The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24
MINER CUTS A SWATH.
mickey the Tough" Pays Visit to the Metropolis After
TWenty-SeVen Years Absence

idea hit him all at once. Ii was that
he would come to New York City. He
wondered what had become Of his four
sisters. 1t was one of those stunning
ideas that come to a man who has been
so long away from home that he has
almost forgotten what il is like to have
relations. The idea of having sisters
maybe married ones. Holy smokei
Think Of nephews and little pink nieces
in frills and things,
Mickey's enthusiasm was running
high over the idea, when whom should
he run into in Salt Lake City but Lewis
Fraser himself mining man. Fraser
took the Irishman and the situation i'm
hand, and few days later he penned
letter to TEX" Richard. He knew
Tex" had gone east, and was staying
Mt the Hotel Imperial, New York CITY
Part of the letter ran thus:
so / thereupOn takes away from him
$4,000 knowing he is not one to intrust
with the same, but he begs so hard I
gives him back $1,000 and 1 sends the
So'OV0 to Alex Baird, sheriff of Ely, to
keep for Mickey"
Meantime Mickey was pursuing the
Idea east. Two weeks ago he landed
in COrtlandt street. He is supposed TO
have had $500 when he arrived there.
Ihat sum he spent on the way uptown.
Wnlch, being the Great Alluvial Desert,
He was looking for his relatives most
OF the way and more of the time. In
his travels he met an old man. whose
name and address he had cherished on
the fly leaf of an Every Man-His-
own-Doctor" book. The old man said.
Sure the whole four of ems living
and they all got families"
M1ckey's Idea had come 10 a reality
HIS only regret was that he hadn't anv
money left to distribute among twentv,-
nVe relatives, more or less. all husky
boys and slips of girls. But as Mrs
DWyer, one of the sisters. said.
He's as good as gowld and great
deaI Detther than the gowld he's snent "
ana she forthwith invited Mickey to
nue.. ~ ave
But Mickey was for showing favo~s 4,
All He hasn't slept in the Same hoo
TWO nights running. All the sisters viii
ten you that Mickey "iust comes 60
goes. If he's not at Rates hes 90
MARY wary s. and If he's not at Marv's. vbv
ne az Maggie's, and sure he's velcorne
wherever he is, 0'iiie
NOW the other night Mr. DN,ver =.
gan to think over the gttUa,is,i oe
mickey finances. He found thai sine,
ne ne zane sido east Mickey had closed a deal
Tor s4OU,OOO, the price to he naid IT,
LOT snare in his biggest mine Ttn
SWede was sending remittance h,,4
MI OWyer thought that he had batt1,-
see Mlekey's business friends he bod
nearu mat Tex Richard ana D.
weiss were UP at the Imperial g 90
went Dwyer and Mickey to the hotoI
where tne lrfshman was iunoedia +aI,,
Ine center of a group of enthusiasti
western friends. s'ic
howl was the
row much money have YOU got p,
ashea lex Richard, who remenbera5
'iiT sll'WO and had misgivings.
men Mickey told his adventures IN
lroouclhg again and again Rrotber-
Law DWyer, "a relative of mine ;, And
ne toid ABOUT the four sisters. ali a1i,-o
ana the families of bouncinp nsnba'.,l,
anu me nieces that he hadn't see,, -.
tWenty-seven years. "Texu 49, -
mar: while he gulped. He naeIea i. ss
d n1ty-dollar bill and pressed a. vi
temporary convenience on Mioka,, n
ed II to Dwyer. anu haIiu-
GU Keep ii for him." he sa,a
Mickey'd give it to the first na,,.s sdlu
him." wy Aace Pleased
Then they began to sort o,,. IT,
lshed Sll,000, and last nigbt $500
,s.. s iesSened when Fraser's letter .
to- Deia'ec, was handed to Weiss
ar , wirss We're put in motion. and To-
e &c Soo Mlckeys friends hope to learn that
fy,vVV mas been saved somewhere 49,.
tne route OF Mickey's swath. "'o"s