The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-01-19

rows, which the noble bird had probably
picked up on the shore Of Pyramid Lake.
No, there was no getting over that, it vas
''cotA."
So our friends nom Chicago. then and
there held a conference, and Messrs. Sour
-four, Softpork and Strongbutter were ap-
pointed 4 committee Of three TO negotiate for
the purchase Of all the coin the Chicago party
would need for their expenses and purchases
while in California. Alter much Zip" the en-
bsssadors came 70 the Banks terms, and then,
one by one those men from Chicago all
marched up solemnly, calmly, coolly, dispas-
sionately and deliberately; said they would
take from ius to ten dollars in silver. passed in
their greenbacks and got their coin. Thus
was the Chicago party supplied with coin for
their visit Of three weeks in California; You
see they did have money; yes, coin! and are
not ten or even five dollars in coin enough to
last three weeks for expenses and buy few
Chinese goods to take home as curiosities,
when you get your grub free, carry your whis-
Ky with you, and drink alone? 1t wouldn't
last an Eiko man around the block, but then
we are not so sharp as they are in Chicago.
Then again, these men from Chicago were
liberal, though the Bulletin thinks they were
not. We have positive proof that one of them
pstrpnized a small boy who was peddling
grapes here in Elko, and paid him twenty-five
cents for them. To be sure he didn't pay till
he got the grapes. and then paid the boy in
scrip; and when the boy objected to the cur
rency, the Chicsgo man kept right on eating
up the grapes and arguing the question as to
whether Nevada ought to abandon her absurd
and suicidal course of using only gold and sill
Yer, and SO to taking greenbacks; and by the
time the question was fully argued, the boy
could not have got his grapes back without
buying an emetic for the Chicago man, and SO
he tore up the shinplsster, saying something
naughty all the while, aud assuring the Chi
cago man that, If he were ten minutes older
and hadn't got a sore toe, he would snatch
him bald-headed" and jerk the . Bat
never mind the rest; that boy never went to
Sunday school much, and he shouldn't have
been impudent TO the Chicago man, for the act
wasnt dishonest, it was only sharp, and they
are mighty sharp in Chicago, you know.
We heard, too, that those Chicago men didn't
sponge, for instead of hanging around to get
treated (they have worn that dodge out long
agu), they went up to the bar, borrowed tum-
bier drew their own bottles from their peck
cts. poured away and took drink. There was
independence for youi
Some one once wrote, "Show me a nation 3
songs, and will tell you the character of its
people.
It must be admitted that Chicago has been
unfortunate in adopting her national hymn.
There may be another version Of il, we hope
there is, but this is the way those Chicago
men sung it here:
IT'S swee; TO sip the bubbling vine
When friends have come together.
And hot drinks good when the clock strikes nine
At night during Winter weather.
Mint jueI.s sweet 10 the inner man
In the scOrCEing summer days.
But sweetest OF AL, match this II you can,
IL drink with . that pays
We hope that the impression made by the
Bulletin is corrected.