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BUILDER’S CAREER ISEVENTFULhcmm\ji\, New* Huy, Tuilor, P*n-MiotiT, Hof r 111-0111, 'Imut, Bucket nnd (ilotH* Tr»i(MT| Make( |i Purl nf -letlfrlM**uStowaway, fl|v« «hoy, HiBm, ptnmotor. pucker, horr*t*iniifi, hut* I i»n-pHotof, milter and KloVfti fruiter. HUiiiH up tin* tilt; ilviii»‘H nf llutth Q'Kam# builder of Ho* m w fl'Kiino building. Mr U hnm tn willing to r»l| almost anything about hiinilt;e1f«xropt hi* ago, and that hi n fuaca to divulge.In hi* truly youth, the pasta mi sccties of County am rim, Ire-land, where be was burn* no longer hud fusrl nations for ibis youth(I'Kum- At no ourH «»-■ ho wuh beulen^d by I hi desire to go. lie did hot mil It travel. (I*- had a long I nit for 1 li»* water and left hi* Irish hnm»\ utole sway to t*»« k ntid, a4 a stowaway, shipped from Llv* r-pcKtl. h! 11 kluilit S-verul month* w**r«* irm*iun*ii in rumbling about die PortugiteHi and Hi»fn» S^ti coasts Young O'Kune ndiirmd in a diip'sball agniil to Liverpool, rind by the jioth f rlnii route covered a consider* able part of Knghind SHU r» iI« kh,O'Kruto, with Heveral lud* a In ml liln own ago, stowed away again at l.iv i rpnnl, Thoughtless of an\ dealt nation, the boys nek** up one morning In New York harbor liny wisedthenno'tveit up tot to the method* of evading tin- * mdoni* nffh era and landed nuhore during the 11 Iff ill Kven In thorn* day it New York *,» pot mo h a Ninnll lt;:lly* i«ud yriuthfill Hugh In wa« compelled imnndhitidy to look (or it 11 vcltiniprl, for he hadDO pe IIlib1* III hlM pocket.8hiiiInn horjti on Bluer ker ntno t i-ad ** lino: eveuitiK papers wt*-. I,iffirm adventure 11 to runt night In Now York WtlH HpelU ll tin* New* hoys Horne, where It* obtained -niptier, hi d and hrenkfiiMt for ih« low coat oMIving price or M cent*Young llughic found hoot blacking and paper Helling sufficiently r«* munernt Iv• to enabb him In take lip night Mriiind work under thi* direrMon of an .Xpert (ullor t'nd* r thismart. O Knfie learned the trade of * cutter, which trade to* {died during♦ he early morning and uffi moonIThe O'Kane Building o« * m|il* jt the site of the Hotel, which was burned to the ground In August, IP Hi.bourn. and xelllni pa in*rs in the kaslny*.O'Kane ana only chant 12 y*nr«old at this lime unit was capable of making hla living In good tthap* . andwan also mum ’ ssftil In eluding the aenrt hlngH * f hla parents, who were MallrltouM for his return to hla home in Ireland, hut llughte remain'd in thin country As a cutter, he moden rlt; markable auct'oft* ttntl w» moiImi one oiimion to London and Paris for u large American tailoring con*earn.Lute In the aasentlaa and early in the eighties, the northw i d wm Ic ing opened and tin Northern ILo ifb wan pushing It* any through the Mat** of North Dakota and Mime not.* Again the rlosl?** to go oleent town of Livingston, MontanaDuring the Custer Indian wnr, O’Kan* packed provision* for Major General Kean and recalls many exciting pioneer flays in the wild* of Mon in n a. Colorado and Nevada.Along 111 1881, Mr, O'Kune hcciinn-identified with Tom i an nan. at thattime ohimipfau Grero-Konian wr»‘st ler of th* world O'Ksne was employed hy Cannon to manage an •-* e nd'd enmputgii in Kuropc, which took him to many of the moat important ports and «Itlca in tin* Medlter-nmcan Hen. He wtis away on this tri|» more than 11 months, returningleft Jh nd and returned In l»04. In 1005 he hull! the Hotel Bend whichwas destroyed August .10, 1015, hy fir* The Hotel Bond was one of the landmarks of Central Oregon and ivb» a popular reud*rvmiN lor (hei nnirm rchit man, htitucst* uder and tnnny local people.Kollowing the fire Mr. O'Kune atmost Immediately entered into nego-tlatlonx for the erection of ft modernbusiness block. which he said ut that time when completed would be thefinest business block In Central Ore- !con The general belief la that helinn fulfilled that promise In Ho* ereeto A inert* n later t' manage a Bint tlott in Bend of the (V Knro- htiMdltigfor Kd Sk Inner and Mar ley Kettbm n. two crack Sprint* rs, on their trip io Ausi.rnlia, whore, underroased the young Irish youth and O’Kntie's nuiuag* meiit, they won theat the corner of Oregon antistreets.Bondhe packed up his few to longings andleft for St Ihtul, later to go to IBs mark, North Unkotn. Th.- railroadconstruct.lcin through North Dakota was at that time at Us h' lrlit and you H Knro found much to Kruti fy bis desire for pioneering.Mr O*Katie tells, with some re gi*et. that early in the eighties he a im.n d nil tlif nlt«S of the presenttown nf Livingston, Montana, wherehe, wBh f party of pa« kers, built » small ••.'bin. having squatters' rightto the taeil They remnltieil theredating He winter, and when spring cane they wore visited by a horse man hy tie* mime of liuics, who iiuid* the proposition to O’Kilih and othei 4 fhut lie trade them ho nan for lie iKin O’Kann wuh the njmk.fi in,mi ter fti* erowit uml consented to trad* Tie cabin and the H-jmirtern’right for t ttiyuse. Two years laterI lie hi lid Hilr. sold for 15,000 a rid III tlie hip . ceding year the Northern I'a-. Ifli itiok up tip tract, paying the uni *)f fl .i,odn. and started the presfatnous Meibourne handicap.Khoitly pfter his return from Amfra I in, Mr OTvnue was married m Misa Heiim A Wright, of HelenrrMontann Mr O'Kune admits thatMrs O’Kune hif had a hard tunek* peing truck of him hi his Journeynnod many adventures.In lk 05 Mr. O'’Kune wont to Orangeville. Idaho* whore he openeda huge hotel in ttie* northern Idaho town just at the time when the north Idaho tlitne* were In their palmy days. Mr, 0*Kane says that hlt; ha ■made several Makes, some of themalmost in n night and others in abrief space of time, and In addition has lost them, hut In losing he wa* a 1 vsnh milling to tackle another bet While In Ornngcvtlle he made that place bis headquarters for an ttxten slve circuit for race horse men, mho retained Mr, O'Kutie us manager, This business took him to almost evcry state In the Lttinn,Mr O'Kune t.irue to Bend In 1003 and remained here a short time litThe Elevator Boy Proteete.Did you e'er stop to consider thefet'dli#* of an idem lor twiy in an of fl* v bulidlmr TIow d you like (ir(K*nd your days tti o rage, goiu* up, coinin' down, same bud alrt same old shafts •llppln by, never nothin’ to mv! How dye tike it on a a tinny day when you m i re dylu* to pjay busohall 7 says tbselevator boy,I never thought about It at ill,'* thojuiHsenger mm were*!,#,UU, I hnvg. I thought slwut Itmost of the time fer four years. Greta f Hr* fellows In ,wtrig Mng gets out sometime*. hut wo don't. When I get t«feel lit* I csn't stand It, I think of block after block of ufflce buIJdhiif* in this ti*wn, every on** of ’em with fifteen nr twenty cage-*, and a fellow like me In every one of cm, apemlin' hi* life gniiT up, cornin' down go!o' up. rotntiY down—and oiitshl# t!»e world guilt* on/*— \tn#rtlt;an Macaalne.f.ClmIIP04ft(cKhioitein01gfrhitoylt;
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Bend Bulletin
Bend, Oregon, US
Wed, Nov 22, 1916
Page 11
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Bradley L.
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