe cause II
hss death TIE MS nearly Is years III
sge hasing BEEN born III Boston.
Marcia "a 1873
Ii 1872 Train made an Independent
race FOR president. Ffe Was noted as.
j prUIne vriter sad for MS eccentric
h FL had been n only i short
i y III custom ID arise n
tween | And / O'clock III the morning
YESTERDAY morning Ne waa unable Il
arssa
~ the Nrae Train was 10 No had
c~pntgeElei Ms uncle 10 give him M lns
serst u fAe business that was worsh
t ! scar u him 4 year mar
waF uas $4,000 HIS ambition
mo a Australia whore he estsr
shipping Ind commission
kaase tEat MAIDS $4,000 lis drst year.
He waa thru e. WheH The mirrors
81 rebellion against the geyeta
trey offered him the presidency
Il rge sgar republic
W. Attracted wide Attention.
Te marh Thai b interesting
"a hss travels where le vent
he commanded saa attention Of the
gsa ID Paris he was the
anlFa IL the Empress Eugene
sEa Npeya He secured niliiops
from un Msris Christina 81 spain
u Bn Atlantic 4 Great Western
raiiwag. so nii oug from Erie %
re Obs and ,ha Mississippi. Every
where be Vas eourted. fetsd admir-
ed accepted A one az tbs great IS
ganlzerH and financial ganiHsas
re Built the first street railway III
England and during the civil war
made j reputation as an orator and
debater In England where he espous
Ell The union cause.
The Credit MobilIer was organized
In bis house al f5G Madison avenue.
which II now owned by his daughter
Mrs Gtlinger. He said 81 was the
original trust HIS schemes iii con
nection with the Union Pacific ran
way. IL which he was the prime NOV
er, we're chlmcrIcal then, bni time has
proved them, In Omaha. where he
owned 5000 lots. now worth thirty
million doliars~they were sold for
non'paymsnt Of taxes after he had
been legally declared n lunatic. he
a hotel III sixty days and called
/ cozzen's hotel, because when H.
another hotel the proprietor
asked him why he did not bulld one
81 mis- own.
Went Around the World. j,
In 1879. when - went around The /,
sorld III eighty days. he was already /,
tnown d 4 radical NJ reached Mar
and that proved mat his con- /.
ng VA awaited A committee hailed !,
i'm az iberat9r and asked him ia ,
'ccome head N The Commune ne !,
vas taken directly 10 the opera a0Hse I
where COCO people were sailing IN !,
i'm. ne really beeano IT, head II !
he movement. win General Clnsef0 !
4 militarg leader They took ~ =
u nc military fo~ftlacatona 81
iarseiiles He blgnel d detachment
I The Guard Mobile That came to ar
est General clireret
The Citizen canae home rs rrn
; 40 independent ~eanaidato fof pfe
lent q ne United state Nhen y
victoria woodruff aaaif came 81
Z defended heF and published :,
racts tfufn the Hbe that mnaea
Fl The Tombs No @as placed
"Murderefs Itos Win ltlchata j,
rokcr John J scanpeil and STAR 81
tho sbarl@ WHO escar i E.
ans cIotling. r..
His socialistic Ideas began Asapff a,
g themselves more rapidly He
bis money aRay aud bphas i q
ost exlrayagantly Then ihe courts 81
him = lunatic. te
For fourteen years 10 never spoke IN
Z man Or woman. UT devoted hlm hi
= 70 children, became, be declar o
grown people robbed him u his
force. Every day he was IN
ldison square. He could call $4,000
mig pe~ople-they were children
en- be FIRST met tbem-by name, and :
" loved him 10 his Iaef day