The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-16
MONEY IN THE AIR.
Remarkable Result of a Tornado I'm
the South Dakota Country.

the South Dakota Country.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Il see that they've had another mud
shower somewhere in Oklahoma" OBJ
served the man in the crash suit as he
laid down the paper.
Huh" calculated the man who had
just paid for the round, another one of
those newspaper lies. Mud showers, red
snowstorms, airships, kissing bugs; they're
all the same, nothing but fakes, sir! Over
wrought imagination of some country cor
respondent produced by a too steady diet
of strong liquor and a high temperature.
Mud shower! HUH
Well" responded the man from Buffalo
affably, there are a good many lies told
in the papers nowadays, but it's hard to
point EN- out with certainty. Now once
witnessed a sight, gentlemen, that outdid
anything ever described In the way of
freak showers. l was out in Sitting Bull,
Wyo., about twelve years ago. l was run
ming a drug store there had a full assort-
ment of horse liniments, rheumatism rem
edies and plug tobacco, and was taking
in from 60 cents 10 so cents a day. Well,
one afternoon / was standing in the door
way, keeping a lookout for man who
owed me for a tin of axle grease, when
anything alarming, you understand, just
piaiu blow; no need to get into the cellar.
Presently something fiuttered down on
to The sidewalk right at my feet. 1t was
kind of green, and awoke tender recollec-
tons in my breast, and, well, it took me
about one-thousanlth part of a second to
pick it up. Gentleman, it was nice,
crisp $50 bill!'
The man from Buffalo paused, crooked
his elbow, elevated his chin and wiped his
mustache dreamily on his sleeve.
81 looked up and down the street." he
continued. There was no one in sight. l
put that bill in my pocket and looked
around for more. And / found them In
side of half a minute the air was full or
them. They blew in from the east like a
flock of green sparTows. I filled my pock-
cts until they wouldn't hold any more,
and then 1 ran into the store and got three
soap boxes and a keg. By that time the
street for three or four blocks was ankle
deep in money and every dOd-blasted man,
woman and child in Sitting Bull was out
harvesting.
well. gentlemen, I staked off a claim
with four bottles of cod liver oil and stay
ed UP until o. clock in the morning clear
ing ii up with a hay rake And when l
went 10 sleep it was with the cheering
knowledge that was one of the richest
men in the world. Every one of those bills
was a brand-new, crisp $50 gold certihcate,
signed. sealed and delivered at the door,
gentlemen.
1.-THE next day, when every one had their
money put away in trunks, boxes ana
gunnysacks they began to wonder what
IL meant. There were lots of theories pre-
scented. as you may imagine, but none ot
them proved correct. But there was the
money, piled high on every door stoop
One man went crazy because ne couldn't
find out how much he was worth; got a
different total every count. AS Tor me
lust counted one soap boxful and estimated
The balance; l had about 81 100000.
"And them" asked the man in the
crash suit. as he sighed and drained his
glass TO the very last bit of lemon peel
at was all explained later, gentlemen.
There had been a cyclone over IN South
Dakota. and a counterfeiter's house had
been levefed 10 the ground. He lost the
proceeds of four years of honest toll"
"Did-did you-T a
"Gentlemen, a secret service officer with
fourteen deputies rode into town one DAY
and arres ed every last resident for passing
counterfeit money. Because of the unus-
ual circumstances we got off with hne
of $50 each. Talk about mud showers, gem
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