Show HEN I 1 knew death valley scotty and his dog goldbug around goldfield rhyolite and windy gap there was a story that the dog had all Sc scottye scottys ottys cash made a great Is loaned to him tuss fuss over a by chicago man stranger str aDger at casays Casey hotel and a theory that this stranger must have been scottys scottye Sc ottys mysterious b back ack er the visitor however was just passing through and was never identified and scotty even in moments of abandon in tex place continued to insist that he had a chimney or blowout blow out of 0 gold nuggets samples of which he carried in his overalls pocket it was not until years later that the man who financed the death valley scotty saga just for his own amusement it would seem was A M johnson the head of a big insurance firm in chicago As scotty and his backer round out 40 years of a beautiful friendship scotty informs the federal tax collectors that he has in gold certificates buried somewhere in the panamint mountains and that the source of his m mysterious y gerlous wealth has unfailingly b been een mr johnson from the same source came the spanish castle which scotty built in the heart of death valley several years ago according to his previous admissions the unique partnership opened with a 2500 grubstake he not only wrote a check but followed scotty to death valley the first mine pan out but mr johnson was having tun fun they fought bandits got clubby with the plute indians and rooted around in old prospect holes thereafter came scottys scottye Sc ottys famous train ride and the deepening mystery of his treasure cache they kept their secret until along about 1830 1930 the pooch goldbug and scottys scottye Sc ottys extraordinarily intelligent white mule both died of old age but the original partnership still goes on mr johnson now 68 years old is cut somewhat on the same lines as henry ford but with an achilles heel of romance he was born bom and grew up in a small town in ohio went to cornell university did abolt a jolt of railroading in ar kansas arkansas and engaged in mining lead and zinc near joplin mo in chicago he be augmented an inherited fortune in the insurance business he belongs to 6 a string of good clubs in chicago Is a sagacious and conservative se serva tive citizen and from all all accounts has bankrolled bank rolled scotty just iu for or the fun of it nina I 1 know the truth about ym yiu and my husband find out what im going to do on page 19 of it the may issue ot of true story magazine now on sale adv |