The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-01
AN ODD MILLIONAIRE.
Only Trouble He Had Was Fear He
 Couldn't Spend His Income.

America is dead.
 With an income of $12,000 a month, the chief concern of John Tedlman, the | eccentric foreigner who settled Tn Llamo, Texas, was that he should not be able to spend every cent of it. And | the only occasion on which his friends ! ever saw this interesting spendthrift an l gry was when he discovered that his 1 income had been suddenly multiplied by six He did not see how he could dis pose of it.
 During the first year of his career Tediman spent $12,000 month, besides
 more than $500,O00 that he invested in lands, buildings and cattle. He ordered
 beer by the carload and had it freighted
 to his ranch in ice wagons especially constructed for the purpose. A faith
 ful servant followed him from place to place, never offering the slightest pro- l test against his most extravagant ca | pers.
 When in town he changed his cloth | ing three or four times day, and he would often go in the same barber shop four or five times in succession in the course of a few hours and take bath
 and a shave, never failing to leave
 handful of silver or gold pieces with the tonsorial artist.
 FrequentIy he would arouse a barber
 at midnight for the purpose of taking
 bath and perhaps nocturnal shave. He
 had horror of small coins, and when he threw down ap iece of money or a
 bill he meant for that to pay for what ever he had purchased, and under no
 circumstances would he take change.
 Though making no pretension to em-
 ployment of any kind he was always in
 hurry, and never without cigarette
 between his teeth Owing to a singular
 habit he had of never smoking more
 than one cigarette from the same box
 crowd of little boys followed him from
 place to place to gather the fragrant lit-
 tie packages that he strewed upon the
 floor and the pavement about his feet.
 When he wanted to smoke he would
 hand silver dollar to the first little
 boy whose face pleased his fancy and
 send him after a box of cigarettes. The fortunate youth always got 95 cents for his trouble.
 Upon one occasion, while at Austin, he cabled to some member of his family in Europe for tone or two dogs" Soon afterward he was notified that 75 dogs had been shipped to him and that the remainder would be forwarded as soon as they could be collected Through some error of his own or the cable op- orator the message read ''one or two hundred" when it reached Europe. , Of course, such a man soon becomes we'll known. and he was often grievous- ly imposed by worthless characters who took advantage of his liberality He would bow to a drayman with as much politeness as he would to cattle king. He was fond of children and pretty girls. They all knew him and they were not afraid of him. He frequently threw a handful of silver among crowd of school children as they ran through the street.
 Whenever anything pleased him, no matter what it was, horse or a steam boat he would certainly buy it if the ] owner could be induced to part with it at any price. After passing about q | year in Llamo something happened over in Europe which greatly increased his | wealth, and it made him very angry
 can't spend what I am getting | he said what on earth am I to | do with five or six times as much?"
 It is said that he spent at least $1 0Q0,- | 900 during the last year of his life He | acquired the habt { of secreting sacks of [ gold and rolls of bills in seclude hooks ! about his big house and barn before he | died A great deal of this hidden treas ure had been found, but there is no tell [ ing how much has disappeared forever. A gardener found sack of gold in a | flower pot, and laborer discovered a large sum sea attered over the bottom of | @ well A $100 bill was taken from an | old fiddle and a Government bond had | been folded and used under a clock to | make it sit even. The mantelpiece in | his library was covered with golden | gods. There were many golden idols of | Hindu workmanship on an albar of ivory in small apartment which he visited,
 From relative who came over from Europe to adjust the deal mans aff irs the people of Texas only learned that they had been associating With a man who had been reared in polace with kings and princes. Over the dcor of h library was written in Greek: Every thing is nothing.
  Texas, but the great secret of his life was never revealed tn the most i7tin ate Df his associates. When perfectly cool, which was not often, he carried him self with lofty, pr,ncely dignity, His .hirst for beer was cease'ess b aWi d. aring craze, which he never made the east effort to control.
 In his happier moods he was wax in he hands of his friends, and nothing vas easier than for them to induce him o buy as gold mine, a calliope, a stfam- boat or a mouse trap To please con- 'ade he would do anything but sully his lonor or his immaculate shirt front
 Many simple folks recorded the man with superstition. They actually bought that he could transform iron or : thy other metal into gold. The truth made very plain tale. John Tediman which in all probability was not his inherited an immense for une a large portion of which had been ! o wisely invested that it yielded a | ,rncely income
 The man had evidently done some ~ nN