Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-08-09

~, waterpropf. practically nreproof.
dustpcoof ana within twenty-four'
hours. ! guess most d them thought
| was crazy, but ~ Il didn't cost them
anything they were willing to take a
chance" IN II I.
Then You didn't raise your $4,000
from them In advance paymentsr' I !,
marveled.
Certainly not That would have,
scared on the whole lot of them. But
got their agreements ! told you 1t
took me two hourA Then walked
up the street figuring where I'd get
the money. OF course saw I'd have
to divide tho proHt2 / didn't kuow
anybody, but after awhile decided
that the best chance was to get some
advice from an honest and disinterest.
ed man. So asked the first man met
who ran the biggest gambling place
in town. He told me Jim Rocket" ]
elm RecketY''I echoed. Hes the
man I was to leave change for my
gold slug with" NJ
Rocket keeps the 81 Dorado, next
door In the tent He impressed me as
a very quiet, direct, square sort Of q
fellow. The best types OF professional
gambler In matters Of this sort gen
orally II. e.
".I am looking for a man. said I,
who has q little idle money. some
time, no gold mining fever, plenty Of
nerve and broad mind. Can you
tell me who he is2'
He thought a minute and then an
lswered direct, as / knew he would.
"'sam Brannan,' he said.
" Tell me about him
|" TO take up your points, said Reck-
ct, checking on his fingers, he came
out with . shipload Of Mormons az
their head. and he collected tithes from
them for over . year. That's your Idle
money. He has all the time the Lord
stuck into one day at clip. That's
your some time He has been here
IN the city since 49, which would seem
to show he doesn't care much for min
ing. He collected the tithes from those
Mormons and sent word to Brigham
Young that II he wanted the money
to come and get It. That's for your
nerve. As for being broad minded
well, when a delegation Of the Nor
mons, all ready for 4 scrap, came to
him solemnly to say that they were
going to refuse to pay him the tithes
any more, even II he was the Califor-
mia head Of the church, he laughed
them on the place for having been 30
green AZ to pay them 80 long as they
had n
II found Sam Brannan finally at the
bar in Dennison's Exchange" Il
"What was he liker asked Johnny
eagerly. "I'1l bet l heard his name
fifty times today"
.Ie Is thickset, Jolly hooking, curly
headed fellow, with ~ thick neck, =
bulldog jaw andsa big voice" replied
Talbot. "Of course he tried to bully
me, but when that didn't work he
came down to business We entered
into an agreement
"Brannan was to furnish the money
and take half the profits, provided he
liked the idea. When we had settled
1t all / told him my scheme. He
thought It over awhile and came IN.
Then we rowed OF and paid the cap
tains Of the ships. It was necessary
now to get them warped In at high
tide, Of course, but Sam Brannan said
he'd see to that. He has some sort OF
4 pun with the natives, enough to get
10 days labor, anyway.
y .sWsfp them fn!!ss \ eei,1et:. - W. Z.
Certainly. You couldn't expect the
merchants to lighter their stun OF IN
boats always Well beach these ships
ut high tide and then run some sort OF
light causeway out to them. There's
no surf. and the bottom - soft I'm
cost us something, Of course but Sam
and figure we ought to divide three
thousand clear. r
sI'd like to ask q question or So"
said I. Whats to prevent the mer-
chants doing this same hiring Of ships
for themselves? = rs
Nothing" said Talbot "after the
first month"
.sAnd what prevented Brannan, after
he had heard your scheme, from going
out ON his own hook and pocketing al
the proceeds? r.
.sYou don't understand, Frank" said
Talbot impatiently. Men Of our stamp
don't do those things"
"'Ohv' said I. Vi & ~
"This," said Johnny, made It about
2 o'clock, as / figure your story. Did
you then take needed restg
"Quarter Of g" corrected Talbot u
was going back to the hotel when !
passed that brick building you know,
on Montgomery street remembered
then that lawyer and his $3.50 for
hole in the ground It seemed to me
there was terrible waste somewhere.
Here was big brick building filed
up with nothing but goods. It might
much better be filed with people.
There Is plenty Of room for goods In
those ships, but you can't very well
put people on the ships. So | Just
dropped in to see them about It \
offered to hire the entire upper part
OF the building and pointed out that
tha lower mart was all they could pos