The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-31
Mr.. GADDIS IN CREEDE.
HE HAD A PEDIGREE AND ALSO A
LOT OF BOGUS MONEY.


Il don't suppose that any man who ever
hit up Creede when that camp was boom
ing like a Wisconsin lumber drive is going
to stand up and say that Creole was any
thing like a dead easy mark or a putty
proposition for tonderfeet" said Tom VIII
kinson, now of this town, who used to be
sheriff of Creole. when you get down
TO it, the boys in those days were grafters,
more or less, and ! guess / was just as
much of a CRATER as any of EN-. even If
they did elect me sheriff and refrain from
shooting hole in the plug hat that
wore all the time I was sheriff. The
Creole push, when Creole was lively, was
surely made up of smooth people. and
when il came to nibbling at foxy games
there wasn't man of 'em that wouldn't
make couple of side steps and then shoot
swift and straight. But I've often OBJ
served in the course Of a heap of pikins
around the big camps that it's just these
wise, crafty camps that are bound, every
once in a while, to get ii pasted on them
in the hardest and In an aggravatingly
easy way.
"A big gossoon Of Notwithstanding
young fellow-he wasn't more than % or
24-turned up in Creole one afternoon in
August 1898, when l was turning the day
trick in keeping the camp orderly as il
could be kept. / call him tenderfoot-look-
ing because he was logged out that way
frock coat, light striped trousers, patent
leather shoes, and that kind of a rig.
My names Harvey Gadds-the Cad
discs of Delaware, y know says he to
me. and I'm out here looking for an in
vestment for my father Harvey Gaddis
of Washington, D. c. Must ha' heard of
him, haven't you?
No, said I, I haven't heard of him.
But I want to tell you something, son.
Cut out the pedigree talk around here.
The boys might kind o. take 1t as a kind
of reflection upon them. Fact is, there
some of them that might have made you
feel small already if it wasn't for what
you say about looking for an investment.
They've all got a hole or two in the
ground to unload and that's largely the
reason why they're standing for this chin
music of yours about what warm tribe
you've renegaded from. If you're going to
invest in Creole dirt, you'll get all the
show In the world to do it. But cut out
the family tree CUFF. It won't help you a
little bit II you want to get all that's COM
ing TO you, as to any stranger, in this
camp
This Harvey Gaddis boy hadn't been
in the camp for more than ten days be-
fore all of the boys that had dsappoint-
ing, no-pay shafts in the rock began to
get around him for a deal They took
him out, one by one to look over their
claims. and the whelp tried to look wise
when he inspected them and talked stuff
about strata and lodges and leads that
sounded like he might have picked IL out
of his geology book at school. Somehow
or other he didn't seem to be very keen on
the buy until Buck Wingate. one of the
sharpest mine salters that ever stuffed a
ehotgnn full of yellow sings, got hold of
a nj
Bucks rock was beautifully fxed-Buck
spent three hard DAYS and nights at the
job-and il appeared to strike the tender
foot eve. He asked Buck how much he
wanted for the claim
" Well SAID Buck, I've got so darned
many claims around here, or am podners
in 50 many that | haven't got the time
70 90 ahead with this one, although I'm
dead sure ifs n Comstocker. I'll let you
have i for $4,000
Well said the young fellow. while
Ruegs | know just as much about q mine
as any OF you-and this looks good to me
I'm not going to think of taking 1t until
/ have 4 regular mining engineer look at
IT and report upon it. I'll have a man
come down from Denver and tell me what
he thinks of it,
Buck sort of screwed side ways at this
for he knew that It's no easy thing to
put up a job of salt on Denver mining
engineer. He had to stand for the ten
derfoot's proposition. however, and sure
enough, three days later, the mining en-
gineer from Denver showed up. None of
the boys in camp had ever seen or heard
of this Denver mining engineer before
and they had great laugh, even If they
were a bit surprised, when he inspected
Bucks put-up job and pronounced it O.
X, promising, and worth about $4,000 on
it's present showing. The boys said among
themselves that the mining engineer was
hob 1xy If int fYArt
tute in Boston or somewhere. he looked
so young and green, and his appraisal OF
Bucks fixed hole was so funny.
Buck demurred a good deal when the
Harvey Gaddis boy said that he would
only pay $4,000 but al length, after a
day of hemming and having. he consent
ed TO accept the terms, which were to be
cash.
" I'll telegraph to my father Harvey
Gadds of Washington, d. c., to send me
the money right away said the tender
foot when the bargain was struck, and he
walked right down to the telegraph Of
fee with Buck and sent this dispatch
Harvey Gaddis, such-and-such num-
Der on Massachusetts avenue, Washing
ton, D. c.: Express $4,000 currency inn
mediately Have found big bargain.
THE rumor of the success of Bucks Geal
with the jay boy from back East got
around the camp in no time, and lot of
the boys just lay on the floors of the rum
factories and dancing tents and hollered
over ii. But they were careful not to
say anything that could cop Bucks game
with the tenderfoot. They knew that
Buck didn't let people monkey with him
that way.
Buck had been called to Denver on some
kind of phony deal or other on the day
before or else he might have worried a
good deal about the course his tenderfoot
customer took when his $4,000 arrived at
Z ha cal nd a Of Z hrxr
were with the white-eyebrowed capitalist
when he went down TO the express office
in response to the notification. to lget his
big bundle of money from Harvey Cad
dis, Washington, d. c. He opened the
big, brown, carefully sealed envelope be-
fore us, and counted the $4,000 an abso-
lutely new crisp $50 and 500 bills on the
. express Office counter We all had a close
look and feel of the bills, for that kind
of money wasn't common in Creole. Gold
was the circulating medium, and what
paper money turned up in the camp was
a a nd mo