Wednesday, August 29, 1900.
THE SUMPTER MINER.
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THE GENTLEMAN
FROM COLORADO.
Says a Word About Belgian
Hares and Promoters.
There was nothing very giyand chip
per In the looks of the gentleman from
Colorado Monday forenoon, as he stood
in front of the post office reading a letter,
written In a precipe, Spencerlan liand.
He saw THE MlNhk man across the street
and called him over, remarking: "Step
down to McEwen station with me. I
want to tell you something I don't care
for the whole town to hear, especially the
lodging house and restaurant proprietors."
Not until a secluded spot In South
Sumpterwas reached did he proceed In
this wise.
"You know I told you some days since
that I had cut the lead in my Cracker
Creek claim, that it is something ereat
and that I was going to borrow a thous
and from my brother who tenches school
In Indiana for $60 a month, go to Denver
and get all kinds of money with which to
make .1 mine and erect a mill, I also said
something about live cent brer and cheap
prices generally, giving the Impression
that we would discuss affairs of state and
various other problems over many bottles
of vellow label on my return.
"Well, that program Is temporarily
abandoned, for reasons over which I have
no control; as the man says when making
a fake ecuse for not fulfilling an engage
ment. That letter I was reading awhile
ago is from my brother down in Indiana.
He sends Ills regrets; can't let me have
that pittence of a thousand, for the ridic
ulous reason that he has invested all of
his ready money in registered Belgian
hares that score 97 whatever in the hell
tint means and expects to make a for
tune in the business in about twenty min
utes and quit teaching school and run for
congress on the free text book isue and
then let me have what money I absolutely
need to get nut of the country back to
Hooppole county and take a job as assis
tant foreman on Ills rahbitry. Now say,
on the square, don't that jir you?
"Do you know what I've got to do
now? I am going to put my property in
the hands and myself in the power of
some promoter who happens to have the
prince of a railroad ticket. I feel about
like the novelist makes the prodigal sou
look w lien he sends him to the usurer
which In reality means his uncle w ith the
gilded balls as a coat of arms to raise
funds with which to meet a pressing debt
of honor incurred while getting a taste of
high lite on the night shift.
"And this reminds me that I have seen
during the past few weeks In a doen or
so papers one of those fool stories for
which you editor men seem to have a
preference, defending the men who charge
for their services In engineering mining
deals. The fool feature lies In the fact
that they need no defense. Whoever
wrote the article in the first place was
some alfalfa journalist who has secured a
block of wild cat stock for publishing a
puff of a company that has a bond on a
claim without even a discovery shaft, and
Imagines he Is a mining operator. 'I he
mining broker needs defense for turning
a few honest dollars In commissions no
more than a preacher does for tring to
draw his salary.
"No, THK MINLK didn't publish the
article, but several weeks since it did
quote a Portland man, the advance agent
of a syndicate that had J741 with w hich
they wanted to buv a dividend paer, as
saying that there was plenty of money in
that town falling over other money in the
wild search for mining Investments; but
the trouble w hlch prevented these heavy
capitalists and the claim owners from get
ting together, was the promoters who,
much to his displeasure, insist in getting
their rake off and then neglected to roast
him to a turn. Of course, I know that
you were working him for a subscription;
still I think when you siw that he
wouldn't dig up the coveted two dollars,
vou ought to have pointed out the potent
fact th.it his proper sphere is behind .1 ten
cent counter, not In the lulls among us
prospective millionaires.
"As soon as I get time, w 111 tome around
and see If you can get out a deient pros
pectus, and f 1 feel particularly ill tritahle,
will let you do the job, to be paid lor in
stoJ instead of borrowing the money to
pay for the work In Spokane."
Laundry Team Runaway.
Monday noon the team att'iched to the
Hllte steam laundry wagon became
frightened at the cars and started to run
south toward home. 1 he londitiou of the ,
road between the railroad track and the
laundry was such as to soon upset the
driver, who was thrown out onto the
tongue, where he held on until the horses
turned Into the stump lots near the saw
mill, where it did not take long to wreck
the wagon almost completely. The
driver miraculously escaped witli several
bruises and .1 bad shaking up.
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