Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-09

while he became editor of a country newspaper.
 The clerical nature of his duties, however, proved to he ungenial and Keene after two years quit his news paper and left for Nevada once more to attempt fortune in the mining business. Mr. Keene'.s arrival Il that state was propititions. lie "Com- stock Lode'' had just been discover ed and by dealing judiciously III this propc.ty he was able to make about S125,G00, enough money to return to San Francisco and engage in the stock speculat'ng business.
 He married at that period of his Icarear, Miss Sarah Daingerfield a daughter of Col. Leroy Daingerfield of Vi: ginia. She had gone to San Francisco to reside W tn her brother, William P. Daringerfield, then United s ates Judge.
 In the crash that followed the firs' ] Comestock beem, however, tle young financier went broke. At tais time the brill ancy of young Keene, he was then 26, attracted the attention of several men of money and he was offered renumerative positions al of which he refused, declaring that he | i,0.1 io1c CnOonlQflnn
 i This might be sad to have been the beginning of a code of a philosophy that tas since made him famous i'll tse United States and abroad. LaLsf he said that "all that life consists of i is the taking of chances and that i "Proyidence has impressed In mans heart and brain the betting instinct. .'
 Following this line of reasoning young Keene continued to daily in the San Francisco stock market until ,he attracted the attention of Senator c. N. Felton. Senator Felton thought he saw latent genus in the young operator and commissioned him to randle his business. Subsequently
 he let Keene have his seat on the stock exchange.
 Mr. Keene's career on the San
 Francisco stock exchange was
 meteorl. He made friends ralyldly
 and in a short time had accumulated
 $6,OOO, ,OOO, chiefly through specula-
 tion in the securities of the Bonanza
 mines of the Comestock company.
 While in California, MT. Keene's
 most notable achievement was the
 saving of the bank of California. This
 institution, the greatest of its kind
 in the west, became involved in iserl-
 ous business dificulties Had it fail
 ed it would have retarded the de-
 yelopment of California for years
 Largely through MT. Keene's in
 fluence in the Stock exchange that body contributed $5OOy00O, while MT
 Keene himself was one of the four
 contributors of million in cash tC tho guarantee fund of $S,000,0O0 thai saved the bank. Tn 1877 at the age of 39 the finan'
 cier's health gave out and he set ou!
 for Europe. When he arrived in New York, however he found the Stocl Exchange demoralized and at once gave over his attention of seeking rest for strenous campaign of spec ulation. In two years he had Tn : creased his fortune to $9,O00NOO . Then in 1894 he got his trip to Eu
 rope. On his return he settled per manently in New York. , MT. Keene then tried to take Jay Gould's scalp but he lost his own Gould beat him in an attempted whea corner, and, after various ups ant } downs, Keene, in April 1884, threw up his hands and failed for $3,000, 900 Since then MT. Keene, in the opin ; ion of Wall Street, has got back al , that he ever lost and more. At tht time of his death he was reputed tt
 be worth from $10,O0O,000 to $40,OOO, 900.
 , MT. Keene's chief activity i'll spec !, ulation was in the management O mools. He took charge of pools II Sugar, National Cordage, Third Ave. }, Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Tobacco Metropolitan Street Railway ant Hooking acquiring much unweicom' . notority out of the Hooking pool. H' ! was accused of working both ways,