The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-01

/ for credit Just TO test those who claimed
/ to be my friends. but nine times out
/ Of ten ! have been turned down.
have come to the conclusion if
/ do not look out for Scottv's interest
| 1t will suffer quickly [ have also come
/ to the conclusion that he is his best
counsellor He has competency for
/ vided for, but she nor no other living
soul Will ever know ScOtty's secret. 3"
Study of Mrs. Scott.
Mrs. Scott shows refinement and ed.
ucation, but is inclined to the romantic
She rs as strong physically, as, she is
mentally. Sharing her husband 5 life
of excitement, making his speedy trips
across the continent with him, enter
tanning al hotels until late hours and Il
lover Of wine, she does not show the cf
feels. She is contented not 10 share
his secret and took her recent disap-
pointment philosophically.
- married Mr. Scott with mystery
surrounding his life six years ago.
she said. ''Of course | have possessed
some curiosity TO know his secret of re
cent years. Sou know ! knew nothing
Of his mine until about three years ago.
81 was reared in New York City,
He was typical cowboy of the West.
ern plains, neither handsome nor veal
rider in Buffalo Bill S Wild West show.
"There has always been a kind of
romantic manner about him. He never
enlightened me about his affairs by
talking about them. My interest deep
cned when he first brought mo West.
owe stopped at little station on the
railroad bordering Death Valley in Cal
lfornIa. lie left me at the station ho-
tel for several days without explain
inp-he never explains.
"Upon his return he said he was 90.
ing to buy a train TO take us 60 Los
Angeles. | thought he had lost his rea-
son and the railroad men thought so,
too, but he chartered the train and we
went to Los Angeles.
"Upon our arrival he said he was
going 10 charter n through train TO Chi
cago and thence TO New York. We all
began to think his lunaCy was approach
ing madness The railroad managers
tried TO laugh him out of IT. but when
he laid down sol 900 in cash, the price
summatod and we were oil Tor Chl-
cago -, l.
/" Everybody is familars with that
trim. and that was only the beginning.
He has spent money like water ever
since All / knew WAS what ! saw IN
the newspapers. L was Informed through
this source that my husband had dis
richer than Monte Cristo.
"Wo often made trips to the little
station near Death Valley and my hus-
band would leave me as before and al
ways return with fabulous sums OF
money. lie always had II, however,
from the time | first met HIM.
Il had never asked any questions,
but when we reached the station on
this trip he asked if / would not like
to- see his mine ! consented as quick
" ms [ could speak. ] was invited with
out my solicitation TO, sec what was
causing others so much concern.
.'Wel, provisioncd and equipped
with camping outfit and drawn by four
strong mules. we left the station early
spring wagon.
..We drove one whole day across the
trackless plains. The first night VIC
camped near n small spring. Under
the fare Of our campfire we saw four
graves and the carcasses OF number
OF animals. My husband said these
were the remains OF parties VINO ha9
gone in search of his mines. lie sand
they had lost their way and died of
thirst. practically in sight of water.
at was cloudy the following morn
ing and we were on our way early, We
Travelled apparently in n straight dircc-
ton. but | did not know the course:
That night we came TO q little pool of
water, which appeared stagnant at first.
but which ! found was fed by a lmpid
current. The little stream rose up from
the depths of the earth out there IN the
solitude, made a little reservoir a few
feet i'm circumference for the relief of
the wandcrcr in that desolate region
who should be so lucky as to find it,
and then disappeared rs mystcriously in
the alliali sands MS it had come.
Alone on the Desert.
"My husband arose at daybrcnk the