The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-11
CRIPPLE ..EI|::. CREEK J. ]! !:
Speculation Graphically Described
By One Who's Been There.1
PASS UP THE WILDE CATS
And the ."solid Chunks, = III ahhd Put
Your Money Into Good Property.
Buy EN- When They're Low and
Sell 'Em When High-Good Advice
From a.Eormer Whsellpgtte.

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VIII cail Nj. N NC l' returned few
days ago from Cripple Greek. and on
being met at the depot by his frjcn5
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49, !, 70 $50 y =
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And how are YOU Mr. Noonan q
Have Eye been visiting the Paris OK
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of ny r ~ an 'uss nome '1 from
Cripple Feek. "nefe ! nave Deen look *.
Ing alteri my shlshiy$ important and
extenslYe.: INNING x INTERESTS NJ rests
Grlpple Sf tseis ssass Ssa nt mat
wnere tney ma e mlHliyunaires. l3ut
whySaotlpey c :a1lii ~ Srippie Aereek!...
wet. suppose 'li Ss ~ because the
men that WORK !Ifls. IN inc mines get their
legs twisted 's up win rumatics, and the
fellows VINO own \ the mines get Grip
pied up by CARRYING the gold ore down
the nils on their packs.S I, IS
wen, tell us all about your trip, Mr..
,Noonan. Are yeE one OF the e, mullty-mil-
yunares now "a q
Il don't know really how. to esti-
mate me prospects, Pat. fe see. !
first Invested Mrs. Noonan's savings
from taking In washing in a local com:
pany called the Catch emit quick
Leasing Company. It was on Copper
mountains We viii remember, and the
ore run-7ye didn't know that gold ore
had legs, did ye.. Pat? Well, the ore
run. hlgh;Sffty4f thousand>toa the ton,
and iths promoter said 1t was nearly
nl::sQlid sgold, !! and, was sehstered all
through the vein as thltkt6s the cob
= bic stohes on some of our streets. Well,
TIE Reverend Mr.. Smith and the bar
keeper of the Black Front, and several
OF our Influential city fathers went in
with me, and We bought big slices of
stock at 50 clnts share, and so hav-
Ing baited our hooks We Shutdown and
waited to get bite, Time passed. It
always does, Pat. Some scholars say
.tenpus fug!t.. but always like to
stick to my mother tongue and sim
BY say time passed, but eSdldn't get
even a nlbblcs on our hooks and after
waIten a long time. and 5hopsn against
hope. we heard that the .Gateh-'em-
Quick was sailed. Ye recall Pat that
whin we were young kids and went. up
the creek fshen we used to spit on the
worms and sometimes put little as.
sof,dity on them. too, but we never
I.se salrgant I'm thinking It was the
salt that ruined ou- prospects in the
Y Catch-.em- Quick, for the first We knew
Ihe.sbptt oHl5 dropped out, OF .our;!mne.
and all we had. left was d, Big hole, not
worth any more than hall. q gross OF
Sstton holes, and the promoter he took
sickand went into o, sanytarlum some
where to recover his shattered health
and fortune, and Mrs. Noonan's saw.
) ings went where the woodbine t,rla.
eth" Il /.
Words of Sympathetic Pat.
az hope 1t didn't cripple ye..' said the
sympathetic Pat.
well, mebby not. but It nearly
broke Mrs. Noonan's heart. Esnnd she
made It SO hot around the house that
our. big glass thermometer busted all
TO fragments, and she called me n
tenderfoot and nincompoop, and n lot
OF other endearen names, and said she
would never wash another garment as
long as she lived. Ye know how
unpleasant the women can make them
selves when things go crooked, and
after sufrerin n good deal OF agony for
severa, davs I got nv masculine tenn
per up. and swore by the soul Of St.
Patrick / would recover the loss, or
leayc INV homes 10 bleach or, the rugged
hills az crinn,e Creek. So with this
raso,ve fresh In mind, i called on me
uncle who keeps the shop on Market
street. and nut 7up me fins gold watch,
and Mrs Noonan,s earrings and silver
yIsiten card unbeknownst to her, and
then narrowed three hundred piunks
on the house and lot we live in. bought
n ticket on the Royal Blue line and
started ON me tourney to the scttln'
sun Well when 7 arrived at Colo
RADIO Strings. I couldn't find any sort
OF snrInrs there. and had 10 duench
ME thirst in soda water imported from
ManItou, and ms was a stranger In
the place 1 began to feel very lone
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