El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-09
Took His Medicine Without a MUIR


A man who bought one Of the fake
scslper's tickets OF Fort Worth and
came to Ell Psso looking for Ike Gold
smith approached the repor ter yester-
day and after being assured that his
name would not appear in the paper
he said: "Well, it's all over with me
now. presume, rs the fraud has been
detected and L am working
here and look at the mat
ter in the light OF joke.
"Four of US, strangers TO each other,
met in the fake scslper's Office to get
cheap rates to Ell Paso. Among that
number WAS an innocent youth whose
appearance carried with it every evil
dence OF farm life. He even possessed
the down country accent to his vocS-
bulary and seemed very anxious to
make the cheap purchase offered by
the fakir. l have purchased railroad
tickets before from scalpers and must
confess tbat | did not exactly like his
way of doiHg business The possibility
of IA fake entered my mind but 1 con-
cluded to risk 1t anyway.
well, we purchased the tickets and
all boarded the train for FL Paso.
When We arrived at Weathersford, 30
miles east OF Fort Worth, the farmers
son jumped off the train and COM
menced liuquiring for Ike Goldsmith.
1 overheard his talk and went to him
and informed him that Ike Goldsmith
would be found at FL Paso. The
young man said that the man who
sold him the ticket told
him to collect Sc when the train stop
ped. l showed him that his rebate was
payable in Ell Paso and he seemed
satisfied for a while, but 1t seemed i'm
possible for him to remember the
name of Goldsmith. Frequently on
our way here he approached me say
ing: Well be all right when we find
Let's see, what's his name" and L
would say Goldsmith. Yes, Gold
everything would be all right.
when we reached here in the morn
ing he was the first of the passeu-
gers to reach the platform holding his
rebate check tightly in his fist. l
watched him with great interest until
he had asked about every man on the
platform IL his name was Goldsmith.
Not being successful in locat-
ing his mau his face took
on q hsggard look and he spproache d
me very Respondent. l told him that
he would probably find Goldsmith
office IN brown stone front on one of
the principal streets and he struck out
In the direction of the business portion.
/ was not far behind him and began q
1r1tle5S search Tor this imaginary
Goldsmith. 1t did not take me long to
discover that had been played for s6
and concluded to keep as mum as an
oyster on the matter.
81 read in the papers few days lat
err about the sea per at Fort Worth be-
ing fake add thought l had escaped
criticism by keeping my misfortune
quiet and that as no one knew me here
there was no danger of anyone telling
1t except myself. L was cougrstulatiug
myselfjon this fact while walking up
Ell Paso street yesterday, when L was
brought to a sudden stop by the voice
OF the youth calling me who had &C.
eompsnied me here on the train. He
had a large crowd standing around
him and as | "a aae up 10 him he said:
He was with me; he's stuck too. We
both bruph h. ur tickets at the same
TIM n cana here together and
mel her I'll u could fnd Goldsmith
~Ou'I nave gwen an even SIC, ZOO
TO av" DeNu j - hat many miles away
froln ma place, cut it was no use.
had u 'cSno"ledge everything and
walk ""