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Show lElVIT OF OSCEOLA l DYIilC AI EL! John Breekcnridge, Supposed Son of the Famous Democratic Demo-cratic Statesman. Special to The Trlburir. ELY, Nov., Aug. 25. Patiently waiting for the final summons, John Breckenridge. an octogenarian, is lying at the county hospital, steadily refusing to disclose Ids history. Although one of the pioneers of While Pino county little is known of him, but it is believed he Is a son of John C. Brcckenndge, the famous Kentucky Ken-tucky statesman of the anto-bellum days. Breckenrldge enme here forty years ago. and since that time has been a recluse, re-cluse, living most of his life in a squalid cabin near Osceola. Of lino Htature and magnetic character he has avoided contact con-tact with his neighbors, and until a year ago boasted but. one friend. That friend was John Winner, a saloonkeeper, after whose death the old man tolerated no visitors. Ho has never . received mail nor sent any. and never permitted any one to question him as to the past. It is believed that he is undoubtedly the son of the man who was at one time Vice-President of the Nation, and once Democracy's candidate for tho office of President. What drove him into the solitude of a hermit's life Is not knowu. He spent many years In placer mining. |