The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-30
He RENTS A LUCKY STAR
Ali He Has to Do Is to Look
Around and Pick Up Money
MUNCHAUSEN WASN'T IN IT
Started From Council Bluffs a Hobo and
Now He Has Money to Burn.
Finds It Too Fast to
Handle Easily.

A young man arrived in Butte yes
terday from Council Bluffs. and if he
tells a straight story about his luck
en- route he certainly was born under a
star that is good to him. He is on his
way to the Buffalo Hump country and
If his star continues in the ascendency
he will have secured enough wealth by
the time he reaches the promised dig
gings, and can return to his Iowa
home a richer and wiser man, and all
this without having had to do a stroke
of work. He left Council Bluffs just
two weeks ago, starting out with moth
ing but a will and a cheap suit of
clothes He boarded westbound
freight and the first day out the
brake fired him and he slept all
night on the warm side of a worm
fence that encircled a potato patch.
When he woke up the next morning the
sun was shining brightly in his face.
In the we'll beaten wagon road near
by, sparkling in the sunlight, lay $40
gold piece. Tom Jackman lost no time
in gathering together that big twenty.
Then he walked across the field to the
railway station and bought a warm
breakfast and jumped on the first west
bound passenger. At Cheyenne Tom
met some congenial tourists" and the
residue from the twenty went the way
of all good things.
He swung under a box car and went
west for about 30 miles, and then again
his argument failed with the brake.
He sauntered over to a sheep ranch
and found deserted camp. The old
log cabin apparently had not been in
habited for years. Being thirsty he
went to a spring close at hand, and
threw himself down, and was in the
act of shaping his shape for a long
draught of Dame Natures nectar when
a bul1frog leaped into the bubbllng
spring and changed the thirsty mans
mind. The rusty top of a tomato can
projecting above the grass roots sus-
gested that to drink from can was
the proper Caper after all, and he I'M
earthed the can with some effort. His
reward would willingly have been
shared with the frog had that amphib-
ious specimen been in a position to ap-
preoiate the favor. Under the circum-
stances Tom claimed undisputed right
to the 81 900 which he found This load
of gold coins was slowed away in sew
eral pockets and the journey to Ogden
resumed on cushions. Here Tom re-
called himself in the best to be had in
the clothing stores At the depot just
before purchasing his ticket for Poca-
tello, he stumbled against roll Of
greenbacks that looked as If it might
have been kicked all over Ogden. In
the roll was 1915. At Pocatello Tom
met an old schoolmate whom he had
not seen for 10 years. When the friend
left Council Bluffs Tom gave him 500
to help him along, and this favor was
repaid with a check for $3.50, Tom s
friend had become wealthy in the sa-
loon business.
One Sunday afternoon as Tom and
his friend We're walking up Center
street their attention was suddenly at
tracted by a horse and buggy tearing
down towards them. In the buggy was
a little girl The mother had been
thrown out and the child was. it
seemed, being hurled to her doom. Tom
sprang out into the street and fate
aided him in his mission. With his
strong right hand he clutched the bit
and soon the horse was standing stock
still The father of the child appeared
on the scene, and before Tom could eX-
plain how easy it all was the grateful
parent had thrust into his hand a S50C
bill. The next day Tom was speeding
on to Dillon, where he stayed two days
Here he bought a pony from an Indian
for S. and sold him to a tenderfoOt fol
$3.50 on the representation that he was
full brother to Garterless and an eX-
stablemate of Sadducee. Then Tom
went to Anaconda and got three royal
Pushes. in row in Ed O'Donnell's
place He bought lot in the Eastern
addition for $3.50 and sold it an hour
later for $3.50; he went over to the poo
room in Fosketts place and there hi
met an old friend from Council Bluffs