The Arizona champion., 1890-02-15
A Sa1,7OO.OO CAREER.
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Office, he was running saloon 1T
 Tombstone, and a slick quarter looked larger to him than the bull
 wheel of steam pump. He was looked upon as what is generally termed a pretty good sort of fel- low, but his pockets rarely had much silvery lining. The saloon till hardly ever contained more than enough to pay contingent ex- penses, and, to use homely phrase, Fred found the grass pretty decided ly short.
 Fred had the-manner, capacity and natural bent for a high-fyer, but he lacked one important essen tial-the stuff. He prided himself on his shapely rotundity and lavish Southern origin, but he couldn't shine because he hadn't the rocks
 The first sight we had of him after he had left Tombstone, was in Tucson. He was seated in a handsome phaeton, drawn by an expensively and styllshly harnessed horse and was flashing down the street in the most magnificent style, wearing plug hat, faultless cloth ing and very "shiny" rings and other jewelry. We looked after his retreating figure for moment and, perhaps with a slight tremor of en- ", concluded that b'gosh there's more money in being Receiver of a United States Land Office, than proprietor of an uncrowded saloon that doesn't take in money enough to buy ice to put in the mint juleps. Presently we met Fred face to face Gle had got to be M1jor Smith then in Tombstone he was simply Fred) and he was carrying a stylish cane with massive gold head, and wore one kid glove, while the other was held ia conventional clutch by foar richly jeweled fingers.
 When We took him by the hand we didn't grasp 2 hand that seemed to have ever been chapped, and cracked and shriSeled up by the un- certain sap ofa lar towel. It was a hand as soft and velvety as maidon's cheek and it sparkled with precious gems. We ventured the remark that things were coming lis way pretty rlentifully, and without seeming to note our point, indicated hat he felt as though the entire
 Ii lit of the social structure of the universe rested upon the shoulders of himself and his household. He heartily acknowledged our acquaint- anceship, but seemed to think that up to that moment we had both been working at the king business for some powerful monarchy. He evinced an eager desire to forget the interium during which he struggled with financial la grippe t Tombstone, just over the garden wall from the gilded world of fashionable society, and we felt somewhat lonesome in his presence. After promising to make a swallow tailed-coat call at his magnificent residence, we parted with the auto crat of the Land Office and we haven't seen him sincs. And it is not likely that We will see him again soon, because we can't afford to travel much, and it IS likely that one would have to travel a great deal to find him.
 Fred was high-fyer when he did fly. When he got his commis- sion he swept down upon Tucson like a sun-burst, and while he was at it kept a fresh coat of carmine on the pedestals of fashionable so- ciety in the old pueblo constantly.
 But he has vanished like the mist besore a morning sun, and the poor settler or the government, or both must pay the expenses of his brief but brilliant oareer.-Nogales Her.