Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-08-09
BOTH BIRTHDAY
OF "S|LVER KING''
Nevada's Grand Old Man,
Senator Stewart Cele=
brates the Day

CARSON CITY, New, Aug. 9.-ToI
start out at the age of nearly four
score to make a third fortune, and to
have the attempt crowned with sue
cess, is rather a strenuous undertake
ing for any one. And yet that is what
former United States Senator william
NJ Stewart, once known as the SILVER
King of Nevada" has done.
Busy with plans for developing his
mining and other properties, Senator
Stewart allowed his S0th birthday to-
day to pass almost unnoticed. He was
reminded of the anniversary, however,
by the receipt of several messages of
congratulation from some of ibis for
mer associates in public life, men
whom he has met but seldom in recent
years, but who still remember the law
ish hospitality which the Nevada sem
ator was wont to dispense during his
many years of residence in the national
capital.
Few men, even among the money
kings of bonanza DAYS. have had
more varied and wonderful experience
than William M. Stewart. The accum-
ulation and loss of two immense for
tunes and the winning OF third at an
age when the great majority of men
are RELOCATED to the retired list seem
but minor incidents in his wonderful
career. Among the roles he has filled
in his time, and most of them with
marked success, have been those of
senator, lawyer editor, orator, Yale
college man, Indian fighter. prospector,
Spectator and scientific farmer
He was born in the state of New
York, lived a while in Ohio. then went
to Yale to study law When the cry
of Gold in California" was raised in
40. he came West and between the law
and ore mining grew so opulent that
he became known as the "Slver King"
But when he was elected senator frem
Nevada he plunged too deeply into the
extravagances of capital life, and at
the end of 10 years found himself
poor. But he did not despair. Again
he came back to the West for for
tune, dug it out of the earth in the
form of precious ore and soon found
himself again a millionaire. Power re-
turned with fortune, and in 1887 he
was again. elected to the United States
senate.
For time he was a greater power in
politics than before. He was at the
head of that group of Republican del
egates who withdrew from the st.
Louis convention in 1886 because the
majority refused to agree to bimetal-
lism plank and declared for the gold
standard Stewart was an ardent sill
yer man, and the success of the gold
standard cause dealt him a hard blow
Unwise speculation and other unre-
munerative enterprises in a few years
reduced him once more to the lower
financial level
So two years ago last March, his
term ended he bade goodbye to his
friends in the senate and returned once
more to the scenes of his former tri-
umphs to again wrest fortune from the
rocks.
When he returned TO Nevada th'
last time it was known among hi:
friends that he was almost down and
OUT financially. But he went to worl
with his old time courage, and with hi!
knowledge of miles and mining, thing,
ere long began to come his way again
He made several lucky strikes and in
vestments, and almost before a yea,
had elapsed he had made good star
toward retrieving him fortunes. 1t Il
believed that he Is now worth at leas
a quarter of million and possibl!
much more He has sheived his socia
and political ambitions and declare
that this fortune--his third-will no
go like the others.