The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-10-16
~BRADSTREET AT NEIHART.
The Representative of Wall Street
Pays This Office a Call.

financial standing. He hit the HERALD
shop and "A conversation occurred
what like the following:
COOPER: "Mr. HERALD, how much
are you worth?'
HERALD: THAT depends upon the I'LL
innate adjustment of the silver issue"
c.: "How much is your plant WORTH"
H.: Don't know. Never had an offer
on it, yet"
c.: "What did it cost"
H.: 500 900 worth of mining stock,
and "a shotgun"
Bradstreet made an entry in his note
book involving several suspicious look
ing ciphers.
c.: "What else have you got!'
Here we brought out the evidence
which. made Mr.. Cooper's eyes bug out
as large as Missouri ''sassers." We
showed him the certificates of stock
holdings in six different mining compan-
les, with a face value a~sgregating $l5,-
437 900. At the sight of so much wealth
Bradstreet's mercenary tainted dead
away. After drenching him with two
slop-pails of a very weak solution of
Ananias' best concentrated I've he was
sufficiently restored to resume the inter
view.
c.: "Where did you get the start of
such a handsome %fortune!"
H ;"This opens the flood-gate to three
great secrets-secrets which have wor-
ried the Pinkertons and the Scotland
yard for the last thirty years-and we do
not tell it for publication. As a starter
we robbed A. T. Stewards grave and
cleaned up 100000. Then We struck
Billy Patterson for 100000 more. Then
to make a long story short, we broke the
man, who broke the man, who broke the
bank of Monte Carlo"
Cooper's eyes flowed briny tears at tho
rehearsal of these secret events. For III
this tale he has the inside history of tho
three financial mysteries, trying to solve
which has turned many an Astor anc
Rosenbaum grayheadcd. His JOY at dis
covering the hitherto unknown assailan
of the Hon. VIM. Paterson was exceeded
only by his admiration of the shrewd fin.
anciering which has made such stipend
Gus success possible. 1t sounds so murl
like genuine Wall street astutcncss.
The above facts will probably ncve
be published, unless it be in Shelby Dill
lard's Castle Whole Truth, which nobod'
reads. These matters satisfactorily eX
planned, Bradstrcet's interrogation poin
again began to work.
c.: GLOW do men Of your colossal
wealth content themselves with life. il
a place like Neihart?"
H.: "Here for II health. CouIdn'
live "a hours in the east
c.: "Did you ever operate on changer
H.: "Well, we should distend a beauti
full pie cash. We once had all the Van
derhoots and Knickerbockers guessing "A
to the final fate of bulls and bears, ant
as to the state of existence beyond TIN
financial grave. But just as we hel'
the hand which was going to break then
all, Il coterie of physicians ordered
change of air. Neihart air is great stuff,
c.: Lets see your handbook"
Bank-book produced.
G.: "Why, all your credits are in re-
ink"
H.: YES; ordered 50. Red is our fam
lily color"
c.: "How long have you been in bust
ness herel"
H.: "Seven years"
c.: SHOW much do you owe"
H.: Lets see. Three years for board
two and one-half years for washing; fou
years for clothes; 81 900 for representa-
ten mining claims; $3.50 for Ayers han
vigor; rs cents for shave and haircut q
the time of the Bryan celebration; 5
centsfor a bath last Christmas; 10 cen
for IA package of bachelors automatic
+ christening pants buttons"-here tn
. agitated descendant of Peter Coope
famed the breeze in the direction of tn
I nearest pop dispensatory, singing word
about as follows:
"Just tell them that you saw me, to sa
how much you're worth;
| gave them heel-dust all along tn
! street.
| met a mug at Neihart, who thinks h
4 owns the earth
I'll bet a horse he don't know where t
eat"