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Show lie Was A Copper. Whether it is well-earned prestige or rugged notoriety that has put Phil O'-Kourke O'-Kourke among the foremost of Idaho's wire pullers and politicians there is a chapter in his career that again demonstrates demon-strates what pluck, perseverence and a bank roll can do for statesmanship. "Why I knew O'Kourke," piped a dispenser of Hie nutritious this morning "when he was as poor and obscure as auy of us. Many's the time wc have patrolcd a night beat in Leadville Lead-ville when the mercury was trying to force itself out of the bottom of the tube while the snow was up to our knees. That was in '78-9, and salaries were not so munificent either. He quit the camp in the last named vear after making a stake on Fryer" hill, and since that time the deal has been coming com-ing his way. He's a plucky fellow, though, and it looks now as if he was going to get on top." Mr. O'Kourke is well known among the Colorado contingent and his movements move-ments are being closely watched. . |