Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-07
THE CARDIFF GIANT AGAIN.

Syracuse Post-Standard: After long
years of obnoxious desuetude' the Car
diff Giant is again 'discovered," will be
put on exhibition, and, like John Browns
spirit, is to go marching on. This time
it will be placed before the public as 1.-The
greatest fraud in America" and not, as
at first, 1.-The greatest relic of an extinct
race Of giants"
For some fifteen or twenty years the
people have heard little and seen less OF
the stone image. The cause is tWofOld:
First. it had become a Chestnut" and,
second, it was lost. The giant is not such
a small object hat it need be wrapped in
tissue paper and locked up to be pre-
served. He would not easily be lost to
view with his eleven feet of length, or
swept out in the garbage with his $500
| pounds of weight.
After winning thousands of dollars for
! it's inventors and owners, 'Tamus, god
of GODS" came to be despised and created
no interest. He spent some time at the
| Worlds Fair, it was said, and then SEEM
ed to have been laid with his ancestors.
Several Tamuses appeared and were
shown in different parts of the country,
but little interest was taken in them, for
it was soon learned that they were frauds
on the original fraud.
BY some odd chance Tamus found his
way to Syracuse and was slowed away
in the freight office of the New York Cen
| trail railroad. There he lay as if in the
grave. He seemed to be without a
friend. his admirers had fallen off. and
there was none to do him reverence. Who
his owner was was in doubt. The rail-
road company still afforded him shelter
and protection from boys and relic-hunt-
ers. There was a bill due from some one
who could not be found that the COM
pany kept in it's archives. 5
From this retirement, it is now said,
Tamus is to be brought out under the
: m QTQoanoan fhof vn,1ohno fnr lic ;lno
tity, and shown in this city. When
Tamus became so popular that P. T. Bar
mum offered $60, 900 for his services for
three months, a large number of other
pieces of stone through the country be-
came "original' Tamuses. until the poor
fellow hardly knew whether he was
Tamus l or Tamus one dozen.
1t is now said that the giant at the
worlds Fair was not the original "Tam-
us, god of gods" Some thought they
were looking at the greatest humbug or
earth when they We're told that it was
Tamus that was on exhibition at the frs1
state fair held on the new grounds here
1t is now said that both these pieces OF
handwork were frauds, and that all the
while the original fraud was slumberine
in the Central freight office.
The only birth the Cardiff Giant eve,
had was in the train of George Hull. 6
Connecticut Yankee. He secured the
stone near Fort Dodge and shipped it te
Chicago, where the image was made an6
5 discolored with acid. 1t was then shipped
to Union, near Binghampton, and re.
shipped to Cortland. From there it wa.
carried in the night to the farm of Stub
Newell, in Cardiff. 1t was duly buried
: in 1868, but without and b,
j. moonlight.
A year later Newell 'happened'' to b.
, digging a we'll, and much to his sur
/ prise came across the strange image
, The news spread and in q short tim.
, thousands of people We're flocking to Sc
the 'd~iscovery." 1t is said that ST. 90
; was made before it was removed from
where it was buried.