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Buffalo Bill's Real Estate Deals.
Buffalo Bill, or Colonel William Cody, as the London papers cal him, is a shrewd business man. While dining with princesses and dukes, and raking in bushels of English shillings with his show, he has not overlooked the money to be made in real estate speculations In a private letter to Hamilton Wicks, of the exposition management, who was to have gone to England as the manager of the Wild West, Cody states that he is getting rich rapidly, and that in addition to the wealth he is accumulating as a showman, he has made $7,000 on the sale of some ranch property No doubt William is making good use of his acquaintance among the wealthy lords of Englands, and will return with a long string of syndicates ready to invest as he may advise them. In the letter "Bill" does not boast of his success as a society lion, but only dwells on the fact of his rapid accumulation of British gold

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