Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-03-11 | Page 8 | Cattle King of Nevada Pays Salt Lake a Visit

CATTLE KING OF NEVADA PAYS SALT LAKE A VISIT A. A C. C Cleveland Tells How Hov He M Made de Roosevelt An Honorary Member of Stockmen's Convention A. A C. C Clevel Cleveland nd one of oC the great cattlemen cattlemen cattlemen cat cat- of the Wrest West came to town to today today today to- to day and is lodged at the Kenyon He hails halls from Cleveland and Nev a little littletown littletown littletown town of his own his home ranch he taIls calls it and that was all it was before it grew into a thriving village Mr Cleveland is a man of unusual unusual importance in Nevada and on two oc occasions occasions oc- oc he stumped the State in cal cai campaigns Once he ran for Governor Governor Gov Gov- GovI I and members of a certain Legislature once also tried to give I him the United States in lieu of the whiskered hoary-whiskered Stewart but all aU his political ventures failed and do you know hes he's glad of it He has never said this fn in n words but his talk and nd m manner manner n sh show shw w it by Indirection and he would hardly deny It himself ci One e o of His Sto Stories i ies His His- anecdotes aneCdotes' of campaign times are amusing Here is one of them t It was while I i w was s running for Governor Gov Gov- said he I was down in a little littie little lit lit- tle tie place called St. St Elmo It was In the afternoon and a a number of ranch ranchmen men had gathered to take part in the political political cal eal demonstration of f the evening or to listen curiously and perhaps jeer when the political talk talk-fest got going An old Irishman whom I had never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen before in my life came up to me and said Ye air eh I told him I was and its it's often onen heard o 0 oye ye said he and about ye and how ye never tur away a hungry mon from ye house And they do be ahl spa kin well vell 0 o ye but ye-but but Mis 1 ther Well said I. I Old Oid bike t vote fer far yes Well W II said I again But t 01 Ol cant can't said he o 0 0 th name o Oi 01 cant can't abide ann anny wan wart be the same same name o 0 Grover Grove and akin t t th thO and maybe yere I told him that the were all of one family famili but that probably the relationship between n myself and Grover Grovel was very remote 1 Ah said h he but ye be a closter relation t th thO divil than ye think y r are t At the Denver Convention ti n. n t Cleveland attended the the recent Cattlemen's convention at Denver Deriver andIn and In a moment of lucky Inspiration pro proposed posed President Roosevelt as an honorary honorary honorary hono hono- member of or th the ass association The proposal was received with a storm of applause and the Pr President was duly notified T of his promotion among cattlemen cattlemen cattle cattle- men and in due course acknowledged the honor which he said he esteemed more highly than the average citizen would suppose on account of his former fo associations as a cowboy Mr lr Cleveland is undoubtedly q one of sn r J f the he greatest r breeders e of blooded I d cattle tt in all the great Western country and indeed in the whole United States His range extends almost clear across the State of Nevada and must cover about a million acres cres' of land while his stock I must number about half a million head He halls originally from Maine and came to California as a boy in February ary U 1858 II In Ill the spring ping of 63 he moved to Nevada and eng engaged ged In mining He lIe has been in the cattle business in Nevada Nevada Ne Nevada Ne- Ne vada for tor thirty-five thirty years