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Show CLARK IS ELECTED. Tho Butto Millionaire Wins the United Stated Senatorship. Helena, Mont., Jan. 30. On the seventeenth ballot the Montana legislature legis-lature elected W. A. Clark of Butte, United States senator to succeed the lion. Lee Mantel. The vote was 54 for Clark, 27 for Conrad, 4 for Marshall and 4 scattering. Of those who voted for Clark, 11 were Republicans. William A. Clark is 50 years of age, a native of Connellsville, Fayette county, coun-ty, Pennsylvania. In 1S5G his parents moved to Van Bnren county, Iowa, where the senator-elect farmed and pursued his schooling. lie studied law, but never practiced. In 1SG3 he crossed the plains, driving a team and locating at South Park, Colo. Mr. Clark was one of the first to reach Bannock, Mont., on the discovery discov-ery of gold there in 1SG3, driving an ox team. His Montana career began with merchandizing, but he soon got into mining, in which most of his vast fortune was acquired. Mr. Clark is the largest individual owner of copper mines and smelters in the world, his principal properties being iu Butte, Mont., and Jerome Ariz. lie has extensive beet sugar interests in-terests in California, and a large copper cop-per wire works at Elizabethport, N. J. He has a plantation of 33,000 acres in Mexico, devoted to growing coffee, tea, tobacco and rubber. His net income for 1S9S was not far from SlO.000,000. |