Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — Cellar to His Ground Floor. [ARTICLE]

Cellar to His Ground Floor.

Chicken Bill and Tabor were partners In numerous mining ventures In the mountains In the early days, before the Governor became known to fame as' a bonanza king, and each was in his several ways helpful to the other. After Tabor had struck It rich and had money to burn Chicken Bill approached him with a scheme which he represented to be very promising, and easily Induced him to take some stock In It. Before long the fact developed that Tabor was a minority owner, associated with a number of shady fellows from whom his Instinct told him fair play could not be expected. Thoroughly dissatisfied with the deal and Incensed at the deception practiced upon him by a man he had so many times befriended, he sought him out and demanded an explanation. “I thought you told me I was tn on the ground floor in that transaction,” shouted Tabor. “Well, you were, Horace,” replied Bill, with a grtn. “You were in on the ground floor, just as I told you—but there was a cellar to It.”—Denver Times.