Show UnD JUDD J BISBEE AND HIS ROLL DETAIL DErAIL OF THE TEST OF A SONORA MINER TWENTY YEARS AGO I Los Angeles Times ta that the cow cowboy co cobo boy bo miner antI and coin of ot Death Valley Vaney who did all an that high and lofty spending spend In a while back has turned Into a tightwad said a n man from southern California I dont know whether the story stor is true or not i t but I do know thal twenty years or so ago Scottys shak shaking 1 ing down clown of Ot himself If confined to some western city and not brought to this side of the would have created so small mall a ripple that nobody would i have known anything about It except I Ithe the beneficiaries of ot his blowing off of bug The swoops of the boys from the camps upon the big bis western towns used to be so common that nobody paid any attention to their whirls We Ve saw sawa a lot of Scottys way of sloughing It off offIn offIn In Los Angeles But I um here to say that Scotty never lid did do the real burn burning burnIng ing money stunts that were putted pulled off of for example by Judd Bisbee when Judd about twenty years ago pulled into Los Angeles from the Sonora country In Old Mexico with a bundle that bulged out all an over oer him Judd after tooling fooling around with grubstakes s all ll the way from Kootenai country to Central America was one of the first Americans to land right on the pay dirt In Sonora The syndicate people especially the English kind were quick to get to the Sonora country Judd allowed al allowed lowed them to sink a hole in his patch of dirt and then they came to him with witha a first offer of spot cash Judd he took it have given him or just as easily for tor Judds plot was one of ot the nicest pieces in Sonora taken millions out of ot it since but Judd Bisbee was all for tOI forthe the quick stuff and he bit on the first bid They gave Judd in gold and a check on the thc Bank of ot California for tor Judd around the So Sonora Sonora nora camp with the boys for tor three or tour four days before starting for Los An Angeles Angeles geles A comic opera company was stopping at the Los Angeles hotel when Judd got there Judd foregathered with the troupers and their manager spun him a hardluck story Then Judd bought up a whole theatre at which the comic op m outfit was due to play dur during durIng ing the next nett week and had the an announcement announcement printed in n the Los Angeles papers that the show for tor one week was wa going to te bo be and on him The the theatre theatre atre was packed and jammed with hi hl hilarious nOlay audiences es every night during the tho week while Judd Tudd sat in a box tossing handfuls of gold lold at the funniest t on the stage who happened to tickle his bis M u ed rl At the wind windup windup up of each t t every ever night Judd would rise in his box bo antI and invite the whole audience to the bar attached to the theatre and amI the big bl raft of extra bar bark k employed for the week weel were In Instructed to let every man who wh walked d dUI up UI have everything he asked for from froma a 1 glass of to a quart of ot the hiss 3 juice Probably that weeks en entertainment entertainment of or comic opera outfit and the people who attended atten el the shows set tet Judd back a good If not more At no stage of the whirl did Judd scheme take the form of buying any extras for himself He was probably the most unselfish money mone burner that ever hiked out of ot a camp When rhen he arrived in Los Angeles he staked himself to one suit of store clothes but never during the two months that his Sonora claim watt wt T lasted did he fall Into such a as a shirt He stuck to his ol blue flannel shirt with the black tic nor did he ho renege on stuffing his store pants his boots Breaking a Drought Drough However he drank champagne ex exclusively I been all my life about my fill o this here laugh laughIn In water he would say up his glass and I reckon I better lap enough of or it t last me I sure will have plenty o time t lick lIek up the red pi zen o 0 th the plain people when I git through derv around here Judd a gambler at all Short carders who saw what a good thing ho he was as a spender tried in vain to in inveigle him into poker games and the taro faro bank men fruitlessly sent their most accomplished runners ailer aler him But Judd never was so soused that ho h turn down these overtures I reckon pard he told a faro bank run runner runner ner who tried trI d to nail him for a little play just j st to pass the time that I can slough it off ot fat fast enough without up against another mans game This yere game Im my and so I wont have no holler holter when I get through and wake up without a stack o 0 whites After blowing the comic opera bunch Judd next conc ved a violent sympathy for the hordes of ot bums with which Los Angeles An yeles was Infested at the time He mave ma e arrangements with a crafty caterer to have the bums fed f d The caterer put up a huge eating tent and a n smaller cook tent on 01 allot lot on the outskirts of ot town and contracted with Judd to feed every hum bum that swung along at the rate of 1 per day per man manfor manfor for three months Judd provided scores s of legs kegs of beer every day for the bums bum who Hocked to the eating tent from all allover over California and by the thousands thou ands Big BI detachments of police had to be besent besent sent out to keep the bums In order This bum benevolence of Judds lasted for fifteen days when the police closed It down on account of or the disorders and depredations of the beer horde hor Feed ing and those several thousands of bums for the fifteen days dented dente Judds roll to the tune of almost Judds next bit of broko up tile the discipline at the tho military post near Los Loa Angeles Angele for tor a couple CO of weeks or so o Judd drove out to the post one day in a hack with a bunch of boon companions that hed picked up there were fifteen or twenty hacks filled with them behind his carriage They The hap happened happened to hit the post v hila guard moun was going on and the evolutions of ot the soldiers llers made a hit with Judd When hen guard mount was over he had wor passed around that hed be at the can canteen canteen teen for tho purpose of ot entertaining ent si r hands of the soldiers When the sol soI soldiers diers lers who knew about Judd rushed C the canteen Judd see the beer idea at all except as a tarter starter He staked one of or the tho ambulance am men to hustle to town for a of ot champagne and by taking a circuitous path the ambulance man managed to get the wine inside the tho post gate and thus to the canteen The Tho whole post had a champagne burl bun on before the canteen sergeant had to turn the box boxon boxon on them by announcing that the after atter afternoon noon closing hour had arrived Judd was deeply concerned over this situation He felt as If It it in some way reflected upon his brand of ot hospitality So he got on a chair and Invited all allhands allhands hands of oC the soldiers to Join him down downtown downtown town They received the invitation with a Judd met them down downtown downtown town and well there enough soldiering at the Los Angeles post for fora a whole string ot days and nights to give gle the tho post a military air All AlI of ot the keepers In Los Angeles were instructed to give the soldiers everything they called for tor no matter what it was At the windup Judd gave every ever soldier of Ot the lot an order for tor a 50 suit of ot clothes It was a long before any an of or the soldiers had a chiRico to get their measure taken for tor the civilian duds dud f for tor as they drifted back to the post in a great demoralization during tho next week or so they were nearly nearl all of them clapped into the th r |