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Show OOT HIS PAY AT LAST. Jllllllon.lrV. Amu. Ins story of Whoa II Mntkeil (or Uutlo Sam. Col "Sim" llaston, now a reputed" mllllonnlro of Wjomlng, tells an nmuslng story of tho only direct communication com-munication ho ccr had with tho United Unit-ed States government. In 1890, lie says, "while on my uppers In Iiplsl-ana, Iiplsl-ana, I wna tickled to get tho Job of census enumerator. My bill against tho government was $110, and I used to Ho nwako nights planning how I would blow Iho money In I waa terribly dls-appolntcd,whcattia,suporvlsortolil dls-appolntcd,whcattia,suporvlsortolil mo I would liaVct to wait for a government check. He atd, however, that tho remittance re-mittance would bo along In a few days, nnd I began to haunt tho postofnee, expecting ex-pecting to get It In every mall. I kept that up for about sixty days, and meanwhile missed several good chances of getting n Job. About a month later the other boys received their checks, but initio failed to nrrlro, I wrote n hot letter to Washington, telling the supervisor genera! all about my troubles, and In four or flto weeks got a reply from tho ninth deputy of tho fourth assistant clerk of the acting superintendent of the bureau of kicks nnd walls. Ho said tho records showed show-ed that all tho enumerators bad been paid, Intimating, courteously, that I wna a crook and a bunko man, nnd re-quested re-quested mo to fill out tbo Inclosed blanks. They wero forms for filing a claim against tho government I throw the bunch Into the wnsto bosket I decided not to dovoto my ontlro life to tho collection of the $119, I'll forget for-get this, I said to myself, and try lo IHo It down. In tho fall of 1S9I I was spending my vacation In Denver, Colo , when I received re-ceived a letter that had been chasing mo nil over tho country nnd was black with postmarks. It contained a check for 1110, and a brief, cold, typewritten statement that tho census bureau bad found my account. I cashed tho check, took tho money to n faro bank around tho corner, put It on tho aco and lost" Utlca Olobo. . i. |