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Show postmaster at Dillon, Montana, and had just sold Senator Tabor hjji HWr.er mi on the Salmon river 'o?li0. v J'e had two partners, aniUe $10,000 twPSJt was his share. Tlie placer include! 2.000 acres. Experts report that out of five tests a cubio yard of the washings shows from $13.20 down to $5.33 in gold. BUYS A PLACER. EX-SENATOR TABOR PAYS $120,000 FOR A PLACER MINE, Dr. Simpson Telia Home of the Queer Thlnga that Happen a Man When on the Car and Traveling; Abont the Country, Pr. Simpson is what people call a character. By this It is not meant that he is a bad character, but rather that he is distinctly himself and no one else. He is scintilating with individuality and when his liver is all right he is jolly, sociable and full of a rich fund of anecdote anec-dote and stories, which he delights to tell. But should the doctor's liver be wrong, look out for him, give him a clear berth. "A man sees many queer things when on the cars," said the doctor last evening even-ing when he was in one of his best moods, and he went on to tell a strange experience when returning from New York. " 'Stranger, yon look like a pretty decent sort of a man; how far do you go?' was the rather familiar way a fellow fel-low passenger felt for my acquaintance," acquaint-ance," said the doctor, giving his goatee a couple of of pretty stiff jerks and trying to snatch out a wild hair that was irritating his left eye. "I am going to Salt Lake," I replied. "I go to Randolph, . Kan.," said the stranger. Pretty soon the Kansas man said: "You have a lower berth?" "I have," assented the doctor. "Would you have any objection if I would share your berth?" This rather dazed the doctor, but he replied: "I guess I would not be afraid to sleep with you, you don't look dangerous." danger-ous." "If you have no objection I will sleep on the inside; I have reasons for this," said the stranger to the doctor. The doctor seeing that his new acquaintance ac-quaintance was having his own way assented even to this, saying: "It makes no difference to me; I sleep but little, anyway." After they had retired the stranger drew close to the doctor's ear and whispered: whis-pered: "I have on mv waist $.'J0,000 in greenbacks; green-backs; that is the reason I wanted to sleep 011 the inside. You looked honest and I wasn't afraid to trust you." "You fool," said the doctor, "what makes you carry so much money with you?" "I was east and sold a patent and I am going to Handolph, Kansas, where there is no bank. If I took exchange for it I would have it cashed at Kansas City and as I must drive across the country I was afraid they would follow me, if they saw me getting the money out of the bank." Tho doctor thought he was "joshing" him, but when at St. Louis the stranger untied from his waist two handkerchiefs handker-chiefs aud counted $30,000 in his presence. pres-ence. When the train arrived at P.V. Junction Junc-tion it was delayed by a wreck, and the doctor met a well dressed man who asked him to loan him a dollar to pay his hotel bill at Ogden. "Here is $5; take it," said the doctor seeing the stranger had been laid out by the wreck and was out of ready cash. S'.rangor No. 2 thanked him, then revealed his identity by showing the doctor a chock from Senator Tabor on a Helena bank for $40,000. His name was Lamont and he was the |