Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-18

Abe's name. That was a trifle too qui tx
for me, and I told the colonel 1 guessed
he must have pretty swift typewriter.
Still I thought perhaps I was a little
nasty, and anyhow he had my $780, so
did not like to be suspicious.
Soon after the colonel said he was
going for a little trip to the mine, ami
said, Louis, just indorse this note OF
NINE. Well, l can't think today why
didn't do it; but I didn't, and it was a
note for So, 500.
We'll. the next thing I heard the colo
mel was in arrears at the hotel and down
with the govt. Mind you, had treated:
him fine; taken his little grandchild to
my house and visited him when he was
sick; but every time l wanted my none :
he had some new excuse. Once he told
me that he was in peck of trouble,
that a woman had blackmailed him out
of $l,400 and I knew that was rot and
TOLD him so. Finally I went to his room
ana told him that knew he had swindle I
me. Well, sir, he just burst into tears
and wept, and said, Louis Louis. do you
take me for sure-thing man? Oh, Louis,
how could you wrong mel
But did not get the $500 back and so
at last had to sue him, and I suppose
the next thing he will be gone. Since
attached his mortgaged place at Los
Gatos he has been trying to raise more
money on it, and if he got a larger loan
| would get none of it.
II have heard a good many things
about him since then. There is a COM
mercial traveller at the Hotel Savoy who
has been wearing a long face since the
colonel first talked mines to him.
Charles Hamilton, one of d. NJ Burns
men, lent the colonel over $500. They
went off together to the Needles on some
mining expedition, and if they had not
parted there it would have cost Hamil-
ton a good deal more; and there are
others who will say same here when
they hear how the colonel got into me-"
Not fifty yards from the Sissenvine
cigar stand is the haberdashy of Geo. H.
Covert & Co. There the genial colonel
bought cravats, Mr.. Covert says, and
also shirts and underwear to the amount
Of about 5000. "And that is not ALL" said
Mr.. Covert; 'he got $3.50 from me in gold
coin right here in the store. If he had
asked for $1,000 he could have had it just
as easily, for he was a good talker and
money was nothing to him."
At midnight Colonel r. D. Bannister
returned to the Occidental hotel, accom-
panied by a deputy sheriff, who was his
companion for the remainder of the
night, and with whom he will appear
in court this morning. Mr.. Bannister
said that he was arrested after banking
hours and did not have the nominal bail
$200-with him, and so had consented to
remain in nominal custody. Said he:
II intend to pay everyone. Some one
has poisoned the minds of Sissenvne &
Covert. I am sure they would not say
! had swindled them if they saw and
talked to me-, for they are good friends
of mine, to whom some enemy has been
talking.
"Of course would not disobey an or
der of court on any account. When my
attorney filed his appeal bond yesterday
in support of his appeal from the order
of examination he said that ended the
proceeding for the time being, and when
asked him if I had to go to court this
morning he said NO. of course not: this
whole matter will be held in allegiance
until we get a decision. He holds that
the examination should be held in Santa
Clara county. My home is in Los Gatos."