Telegram-herald., 1890-08-08
COLONEL MULHATT0N.
Ihe King OF Liars Chats with a
Kansas City Reporter.
VI Ss@Fsss seoody Believes Hins- D-s
here l. What Hs Fhzt |" oEesr-
IA faks SOaacs fEg-D Cave @aa
tAs sage Eex2s Mstsoz.

Colonel Joe Muihztton. e KentGcky,
tbs biggest liaE IN me United States, Il
not Ia the universe. hzs been > drum
reF for long tine. he has been ll@r
for twenty years or more. according 70
the story be told reporter for TIE Kan
sGS city 11mes recently. He las made
3 good deal OF money oct Of both call
inzs- Colonel Mulh2tton is an under
sized man, and the shirt he wore yes
terday looked like u lad never seen
laundry since the day of is manufaet-
ure. Nevertheless, Colonel MnlhsFton's
collar VAS clean. @ad fine stud blaEed
on the front OF his Gorgeous red tour-in-
hand tie. The liars coat was linen,
three shades OF rhe black IN is rustl-
ness, but the Colonel's handshake VAS
warm. and his smile sought the re-
pOrters better nature and the two were
friends.
II am not liar BY nature" said
Colonel Mulhatton; II make business
of IL for amusement / told my irst big
lie for a Louisville newspaper twenty
years ago. told OF scope of mummies
that we're discovered IN wonderful
cave in Pike County. Ky. Each mummy
was eighteen feet long and had red hair
al over his body. The cave was three
miles long and mile wide, with
very small and almost impossible en-
trance One chamber was lined with
the richest OF gold quartz and in an
other diamonds and rubies sparkled like
the stars in the armament People
fiocked 10 Pikeville by the hundreds,
and town lots were selling out near
White Post, in the northern end Of the
county, at one hundred dollars foot.
Every Snowman in the country had
agents in Pike County, and old Bar2um
himself was down there, trying TO buy
the cave.
Where / got real fame, however"
said the genial liar, strutting proudly
before the crowd that had gathered
about him and the newspaper man, was
in that meteor story. / vas talking TO
Bill Eads, Louisville newspaper man,
one time, and he asked me 10 write him
a story. | told him | was out of ideas
and couldn't do it. Just that minute a
little meteor shot across the dome OF
Heaven, and il brought me al idea
IN write you story about meteors,
Bill, / said, and l turned right around
and got to work. Well, while Bill was
talking to me Of the newspaper bust
ness, and the last scoop he missed, l
wrote the story. The meteor covered
an acre of ground and sunk about one
hundred feet. The people all over Tex
4. ha nI <,f I.1
! located the thing in Brown County at
Williams ranch, near Brownwood. and
worked in lot of stuff about the fleeing
populace and o sulphurous smell that
pervaded the atmosphere for miles 1
said that that meteor sized and sizzled
IN the damp ground, and withered plan
tations for acres and acres around, parch-
ing the ground into firebrick for many
miles.
well, the story appeared in good sea-
son and the Associated Press sent the
item out In a week there were more
scientists and newspaper men on their
way to Texas than the boarding-houses
of the State could accommodate. Some
of them got lost in the mesquite brush
and fed on the beans for weeks, and
some Of them got discouraged looking
for the meteor and bought a hundred
acres of five-cent land and are living
there yet, raising mosquitoes, tarantulas
and children. | think it was the best
thing for them that ever happened.
The London Times, Paris Temps, Paris
Gaulois, Paris Petit Journal, Hong
Kong Chow-Chow, and the Volksblatt Of
Berlin all had men securing Texas for
that meteor. These poor lows were
afraid to go back home without the facts
and some photographs, and they just
stayed here. Tho Times man is now
running a saloon at Cheyenne, tho
Temps man is barber down on Della
ware street, and the Chow-Chow corre-
spondent has laundry on Franklin ave-
nue., ST. Louis I've lost track of the
9th Or"