Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-09
5 NEW LIE
Former United States Senator
Will Try to Recoup His
Fortunes
NOT CRUSHED BY FAILURE
With His Wife and Daughter He Has
Conc to Live In the Little Town of
RhyoIite, Nev.-once Known as the
Santa Claus Of the Senate.


Rhyolite. New. Sept. apparently
as pugnacious and virlle as man OF
half his age, former Senator William
M. Stewart, known in Washington as
the Santa Claus of the Senate" be-
cause of his wondrous white whiskers
has come to this little town to begin
life anew at the age of IS years.
Since his retirement from public life
last March, after a service in the up
per branch of congress covering more
than forty years. the world has heard
little Of Senator Stewart. The news
papers published dispatches to the eff
feet that he was once more poor
man and that he would make his res
idence in the west. Then they forgot
all about him.
To lose a fortune Is serious enough
misfortune at any period OF lie, ana
at Senator Stewards age 1t Is almost
without exception crushing blow
The fact that 1t has not proved SO
in his case may be because he Is used
to losing fortunes and making them
or 1t may be because he Is not like
other men.
Not Crushed by Failure.
Whatever may be said about the
senator politically, his bitterest ene-
mics will not deny that the physical
makeup Of the man Is marvellous to
the last degree and that his courage
Is splendid. He Is of the type that
cannot conceive defeat. but goes right
on fighting In blind ignorance Of the
fact that it Is hopelessly worsted In
the battle Of life. And the senator
has more than once re-habilitated his
fortunes when his friends believed
that he was at last down and out
Those who know him best are not SO
sure that he will not do 1t again, II
he is nearly fourscore.
Senator Stewart-the title will al
ways stick to him--expects to move
into his new home here In few days.
When he started to build 1t. down In
the Bullfrog district, the townspeople,
who knew his record for gaiety in the
east, said
We're glad to have you with us.
senator; but what are you doing way
down here in this lonely place."
"Oh, I'm just going to get back
among the boys for WHILE" answer
ed the old man, Strengthening his six
feet of stature and throwing back his
broad shoulders. This air makes me
feel like a 4-year-old There's no place
like Nevada, l tell you, and l figure
that I'll be doing a big law business
here before long. Better to wear out
than to rust out, you know"
Back Among the Boys.
His new house cost $4,000. That is
more than he was believed to have
saved out Of the wreck when the model
dairy farm in Virginia put the last
touches on financial ruin that was
begun when he tried to force real
estate boom in the direction of "Stew-
arts Palace" the gorgeous structure
he put up in Washington at time
when he was one of the wealthiest
men there.
The new home is one-story adoba,
ornamented with red and white stone.
1t has ten rooms and is finished thru
out in the finest woods. The bathroom
dazzles with tiles and silver trappings
duu las d 6CAulIiC SlAOWSl Udlus
II want to make it as comfortable
as can for my wife and daughter"
said the old senator. They're not as
used to roughing it as / am"
A wide veranda stretched around
the entire house, and the grounds are
being graded and fenced and sodded.
There is pretty stable and a quaint
little chicken house, for the senator is
partial to chickens. He has purchase
ed 200 fowls and in his stable, instead
of thoroughbred horses, he has a
large sleek pair. of mules, which he
considers more appropriate to the
country.
And Jersey Cow.
One more addition is to be made to
the stock. The senator is now nego-
tiating for COW, well-bred Jersey,
that is warranted to give milk so rich
that cream can be lifted off the crooks
with knife.