Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-05
DEATH VALLEY MINER TELLS
OF EASTERN TRIP
DOG Gagged IN NEW YORK zoo
Cowboy Croesus Estimates That the
Journey Cost Him si75oo, and
He Has a Flfty-cent Belt and
Neektie to Show for II

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Of bills which appears to be fully as
large as when he started east a month
ago, is once more in Los Angeles. The
newsboys are glad, bell ''hops' rejoice
and there is a spirit of expectant good
feeling at every former haunt of the
redoubtable millionaire Of the desert.
"I scooted across the country fairly
fast, boys" was the way he addressed
several of his friends as soon as he
had alighted from the train, but
am expecting to go back to New York
some time next october. I shall want
to go in an awful hurry and won't
be able to start a couple of days early,
SO I am going to make 1t from Los
Angeles to the far east in f1fty-six
hours. I started out with $4,000 and
I have come back with 100000, which
is not so bad, is it?" His hearers
thought it was fairly good. Scotty has
to show for his $4,000 expenditures
one fifty cent belt and twenty-five
cent necktie.
Word that he would reach Los An
geles on the Santa Fe limited at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon was noised
abroad during the morning and when
Scotty swung off the Pullman car in
which he and his wife travelled from
Chicago, there were a hundred of his
old time friends at the station to tell
him how they loved him.
Gains Ten Pounds
Older in experience and ten pounds
heavier, but not changed otherwise,
"Scotty'' gave the glad hand to every
one who was able to get within reach
of him.
There was the overcoat, the slouch
hat. the blue flannel shirt and the red
tie, not to mention a great deal of
money, portion Of which found its
way over the Hollenbeck bar as soon
as Scott arrived there.
Mrs. Scott, in a black silk dress and
with her face suffused with blushes,
escaped the crowd by passing through
the rear entrance of the Pullman and
making her way to the waiting auto
mODlIe III IEOIlL VI LID OIdIluS obhIiOii-
The yellow dog was conspicuous by
its absence. 1t is Gagged at the Central
Park zoo in New York city. A shep-
herd dog, yellow in color and with no
particular pedigree, was inveigled in
to accompanying Scotty from Chicago,
but was left at Barstow. Scotty will
take it with him on his trip across the
desert within the next two days.
Scott pushed his way through the
throng at the station and Joined his
wife in the automobile. He shook
hands with the station master, the con-
ductor, the negro porter, a newsboy
the matron at the station and gray
haired old woman who elbowed her
way through the crowd.
Is Given Ovation
At the Hollenbeck, where Scott has
taken the best suite of rooms for him
self and wife, he received an ovation
ing ground, the bar.
"Ree, for me, just plain beer" said
the Croesus of Death valley, after 81
round of cheers which brought the
drinks for all who could elbow their
way into the barroom He drew forth a
roll of bills from his pocket, threw a
$40 certificate on the bar and, while
his friends were wetting their throats,
he stole across the street to the Ma
tional Bank of California. A neWsboy
sold him a paper for fifty cents and
shouted for joy when the spendthriftI
told him to keep the change.
An hour later Scott walked down the
street with a crowd of fifty street
urchins at his heels.
There are more cheap grafters in
New York city than any other place
on earth," was Scotts summing up of
his views on the great metropolis.
"People in the east got a flea in their
ear that told them was easy Well,
that flea got his dates Mixed" said
Scotty, because I'm not. Nobody gets
to get rid of it.
"Now say, wouldn't have been in a
nice fix if some of those guys had
separated me from my roll of green
backs?
"They have some pretty good hotels
in New York. I stopped over at the
Herald Square, the Hoffman house, the
Park Avenue and the Waldorf Astoria.
I spent my money free like, but I guess
l know where it all went. My wife
and l gave $500 for charity and we did
that because we thought the people
needed it,
what got me. though, was the way
a couple of those detectives tried to
bamboozle me. Me and my wife went
down on the Bowery, when up steps a
couple of detectives who were on my
trail. Who's the woman you got along
with your one of them asked. 1 said
was only slightly acquainted with
her. Say says one of them, she's
one of the biggest crooks in New York.
Cut loose from her and Wen take you
out and show you the real thing. That