El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-12
''SHOOT EN- DOWN SAM"
Owner Of the Famous Jack Rabbit
Mine In Town.

Jim Sam, an American citizen, is in
Phoenix snd the Republican tells some
stories of his life. He got in on the
ground floor of the United States be
fore his countrymen became so numer
Gus in the United States that they be
gan to be viewed with alarm and legis-
latiOn was enacted to prevent them
from assuming management of the
government and electing q Chimes e
president.
Jim Sam is one of the best known
Cinnamon on the coast and b as been a
resident of the territory since 1865, in
which year he came to PRESCOTT and
went into the restaurant business. He
has been restaurant keeper in almost
every town in the territory. He was a
Chinese midas, whose touch turned
everything into gold. In his capacity
as purveyor, he touched pretty much
all the early settlers never tor less
than dollar meal. He laments the
cheaper tendency of things in the ter
ritory and wonders that modern hotel
and restaurant keepers are content to
grow rich by the slow two-bit process.
Jim Sam permanently abandoned
the restaurant business at Florence
several years ago. He had made SO
much money that he thought he WAS
worth 100000. But though he made
money fast he was genial kind of a
robber and no man whom he knew
ever appealed to him in vain for aid.
He had staked an army of prospectors
and had equipped several armies with
sums varying from s. up, in solid cash.
Everything heloaned: for several years
WAS carefully kept in book. One day
Jim Sam in a fit of greater curiosity
than had yet seized him, determ ined to
find out how much was coming 10 him.
1t took him several days to find out,
and the result wss astonishing and
ruinous. The citizens of Arizona owed
him amounts aggregatihg 1854 600. Jim
Sam was never the same man after he
got his books posted. Hequit business
and went to hunting for a mine. He
found many but none that contained
any veins, lodges. leads, lodes, dykes
or anything else that could be convert
ed into bullion.
Three years ago while hunting jack
rabbits south of Florence he found q
mine that bad a ledge in it and the
ledge is said to contain ore rich in gold.
He ca Is the mine the Jack-Rsbbit and
believes that 1t will shortly make him
richer than he was before he posted his
books.
Jim Sam also regards the Jack
Rabbit" as joke on Con O'Keefe. A
good many years ago when O'Keefe
was running a saloon in Prescott Jim
Sam was running h restaurant in con-
bling in miue s and Jim Sam catching
the Infection began to infest the hills
looking for ore. O'Keefe wanted
to bet him shat he would
own the first ie1ge.
Jim Sam says O'Keefe lost. He
owns q ledge or several of them, Jim
Sam says, in the Cobre Grande, but
there are several other people in in
terest and some of them in adverse in
the courts get through with him
whether he has q ledge or not. The
Jack Rabbits ledge is not in litiga-
ton.
Once when Jim Sam was running q
restaurant in Globe he incurred the
enmity of lot of high binders, who
visited his place one night to prepare
him for shipment to China. With q
knife in his teeth and q revolver in
not fire q gun bnt knocked several of
his assailants down with the barrels.
Jim Sam ia good shot and used to
call out the admiration of the populace
by shooting the spots out of cards at
marvellous distances. One day q tough
citizen ate dinner at his Globe restsu-
rant and started out without paying
for it. When Jim Sam stopped him
and asked for dollar, the guest swore
at him and asked: ''Do you know who
1 am? I'm Shoot 'em up Dick" Jim
Sam rap back into the kitchen and re-
turned with a gun in each hand, ex-
claiming: "Yo' know who I am? I'm
Shoot 'em Down SAM" Shoot 'em
Dick paid for his dinner and Jim Sam
was ever sfterward called "Shoot 'em
Down Sam"
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