AMERICA'S MILLIONAIRE OWNER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2429, 3 October 1900, Page 40

AMERICA'S MILLIONAIRE OWNER.

Mr James R. Keene has, it is said, bought a house in London, and intends to reside in England permanently. He p. as born in London in lS5d; went with his family to California, and was there a miner and then a speculator in mining stock. In the great "Bonanza" silver boom of the- &eventies he made six million dollars. At this time, thou-'n president of the San Francisco Stock Exchange, he longed for fresh worlds to conquer, and so wont to New York, and allied himself with that prince of gamblers, the late Jay Gould. Very soon Keene'b fortune had risen to fifteen million dollars. He loat the whole oi that sum ten years later m an attempt to corner the wheat market. But he returned to Wall street, and is said to have made and lost at least four fortunes. The ups-and-downs of his fortune may be gathered iiom the fact that a year or two after he had been knoivn in England and America as the millionaire owner of the racehorse Foxhall,, a run of bad luck came, and Mr Kecne testified in court that he possessed no properly, and was dependent en his wife's income. One of his latest deals was in IC9B, when he made a million and a-quarter dollars in tobacco in a week. His son, Mr Foxhall Eeene, is known both in England and America as a racehorse owner, a hard r±dey_ to hounds, and a good pol\ player. His father's famous racer was named aftei 1 him.