| Show SENATOR GEORGE C PERKINS TO RETIRE the announcement a tow few days ago b by y senator george C perkins that he will retire from public life iko brings to its close a remarkable career born on a little farm near kenno bunk port me ale mr perkins ran away from home when lie he was about 13 years yeara old he took to tile tho sea as aa a maine maico boy naturally would shipping chipping as cabin boy on a ship at new orleans find and sailed the seas in 1855 he shipped before the mast on the good ship galatea and sailing round the horn eventually landed in san francisco here the gold fever seized him and ho he abandoned the sea for the mining camps fortune frowned for many a year and he was glad to find work of any kind to earn his bread he was a teamster a minor miner a storekeeper in rough mining camps anything indeed that came to hand at last lie he accumulated en enough money to own hla his own team and bo became a boss freighter i then fortune tired ot of frowning maled and soon mr ajr perkins became a itch man even as aa r rich ch men we were reread red ii in er vlorie 01 L t wj y iu |
