Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-09
TnR P0AT OF TaR sIHRRAS.
An Iaterestis3 Writer and Attractive
TalkeP-As Eceeatric ~ Q Leone
tive With the wheel OF.
Leander Richardson, in st. Paul Pie
ncer Press.

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JOACHIM Miller, George Alfred Town
send, Joe Howard, old Kew York Froth-
ingham, Jennie June Crsiy, Annie
Wakernan, Jane. Glider, and a raft Of
others, mako il their business to tell the
countless thousands out Of Gotham
what is going on here-and a good deal
tcat isn't. Some of them are not. Take
the case Of man like killer-often an
interesting writer Of prose, always al
attractive talker about the Wild life Of
the extreme west, certainly a poet of
nature. and generally as full Of eccea-
tricity IS a locomotive with wheel of .
Miller cuts a striking figure wherever he
goes.
His present occupation ia the fur
nishing OF ten rural journals with a
weekly letter written IN manifold. In
addition 10 this Re turns up a random
poem now and then. and be makes III
all about $1,000 year. His letters
bring him 30 apiece. so that for actu-
ally writing eolunn and half Of
matter with manifold pencil he receives
the handso,ae SUN Of 800 week,
which i. bette, pay in comparison With
tho actual work done than any other
writer in America receives. l believe
she Sierran poet has also had hand
recently III new comedy for Annie
Pixley-a piece Of work in which he
went cahooss" with Archie Gordon,
who is one OF the clevereet and bright
IS: writer's N Now York. Long ago
Miller ceased to receive royalties from
the Danites. His contract called for a
nightly snn rntil the total of 100
shonld BE- reached. He received the
final 800 TIVE years Ago, and has never
turned ont another cohesive dramatic
work, though believe he is all the time
doing sor oshinC in the dramatic line.
Mil!er's long hair Of former days has
yielaod to tho persuasive shears OF the
barber, and he is getting to be slightly
bald. Bns he wears his blond beard
Just tine sane. and has never forsAken
his sioaohsd felt hat. Miller has fine
largo head and q game leg. He got hi.
latter adornmont. he says, through the
agency Of Some Measc bullets. For a
| ,org ticie No livod in "a Hat in New York
MS oAlv attendant being a colored Soy
who vainiv tried to keep the place III
srd-r, Wills Miller did the cooking
slept on ses door rolled up in y buffalo
role. broke tbs neeks from his bottles
Ia preference TO using COlhscIeW, aAu
, otherwise conducted his daily life in q
wAy vA2us,y reminiscent Of his former
times On the border.
The greatest mistake Miller evel
| made VAS IN lot staying in London tie
! ti.ss time 90 went over. He was was 4
lion on .a.t side of The water, where
the uaius freshness Of his poems struck
fo,clbly Apou the minds OF readers uI
, accu ,.omsj 10 Ais method. He came
back bore Vas considerably guyed, anc
for sous ysIrs lived in more Or less p"v
erty. Bu. thers proved to bs more stuff
ia him thuu Ls WAS given credI. for
and 10 ,.aa,iy came down to solid, hard
work. after siving up the silly motor
tat. hs had been intended by higf
| heaveu 30 represent the great Aueric "
nation at tic Court OF st. James
Miller il pretty wolf fixed at present
aud II .rdiy think be Is likely to lost
his head again. He is one of those rare
ly-fouui .n.n who have lived down tht
uni,nositio. OF early life, and whose &C.
centricit.rs, II pronounced, are at leas
I innocent.