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JOHN W CLARK
MONTANA DIES
OF PNEUMONIA
NEW YORK. Mar. 3.—William An
drews Clark, former United States
Senator, died today from pneumonia.
Clark Founded Institute
BUTTEE. Mont., Mar. 3.—Philan
thropic work of Senator Clark includ
ed the founding of an institute for
orphans, as a memorial to his son.
Mines Close Down.
PRESCOTT, Ariz., Mar. 3—This
copper mining district will suspend
operations the day of Senator Clark’s
funeral, practically all of its 23,000
population being concerned in the ac
tivities of the Clark interests in Yav
apai county.
Clark came to Prescott in 1883, and
rode horseback through the snow to
Jerome, where he inspected a small
mine and bought it. The mine later
made one of the world’s greatest cop
per producers.
William Andrews Clark was the
last of the three great Montana min
ing magnates—Heinze, Daly and
Clark. Arriving in Bannack, Idaho,
in 1863. with $5 capital after an over
land journey of 65 days in a prairie
schooner, he became 40 years later
a multimillionaire and a United
States senator. He was born in
Connellsville, Pa., on January 8, 1839.
A school teacher in Central Mis
souri when the gold rush lured him
to Colorado and then to Idaho,
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
! Montana Pioneers in the form of a
I monument to commemorate, wliik
; he still was living “his deeds which
I have contributed in major part tc
| the development of the great West.’
Upon reaching Idaho, Clark became
; successively a miner, teamster, mer
! chant, railway builder, capitalist. Ir
| more recent years he was known as
I a philanthropist and art collector. He
! was elected to the United States
Senate, after a long and bitter poli
tical controversy, and served the full
term of 1901 to 1907. In 1890 he had
claimed that honor but was denied
his seat. In 1898, having apparently
won election to the Senate, his seal
was contested and he resigned. Lat
er his seat was declared void by the
Upper House.
Senator Clark for years was a cen
tral figure in the triangular indus
trial war between the Clark, Heinze
and Daly mining interests and around
this spectacular fight for supremacy
was woven much of the history oi
Montana. It led to battles betweer
great numbers of miners under
ground, occupied the courts of Mon
tana almost to the exclusion of al
other litigation and at last establish
ed the “apex” principle as the mining
i law of America. Subsequently the
Heinze and Daly interests were
merged and the conflict came to ar
end.
Mr. Clark’s property holdings ai
this time extended from Montana te
Southern Mexico and to France
They included the United Verde cop
per mine at Jerome, Ariz., a bee
sugar factory, bronze factory stean
and street railway systems, mininj
mills, timber lands, wire factory
power plants, business blocks am
mercantile establishments in severa
cities and banks and residences ii
New York, Paris and Butte, Montana
The man who was destined to im
press his individuality so strongl;
upon the West accumulated his firs
$1,000 sluicing gold on k placer clain
on Horse Prairie, Idaho. He bought
a mule team, traveled to Salt Lake
and “freighted” provisions back to
the miners. In 1867 he took a gov
ernment contract to carry mail from
Missoula, Montana, to Walla Walla,
Wash., about 400 miles away and on
two occasions made the greater part
of the journey on snowslioes.
Young Clark when teaching school
in 1859 and 1860 had applied himself
to the law and later followed this up
at Mt. Pleasant (Iowa) University
but he never entered the legal pro
fession. It was in 1862 that he quit
teaching school and drove an ox
team across the plains to the South
Park in Colorado. He worked in
the quartz mines at Central City un
til the next Spring when he joined
the gold seekers then flocking to
Idaho.
Clark’s fortune was what might be
called “comfortable” in 1872. He had
become interested in banking and
quartz mining in Butte and in that
year, when just 33 years old purchas
| ed an interest in the Criginal, Colu
sa, Mountain Chief and Gembetta
mines. Determined to know as much
as possible about the industry he
took a course at Columbia University
in assaying and analysis as well as
other complex branches of mining.
In 1876 he built what was said lo
be the first silver stampmill in Butte,
making the erstwhile mining camp,
for the time being, the greatest silver
producer in America. Thirty-five
. years later he helped make Butte one
of the world’s principle zinc camps.
What has been called the “magic
transformation” of Butte from a gold
camp to silver camp, silver to copper
and then merging to copper and zinc
with its by-products of gold, silver,'
lead and manganese, has been attrib
uted to Clark’s genius as much as to
any other factor.
An example of his determination
and persistence was afforded when,
through his friendship with the late
Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah, he
became interested in the construction
of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Salt Lake railway, a short cut line
. from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles,
Clark financed it personally and own
. ed more than 50 per cent of the
stock. Just after the road was com
pleted floods washed out great sec
tions of the roadbed, entailing a loss
of $16,000,000. Realizing the possi
bilities of the line in building up Ne
vada, Utah and California he poured
• his wealth a second time into the en
terprise and reconstructed the rail
■ road which now has been in success
ful operation several years.
i During the Nez Perce Indian upris
; ing of 1878, Clark organized a bat
, talion of volunteers and, as its ma
l jor, helped to quell the trouble. He
l was president of the Constitutional
i convention of Montana in 1884 and
. 1889 and was State commissioner
- from Montana to the New Orleans
7 Cotton Exposition in 1884. In 1890
t Democrats of Montana first nomin
t ated him for United States Senator
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was elected to the Upper House but
a factional contest was started in
Washington and before the investiga
tion ended he resigned, informing
the Senate that he would submit nis
case to the voters of Montana by im
mediately seeking re-election. Win
ning on the first ballot in the Legis
lature chosen on the sole issue of
“Clark or Anti Clark,” he served a
full term and then declined to be
a candidate again.
A devotee of golf, which he learn
ed to play after his 50th year, Sen
ator Clark’s other hobbies were art
and philanthropy. He owned a large
picture gallery including six panels
of Beauvais tapistries illustrating
the principal events in the lift of
Joan of Arc, alone worth $700,000.
One of his gifts to the city of
Butte was a public park known as
“Columbia Gardens,” a playground
abounding in flowers, landscapes,
picnic groves, baseball park, a zoo
logical collection and other recrea
tion features. Another was the Paul
Clark Home, a refuge for poor and
crippled children, built in memory of
a son who died in childhood. In
Los Angeles, Senator Clark built the
Mary Andrews Clark Home for
Working Girls in honor of his moth
er. In New York he maintained a
Kindergarten School named for one
of his other children who died early
in life.
In March 1869, Senator Clark mar
ried Miss Kate L. Stauffer of Con
nellsville, Pa. They had six child
ren, four of whom, Charles W. Clark,
of San Mateo, Calif.; W. A. Clark,
jr., of Butte, Mont.; and Mrs. Charles
Kling and Mrs. Dr. Morris, both of
New York, were living in 1919.
Mrs. Clark died Oct. 19, 1893, and
several years later Senator Clark
married Miss Anna LaChappelle. Two
daughters, Aindree and Huguette,
were born of this marriage.
HALIBUT PRICES.
KETCHIKAN, Mar. 2.—Halibut
prices today 7 and 3 cents.
The halibut market is badly shot
up on account of many cold storage
plants holding over several million
pounds until the first of the season.
The first boats into. Prince Rupert
got a fancy price, but later the larger
boats dumped several hundred thou
sand pounds on the market and it
dropped to eight cents.
SPECIAL MEETING OF PIONEERS
A special meeting of the local Igloo
of the Pioneers of Alaska will be held
tomorrow night, for the purpose of
electing delegates to the grand igloo
at Juneau. All members are request
ed to be present.
JOHN FLOWERS, Pres.
TIMES OF ANCHORAGE
TAKES OVER ALASKAN
ANCHORAGE, Mar. 2.—The morn
ing Alaskan ceased publication Satur
day when it was sold to the Anch
orage Times Publishing company.
The purchase price was not revealed.
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will give the May Day dance this year.
Plans are now being made to make
this one of the finest dances of the
season. Further information will be
given at a later date.
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