The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05

G.SEssSEsEz
ANDREW MASON, WHO INVESTIGATES MINIS.
fSketched from life for the 'CaH" By NankfUeu ]
chat with, but he only likes to chat about
things which do not pertain to the minis.
"Has the conference any connection with the
Carson mint, Mr.. Mason?"
He placed his hand on the scribe's arm with
fatherly air, saying:
81 always like you newspaper boys. am
glad when ii is possible TO do you any favors.
No; it has no particular connection"
''Have you Strengthened the shortage out to
an exact figure?"
ayes I believe I can give you the amount.
think it would be all right. Here it is"
The gentleman went down in his vest pocket
and secured slip of paper containing the fig
ures, ''75, 594 IS $40 total gold loss"
There you are, sir. That is the exact
amount 1 have reduced it to actual dollars
and cents
who got it. Mr.. Mason?"
Nj. Mason arched his eyebrows, gently patted
the reporters shoulder and returned the slip
to his pocket.
"Have you located the man Heney, who was
said TO have been in on the deal?'
al feel as though 1 could safely say not yet,
but II Is pro DaDle We snail.
"Do You expect to recover the amount of the
shortage?"
al do not anticipate that twill ever be sent
back to US, but we may recover something.
You see those things are always OF such a char
acter that it requires little care in discussing
them. But whenever anything occurs that
can give to the reporters 1 will do So"
'Is it likely that this steal viii result in clos
ing up the mint at Carson?'
"There will be no more silver deposits taken
there, and in future nothing but gold will be
accepted"
''Will that be coined there?"
mo Probably-in fact it viii be sent Down
to the San Francisco Mint. All the silver vaults
are sealed up"
"Does that not practically close up the insti-
tution?"
''Wen, it is still an assay Office. You under
stand l do not know just what it will result in.
There is nothing stupendous about the short
age. viii return to Nevada on the 10th and
clean up the business, and then"
There was peculiar expression on his face
which suggested the query, ''What will occur?"
az shall probably go back to Washington
with my report
c. B. Treadwell, the son of Tiffany's principal
diamond buyer in Europe, stopped here few
hours yesterday on his way TO Los Angeles.
Mr. Treadwelrs father has large antique art
stores in New York, Boston and Chicago where
&C. B." acquired his early mercantile educa-
ton, but for several years past the young
man has been in Nebraska. His home is at
present i'll North Bend. ON the Union Pacific,
about 100 miles west of Omaha, and Mr.. Tread
well had many amusing incidents to relate
concerning the State of his adoption. He said:
81 have seen Nebraska develop from wild
cattle and cowboy country to a rich agricul-
tural district, but / can never forget my first
experience there as a sheep-raiser. I had a
chum in New York, whose father and mine
concluded that it would be the best thing they
could do to buy US a sheep ranch in Nebraska,
and get US out OF New York for few years
Accordingly the ranch was purchased-for q
mere song-and we emigrated. If / had ever
been told that two lifelong chums could become
the bitterest enemies, without cause, would
not have believed it, but my experience con-
WINGED me that anything is possible under the
influences of solitude and Nebraska billiards.
| Our ranch was back from the Plat River about
six miles. The nearest neighbor was four miles
distant. For three months and nine days we
were prevented by the storms, deep snow and
| billiards. from getting off the ranch and for al
least two-thirds of that time we were unable tc
| get out of the house. In lieu of plastering we
had pasted the interior of our one-roomed
had been sent to US from time to time during
the summer. Those old papers were read g
| thousand times, Ill venture. We would stand
| on chairs and boxes and read those that we had
| pasted on the ceiling. and lie on the floor and
| peruse those low down on the walls. Al last 6
| GOODNESS sprang up between us, the cause O.
| which neither of US could afterward recall Of
surmise. For exactly eight weeks to day
| though sleeping in the same bed, eating off tbs
| same table, washing in the same basin anC
| taking turns in the performance of certain
| household duties, not word was spoken be
tween US. 1t is remarkable, as you may say
but will give you my word as man of honor
that during those eight weeks neither of us Sc
much as uttered a syllable to the other
| could tell you much more about the billiards
and the loss of all our sheep, and the subse
| quent return to New York, but consider tina
to have been the banner experience in my
| Western life. Were we ever friends afterward
Yes, the best of chums again. but we never re
fer to that unhappy season of silence on oul
Nebraska sheep ranch"
Major HOOPER is busy man, for, as he say
| himself, man who runs hotel, engineers ,
! fight for Office in the Loyal Legion, and care
for the funds of one of the biggest churches ii
the City has little time for other things. o
his latter capacity he is especially proud. ''W
| nave settled up everything at Trinity Church,
he said, as he leaned against his own counte
| In the Occidental corridor, "and have none,
still left in my hands. We have paid owe
100000 for the building and lot which w
have on Cough and Bush streets, and hav
paid OF lots OF other expenses. and now afte
all is finished we have money still in the treas
| ury and our income is running ahead of on
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