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Show ADVERTISING THAT PAID. John Manning, Sheriff of Deadwood, D. T. [Dakota Territory], was in St. Louis on business, and he remembered that a year before a St. Louis man had been up to Deadwood and left owing a man several hundred dollars, which was to be paid as soon as he got home. Manning met the men in St. Louis, and he said he would hand him the money the next day. The day passed and the money did not come, though the man was amply able to pay. One morning Manning inserted a personal in one of the newspapers to the effect that if the man who left Deadwood between two days did not pay the money he forgot to pay, before night, the whole circumstance would be published the next day. The notice was signed "John Manning, Sheriff of Deadwood." Before 8 o'clock, a young man called at Manning's hotel and said he had had come to pay $2 he had borrowed to get out of Deadwood. Manning found out who the money was borrowed from and took it to carry to the Deadwood citizen, remarking that he was not the man referred to, but it was a mighty mean sheriff who would not carry money to a friend. The next man to call was the one he wanted, and he paid the money and apologized, and begged the sheriff to say nothing about it. During the day seven citizens of St. Louis called on Manning and paid him money for citizens of Deadwood, believing the sheriff had reference to them in his notice; and after he had gone away, another citizen called and asked the clerk for Manning, but the clerk said the other fellows had all been there and paid up, and this man had better keep his money. The sheriff said he always thought advertising paid, but he never had it demonstrated to his satisfaction before. |