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Show HE BUILT HI8 OWN POORHOU8E. Queer Trick Which Fortune Played on a California Gold Miner. Tho Murphy family was very numerous num-erous In California In tho "days of 49." Somo members struck It rich In tho mines and held onto tholr fortunes, for-tunes, others wcro not bo lucky. Ono Murphy In particular Is romombcred by all tho old time miners. Ho mado a big fortune In tho gold mines nnd started to build a magnificent country rcsldenco near San Joso, tho noted fruit center of California. Tho elcganco of the placo was tho talk of thu wholo community. But ono day, to tho surpriso of his business associates, Murphy slapped a big mortgage mort-gage onto the property. Rates of Interest woro enormous In thoso dayB, and ns poor Murphy had been unablo to meet his payments, ono day tho beautiful home wont under tho auctioneer's hammer, nnd was bought at a great bargain by tbo county for Its' poorhouso. Things went from bad to worse with Murphy, and In a few years tho proud old Irishman was obliged to enter his old home as an Inmate, a county pauper. |