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Show WHY HE SETS EM UP. How a Prominent Mining Man Got Tangled in Dates Through a Scotch Highball. "It must have been the Scotch. Yes, I'm dead sure it was the Scotch. But I had only three highballs." ' Thus soliloquizing and breaking; the silence; with an ' occasional fervent "d n," a prominent mining man with Interests at Park City ate his supper Sunday night. Sunday night and highballs, high-balls, a combination hard to break in very soon. The gentleman In question -went to IiIh room at the Cullcn hotel Sunday at about -1 o'clock and lay clown on tho bed. He went to sloop, and alept so peacefully and soundly that when he awoke at the call of "Extra!" and paw-it paw-it was 6 o'clock, he thought he had slept all night, and he had taken cold from having no covers over him. He was going to Park City on Monday Mon-day morning, so ho began to ring wildly for the bellboy, who, when taken to task for not waking him, thought he meant he wanted to go away on the C.-15 Sunday. The gentleman ordered a cocktail as an appetizer for breakfast, still unconscious un-conscious of the joke on hlin lie dressed and went out to breakfast, bought a Tribune extra, and It was not till he looked at the menu-card and saw 4 Dinner" at the top that ho yaw the joke Tho story leaked and he Is setting them up. |
