Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-20

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life. He works seven days a week
No man on his ranges knows an,
detail of the business better than he
He often takes hand in slaughter
ing and packing beef; he always join
with his vaqueros in the annua
branding operations, and he has hat
many a row with a cowboy becaus'
the steers were not properly roped o
the hides were not we'll cured
One story told of Miller gained hin
great popularity among the vaquero
labout Gilroy. Once when drivin,
over the Pacheco Pass he was stoppe,
by a Mexican highwayman. HI
promptly handed to him all TIN
money in his pocket-some 5000. A
the man turned away with the golt
Miller called after him:
"Say, you know me. My name
Miller. I've got long drive to maxi
and I've given you all the money had
Can't you let me have twenty?"
The highwayman handed Miller $2(
of the money he had taken from hin
and each passed on his way.
Several months later Miller saw thu
same man in a saloon at Gilroy. HI
went up up to him, took $40 from hi.
pocket, and offered it to him, saying
carelessly:
"Here's the money / owe YOU"
"You don't owe me anything" said
the Mexican, fearful of arrest.
"Of course do; here, take it."
Nothing to me-" insisted the
Mexican.
"Do you remember me borrowing
500 from you in the pass few months
ago~
"Don't remember anything about
it," said the Mexican, and Miller kept
his money.
So this Monte Cristo of the West is
not without humor, and the cattle
herders liked his grim satire.
A little dried-up man, with deep-set
black eyes, long white hair, and shah
by clothes, may be seen sitting abou,
the hotel Offices, barber shops, saloons
and other public places where there
are free chairs and newspapers in the
city of Bakersfield, in the San Joaquin
Valley, any day. He has not beer
out of the town in twenty years, and
it is not likely he ever will 60. He i.
Daniel P. Walters, and he is wortl
between $2,OO0,OO0 and $3,0OO,O00.
He came to California in the gold ex
citement in the early fifties, and made
fortune of $4,000. He was a happy
jovial young man then, fresh from
Yale college. He spent money freely
and went back to New York on visit
In two years he returned to Californis
with all his money gone. This time
he found it no longer possible for g
man to pick up fortune in the gold
diggings. He became a lawyer, aid
had a bare subsistence for a decade
That was when he became q money
saver, and learned exactly how many
cents there are in a dollar. When he
was 35 years old he discovered quick.
silver deposits in Santa Clara county
This brought him several hundred
thousand dollars. He invested in
lands in the San Joaquin Valley, and
| increased his wealth ten times over in
the course of twenty years.
He has a wife and three children
and many grandchildren. His sons
and daughters worked as laborers after
they became II, and have never had 9
dollars aid from their father. Mrs
Waters did washing for her neighbors
until few years ago in order to earn
money. All the time her husband
was buying land and mortgages at the
rate of $4,000 q month. Water.
boasts that he cannot recall having
spent an unnecessary dime in years
save once, and that was when he gave
81 for q Fourth of July celebration
last year. He never buys newspapers
and has not been to any evening en-
tertainment for quarter of century
Neither he nor his wife has been in
the cars since they were summoned
as witnesses in a lawsuit in 1878. Yet
Waters is we'll informed on the affair.
of the day. He knows to the fraction
OF cent the latest quotations of min
ing or railroad stocks, and he follows
the acts of Congress in detail. HI
reads the newspapers in public places
He says he remembers how easily hi
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let his get away from him. His in
come is now about $4,000 a month
He owns all the water bonds issued by
the city of Memphis, Tenn, and has {
block of first mortgage bonds on thu
Northern Pacific railroad. His hobby
is writing letters, and he writes lont
ones, so as to get all the weight that
a two-cent stamp will carry. He cor
responds constantly with New Yorl
and Chicago capitalist about profitable
investments in stocks and bonds. HI
bid for $500, 900 worth of the last issue
of government bonds, but did not biz
high enough.
The people in Visalia tell man!
stories about him. One of the stO
ries is this: