Show TOM CRUSES CAREER A v story that tradell tile lio ups ui ima hinl dotter dom is nf f is I 1 ife tire tho bistor history Y of 0 tile r e ban banker kero Helena of mont thomas rhomas cruso cruse di as d i told by the chicago tribune Trl buno illustrates tile UP ups 4 and downs of 0 western lito life antl ana hott acts in strong contrast conti ast the two extremes ext romes ot of absolute groveling poverty anil and extraordinary ail luence six years firs ago tom cruse says I 1 M long was ft as only a common ordinary laborer a prospector anil and a 1 minor miner ilo had spoilt spent almost ills last nickel waa out of 0 luck arid and being out of oney money it naturally follow a tic lio had very cy tow few friends indeed lio lie was so poor that I 1 well ill remember tile daython day eiten lio be wag vas actually refused credit for ft a fifty pound sack su lc of flour ito dill did odd bobbi about town any thing so BO long lot as lie ho turned an all honest dollar doll ir lie hn took a tramp into tho the mountains when lio lie camo came liick back to town ton lio ho liston islieb everybody by reporting abo discovery discoe coe ryot of what hat his bas since turned out to be one of tile tho richest silver mines tit in montana ilo ile preempted pre empted tho the mm undo made every tiling thing solid lit in ills own name luino tills this mine was tile famous druan Imin mund lit in tile tho mountains moun taina near maysville twenty ono one froin helena A syndicate ot of bearing hoarle hoar ln ot of lila ills great find went ant out to investigate it tho the result fur far surpassed even cin their expectations arid anil on oil their way lack back to jovn they sought old man mail cr cruso laiso would lie ho soll tit alio yes how much vivo linn bun dred thousand dollars dollari spot basli that was too much they thought well gentlemen it if you think it la Is too iauch jont ont tako take it said crum tills this ollor Is 1 d until noon but no longer ill aavo havo another on it after that they thought tic lio was wan bluffing tile boxt day after further investigation thiv canto luck back to cruso cruse they told tho old I 1 nian iian thoy sero really to pay tile 5 and for him to draw up tip tin LIM pa pors wi my price today to day la Is stu till cruso cruse of courso course thoro was waa no ID leal deal pos possibly under tire circuit t tan an beg cri cruso crusa could then ret get all the lie ho wanted to work ills mine llo ile tn aico months had passed ho hall ellid till vil out worth ot of are and I 1 I 1 r 0 W WOT fig still unlimited quantities in fit tact fact lit sight tho kyndl abc camo back to him arid and 0 avi gl for a two third 11 interest n ho do r since that time cruse has bought lion slit mines tire iron mountain lor for in ill ivanof ita tit in the cosur dalene rolon region and all ile ho is worth artl today to day lo 10 was is married a couple of f coara jo arano ngo nit t liln hig wife atoll le eving tving 0 him til a child old mant lan cruso cruse as lie ho is called is a old fellow who bolig lits now in about liia ills bard time when tic lio jinio to montana six years ago lio lie illch ill cd till all tile tho way from fruin salt halt liko lako city Ili ats the way fortune smiles somo some till inns c S 11 |