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Show i LEADVILLE, COLO. 1 i ii William A. Hennessey Is very sick at his home Vith pneumonia. Mike Cullen met with a severe accident acci-dent at the A. V. smek-M' Monday, which necessitated his removal to the Sister's hospital. Cullon was employed as a furnaceman, and was standing near a traveling motor which bun.ped against a slap pot Cullen was caught between the two and was terribly bruised end burned. Kis right leg was broken in two places. Th injured man had been working ac th3 smelter for seventeen years. He has a wife and four children. A stenographer may become a millionaire mil-lionaire without marrying one. Miss .Mollie O'Bryan of Cripple Creek, for merly a stenographer in Lake city, Colo., is now mistress of thousands of dollars, as she once was master of the art of shorthand. She owns considerable consider-able land in the Cripple Creek district, is president of several companies, besides be-sides being extensively interested in mines in California and Nevada. Ten years ago Miss O'Bryan was working for a small salary in Lake City when a friend in Cripple Creek wrote her to come there where competent compe-tent work brought a high price. For some time she was engaged in writing out contracts and options for the mining min-ing men of the greatest gold camp on the globe. Soon she began to make a few investments for herself and her keen insight aided her In making the right ones. She bought stocks; they advanced in value and in a short time her bank account was sufficiently large to buy property. Then came the organization or-ganization of stock companies. |