Show 1 TAKING A CHANGE CHANCE THERE THERE is always admiration for the man who is L willing to take a chance c even en though the tho heedlessness heed- heed of the tIle individual dual may not strongly commend itself after careful thought and consideration Take for instance the action of Jesse Y 21 Short the tho millionaire millionaire millionaire million million- aire mining man who engaged in a pistol duel with a arain atrain train rain robber a n. few days ago and sustained wounds any of which might easily prove pro fatal Id give a thousand dollars to a washwoman oman a I. I poor woman drawing clothes up and down a board hut ut Il HO man can enn step up to mo me and calmly take a thousand thou thou- sand and an dollars from me mc said Short as be he In lay on a hospital hospi- hospi tal al cot after surgeons had bound up his Ws woun wounds s. s It was not the thought of losing the tho thousand dollars that prompted his action for Short has hM won and lost ten times that amount on the tho turn of or a card or the stroke of a pick but it wasn't h his s nature to give gh-e in to any man on the basis of stand and deliver er With such men resistance is not moro more bravery it is simply second nature and if the they think of danger at all nIl it is after ho the incident is over Short had some criticism to make of the trainman who vho allowed the robber to escape but he told the tho official officials of of- of th the Kansas City Southern that if they would give him a pass he would ride up and down the line until he had gotten rid of every on tho the road The Tho mining ruining man was an occasional visitor in Salt SaIt Lake and aId a n local acquaintance relates es this incident illustrating his character Down iti in ut a a. mining raining district a few months ago ugo Short lent ent a struggling man a sum of money taking a mortEa mortgage mortgage mort- mort Ea gage Eaje je im in in the thc rc regular ular wa way This man was injured later St and the tho r. r first St Short heard of tile the inJury vas was when QU his liis debtor hobbled up and asked him for an extension of time mats mat's the matter matted asked Short You Ton want vant an extension 2 Inn go on you dont don't owe me a cento cent No No o wonder that when it was announced at the Jop Jop- hn in Mine that the owner would recover miners cheers gathered at the mouth of the shaft and gave three c i bo lio grieved over Ocr di the absence of ot iby tho United States This eo country will willI recognize government o t as s soon as it gets one I IVa Va |