Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-02-11
SCOTTY HANDS OUT
SOME BIG BILLS
IN KANSAS CITY
ASTONlSHES NATIVES BY
DISPLAY OF WEALTH
Death Valley Miner Returning
From New York With Nine
teen Thousand Dollar Bills
Pinned in His Shirt.
Cl<ansas City Journal


1--WE got to be in New York by next
Thursday to see Harry Thaw ae-
quilted. I'm on my way to Los An
geles now. but I'll get back east in
time to help celebrate the wind-up of
tina trial all right. You see. I've got a
habit of going to places in a hurry,
when | decide l want to get there
The speaker was Walter Scott, or
"Seotty." as everybody knows of
him, the Death Valley miner who
gained notoriety a year or so ago by
making a record run across t~he-conti-
nent in a Santa Fe special train. H.
was standing In the buffet at the Rail
road club, and as he talked he
stopped every few minutes long
enough to tear large holes in hundred
dollar bills, via the wine route.
'Scotty" arrived in Kansas City
Yesterday morning. He came unher-
aided. u"nannouneed. He was at first
recognized in the city ticket office of
the Santa Fe railroad, where he went
to have certain changes made in his
Pullman car reservations to Los An
ReltSs AlltI buN IIlS Il bbN VI
cigars for each and ever. mar in the
office whom he met, he quietly disap-
reared. Later he went to the Balti-
more hotel, where he ook luncheon
with a friend in the grill room. He
did not register, nor was there any
thing about his conduct to attract at
t%ention. His dress, while somewhat
unconventional, and smacking of the
hot VALLEY whence he ONES. was
hardly extreme enough to attract
moro than a second glance. He wore
a long. black GOAT which partly hid
his hlgh-heeled boots and blue fan
mel shirt. A black felt hat adorned
the reddest of red neekties.
1t was the middle of the afternoon
before the fact was heralded that
'Scotty"-the Scotty-was in town.
Then the real proceedings commenced.
The miner was discovered by a cou-
pie of RAILROAD men who claimed ac-
q%uaintance with him and adjournment
was at once taken to a nearby thirst
DESTROYING establishment; then, as
Billy Baxter would have it, the bunch
commenced to soak M wine like a
bundle of blue blotters. 'Scotty's'
friends began to multiply. Between
drinks the telephone was Kept busy
summoning friends Of the miner and
friends of his friends who had not
been in at the start.
Nothing was too good for "Scotty."
He declined to buy anything but the
most expensive wines and cigars and
always by the quart. He paid for
each round with a fresh $50 or 500
bill and usually refused to accept any
change. Il don't want to be bothered
with That chicken feed" he said to
one bartender who offered him twenty
odd dollars in change for a nifty.
Keep it and buy an automobile
Then he laughed long and loud and
ordered up eight bottles of champagne
one for each man in the party.
Later the bunch blow into the Ran
road club. 1t was there That
"Scotty's" prodigal ability as a host
reached its height. For a few min
utes everything stopped but the buff
fet. and the business it did will 20
down in the history Of the club az al.
event to be remembered as a red
letter day.
Between drinks "Scotty" talked.
NO more play acting for our Uncle
Walter" he said. There's nothing to
it. Just as soon as ] can take a lit
tie Il out to Los Angeles ana then
back to the village Of New YORK 10
see Thaw freed. me for Death valley
whore the mazzooma just lies around
and begs to be taken away and spent"
AS he talked he shifted n%ervously
from one foot to the other and contin-
ually bit at his finger nails. He eX-
planned that he had never signed his
name to a check and never even had
a dollar i'm the bank. He said he
always carried a little ready money
with him. however. and TO prove his
assertion. cerelessly opened his shirt
and revealed. pinned to his under
clothing, nineteen $1,000 bills. The
money he had been spending he had
pulled i'm handfulls from his over
coat pockets.
Speaking of his flying trip across
the continent he said. THAT story
about me trying to advertise myself
and the Santa Fe is all rot. l made
that trip for a purpose and / accom-
pllshed it. / paid for everything got
and if the old women want to think
anything else about it, why let them
think So" .
He talked much about his mine
but was careful TO let it be known
That its exact location was a secret.
He said that the shrewdest detectives
I'm the country had tried to locate il
and to learn how and where he con-
secret still remained unsolved. HIS
mine is somewhere in Death valley.
that he acknowledges. and it is that
fact that has led to the theory that
he Is mentally unbalanced. T. IL
argued that no human being can long
continue a residence in "a climate
where the thermometer never falls be-
low the 100 mark, and retain his rea-
son. BE this as 1t may, however. the
mystery surrounding THE rr-
n- a- battling as ever. He e1u-