Show rund tott A conui 1 millionaire BID curator bale a big haul STANDARD speciale R Chronic ts dec 15 W 8 smith a operator has a claim against the salt county for to days work ai a common laborer in the companas comp anys aalt mine at per day applied tor work at thi superintendents office the oher day and waa sent down with the rn inerd he worked two days and on the morning of the third requested a day coffon account of sickness it was granted gran teJ and the miner hired a rig and took a ride for bis health to the home of firmer S 11 gray who owned land supposed to be rich in salt diio sits ha introduced trod himself to way as an employee of the keart mining company and aided him what he would take for bis acre farm gray bad been negotiating with tha kelsof company for some time and there had been a difference of only a few dollars per acre between them lie had about made ap his mind to complete the deal b foro amith arrived BO ha answered promptly ei naty thousand bollara do llara smith the tenna at oace and drew from an inside pocket which he handed over to bind the bargain the deal completed smith returned to the mine and resumed work during the afternoon of the name day when gray met the superintendent of the mine be eaid well I 1 rive in at last and clofed a ath a man today to day tor 00 per acre the superintendent soon found that no of the company liaa done any euch thing and a lively in followed AH alia men wera called and gray pointed to smith as tha one who had bonded lie farm han asked who ho the tar he replied that it waa for himself he when he a bill tor hia two days work payment was smith laughed and eaid he had had more than the worth of alie bid in tun over the discomfiture of hs em loyons he stand the loae especially aa hia labor in he maies had nivea him information which resulted in ins securing the leet sit territory in that section smith is from pennsylvania Pennsy vania fani ia largely in coad aib aid oil landa here it ia alitt tiia has for him the cram of the salt lands la denar lal BK dec 28 tha russian influenza liaa at lait reached the mountains three fourtha of the citizens of denver are Bu naring from the pla irue from cheyenne are to alio effect that hat city is similarly eimil arly afflicted bj doc 21 the Is decreasing here but is spreading rapidly at bremen at it ia very severe and at vienna many capes among children are followed by von aldens president of ilo chamber of representatives la dead |