SUICIDE OF A MINE KING
To Get Rid of Wife Creede, Colorado’s
Croesus, Takes Poison.
HAD’AGREED TO LIVE APAR'I
When She “ranted to Come Back to Him,
the Multimilllonalre Killed Himself.
Story of Sudden Acquisition
of Fabulous wealth.
Los Angeles, July 14.—-—Nicholas C
Creede, the millionaire mine owner, aft-
er whom the town of Creede, 0010., is
named, committed suicide with mor-
phine at his home in this city.
He ended his life because his wife,
from whom he had separated, insisted
upon renewing their married relations.
On Jan. 4 last Creede and his wife
separated and agreed to dissolve at once
as far as possible without legal process
their marital bonds. .
Mrs. Creede accepted $20,000 cash and
surrendered all further claims upon her
husband, at the time voluntarily with-
drawing from premises.
It was understood that after the nec-
essary time elapsed Creede would insti-
tute legal proceedings and begin suit
for absolute divorce.
At that time it appeared that both
husband and wife were well satisfied
that they were not required to maintain
marital relations, and while Mrs. Creede
considered that the amount of cash set-
N. C. CREEDE.
tled upon her was insignificant as com-
pared with her-husband’s Wealth, she
left him and took up her home in Ala-
bama. -
About three weeks ago Mrs. Creede
returned to Los Angelcs and proposed
to her husband a reconciliation.
This was much to Creede’s distaste,
and he endeavored to avoid his wife,
but being unsuccessful he determined
to end his life.
He took a large dose of morphine and
went into the garden to die. He was
discovered by a servant, and medical
aid was summoned, but he died tWO
hours later.
Mrs. Creede was notified of her hus-
band’s death, but declined to discuss
the tragedy.
The 2-year-old child of Edith Walters
Walker, the actress, adopted .by Creede
over a year ago, is in the care of his
friends at Escondido.
Creedc’s Met’eoric Career.
N. C. Creede, scout, Indian fighter,
miner and millionaire, was born near
Fort Wayne; Ind., in 1843.
His parents moved to Iowa soon aft-
er, and the boy was forced to begin at
an early age to hustle for himself.
’Dhat was a time and place well fitted
for the progress of enterprising men.
Weaker natures were crushed by hard-
ship, competi’tion and peril, but Creede’s
nature was not of that sort.
At the age of 19 he entered the gov-
ernment service as attache in the quar-
tet-master’s department. Tiring of the
dull routine and work there, Creede
changed his occupation and became 'a
government scout.
Many and thrilling were his adven-
tures among the hostile Indian tribes,
and the tale oflhis hairbreadt‘h escapes
would read like a blood and thunder
novel. He received in the scouting
service the rank of first lieutenant in
the regular army.
When temporary peace came, Creede
longed for change, and went back to
the states. Seven years of wild fron-
tier life, however, ‘had unfitted him for
such work as could be found there and
in 1870 he returned to Colorado.
Just then the gold craze broke out in
the Black Hills, and Creede turned
prospector. '
His First. Strike.
For eight years he served a hard and
bitter apprenticeship in gold hunting
and reaped but meager results.
Then he struck the Bonanza mine
and in one year made $20,000. With
this capital he turned his attention to
silver mining. believing it more profit-
able than grubbing for gold.
He began operfitions in the wildest,
rickiest part of Colorado—the Garitha
country. In June, 1880, he made his
greatest find there.
From an exclamation made by one of
his assist}; "s at sight of the rich silver
vein he n3“ 7 the place “Ho y Moses.“
More am; _...:-re inines dame hfs way
and he became .known as .a power
among western financiers. Creede,
0010., .was named for him in token of
one of his many successes.
Mr. Creede’s income in 1892 was esti-
mated at $1,000 a day.
His name was mentioned among the
small list of men who were said to‘bwn
the great Silver trust. He was said
during tlze past campaign to be worth
_ $3,000,003.
Actor Ratclifl‘e Pleads Not Guilty.
New York, July 14.—Edward J. Rat-
cllffe, the actor who was brought here
from Chicago to answer an indictment
for assaulting his wife, pleaded not
guilty before Judge Newburger in gen-
eral sessions today. Mr. House, w‘h‘o ap-
peared for him, made nomotion to reduce
the bail as had been anticipated. The
bail had been fixed at $5,000.
Senator Harris’ Body at Memphis.
Memphis, Tenn., July 14.—-The funeral
train bearing the body of Senator Har-
ris arrived in this city today. At Nash-
ville‘the Washington party was joined.
”by Governor Taylor and many stdte offi-
cials. The Confederate veterans acteo
, father was Postmaster of the place f0]
as an escort of honor. The body was
taken to the First Methodist church tr .
lie In state. a.
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DRABBQTT AS A BOY._
THE LEARNED DIVINE TELLS OF A
PURITAN HOME.
Ills Recollection Pot Church and Sundaz
School, and of the Minister and Choir—
Amusing Things that Find a Parallel in
the Clxildlmnd or Others.
Dr. Lyman Abbott writes in Youth’r
Companion: AS I look backward to
boyhood I see a Collection of dissolving
views, of whose order I am not sure,
and whose outlines are seen very
dimly, as though the light which,
threw them on the screen were poor
and weak. .
Here is the village church. The
preacher is large, coarse-featured
man, whose facial cxpression,if trained
for the stage, would have made his
fortune in comedy and farce.
~ The church had been recently paint-
ed, nnd the paint refused to dry. The
ladies’ dresses and the gentlemen’s
pantaloons stuck to it, and there was 2
mild cracking sound all over the
church when the congregation arose.
For protection, newspapers had been
spread down upon the seats and over
the backs of the pews. Many a Sun-
day during the long sermon I used to
occupy my mind with an endeavor to
decipher the printing which had been
left on the painted back of the pew
before me.
The Puritan minister would have
been shocked at the suggestion of a
ritual, but he used one of his own com-
posing, though not for the “long
prayer.” That served in lieu of a vil-
lage newspaper; .we had none in those
days. But the good pastor always told
the Lord the gossip of the week; who
was married, who was sick, who had
died, and who had gone on a journey,
and who had come home from one.
He preceded the information with,
“Thou knowcst, 0 Lord,” and occa-
sion-ally aroused in my childish mind
the question, “Vhy, since the Lord
knows, need Parson Rogers tell Him?”
The choir was reinforced by a small
orchestra. There was a bass—Viol and
a. violin, perhaps two, and a flute.
Reed organs were unknown, and not
till long after did the church get a
pipe organ.
At the last hymn we all stood up
and turned about, with our backs to
the minister and our faces to the choir.
Then, when we turned back, what a
clatter of p w doors and rattle of
hymn books in their racks, and rustle
and clatter of gathered huts and coats,
as an accompaniment to the benedic-
tion!
It used to strike. my boyish fancy
that the minister was saying, “Now?-
one to make ready; two to prepare;
three to start and four to get there.”
As he finished, half the congregation
was already started in the race for the
church door.
The Sunday school. Of course there
was no Sunday schoolroom, no black
board, no Internation Lesson Helps.
While the men gathered outside the
church doors to talk crops, and the wo-
men in the church porch to talk gos-
sip, we children were “cor-railed” for
half an hour or more (if—religion? NOI
I hardly think religion; rather theol-
ogy.
Yet I have no unpleasant recollecv
tion of that Sunday school, but a pleas-
ant ~ impression of the teacher. He
was a mild man, of strict conscience
but tender heart; more severe by far
with himself than with any one else.
On the whole, my recollections of the
New England Sunday are almost
wholly agreeable. Were my Sundays
so much pleasanter than those of
other Puritan boys? Or does my kind-
ly memory forget the wear-incss, and
recall only the cheerful features?
‘Two, at all events, it does recall.
One, the quiet Sunday evening walk
up into the pasture. Were there cows
we went for? Perhaps; I do not re-
member the cows, but I remember the
boiling spring, and the hill on which
we sat and looked off over the village,
and the setting sun. '
The sunsets were never so gay in
color as on Sunday evening, and the
air was never so full of a-swect peace,
and in it all and through it all—some
how heaven seems-d near—and mother.
Mother! she had died some years be-
fore, and I was living at grandfather’s
Mother was to me as the Virgin Mary
to a devout Roman Catholic.
I had not learned yet to love Christ,
and fiod was an awful magistrate, l
was told, who saw everything I did
and Said and thought. How I wished
He did "not!
No one ever told me, “Thou, mother,
seest me." But I used to fancy thal
she did; and what an inspiration and
what a protection that fancy was tc
me!
Then, when the sun had set behind
“Old Blue,” we went home; and all
the family, -.grandfather and grand
mother and aunts and brother—there
was no sister, and no mother, and
fpther was far' away in‘NeW York
city—gathered'in the sitting-room. IVE
sang the old familiar tunes that are
well-nigh forgot-ten new—“Lenox”
and “Barby” and “Olmutz” and “ seb-
ren”-each in turn selecting his hymn.
Then grandfather ‘prayed, and the
Sunday was over, sun I went to bed-—
hushed and quiet, but with a genuine
joy in my heart.
8.
While QueenVictoria has been ruling
Great Britain, Hannah Brewer of Bit
you, in Gloucestershira, has been de
livering the village mail, trampinag
eleven miles a day for Sixty years. SIM
has just retired on a pension at the age "
ofv72 years with a record of a quarte:
of a million miles trudged on fact. He:
fifty-seven years.
-Girl~—A than can’t lOok mo in the
face and t.‘ll what is false.
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' IAN MACLAREN'LIKES AMERICANS:
He Thinks Their Hospitality Exceeds that
of the Britishers.
Hospitality is also the essence of
courtesy. and every visitor to the States
agrees with his neighbor—however he
may differ about other things—that the
American has revived the ancient
Eastern idea and acclimatized it in
the West. [After a journey in the New
World, one returns home convinced
that we do not know how hospitality
spells in Europe, and smitten to the
heart with repentance. ,When a strain-
ger comes to us with a letter, we re-
ceive him with calm civility, hope that
he has had a good passage, inquire
What he wishes to See in our country,
map out his route for him, ask him to
a meal, and let him go with a modest
disclaimer that he has given us any
trouble. If one of us goes over to
America, not knowing half a dozen
people on the whole continent, letters
of hospitality arrive before we start;
they are brought on board your steam-
er with the pilot; they are delivered on
the landing stage; they are lying on
the table at your rooms, and they all
come to the same thing—that you will
stay in a hotel at your peril, and that
you and your belongings-it is hoped
two boys may be with you as well as
your wife—must come at once to the.
writer’s house.
If you have an iron will and a pro-
found conviction thnt your arrange-
ments prevent you being a proper
guest—for a guest has his duties as
Well as a hostw—you may deny yourself
the pleaseure of private hospitality,
but you will have to fight your way, so
to say, to the hotel. And if you are a
guest you will be received at the sta-
tion—we allow visitors to make their
own way to our houses—and welcomed
by the whole family as if you were of
the same blood, or at least friends of
twenty years’ standing; and you will
be driven Over the whole district or
city, and your host will be at your dis-
posal as if he had nothing to do—yet
judges, university men, merchants and
editors have some engagements—and
you will. depart laden with roses and
goodwill.
One is not quite sure whether to ad-
mire most of all the grace or tact or
spontaneity or completeness of h0Spi-,
tality among our kinsfolk; but that for
which one is most grateful, and which
counts dearest, is the genuine kindness.
The Americans are a kind people, and
they are not ashamed to allow it to be
seen.
What lends a peculiar character to
American manners is their genuine and
attractive simplicity; and the traveler
does feel that his ideal of demo-
cratic citizenship has been in one par-
ticular, at least, realized. In one way
it strikes the foreigner that the States
lose by not having a leisured ruling
class, with traditions of public service,
of incorruptible honor, of trained
statesmanship. In another ’way, the
States gain by counting all their citi-
zens eligible for public duty, because
the rulers are not a caste, do not give
themselves airs, are affable and acces-
sible—The Outlook.
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THE * MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE“ [:U.
A RICHARD A. McOURDY, Resident. .
Statement tor-III Year Endinr December ‘3Isl,’ I89. A *
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York. .
k ,1 INCOME,
Received for I’remiums
From all Other Sources
$ 39,593,4l4 20
I0,l08,28l 07
$ 49,702,695 27
DISBURSEMENTS,
'l'o Policy-holders for Olaims by Death
To Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc.
3 I2,595,II3 39
‘ I2,842,456 II
IO,TOI,005 54
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$36,2IO,515 I4
ASSETS.-
Uniied Slates Bonds and other Securiiie
First lien Loans on Bond andNorIgage
Loans on Stocks and Bonds
Real Estate
Oash in Banks and Trust Oonipanies ..
Accrued Interest, NeI Deferred Premiums, eIc- -
For All Other Accounts
s I I O,l25,002 I4
1|,543,929
ll,09l,52 00
22,161,666 60
I2.000.390 00
6,535,555, 06
$ 234,744, 48 82
205,0”.633 12
s Lyssa—1]
s OIO.698.338 45
Reserve for Policies. and other Liabilities
Surplus ..
Insurance and Annuities in force
G
I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct
liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor-
From the Surplus a. dividend will be apportioned as usual
£1
Report of the Examining Committe c.
Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
TO THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE ‘ OOMPANY OF NEW YORK
The undersigned, a Committee apppointed by your honorable body on the twenty.
third day of December, I896, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company, an J
verify the same, respectfully
REPORT ‘
nt to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have at various dates betweent . ate of the
d the date of this Report attended at the oflice of the Company, and have been waited on by the Treasurer
the Auditor and and the Cashier, together with the the respective assistants or such officers, and have care:
11 the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be correct. They have examined
tificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared the price at which the
same are carried in said Statement with the market quotations and find the same not exceeding such quotations—in fact in
many cases below them. They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real property held by the Company
and find the same to be as stated. They have also verified the valuations of the Company’s holdin gs of real estate and havé
verified the deposits of mOney in the venous banks and trust companies, and have counted the cash on hand held by the
‘ ier.
cashAnd the Committee certify that all the books, papers. documents and evidences of title of every description necessary in
such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said oflicers and their assistants, and that the same are
accurate, in good order and well kept. . .
And the Committee further certify that the Investments of the Company are of a high order, and that the system and
methods adopted by the Company In recording its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation
A11 f h- h ,5 ,e, ectfully submitted ROBERT OLYPHANT J. HOBART HERR
o w 1c P JAMES N. JARVIE CHARLES D. DloEEIiz, JR.
JAMES C. HOLDEN CHARLES R. HENDERSON
That, pursua
said reference an
the Comptroller,
fully gone over a
and counted every cer
NEW YORK. JANUARY 25, 1897.
The company has issued anorder whereby women can be insured Without the extra
charge heretofore required. More definite information on the subject will be furnished by
the local agent, Mr. A H. Camp. .
Board of Trustees
GEORGE 'G. HAVEN
ADRIAN ISELIN J R:
GEORGE S. BOWDOIN
Time. A. HAVEMEYER
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY
WILLIAM ROCKEEELLER
JAMES N. JARVIE
CHAS D. DICKEY JR.
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
HENRY H. ROGERS
JNO. W AUCHINCLCSS
THEODORE MORFORD
WILLIAM BABCOCK
- STUYVESANT FISH
AUGUSTUS D. JUILLIARD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER B GILLETTE
H. WALTER WEBB
FREDERIC CROMWELL
J ULIEN T. DAVIES
ROBERT SEWELL
S, V. Lt. CRUGER
CHARLES R. HENDERSON
RUFUS W. PECKHA'M
J. HOBART HERRICK'
WM P DIXON
ROBERT A. GRANNISS
-. ROBERT A GRANNISS Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. '
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. ' HENRY E. DUNCAN, JR,'CorreSpo£ding Secretary
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ALBERT KLAMBOTH, Assistant Secretary
. FBEDERIC CROMW ELL, Treasurer.
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAM-ES TIMI’ SON. 2 Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P, SANDS, Cashier, EDWARD P. HOLD , Assistant Cashier.
EMORY MCCLINTOCK, Actuary. ,
JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary. ' - ,
CHARLES A, PBELLEB, Auditor. _ WILLIAM W. RICHARDS,” Comptroller.-
O. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, ASsistant Auditor. . HENRY 8. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller
JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. ,
ED“ ARD LYMAN SHORT. General Solicitor.
' MEDICAL DIRECTORS: . .
ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D' GRANVILLEMAWHITE, D} f.
SAMUEL D. BABCOCK
RICHARD A. MCCURDY
JAMES C. HOLDEN
HERMANN C. VON POST
LEWIS MAY .
OLIVER HARRIMAN
ROBERT OLYPHAN'I
GEORGE F. BAKER .
DUDLEY OLCOT'IL
'GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D.
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