Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — SCOTTY, OF DEATH VALLEY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCOTTY, OF DEATH VALLEY.

The Much-Talked-About Miner Who Made a Sensational Run. Whether he is a simple and ingenuous Funeral mountain miner, with a gold property worth millions upon millions, or

merely a spectacular advertising a g e n t Walter Scott has succeeded in making himself one of the most talked-about men of the year. The probability is that Scott really has a promising mine which has already yielded him handsome results and that if he gets back to work and

takes care of it he will some day be a mineral king, but if he keeps up the pace he has followed during the past month there w-ill be little left of the property when he gets through and the fate of many another got-rich-quick prospector will be his. Some, however, hold to the belief that he is merely acting as advertising agent for a railroad or for mining speculators in Death Valley. Scott himself says he is 27 years old and that he used to be a cowboy with Buffalo Bill’s outfit. He claims to have struck a mine in Death Valley which is inexhaustible. He first flashed upon t'je newspaper horizon a few weeks ago, when ho began spending money with a free hand in the southwestern cities and picked up a mongrel dog in the streets about w-hose neck he tied a SSOO bill.

He also tied SIOO to his tail. He says he did that to show his sympathy for the unfortunate creature. His most sensational feat was to hire a train to bring him from Los Angeles, Cal., to Chicago in 44 hours, 53 minutes —a rec-ord-breaking ru n. remained there several days, but made

no phenomenal money exhibition, and then went to New York, where he was received with open arms by representatives of the sensational press, but made no great impression in sporting circles. His wife joined him there and they remained long enough to see the sights of the metropolis and to permit Scott to transact business with his wealthy backers in New Y’ork. He was flooded with requests for;, money, aggregating close to $24,000,000. Despite the effort of New York papers to make him out as extraordinary, Scott appeared to be no different from hundreds of other lucky westerners who have struck the big city. His wife is a New York woman.

WALTER SCOTT.

MRS. SCOTT.