| Show r DIED AND UNSUNG IQ er for t tP Tomb of Millionaire Rio Flies a nae lon n How the r His U Ort Gnat Fortu Of u W Was Md nl William M I Rice whose death In t because ot of th the peculiar ud it hall caused such a to toT T In isa or thereabouts thereabout In those days Texas wa a 1 lid place Th The veneer of II only In spots pot It w wu tIM of man many and sturdy It ins R also allO an asylum for or 1 hu ho had shaken the dust ot of their native nath tats from their shoes hou and under air that would not bear III says YI the Nw blew York herald heraldIC I IC r II a nan man hud had the mIsfortune to 10 kill cut man In New York rk or Kentucky r Tennessee In those thole time he generally bl his name and emigrated to toTi Ti x as who was WOM then known u HIt drifted Into the then you young corn com 0 of and where I now run a shoe moo store tre II he opened a Ife He dispensed the best liquor t titie Itle was at sItI Id and upstairs he eon oon oona S a faro game ame with lIh poker and trimmings Hf He soon saved lAd money to enable him to embark In II a mote mort respectable In fact of th the pre present mt of Iuston or their fathers were Wert a great t ilk like Hire they were Ire of the earth rUI anti and scry ery earthy They peddled J t ts the thc d buns bun and old chose boa lOt Ihl acre ff not lit at all particular what bat they Iller iii al king D as they made madl money Hilly Rice up the taro Sara it II x olI the la layout out hi en cit enI citI I er r UI as a merchant there Was 11 no shrew der mart n In Buying cotton antI ancl calling 11 i rl ris fry good etc ett ii 11 en n a oo tor tI 1 Ii ran a general store ture In hi II rl r Lhing AI old poid including red It was U the latter laUer Item chiefly that thaI mad mude the place popular with th Rice wa was always willing t ti them as manT than found ut I to their sorrow orrow H Re took too un on ponies and fin on land In fact he the J pioneer tr pawnbroker and sa rOI 01 I 1 II tees u as on any ever portrayed It Itne WaS ne 11 y ye fr ff an eye with him anI and i or th r hI hi always came out ut ahead In an transaction hi he hilot lot got In lot lothen hen thip t till ii II way ar broke out Riot Rice lid 1 not It g wi with th the Itt nor did bl se sego lit go II a th Ih lie slunk away a to Meiro thre he bought blockaded it 1 nI i nt liI It tl to Europe fully a hen the war close he bl Id had I to Texas and began a flo tying Ii joined th Tri I itt of f th the houston Cent I iii j d anti wint ut Li New York and ancl 4 I ti III the financing ot of the I great benefit Jo Ier ii h turned to gold old He be ani II a lOr er financially and he could wk or III break Alan Along about th the year Rr t hl his brother F A RIce Ries W was iii or ct the Ihl houston savings bank This bank owed Id him and hI be 1 lawn Iown on o hi his own on brother hIm Ilk like nn an e egg shell and made ninny 1 it foci the of his hili hll HI lf was 1111 the first t ti 1 1 a h ho Is II absolutely un honored unsung There I is none non so 10 poor hUt here a as tu U do 10 him reverence |
