The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-03-05
WILLIAM A. CLARK
CALLED BY DEATH
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He used instead the subway.
AT the bedside of the former sena-
tor were his wife, one son, Charles
w. Clark; three daughters, Mrs.
Mary Clark De Brabant, Mrs. Kath-
| crime Clark Morris and Miss Hugh
cite Clark; two granddaughter, Mrs.
Rodney W. Williams, daughter of
Mrs. De Brabant, and Mrs. RATHER
inc Morris Hall, daughter of Mrs.
Morris.
Another Son, William A. Clark,
Jr.. and a grandson, William A.
Clark, III, are now on their way
from the west and are expected to
arrive Thursday morning.
Mr.. Clark's oldest daughter, Mrs.
| Mary Clark Culver King, was mar
ried at the family home, 962 Fifth
avenue, last week to Marius De Bra
bant of Los Angeles.
Last of Great Trio
William Andrews Clark was the
last of the three great Montana
mining magnates-Heinze, DAILY and
Clark. Arriving in Bannack, Ida,
in 1868, with SIS capital after an
overland journey of 65 days in a
prairie schooner, he became, 40 years
later, a multimillionaire and a Uni
ted States senator. He was born in
Connellsville, Pa, on January 8,
1889.
A school teacher in central Mis-
souri, when the gold rush lured him
to Colorado and then to Idaho. Mr..
Clark's services to that part of the
territory which later became the
state of Montana-he helped to draft
its constitution-were recognized a
few years ago by the Society of Mon
tana Pioneers in the form of a mon
ument, "to commemorate, while he
still is living, his deeds which have
contributed in major part to the de-
velopment of the great west"
Upon reaching Idaho Clark became
successfully a miner, teamster, mer-
chant, railway builder, capitalist. In
more recent years he was known as
a philanthropist and art collector.
He was elected to the United States
senate after a long and bitter poll
teal controversy, and served the full
term from 1901 to 1907. In 1890
he had claimed that honor but was
denied a seat. In 1898, having ap-
parently won election to the senate,
his seat was contested and he re-
Later his seat was declared
void by the upper house.
Fighter in Industrial War
Senator Clark was for years a
figure in the triangular in
dustrial war between the Clark,
Heinze and DAILY mining interests
and around this spectacular fight for
supremacy was woven much of the
of Montana. It led to battles
between great numbers of miners m
foreground, occupied the courts of
Montana almost to the exclusion of
all other litigation and at last es-
,ablished the ''apex' principle as the
law of America. Subsequent
" the Heinze and Daily interests
we're merged and the conflict came
an end.
Mr.. Clark's property holdings at
he present time extended to South
ern Mexico and to France. They in
,luded the United Verde Copper
nine at Jerome, Ariz., a beet sugar
factory, bronze factory. steam and
street railway systems, mining mills,
timber lands, wire factory, power
plants, business blocks and mercan-
lie establishments in several cities,
and banks and residences in New
York, Paris and Butte, Mont.
SIuiced First Thousand
The man who was destined to i'm
press his individuality so strongly
Upon the West accumulated his first
81 900 s1uicing gold on a placer
lain on Horse Prairie, Idaho. He
a mule team, travelled to Salt
AXE, and "freighted" provisions
Jack to the miners. In 1867 he took
/ government contract to carry mail
rom Missoula, Montana, to Walla
Washington, about 400 miles
away, and on two occasions made
he greater part of the journey on
nowshoes.
Young Clark when teaching school
n 1859 and 1860 had applied him
elf to the law and later followed
his up at Mount Pleasant (Iowa)
University, but he never entered the
egal profession. 1t was in 1862 that
quit teaching school and drove
n OK team across the plains to the
south Park in Colorado. He worked
n the quartz mines at Central City
Intil the next spring when he Joined
he gold seekers then focking into
IDAHO.
Clark's fortune was what might be
allied comfortable" in 1872. He
ad boone interested in banking and