The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-03
DON'T GO, YOUNG NAN!
A "Baxoo" Reporter Inter-
views q Nan Who Says.
"D-n the West"
The Returning Prodigsi Satisfied
That Experience - Q Dear
Teacher.

NJ Ics<ph Croll, . young man who's
home is in Middieiown, Ohio, was in sh<
city ve-isrcay aud WAS met aud engaged ia
convs nation by a repre-rnt alive Of this
paper. He was ON his wsy home from
Ien,isille. Col, whittier ne wsni some
seven months ago with 81 800 in his po~-
session. tie had rcd the paragraph ia
Friday psi'er relative Ia ~ man from
Murphy shore, In Who WA on his way "a
Leadviiie. xnd ~ho Was unlncky enough
Ia get left ia >edsliA-the train going I'D
while he'ss- taking in the sights on the
platform, leaving him dead hr"ke. lie
vas commenting on the tool hardinesr oI
any man going Ia Colorado without monsy
in hi- l.rsel, when the scribe a-ksd him
psnI%r-y
"Panr-r-" replied Croii, that .ioes moi
half express the trs~ sisuaii.n in the min-
ing regions al the Tar we-i."
R-What IL the show tor . man with
oni, a f-w hundred dollars in Cash,
C.-Weii, II q man has only lee hun
dre.is he hsd better remain in the east
Since the great rush Ia The neg mines
,hou-snds Of eastern men ~ h small cspi.
tai Tor wh,ch they had disposed 81 their Ill
"a raise, have visited the country ssi scent
to L~xdville, md IL IL safe To say Ia Il nine
oui of every ten are now without . Ix.ny
~ their "wn and unable 10 get back east.
R.-lf possessed of . lev Thousands,
shat il the show .Or . man of enterprise
ami sbiliiy.
C-If he IL pc-i-d, the chances fos
striking il ARE ~hat might be called pa-sa.
bly, goud: if not. he runs . risk al losing
HE all at the hands "f ,n,e shresd sy,rcu.
lSior who hss made his fortune Cd the
misioriun,s of othsr.. ] tell you. that
country is full of shsrl'ers aud dishonest
men, srd thew hsvr no be-iiation o. Ia
whom they shall a. ece.
R.-rhen there L. y large Number Of uu.
mrloved men there?
C.-You sss never more correct in your
lille. Mechanics q" not fsre 80 roughly,
hut tbss.e who were unfortunate in having
never learned a trade, fare hard.
Mr. Crull then r-ciiei al length . mum.
Der of the hxr,l-hip- encountered there,
and wound up by giving the history of a
young mxn whom the writer knew hack m
the east The subject of the sketch is not
vet in hi. twenty second year. He il the
son If well-io-do parents. Hsving received
from his father 500 ia cash, he stariesi for
Leadvilie to make for himself Whist he
ih"usni wa- impossible Ia do ~ the sast-
q fortune. On hi. arrival he wa- a-tound.
el at the sights he beh~ld. and the gsmh-
ling room sud the eils!ed pslsc~s 81 sin
werc hi. nightly hauni-. Two WEEKS found
him wifhout :. p+nny in his locket, aud
then il was that he woke up Ia a realizs-
ton oi kis ir,,e situation.
Aiming siranser< and dead broke isn't a
sery plessan' pr~.;icxmeai for any one To
he placed in. much lee an inexperienced
youth He cent word home that he had
heen robbed. and asked for = remittance Oi
600. TIE sum wss speedily forthcoming,
end his former experience was repeated.
and in few days the young man found
himself again pennileSs. Humiliaied and
thoroughly sick II heart, With no such
COED luck as securing employ mrnt, he
M ade an at,emp' IN take his liz ;. but only
succeeded in iI iic'ins a slight a-rh wound
which hesl~d r-piilv, while he wa taken
care of al the ci'v's hands He then made
another attempt TO secure employment
hut WAS unable 20 procure sny kind of g
clerk-hip, so accepted an offer ~ waiter in
a second cia-s restaurant. where he nov
holds forth for SS per week and his board
Mr. Croll informed the BAzoo man that
his experience in the we.t had been ihaa Of
the vart srmv who left their eastern homes
With hia 81 800 in his pocket he expected
70 speedily make . mint Of wealth He
had teen h.dly left in his calculations, AMI
was thankful To get ont % the country with
enough money TO P>v his f-re home.
He said he was Interested in two mines.
nut neither of them had ever Welded him q
dollar, and the probabilities we're That
thew never would He -isied that h@
would never advise any one TO visit Lead
willie ar the Gnnni.on county,, aud when
ever he fonnd man who said il was the
poor mans paradise he should contradic,
him in m"st emphatic language.
Thanking dr G for the information oh
tanned, the reporter promised never to G"
further vest than knobno-ier. then babe
him farewell and took his departure.