The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-07-08
To Show New York How to
Spend Money
WALTER SCOTT HIS NAME
"croesus of Death Valley" California,
Bound for Gotham to ashow
Them How to Go somee
Ex-Bronco Buster.

Los Angeles, Cal, July SIN a few
days an odor OF burning money will be
stretching from this city clear across
the continent to New York. He who
will cause the 9onflagration is Walter
Scott, variously known as "Scotty,
the "Croesus OF Death Valley and
the Hermit Of the Funeral Noun.
tainsa
The white light district Of New York
is warned to get ready for Scott. When
he strikes Broadway it is his intention
10 make all other currency bonfires there
look like the sickly yellow of FREELY.
He hopes in his journey to New York
to establish a new record Tor transeon-
tinental time. From this city to Chi
eago he will travel over the Santa re
Railroad in a special which will cost
him $4,000. If the train makes the
run IN forty-eight hours Scott win pay
bonus Of $500.
In addition he offered to pay the rail-
road $40 for every minute clipped of
the forty-eight hours If the company
would agree to pay him $40 for every
minute the train exceeded forty-eight
hours, but as the offer was iii the ma
ture OF a wager, the railroad could not
see its way clear to accept it.
"Scotty's7 chief object in going to
New York is ito fill the knickerboeker
Trust Company SO full Of money that
the vault viii bulge"
II intend to land in New York and
60 to this blooming old bank and then
Ill keep showing rolls Of money into
the teller's wicket until / play them to
a standstill. I'll show them what going
some with money is'a
Scotty IS wont to hide himself away
in the desolate Funeral mountains to
nurse his mysterious mine.
SIX years ago this mysterious young
man, hard Of muscle and tanned 10 a
leather finish, was one Of Colonel Cody's
men, and the best @hronco buster" ia
the entire "Wild Vest outfit. Ha used
70 ride the peeyish and irotfui ane
tends known as broncps for $50 q nisHfh
and take risks with his i3is tmy~
day. While the show VS. quartet a.
Madison Square Garden Neasf ga i3
appear, and when lie did coiae aFeal
to where Colonel Codv was freftaa
about him he had no adequate explana.
ton ready.
Scott is said to be the only man
whose repartee Was OF such tabasco sort
as to silence Buffalo Bill. and when
he left it was regarded as quite certain
he had ended his career as a bronco
rider
Now Walter Scott IS the richest man
who calls in at Los Angeles to Judge
from the way he spends money.
Where he gets it no one knows 1t
Games from back in the hills or out in
Death Valley OF from some place to
which he has never been uaiied. He
is said to have killed eight men who
tried to follow him from Los Angeles
e his camp FAR oil to the east, but
this he has always stoutIy denied.
IA California the legend runs that he
has discovered the famous @Pegleg
Nine one Of the lost mines Of the
West, and known to have been the
most fabulously rich piece OF land in
the world. There is nothing improbable |
IN the theory that it has been located
by Scott
"Scotty, as he is known in Los An |
geles, has eliminated coins ana small |
bills from his calculations. He buys |
and thinks in hundred, five hundred
and thousand dollar bills. He PURCHASES
enough iii the course Of
day to food swimming tank and
drinks his own share Of it. He carries
dollar cigars around ia his pockets ia
sheayes, and it is estimated III Los An
geles that he has never given away less
than 800 d day in tips. The bellboys
who wait on HIM when be is in Los
Angeles usually buy race horses when
he leaves and take 10 the track.
1T Is one 81 his customs when buying
cigars to toss a hundred dollar bill on
the counter N payment. When told
that the bin cannot be changed he