The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-14


ready to swear on the same Bible that he
had not salted the drill and that he had
induced the boys 20 go into the deal i'm
perfect good faith. As he pulled the book
toward MN, however the cover came on,
ana revealed TO the astonished crowd not
"a biole. but a big pile OF leaves from
patent Oliice report. The miners had taken
the Bible out OF the covers and substi-
tuted tho government literature unknown
20 Kelley. II became apparent TO the crowd
thdt the men vino would salt the Bible
with such matter We're capable of almost
any atrocity IN the sailing line. and kel-
icy was absolved from further blame in
the matter
I'm spite OF that" said Billy sharon.
Kelley was pretty smooth operator.
ana YOU could always copper anything he
ana. whenever he was losing money hand
over INST ia the stock market and bleed
ing inWardly, he would put big diamond
PIN on his shirt front, drink nothing but
champagne. and wear q perpetual grin
upon his face; but whenever he made a
hundred thousand or Two on turn he
would walk up and down The street look
ing ike a man who had been driven
10 despera ti0n by bad luck. wearing an
oid wooden SHIRT ana pretending 10 his
friends that he was searching for EN-
ployment. He soon got the name Of the
lrsa Major and every time "a pump rod
broke, a shaft caved in or fire occurred
IN the mines, IL was a good day for kel-
leys stock accounts; but beyond this lac
was a very shrewd miner, as was pretty
wei demonstrate at the time Jim Fair
invited the experts to inspect a drift
IN one of his mines. The face of the
uIllt seemed 70 De ali IN good ore, nut
Kelley figured il out If 1t was such
good thing Fair wouldn't be inviting in
the outsiders He went to the surface di-
lating on the future prospects of the
mine, but he was the only one who
had sense enough to short the stock, and
as he wore an old shirt aud didn't in
dulge IN shave for several weeks after
ward, | figured that he must have cleared
up about S200.O0O The stock went down
with rush when the drift struck por-
a
smelied IL. He certainly had a great
nose for porphyry."
There We're no flies on Warren sheri-
dan as a mining operator, said Billy
Wood. AT the time when the COmstock
was booming, and they had a man FOR
breakfast every morning. Sherry was re-
garded as one of the smartest and
smoothest quick-tur operators on the
I ledge. In order to be sure OF inside in
formation he accepted situation as
a miner in the Savage mine. 1t used to
/ be the custom in those days to keep
news of the big ore strikes from the
/ public, and when one was made the min
ing superintendent used to send down
| provisions and mattresses, and keep the
miners imprisoned for twenty-four hours.
so that they could not get TO the surface
/ and give their friends the tip. When the
1 boys dl opped ON this proposition they use
+ ed to give orders for stock as soon as they
/ saw the mattresses and the grub going
I down the shaft but after a few of them
had got badly bitten a time or two they
/ made up their minds that this system Of
features of reliability. as the supernten-
dents would occasionally send down the
4 grub and mattresses when they struck
pOrphyry; but Warren Sheridan, who al
+ ways kept his eye peeled for the main
+ chance, was laying for something that
wds positive.
/ "He carried a little bottle of emetc in
/ his pocket and one night he saw a blast
/ disclose some ore that was fairly fat
/ with wealth. He knew that inside Of
five minutes the order for mattresses
/ took his emetic, and in few minutes
| was writing in pain and showing all the
l symptoms of a severe case of nausea. He
4 begged to be taken to the surface that he
/ might die in the bosom of his family.
\ They sent him up on the quick hoist,
I and the mans grOans would have melted
I the stoutest heart. He was put into an
( express wagon, and when he got home
/ and was carried into the house and put
/ TO bed, his wife, who was dead onto the
( scheme, niled the place with lamenta-
/ tons, and said IL was another one of his
/ heart attacks and begged them to get a
/ doctor as soon as possible. She cleared
/ the house In short order, sending each
[ man for a different doctor. As soon as
/ the door was shut Sherry hustled on his
| store clothes and struck out for his brok-
/ er by way of the back window, where he
/ lined up the situation In short order BY
the time the doctors got around Sherry
was back in bed and calling for a lawyer
to make his will. The order to buy reach
ed San Francisco early in the morning
| and Sherry caught few thousand shares
at bedrock rates in the morning board.
| Sherry and his broker cleaned up about
I $3.50 600 on the deal and when the Savage
manipulators found out the big order that
got in ahead of them they recognized the
fine Spencerian hand OF Sheridan. They
laid for him TO get even. and after he
/ went back to work they jobbed some in
formation on him and broke both him and
his broker.
zone morning when he came down to
his mine with his dinner bucket they
advised him to go on the stage and work
his death scene for the benefit of the
public Sherry smiled faint smile and
walked Off He was never allowed 10
swing pick again in the Savage. He
| got so that he never could speak of the
most common occurrence without using
mining lingo, and once, when he was AZ
a corOners inquest, he described seeing
a man fall down the Consolidated Vir-
with the remark As soon as ] saw him
fall through the opening i knew he was
a good short He is now down at Yuma
City, Ariz., exporting some new mines for
I Jim Brazil and II. NJ Levy and thinks
he has struck another COmstock"
Speaking Of slick work in stocks" said
Gen. Roberts, addressing Senator Jones
do you remember the time / charged you
the Arlington house. Carson CityT'
Il think / DO" replied the senator, with
a Slight smile.
'Do you think it was an overcharge?"
continued Roberts, with a broad grin
Il never dispute bills Of that kind,
said the senator, but my local agent
informed me that he thought you got
about 81 500 the best of me-"
Maybe did, temporarily" said Rob-
erts, but | plunked the whole wad into
one of your Crown Point deals, and in
side Of thirty days l lost every cent OF
it."
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