The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-09-14
SENATOR STEWART
BEGINS ALL
OVER
Interesting Story of the Pic.
turesque Old Man and His
Bullfrog Home.


as man half his age, former Senator
William NJ. Stewart, known as the
Santa Claus of the Senate" because of
his wondrous white whskers, has come
to this little town to begin life anew at
the age of rs years.
Thus says a dispatch to Washington
from Rhyoite. Nevada.
Since his retirement from public life
last March. after service in the upper
branch of Congress covering more than
forty years, the word has heard little
of Senator Stewart. The newspapers
published dispatches to the effect that
he was once more a poor man and that
west. Then they forgot all about him.
To lose ortune is a serious enough
misfortune at any period of life, and at
Senator Stewards age it is almost with
out exception a crushing bow. The
fact that it has not proved so in his
case may pc because he is used to losing
fortunes and making them. or it may
be because he is not like other men.
Whatever may be said about the Sen
ator politically, his bitterest enemies will
not deny that the physica makeup of
the man is marvellous to the last de-
gree and that his courage is spend d.
He is of the type that cannot conceive
defeat, but goes right on lighting in
blind ignorance of the fact that he is
hopelessly worsted in the battle of life.
And the Senator has more than once
rehab.litated his fortunes when his
friends believed that he was at last
down and out" Those who know I'm
best are not so sure that he will not do
1t again, if he is nearly four score.
Senator Stewart-the tt.e will always
stick to him-expects to move into mis-
When he started to build it, down in
the Bullfrog district. the townspeople,
who knew his record for gayety in the
east, said:
Were glad to have you with us. Sem
ator: but what are you doing down here
in this lonely placer
"Oh, I'm just going to get back
among the boys for while,' answered
the old man. Strengthening his six feet
of stature and throwing back his broad
shoulders
This air makes me feel like four
year-o,d. There's no place like Nevada,
1 tell you, and figure that III be doing
a big law business here beore long. Bet
ter to wear out than to rust, you know" "
His new houes cost $4,000. That IL
| more than he was believed to have
saved out of the wreck when the model
dairy farm in Virginia put the last
touches on a financial ruin that was
begun when he tried to force a real es-
tate boom the direction of Stewart S
Palace" the gorgeous structure he put
up in Washington at a time when he
was one of the wealthiest men there.
The new home is a one-story abode.
ornamented with red and white stone.
1t has ten rooms and is finished
throughout in the finest woods. The
| bath room dazzles with tiles and silver
trappings and has a genuine shower
bath.
Il want to make 1t as comfortable as
can for my wife and daughter" sad
the old Senator. They're not as used to
roughing it as / am"
| A wide veranda stretches around the
entire house and the grounds are being
graded and fenced and sodded. There
Is pretty stable and quaint lite
chicken house, for the Senator is par
tial to chickens. He has purchased 20'
fowls and in his stable. instead Of thor
oughbreds he has large. sleek pair Of