Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-18 | Page 4 | What a Poor Boy Can Do

I j WHAT A POOR BOY . j CAN DO. ! There died in San Francisco, on Sat urday night, ono of the greatest of ! western men, Henry Miller. What he - ! accomplished seems Impossible. When a young fellow, he left Germany, landed land-ed in New York without a dollar, en-' en-' I tered a butcher shop as a roustabout, und then started to mould a career al most unequaled in courage and ability. abil-ity. During the gold excitement in California, he was drawn to San Francisco, Fran-cisco, where ho opened a butcher shop. From butcher he became a cat- j tie dealer and livestock raiser, and then land owner. When he died, he - I was known as the Cattle King of the i United States. His land holdings to- ! taled 14,539,000 acres, extending from . i southern California and Arizona to the ' I Canadian line. He could drive a herd j of cattle from the Mexican border to : 1 M Canada and every night camp on his j own ground. : i His estate Is estimated at over S0.. ! ! 000,000, his ranches covering much of i j j the best land on the Pacific coast. A green German boy, handicapped ; I by customs and language, who can I i push to. the front as did Henry Miller ' j I j must have been possessed of wonder- M i ful native ability. The average Amer- j ican boy. with all the advantages of birth, deems himself fortunate, if ho I ! does not drop so far behind in the ; struggle of life as to become engulfed ! ! j by the oncoming waves of adversity.