The purchaser came on through to San
Francisco; and he proved himself to be the
prince of the palace train. He boarded it at
El Faso, tossed a SJMMnile book to the
conductor and was greeted by the full train
crew with doffed caps and a 'How are you,
colonel." Os th passengers he knew none;
but a day had not pas»*d before he knew
all. His cards bore the Waldorf, New
York, as his eastern home, but to a cattle
ranch just over the line in Mexico and to
mines galore in Arizona he belonged. Soon
he recalled having met meat the Press Club
in Washington uh n he was at the capital
chaperoned by Governor Campbell, of Ohio,
struggling with Hoke Smith and the presi
dent over the apfiointmciit of a governor of
Arizona. He was the min who induced the
president to overrule Hoke in his selection
of the governor of Arizona territory. In
the east as In the west he Is a well known
character, not only because of his wealth,
but for his joviality and entertaining qual
ities.
For years, in his younger life, connected
with the department of public works of
Great Britain, he was in Egypt, in India and
throughout all the east. Os that country
and of China and Japan he told interest
ing stories. Over the condition of affairs in
the east, the cause of the present war be
tween Japan and China and the effect of
it. he chatted interestingly.
