Show BRYANT BUTLER BROOKS NOW GOVERNOR OF WYOMING has succeeded through his own ef forts and now owns a acre ranch Is native of massachusetts boston of the many massachi Mass achu born leaders ot public life in western states the latest to rise to the eminence of executive of a state Is brant butler brooks governor ol 01 wyoming gov brooks was born in bernards ton mass and his early schooling was obtained in that little town ot 1 souls in the central part of the state when he was ten years old his par ants removed to chicago and there the lad grew up in the restless life ot the rapidly developing middle west As a young he knocked about all self made men must working as a farm hand and as a cow puncher and b way of diversion putting in d winter aa a trapper and hunter in wyoming he Is now one of the wealthiest men in the state besides being its gov arnor he Is interested in many corn mercial ventures and lives on a ranch of acres a little state in itself where he has 30 sheep thou sands of horned cattle and several hundred horses his hired men on his farm number 50 gov brooks Is interested in coal mining and in banking in wyoming in lumbering in mexico and in ship ping in maine gov brooks Is one of the sons of the late silas newton brooks and malessa minerva burrows brooks both of the best of new england stock the ta ther was clerk and treasurer of ber hardston nard ston for about 20 years he served in the house and senate gov brooks life has been one of ceaseless activity since he left home it the age of 18 he was 19 when he pulled freight in nebraska and went to wyoming as a cow puncher an exciting incident of those days was when he was sent with 26 other men to idaho to round up and bring to wyoming 2 head of cattle the party had literally to fight indians later young brooks worked as a cow puncher for mal wolcott who con trolled the V R outfit A little later he spent a winter alv ing alone in the section where the brooks ranch now Is trapping beaver and killing elk and other game in the spring he went to chicago with hid furs there he told his brother john of what i wonderful country wyoming was destined to be an 1 the brothel advanced money to make a start john brooks was then a traveling salesman on the road for a dry goods jobbing boston house bryant went back to wyoming and under the homestead act settled on acres of government land the first i purchase of cattle was 68 heifers the future governor built a log cabin and grew up with the country abaz angly fast the cabin Is still pre served on the ranch now as a por tion of the assets of halt a million dot lars the brooks ranch has one of tho finest ranch houses in the state artificially lighted with gas and fine ly equipped in every way even when roughing it mr brooks read much and added to his store of general information he was first elected to the wyoming legislature in 1892 four years later he was a delegate to the national re publican convention at st louis and stumped wyoming for mckenley mr brooks was first elected gov arnor in 1904 his administration was very successful out in wyoming the women vote as well as the men and gov brooks is popular with both sexes he ian far ahead of bis ticket when he was elected the second time he is entirely without frills he does not take kindly to a silk hat and much prefers the black oft slouch lat dont introduce me as a gov arnor he says to his friends cut that sort of thing out he likes to ride in the smoking cars and get in touch with plain people I 1 am one of that kind be says he is an enghu blastic mason and has taken 33 de grees in cheyenne there la a fine masonic temple in which he takes much pride |