The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-12
A GAME OLD SOL.
der OF FORTUNE
STARTS RATHER LATE IN LIFE
RETRIEVE HIS LOSSES
Senator Stewart of Nevada Again on
the Fair road to Wealth-Will not
Spend this Fortune Like He Did
the Former Two

CARSON CITY, Aug. 9-To start
out at the age of nearly four score
years to make third fortune, and to
have the attempt crowned with sue
cess, is rather a strenuous undertaking
for anyone. And yet that is what
former United States Senator William
NJ. Stewart, once known as ''the sill
yer king' of Nevada, has done.
Busy with plans for developing his
mining and other properties, Senator
Stewart allowed his S0th birthday to
pass today almost unnoticed He was
reminded of the anniversary, how
ever, by the receipt of several mes
sages of congratulation from some of
his former associates in public life,
men whom he had met but seldom in
recent years, but who still remember
the lavish hospitality which the Ne
vada senator was wont to dispense
the national capital.
Few men, even among the money
kings of bonanza days, have hao a
more varied and wonderIul experience
than William M. Stewart The accu-
mutation and loss of two immense for
tunes and the winning of a third at
an age when the great majority of
men are relegated to the retired list
seem but minor incidents in his won
derful career. Among the roles he has
filed in his time, and the most of them
with marked success, have been those
of senator, lawyer, editor, orator,
Yale college man, Indian fighter, pros
pector, speculator and scientific farm
er. He was born in the state of New
York, lived 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 mining, grew to be so opulent
that he became known as "the silver
king But when he was elected SEN
ator from Nevada he plunged too
deeply into the extravagances of cap
ital life, and at the end of twelve
years he found himself poor. But he
did not despair. Again he came back
to the west for fortune, dug it ort
of the earth in the form of preciou.
ore and soon found himself again
millionaire. Power returned with for
tune, and in 1887 he was again elect
ed to the United States senate.
For time he was a greater powe
in politics than before He was at tn
head of that group of Republican del
! egates who withdrew from the St
Louis convention in 1896 because tn
majority refused bimetallism planl
and declared for gold standard
Stewart was an ardent silver man an,
the success of the gold standard deal
| him hard blow. Unwise speculation
and other unremunerative enterprise
in few more years reduced him one
more to the lower financial level.
So, two years ago last March hi
term ended, he bade goodbye to hi
friends in the senate and returne,
once more to the scenes of his forme
triumphs to again wrest FORUM
from the rocks.
When he returned to Nevada tn
last time it was known among h..
friends that he was almost "dowl
and out' financially. but he wen
/ to work with his old-tim courage
and with his knowledge of mines an,
mining things ere longe began t,
come his way again. He made severa
almost before year had elapsed n,
had made a good start towards re
trieving his fortune. 1T is believe,
that he is now worth at least a quar-
ter of million dollars and possibl,
much more. He has shelved his socia
and political ambitions and declare,
! that this fortune-his third-will no
/ go like the others