The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-07-23
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MINE WAS
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MINER SAVED FROM END
ING HIS LIFE THREE
YEARS AGO
FORTUNE DWlNDlED DOWN
TQ.TWENTY-FlvE CENTS
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Man Shoots Himself and Mistress
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cbicaSo. July e3--The ralrview
Wcpder mines OF Neyada. out OF
which the late Charles w. Rigdon
dreamed Of making millions. proved
to be his fatal hoodoo.
Three years ago they brought him
TO the verge OF snicide In Fairview.
New. where he stood for hours on the
dump heap OF mine with revolver
IN hand trying to bring himself to
shoot. lie was saved from suicide
blythe arrival OF some investors, who
took al interest In his property.
This Nevada scene was almost as
tragic as the final end, although
there were no women in the immedi-
ate scenery. Rigdon, it seems. had
reached the end OF his resources.
SO thoroughly had he and the women
leeches who surrounded him gone
through With his fortune that he had
but q quarter left.
y Some Phiia lelphia capitalists had
promised 10 send to FaIrview a large
sum OF money TO take UP leases on
Riedon's Wonder propefsy. This day
on which the options were to'be taken
up arrived. rks M,
Rigdon pulled out his last quarter
aud looked at It. Then ne drew q
loaded revolver and examined 1t.
IF these Philadelphia people don't
arrive BY night and close this deal"
he saidcto a friend, 'I'll kill myself,
for they've stripped me to last meas
icy quarter"
GIVE Mrs. Young Stock. s.
The Philadelphians arrived and
RIgdon took respite from self in
fIicted death. while his Wonder stock
grew In value under Philadelphia
manipulation.
II was stock in this same Wonder
group that brought about the final
break between the eccentric old min
er and Mrs. Amy Young, who for four
years had been his mistress under
the flimsy gliise OF niece. ,s
II was because Mrs. Young had
bought In the Wonder stock he had
saciincetl and placed 1t in the name
OF her sister. Miss Teresa Tyonner,.
that Hgdon shtE her afte. q
struggle in the office OF slohn G.
Fetzer In the Bedford building last
Friday afternoon and then sent bull.
let Into his own brain. M
This same Fairview Wonder stock
now promises to become the bone OF
contention in a. three-cornered legal
struggle for final possession. Mrs.
Annie Rigaen, the widow; Mrs. Amy
Young the oil mans intimate COM
panions and Jay A. Rigdon, his son,
the voting assistant cashier OF the
Hihernan Ranking association, prom.
iseisoon 10 be so tangled In suits and
couDterfsuits that it will take a Phil
adeiphia lawyer to straighten them
out. WI
u The first move In this civil war
was n1sde when attorney VI. II. Sui
Ivan notified various Eastern bank.
ers fand stock brokerake concerns
that the transfer of any stocks stand
ing in sRigdon's name win be at their
own peril,
Rioden Dropped 100000.
AI1ices from Philadelphia state
that such notice has been served
on the Fourth Street Natioual bank
OF Philadelphia, which Is believed to
be the egistering agency OF the
Wonder stock.
Rigd5n dropped a fortune OF $780,
600 in-the two years he lived In Wash
ington with Mrs. Young. He played
Wall street recklessly. and had Mrs.
Young hunt tips" for him.