Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1912 — HAS WORKED A FULL CENTURY [ARTICLE]

HAS WORKED A FULL CENTURY

Coloradan Retires at Age 114—Saldl to Be Nation’s Oldest Man—Wanted to Retire With SIOO,OOO. Grand Junction, Col. —“Cherokeei Bill,” an Indian-negro, said to be one hundred and fourteen years old, and declared by the United States census to be the oldest man In America, has announced that he will retire. “One hundred years of work is enough for any man," said DHL ’ "1 wanted to retire with >IOO,OOO to myi credit, an average of SI,OOO for every year of my life, but I cannot make it" He is -reputed to have 800 pounds of gold cached away in hiding places about the little shack which he calls home. His gold, according to estimates, Is worth between $75,000 and SBO,OOO. His fortune has been made, within the last fifteen years from gold mining tn Leadville, Cripple Creek and along the Grand river. The only name by which he has ever been known in this part of the country lai “Cherokee Bill.”