Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-08-01
H U o
sCOTrY's NINE

THE TRUTH ABOUT
SCOTTY'S NINE
Sidney Norman, mining editor of
the Los Angeles Times, a. d. Meyers,
locator of the famous Mohawk, and
Rol King, the well known proprietor
of the Hollenbeck bar, have just re-
turned from a trip to Death valley,
where Death Valley Scotty lured
them with promises of revealing the
secret location of his wonderfully
rich mine. Editor Norman tells the
thrilling story of the party's exper-
fence In last Sundays Times. 1t
seems after arriving in the vicinity
of Scotty's tabled mine, the desert
faker drove off the mules, leaving
the trio for seven days and nights
encamped in the hell on earth, 275
feet below sea level, fighting horse
flies as big as bats by day and suffer-
ing intensely from the heat. Scotty
left camp ostensibly to find the mules
and was met returning after seven
days by Norman and Meyer, who
walked to Furnace Creek for a team
to send after King, who was very
sick and unable to make the trip or
foot. Both Norman and Meyer Were
willing to accompany Scott back, but
the Death Valley mystery" hedgeC
by saying they had better return tC
Barstow and make a new start in tel
days. Norman sizes up the grea'
desert faker as follows:
Death Valley Scotty, peroetrator
of the greatest and longest-sustainet
mining hoax of the day, has utterl,
failed to show title to mining prop
erty of value. and must o be class
ed among the biggest fakes in tn
mining world. There is no question
on that score-he has utterly faile
to make good n one point and
pushed to the limit, has again had re
course to hi sthreadbare tricks of dc
ceit. An attempt was made to resul
i. rect the grisly fake a few weeks age
q, but even in it's cheap dime-nove
shroud it was too feeble to stand tn
searchlight of truth and has agai
retired to it's charnel house in tn
Valley of Death. There let 1t rest
a warning to the gullible and I'll
foolish. / assisted in the attempte
resurrection. May the Lord forgiN
!, me.
r Il have recently returned from
three-weeks' trip to the seen of Il
alleged mine, impelled thitherwal
= by thirst for a story induced |
Scotty's promise that he had tired
the desert life and was ready to sho
= his great wealth-producer to a qui
!, ering world. To say | was disguise
would be putting it mildly. | WI
disguised, sure, and footsore to boo
~ My disgust was not brought on
: the fact that l did not see the mil
(that goes without saying) but b
cause the whole business was
, coarse, so cheap and so palpably re
ten. l had expected to meet a clev
man with a clever scheme, but ala
.s | met but a penny Dare-Devil-Di
Ia of the Desert. wofully lacking in
genuity of the highclass kind, clutc
ing a whisky bottle by the neck a
posing like a five-cent hero in a fN
cent drama on the Barbary Coast.
80 far as | am concerned, Dea
- valley Is but an unpleasant memoT
ne wild horses could not drag me the
ry again. And | think that any m
ov who will follow the Seotty will-o-tl
III wisp is a fool and should earn au
matte entry to Matteawan or a
other resting place for the crimina
hg insane. He is just a faker and
TX who would be called by another a
OF harsher name if his victims of
ell past had not been afraid of bring
the laugh down on themselves by
A. posing him through the channels
Get the law"
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