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Went Them $50 Better

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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A few nlghts &o a miner from the north, who had lately sold a claim, had money to burn and was In an incendiary mood, carne down to Spokane to make the currency bonflre, says the Spokane Review. He waa rather rusty looking when he struck Spokane, but he was hungry, and, before going to a barber shop or bath, dropped into an uptown restaurant to get something to eat. There was but one waiter, and he, busy carrying champagne to a party at another table, patd little attention to the hard-looking miner. Finally the waiter was called over, when the miner said: "See here, kid! Do I eat?" "Sorry I can't wait on you now," was the prompt reply, "but that gentleman there has just ordered a $50 dinner." "Fifty-dollar linner be hanged! Crlng me $100 worth of ham and eggs and be qulck about it. Do I look llke like a guy who cm be bluĂ­fed by a mess of poplnjays?" Kp was waited On promptly.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register