American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-01-20

Ell Paso was full Of newspaper cor
respondents. Hearst papers had sew
eral there. ! remember one Hearst
man, little dark-eyed fellow. whose
home was in San Francisco. They
called him the "runt" because Of his
size / think l stopped at the Paso
Delnorte hotel there for several weeks
and was In poor health at the time
One other thing came to his mind
| that may be important. This Is
''lost" town. All other towns he can
recall are readily named by him, but
this one eludes him. Regarding this
town he said:
! at seems to me that / ran a store
once, located in the mountains some
distance from fine town OF eight or
ten thousand people. l think there
was no town where my store was, but
there we're mines around it. When
first went there the road was very
bad one. Later good road, that is
good grade for mountain road,
was built l think l owned a number
of teams and hauled freight for others
as we'll as for myself. Coming into
this larger town from the mines, there
was a steep hill covered with pines.
Near the bottom of the hill was a
concrete railway station, and four or
five blocks further on was a group OF
four or five banks. That Is, these
banks were close togener, and near
the court house. In one of these
banks was we'll acquainted, and have
taken hundreds OF checks in there and
carried thousands OF dollars out. The
cassiar was young-like man. about
thirty five, and wore full beard, san
dy in color"
When the suggestion was made to
him that the description seemed TO tit
the south he said that so far as the
pines were considered IL did. but that
he could not connect the mines with
, the pines in any part OF the south he
could remember having been in. 1T
seems to fit Colorado, Nevada or~6al-
ifornia better. 1t could not have been
, in Arizona or New Mexico, because
these were territories then and l coulo
not have voted for Bryan there"
, Leaving Little Rock, Ark, and fol-
, lowing the same route given by him
, last week, but more fully covering his
trip, he said: 4 can not tell much
, about them, but it seems | remember
p thinking when / was in the vicinity
| of Okmulgee and FIT. Gibson that was
n on my old stamping ground From
o these towns | went to Depew, and via
: auto from there TO Drumrite and Oil
h ton, arriving there about the first o
O February Drumrite was town o
g $1,000 without a railroad. Oilton hat
e a population of two or three hundred
= the first of February and about 300
s on the first of March. A railroad wa
@ building to them at that time. | know
q | made some money there at that tim
possibly buying or selling lot, build
d ing and selling or running restau
J. rant"
2. Leaving there / went to Kellyvill
l. and Briscoe. | was there when Henr
. Starr. the notorious outlaw was cap
e tured in a small place near Kellyvill
it by a sixteen year old boy
Is Concerning Lyons. Kansas, he said
n 81 bought a pair OF pants and bel
-e which | am now wearing at Lyon!
g Kansas, in a store run by the Puter
Of baugh Clothing Company. What d
lie you think of head that will remem
IN Der a name like that and yet can
~ hold my own name?"
rs One of the strangest and most ur
lie reasonable things that has happene
l. to this man is a dream he had two G
lg three days after he became consciou
re II is interesting because OF its VI
ne reasonableness, even for q dream, bl
lg II may be important because he say
go Z contains two real names, althoug
gs both men are now dead Someor
IS. may read this who knew the men whe
ne hey were alive, and thus be able
On place the stranger.
to II had two partners In mimi
venture once. They we're both En-
n lishmen, named Ed Mollow and Fr'
ye. Wilson. Both are now dead. / had
re strange dream about them and 1t wo
IL. red me a good deal for three or fo'
wv days I thought they we're talking
gh me and Mollow said: Well. they g
ng all the names out Of your head {
in right and you won't get them back =
lat seven months. began to argue wi