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Show ; Desert Midas Invites Sonrrlniiorlis to Pnrty DEATH VALLEY HCOTTY l after boat with mule LOS ANGELES. Dec. 22 W Death Valley Scotty is prowling around the rocks In the gold country coun-try again. The famous old mystery prospector prospec-tor sent word to a few old friends here to come to the 12,381.000 castle in Grapevine canyon, beyond the Funeral range, for a Christmas feast "That big mule, Btrnum, I bought in the summer of '3d sent me to the roundhouse for six months." the prospector wrote. The giant mule stepped on one of Scot-ty's Scot-ty's feet, fracturing the instep bones, snd while the burro man was recuperating and had gone to the paddock. Barnum sidled up against him and sprained the ankle an-kle of his other foot. For six months the 62-year-old desert Midas has been laid up in his hideaway shack on Death valley val-ley floor, five miles from bis castle Scotty's sixty-second birthday this year was spent on a cot for the first time since some 20 years ago when rattlesnake bites had him down. "I can't get up in the dry range to shoot a ram, so we'll just have a turkey east,'JScottywrote Scotty told his guests not to worry about the weather. Last Christmas a blizzard howled down Grapevine canyon. "You know I have a lot of firewood. fire-wood. I can keep the IS fireplaces going steady night and day for 73 years with the 175.000 railroad tiee from the Goldfield-Beatty railroad I bought after the gold rush. And, besides, there's the engines for heating heat-ing and cooling the castle. "When you fellows drift in I can keep you hot or cold. "The compound fracture of my left instep was worse than a break, but I hope to be all right when you come up on the 25th." |