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$5,000 For StanfieldThirty-seven years ago, MilosLee worked in Portland as alaborer at fifty cents a day. -This winter he contributed 15*000 to the Robert N. Stanfieldcampaign fund. He is now alank, grizzled, drooping mous* 1 tached sheep man of Raker county, where in 1883 he work- Ied with pick and shovel on (the ( O. K N grade construction Iami saved enough money from i his wages to buy an interest in I t little hand of sheep. He lived iin the mountains with the I4heep, und li nill Iy got 250 head 11 of his own. He is still living 1 with Ins sheep* owning nom» i15,000 head. Mm| IA a nearly as we can ascertain, I this $5,000 contribution is the I second time in Lee's life that U he took a chance with his ] money. The other time was ' once when he came in from the I hills and had only fifty cents } cash. He met a one armed gam bier and struck him for a loan ' of $1.50 so he could pay for ] supper, bed ami breakfast. The I gambler took him to his faro Igame and told him to play his J entire fortune of fifty cents on Ithe high rard# Lee was ! **ve« r« eurofulM with his money I
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Portland Saint Johns Review
Portland, Oregon, US
Fri, Mar 22, 1918
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