"EREWBTER" IN REAL LIFE. The town of vSt. Joseph, Michigan, has a, real Montague Brewster in the person of Jack West, a young man twenty-four years old, who has made himself n quadruple* millionaire in the Nevada goldfiekls.' He has so much money that ho is said to bo disgusted with life because ho cannot got rid of it. Ho intends visiting London in the spring. , Mr. West returned to his old homo this week with his pockets' filled with lOOOdol. bills. The first thing ho did when ho stepped olf the boat was to begin negotiations for tho purchaso of the whole city, and when ho was told that it was not for sale he began to flood' tho streets with cluimpagno, and set the urchins of tho city in a frenzy by rolling ydol. gold pieces down tho pavement for them to chase. "I want to die poor," said tho restless young millionaire, "but at the rato I am going 1 will iiavo a harder timo of it than Andy Carnegie." The gold mine owned by young West nets him £1400 a day.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1907, Page 11
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