The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-01-05
"MICKY, THE TOUGH"
GETS TICKET TO ELY
he Finds His Relatives in New
York, SPsndS His Money and
Is Now Coming Back.

BY this time, Mike Keleher, s'Micky,
the Tough has received the return
ticket to Ely that was sent him a short
time ago, and may now be headed for
his old stamping ground in White Pine.
In New York, Micky attracted almost
as much attention as "Scotty" Swift.
of Death Valley fame. The New York
newspapers chronicled his eomings and
goings with the usual circumstantial
detail attending the movements of Wis
ting celebrities in Gotham.
The New York Times, after -deVoting
q column to Mieky's history and the
story of his journey to New. York, and
telling how Lou Frasier took $4,000
from Micky in Salt Lake and sent it to
Sheriff Alex Baird for safe keeping.
says:
Two weeks ago he landed n Court
landt street. He is supposed 10 have
had $500 when he arrived there. That
sum he spent on the way up town,
which being the Great Alluyial Desert.
Mickey traversed in seven days.
He was looking for his relatives most
of the way and most 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 liv-
ing and they all got families.
Mickey's Idea had come to a Reality.
His only regret was that he hadn't any
money left to distribute among twenty
five relatives, more or less all husky
boys and slips Of girls. But as Mrs.
Dryer, one of the sisters, said:
He as good as gowld and "a great
deal betther than the gowld he's
spent. . And she forthwith invited
Mickey to live with her family IA, POI
Fifth avenue.
But Mickey was for showing fav6rs
to all. He hasn't slept in the same
bed two nights running. All the sis.
tcrs will tell you that Mickey i" Just
comes and goes. If he S not at Kate S,
he's at Mary's, and if he's not at
Mary's, why, he's at Maggie's, and
sure he's welcome wherever he is"
Nov, the other night Mr.. Dryer be-
gan to think over the situation of
Mickey's finances. He found that since
he arrived in the East. Mickey had
closed deal for 500, 600, the price to
be paid him for a share in one of his
lnrgest mines. The Swede was send
ing remittances, but Mr.. Dwyer
thought that he had better see Mickey.s
business friends. He had heard that
"Tex = Richard and Peter Weiss were
up at the Imperial. So off went
Dwyer. and Mickey to the hotel, where
the freshman was soon the center of.
group of enthusiastic Western friends.
"Gee-whizz, it's Mickey p was the
howl.
How much money have you got %
asked "Tex" Richard, who remem-
bered the $1,000, and had misgivings.
Then Mickey told his adventures, in
Producing again and again Brother-in-
Law, ga relative of mine. And he
told abbut the four sisters, all alive,
and the families of bouncing nephews
and fine nieres' that he hadn't seen for
TWEEN y-aeyen years. Tex. tore his
hair, while he guIped. He peeled off a
tifty-dolIar bill and pressed it as tenn
porary convenience on Mickey. But
Peter Weiss grabbed the bill and
handed tito Dryer.
You keep it for him, he said
Mickey'd give it to the first newshey
on the street if the boys face pleased
him. "
Then they began to sort out the van
ished ~Sil geo, and last night anxiety
was lessened when Fraser $ letter, a
little belated, was handed to Weiss.
The wires were put in motlon, and to-
day Mickey's friends hope to learn that
$4,000 has been saved somewhere along
the route Of Micley's swath.