Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-03
"SCOTTY" The
BATHLESS MYSTERY

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valley mystery, and the only mystery
about him to those who have come
in contact with the fellow is the
credence men at a distance give to
his gilded yarns, and the space al
lowed him in the newspapers.
''Scotty'' bores Goldfeld to death.
He will do the same thing to any
other community whenever he gets
the chance.
His declarations regarding his
wonderful mine, and his fulmina-
lions against those who dare to dis
believe are periodical events in Gold
ield from which men fee If they ger
the warning in time, and do not
happen to be cornered.
His spending in the field of gold is
a joke so huge and so ancient that
men there refuse to laugh except
when more papers arrive from the
East telling of his hundred-dollar
tips, and the river of wine that he
pours out for the thirsty inhabitants
from Sundog avenue to the Hearts
Desire" Now and then he will buy
a couple of dollars worth of beer
to sustain life in a few filthy fol-
lowers whose dithyrambic paeans of
praise meet the unexpected suds half
way and gurgle forth in a ehanso-
nette of gratitude.
His periodical visits are nearly all
alike-something to eat and some
thing cheap to drink for the rats who
follow, but much more talk than
cakes and ale-much more. Up he
comes from his fumarole in the Val
ley of Death, and after posing for a
week or two, and choking the front
pages with S0-point type, he is off
again to his mint beyond the Amar-
gosa.
"Scotty'' is a glorious thing to
look upon, but hardly bears close
inspection, for by his side the queen
of sachet kitties, wherever she may
be, is surely outclassed. His is not
the clean dirt of the desert that
m with roughing it, but some
thing far deeper, and | cannot help
admiring the courage of Eugene
Traughber, who sat next to him in a
motor car through the binding heat
of a July day from Goldfield to the
valley.
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ragged as a cluster of furze IS always
topped by a black SLOUGH hat I'm
"Scotty.' Beneath a shirt which
from all appearances must needs
wear off, is a lurid undershirt with
long sleeves down. Tramp trousers,
so adjusted that the belt will form a
hammock for his porcine abdomen
rather than a support for the trous-
ers, are finished off with a pair of
buttoned patent feathers, and that
is the mining, business and social
attire of the mystery makeup
that could come from nothing but a
brain storm combined with the re-
lay stations so we'll stocked with
fancy attire.
He doesn't act like other people
and doesn't look like other people
unless perhaps we take into consid-
Grafton old Red Eye" Jack Lon.
don's favorite atavism.
"Scotty' has a little money-thert
is no denying that, for men and auto:
cost something in those deserts, bu
it must be remembered that the re
emf trips regarding which We hav'
been so literally informed have no
been to the arch takers liking. The.
are the results of a bluff called by
bright newspaper man named Dunno
and in neither trip has the wonder
full jewel box been found.
In one of the Goldfield Saloon
.'Scotty'' was giving his well-knowi
monologue on his mysterious mine
and showing a piece Of ore which h
claimed came from his property. TIL
stuff showed free gold, but was wha
is known as California rock, beinI
nothing to compare with the higI
grade of the Mohawk or Florence
1t would have taken many a sack o
it; in fact, several ons to V tn
expenses of the two recent trips tn
fellow has made.
Then he made a break, with a
air of braggadocio yelling, IF 70
fellers don't think I've got a min'
I'll run some of the newspaper me
Of this camp down to II tomorrow.
There happened to be some of tn
last named on hand, and they II
stantly accepted the challenge.
All along the way. we got built
tins. Everything was apparent
lovely and the water was fine. The
the news service ceased, and the
we waited and one evening to the III
limited JOY of the II told you SOS
the parties came back to camp wit
the sad intelligence that the mi
chimes were stuck in the sand, thu