The Glenwood post., 1907-08-17
MADE FORTUNE AT
FOUR SCORE YEARS

Carson City, New, Aug 80 start
make third fortune, and to have the
attempt crowned with success, is rather
strenuous undertaking for any one. And
yet, that is what former United States
Senator William NJ. Stewart, once
known as "The Silver King" of Ne
vada, has done.
Busy with plans for developing his
mining and other properties, Senator
Stewart allowed his eighteth birthday
today to pass almost unnotieed. He
was reminded of the anniversary, how
ever, by the receipt of several messages
of eongratulaton from some of his for
mer associates in public life, men whom
he has met but seldom in recent years
but who still remember the lavish hos
pitality which the Nevada senator 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 a more
varied and wonderful experience than
William NJ. Stewart. The accumula-
tion and loss of two immense fortunes
and the winning of third at an age
when the great majority of men are
relegated to the retired list seem but
minor incidents in his wonderful career.
Among the roles he has filed in his time
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cess have been those of senator, lawyer,
editor orator, Yale college man, Indian
fighter, prospector, speculator and scien
tifc farmer.
He was born in the state of New
York, lived while in Ohio, then went
to Yale to study law. When the cry of
nGold in California was raised in 40
he came West, and, between the law
and ore mining, grew so opulent that he
became known as "thc Silver King
But when he was elected senator from
Nevada he plunged too deeply into the
extravagances of capital life, and at
the end of twelve years found himself
poor. But he did not despair. Again he
came back to the West for fortune,
dug it out of the earth in the form
of precious ore and soon found himself
again n millionaire. Power returned
with fortune, and in 1887 he was again
elected to the United States senate.
For time he was greater power in
politics than before. He was at the
head of that group of Republican dele
gates who withdrew from the st. Louis
convention in 1896 because the major
ity refused to agree to a bimetallism
plank and declared for the gold stand
ard. Stewart was an ardent silver man
and the success of the gold standard
cause dealt him hard blow. Unwise
speculation and other unremnucrative
enterprises in few years reduced him
once more to the lower financial lever
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 the last
time it was known among his friends
| that he was almost "down and out y
| financially. But he went to work with
his old-time courage, and with his
knowledge of mines and mining things
ore long began to come his way again
He made several lucky strikes and in
vestments and almost a year had
elapsed he had made good start to
ward retrieving his fortunes. 1t is
believed that he is now worth at least
a quarter of a million and possibly
more. He has shelved his social and
political ambitions and declares that
this fortune-his third-will not go like
the others.