Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-08-21
COLONEL MULHATTON.
The King Of Liars Chats with q
Kansas City Reporter.
or Course. Nobody believes Him. hut
Hore IL What Ho SAId-Thut Wonder
tul Pike County (Ky.l Cave aud
the. Huge Texus Meteor.

Colonel Joe Mulhatton, Of Kentucky,
tho biggest liar in the United States, if
not in the universe, has been u drum
mer for long timo. He has been liar
for twenty years, or more, according to
tho story no told reporter for tho Kan
sas City Times recently. He has mado
good deal of money out Of both call
ings. Colonel Mulhatton is an under
sized man, and tho shirt he wore yes
terday looked like it had never seen q
laundry since the day of its manufact-
uro. Nevertheless, Colonel Mulhatton's
collar was clean, and n fino stud blazed
on the front of his gofgeous rcd four-in-
hand tic. The liars coat was a linen,
three shades off tho black in its rusti-
ness, but the Colonel's handshaSo was
warm, and his smilo sought the re-
porter's better nature and tho two were
friends.
II am not a liar by NATURE" said
Colonel Mulhatton; II make business
of it for amusement. 1 told my first big
lie for Louisville newspaper twenty
years ago. I told of score of mummies
that were discovered in q wonderful
cave in Pike County, Ky. Each mummy
was eighteen feet long and had rcd hair
all over his body. The cavo was three
miles long and mile wido, with a
very small and almost impossible en-
trance. One chamber was lined with
tho richest OF gold quartz and in an
other diamonds. and rubies sparklcd like
tho stars in tho armament. People
flocked to Pikoville by the hundreds,
and town lots were selling out near
White Post, in tho northern end of the
county, at one hundred dollars foot.
Every Snowman in tho country had
agents in Pike County, and old Barnum
= himself was down there, trying to buy
tho cave.
"Where I got real fame, however"
said tho genial liar, strutting proudly
before tho crowd that had gathered
about him and tho newspaper man. ''was
In that meteor story. was talking to
Bill Eads. Louisville newspaper man,
one timo,. and he asked mo to writo him
story. told him I was out of ideas
and couldn't do 1t. just that minute q
l1rtlo meteor shot across the dome Of
Hcaven, and it brought me an idea.
III write you q story about meteors,
Bill, said, and l turned right around
and got to work. Wcll, while Bill was
talking to mo Of the newspaper bust
ness, and tho last scoop no missed,
wrote the story. Tho meteor covered
an acre of ground and sunk about ono
hundred feet. Tho people all over Tex
as thought tho end OF creation had come.
l located the thing in Brown County ut
Williams ranch, near Brownwcod, and
worked in lot of stuff about tho fleeing,
populaco and q sulphurous smell that
pervaded tho atmosphere for miles. T.
said that that meteor sized and sizzled
In tho damp ground, and withcrcd plan
tatlons Ior acres ana acres around, parcn.
ing tho ground into friedrich for many
miles.
"Woll' tho story appeared in good sea-.
son and tho Associated Press sent tho
itom out. In q week there were more
scientists and newspaper mon on their
way to Texas than tho boarding-houses
OF tho State could accommodate. Some
OF them got lost in tho mesquite brush
and led on tho beans for wcoks, and
some OF them got discouraged looking
LOT tho meteor and bought hundred
acres or hvc-cont land and are livinn
tncrc yet, raising mosquitoes, tarantulas
ana children. /, think 1t was. tho best
thing Tor them that over happened.
The London Times, Paris Temps, Paris
Gaulois, Paris Potit Journal, Hong
kong Chow-Chow, and tho Volksblatt of
Berlin oil had mon securing Texas for
that meteor. These poor follows we're
afraid to SO back homo without tho facts
and somo photographs, and they Just
stayed here. Tho Times man is now
running saloon at Cheyenne, the
Temps. man is a barber do9n on Dcla-
Waro street, and tho Chow-Chow corro-
spondont has laundry on. Franklin ave.
nuo' st. Louis. Two lost track of the
9th ers."