The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-29
THE ORIGINAL MUTATION TALKS.
or Course, Nobody Relieves Him but nero
IL what He said.
From me Kansas Gun Ttmc1

From the Kansas Gun Tinr'
Col. Joe Mulhatton of Kentucky, the biGgeSt
liar in the United States. Is not In tho universe
has been n drummer for n long time ne nus
been liar for twenty years or more accoruihE
TO the story he told reporter Tor theI""eS
S has made fS9SH my
derslzed man and the shirt he wore yesterday
looked like II had never seen lSunuL tg siaoe
tho day OF It's manufacture; NeNeI'neISsS,
Col Mulhnttonis collar was clean, and q limo
stud blaHed on the front OF GORGEOUS teu iiSur,
in.hand tie. Tho liars coat was llheh thrGe
shades OF tho hack In its rustineSs, but tho
Colonel's haudsh4ke was warm, anu MS Si ~
sought the, reporters better nature anu tho
WI am not Il liar by nature" said Col Null
hatton e | mako n business OF IL l9r ailu use
newsna per tweniy wears ago. told OF score
of mummtes that we're discovered IN Wonhuot-
LH G@ys wa IN a aits STn sct onT and had red
hair all over his body. The cave WIS Inre2
niles long and mile wide, with very ~ sLia aL
was lined with the richest OF Lold uuarlII' a nm
In another diamonds aud ruhies spark ca ,lEe
tho stars in tho armament Peoplo locked 10
pikevilc 10y tho hundreds, and town lots were
soing out near White Post, IN the northern e'ih
Of the COUNT at nGn 1921 s sS connty and old
larnum himself was down theFe' lrSihE W uuS
the cave ...,.ti a.,
genial liar sirStiing proudly before the crowd
that had gathered about nun ana lno news
paper man. was IN tnal Iltl'I,i StNiD 49,
talking ~ Bill Ends. II Louisville newspaper
man one time anil lie asked mo TO write him q
story. told him was cut OF l1eaS anu
couldn't do 1t, Just that minute Il little me,
teor shot across the blue dome ot heaven anu
1t brought mo an idea. -, ,,,,
80 LII write you story ABOUT mHteorS' biIi
| said, and turned right around ana got 70
work. Well. who Bill was talking to me OF
the newspaper business aud the last scoop ne
missed wrote tho story. Tho meteor covered
nm acre OF ground and sunk about 100 loot:
The people all over Texas thought inc emu OF
Brown county at Williams, ranch. near brown
wood and worked In lot or stun ABOUT INC
fleeing populace and SUI phurouS smeli thht
pervaded the atmosphere Tor miles. snlu thht
that meteor sized aud Sl1Ileu IN inc uamn
ground, and withered plantations for acres anu
acres around parching the Rrounu lu'O hic-
brick for many miles .,
We'll. the story appeared IN Eoou season anu
the Associated Press sent the Item OUT. IN II
week there were more scientists and news
paper men on their way to Texas than mo
boarding houses of the state could accommo-
date Some OF them got lost in tho mesquite
brush and fed on tho beans, Tor weeks, ana
some of them got discouraged looking Tor the
meteor and bought Il hundred acres OF 3-cent
lanl and are living there vet, raising mos
quitoes, tarantulas, and children, INNS NM,
Paris Temps, ! aris Gdu'ojS. Paris iett Jowmd,
Hong Kong tNp,c- tHOr. ana the IOFSbidr Il
Berlin ali had men securing Texas Tor that
meteor Those poor fellows wero AFRAID 70 go
back home without the iactS anu some pho'o-
graphs, and they Just STAYED here. Ihe Lon
don Tju"S man is now running a saloon ut
Cheyenne the Temps man is barber down on
Delaware street. and the ttor- fh"" cor
resp. ndpnt has n IaUndry on Franklin avenue
ST. LOUIS. I've lost track OF the others.