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...Reno."' June 15, "True to the canons of Wild Bill Hickok and Kit Carson. . . ." Every western writer of "westerns" knows that Hickok was a two-gun law man; one of the genuine gun fighters of the West. That Kit Carson was a "mountain man" of the fur trader period; a time before the gunslinging, gunfighting period when "Colt was King" at Dodge...
...height of the social season, he inherited a background and outlook by no means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock and timber land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate...
Died. Alfred Aloysius Smith (Trader Horn), 76, after a brief illness; at Whitestable, England...
...last attempt to escape; had it not been for the alcohol he carried with him he might have succeeded. Encamped one night with a Chukchi herder Zenzinov foolishly gave him some alcohol to drink. The Chukchi liked it so much he kept Zenzinov a prisoner until a Russian trader came along, rescued him. By that time the authorities had their eye on Zenzinov again; he gave up hope, served out his term...
...Higginson & Co. Banker Kreuger will likewise become a member of International's executive committee. An artist in the world of finance, Herr Kreuger is especially versed in the subtle business of dealing with governments. He negotiates loans for them and in return gets rich concessions. Canny trader of the North, he is an ideal ally for the French-&-Danish blooded Behns in flinging their communication net over the world. And just as henceforth Kreuger & Toll's great banking resources will prob ably be available for the International system, Herr Kreuger will come closer to alliance with...