| Show I IT I it loll ll All Au n Idalio Convict a tt Fortune From Oil OH flay Gardner who vho ho U is very Cr well known In n this Is said to have hae made a 0 a In oil In California He Be was 11 in Hol liaise gome time ago ngo Inv leav lag ns for the th oil fields a week since The fact of oC his making a n fortune there was Ial disclosed ed yesterday S 8 the thus Boise Dolse Statesman There Is an Interest lag nc history hi tory In connection with Carder Card Oard Mr her er It U will b be remembered that was wits sent ent nt to the penitentiary from Crom mm Ada da count county serving t a n term tum of ot two ear for tor forgery tor r Upon rel f he went to o Mr Io ole y who 00 wa vs wh when n ni he i wg ws nt up anti asked for Cor some Borne kind of ot employment till he could coul l work rork He lIe wag tas allowed to do odd odI Jobs for tor the sheriff for hi 1 s board In ina ft II week he lie told Mr Ir Masey Iu t that Sher Sherman man milan Coilin had given him t IS 5 to assist utH hint him on the way wa and muti that he hue h believed It best Jest to leave 1 Ia 1 hits hi wife ife having secured a divorce and he h fet felt ft t downcast Mr Ir Moseley Mosele loBele gave va him another JO 10 and amI he heft Ifft not being heard from Crom since ico till a couple of ot weeks weaks ago ngo the middle of ot last month n ct well lit di U seed saed and nine nIce appearing stranger at It the this Moseley Mole residence ard ud for tor Mr Ir Being told he was not at home horne he asked Mrs Mope Moge Icy ley Ie If IC she h knew 1 him anti her surprise WM las I great when he hp said eald he ht was Hay Itay Gardner Gard nor norlie He lie said while here hare In talking with withold withold withold old friends that h he karl hat gone from Crom this city to California After Alter trying to se secure secure secure cure work nt at different places he hue at nt last d d In getting n it place mince at nt a 1 placer mine doing doln very en well Veil though working for tor wages Then the oil excitement came ome on und emil lie he drifted Into the tho Held fields Work ork was as plentiful so AO ho he had no trouble In malting n it living A little later hater he ho secured a II piece place nf of o ground day after otter that this land hand Increased In value with oil being struck on all shIes sides He lie not It hut but would not i soil sell ell Prices kept going higher and I higher till nt at last some Borne months ago ngo he hI h was os offered he lie stilted stated cash for Cor the land Ho lie concluded to let It go arid and sold Bold for tor or that price Gardner gave no Intimation while here of ot what ho lie should do In the fu future future ii ture tore but said that the mono money would put pint him In rasp ease for the future and antI that he h Intended BO so Investing It that there would woul be hip practically no mo possibility p ity It of ot lots Jo hos s He lie hits huis n a number of ot Include friends here brie who will be bo pleased plea sOlI nt at his success |
