Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-18
WAS The GUEST
OF BILL DOUGLASS
THAT Is, w. w. BOOTH WAS
UNTIL SETTLING TIME
CAME.

1t was at Manhattan-gay Manhat-
tan.
Not the old Manhattan, but the
bright, new, shimmering, booming
Manhattan, where ore is common as
clay, and the gold shines in the rock
with the effulgence of the MONDAY
sun.
A committee had gone from Tono-
pah to stretch out the hand of well
come to the camp, and tell the peo-
pie that Tonopah was with them in
their efforts to boom. Manhattan
beat them to it. When Tonopah hit
the pike, the great broad highway
that leads down to the pretty little
town in the hollow, there was the
! rumble of blasts from the hills, the
beating of drums and blare of brass.
Ta-ra-ta-ra, boom, boom!
1t was great night, as we all now
know. And afterward, there were
things happened that we don't know.
Mine host, Wood of the Merchants
hotel, threw open his doors ana
placed his wares at the disposal of
Tonopah. The wares were good and
| they went with regularity that was
a regularium.
Bill Douglass, our own Bill, who
has million dollar lease on the
Union No. g. ordered porterhouse
steak for four and eight dollars
| worth of mushrooms, and he invited
the press to sit down and dine with
him. The press did. That is, Editor
| w. w. Booth of the Bonanza did.
and the tempting viands were placed
before him, and he waited. Afar
off, not so very far off, he could hear
the confidential mo, no, no, no, no, ;"
of the Douglass, the host.
The host was listening to a story
When Bill is listening to a story, ami
he thinks it is good, and he means
to say yes, he says: "No, no, no, no. >
When he gets into a strange town.
he mo, no, no, noes himself to
sleep.
The press, in the person of Mr..
Booth, got hungry. He called to the
other Bill, and the latter told him
to go ahead. Bill went.
That's a fine piece of steak" he
said, and he carved it, and tried the
mushrooms. Boo! the mushrooms
were cold. The other Bill came in.
But he said he wasn't hungry
| Try little steak" said the press,
helping himself.
| Perhaps it was the mushrooms.
but the other Bill excused himself,
and was gone so, so long, The press
finished the steak, and the potatoes,
and the salad, and the coffee. any
everything else in sight, and then
laughed to think how he had dined
at the others expense. He felt so
good about it that he tipped the
dashing waitress with half, and he
still laughed. And she laughed, and
slipped him check for $3.50. He
nearly fell out of his chair, and when
he recovered, he told Maggie, who is
the monarchess of the grill, that he
was the guest of Douglass.
Come out of it," said Maggie
You settle with Douglass, but settle
with me first
Well-well, he did.
Later in the evening, they met
The other Bill-it must have beer
the mushrooms-wa to know
whether Booth was Booth, or was he
Branson. Bill said he didn't know
who ne was, but that he was quite
sure who he wasn't. And he handed
Bill the check for the thirteen-thirty
No, no, no. no. returned Bill. i
was good joke and they both laugh
ed, although the mushrooms were
getting in their deadly work. 4
walk was suggested and they started
out the door.
There's a step here" said Bill
look out for it,"
Just then they both missed it, anC
went kerplunk, and rolled into eacl
other.
That's it, said Bill: 81 told yol
it was there"