Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-29

drop Nv whiskey! not drop. Ez we gaz-
ed out ov the winders we Good see the
citizens Nv the Corners flockin gaily into
Bascom's and l Good, thro the open door
Nv the grocery, see Mrs. B. settin
out the familyer bottle, and the
drouthy souls asswagin there thirst.
The site wuz maddenin. Within
twenty rods NV sustenance and not drop
to be had! Outside the officers stood-to
| vencher out wuz arrest-and yet, how Good
we stay!
But we resolved land swore each to the
other that likker or no likker, we wood
| resist the officers to the last-that eft they
took us they wood take US ded! For men
who he'd not he'd drop for three hours
with grosery in full site, almost within
hearin Nv the refreshin gurgle Nv the tlooid
ez it gushed from the bottles mouth, this
wuz more than Spartan f1rmnis. Greece
in her pammiest> days never furnished
heroes Nv more sterner mould, and the
Greeks Of the olden time were no slouches.
| AT half past twelve that venerable saint,
| Deekin POgram, wuz nearly delirious, and
down Elder Pennibacker's wan bloc
cheeks teers chased each other in rapid
succession.
"We kin die, Elderr sed the Deekin
| W e hlu-Wt hlu D. cSpOuOtu lllS LlUCI
| AT one O'Clock, Joe Bigler jined the be-
siegen party. He talked minnit or two
with the Sheriff, and one Nv the officers
minnit emerged with jug. That jug he
carried up to within ten rods Nv the
meetin-house, and sot it on dry goods
| box, with tumbler beside it. We watch
ed the proceedin with breathless interest.
Joe Bigler with piece Nv chalk wrote, in
| bold letters, on that box:
| CORN WHIsKEY-FREE"
| And the officers went back few steps.
| The Deekin looked at it, and shudder
shook his venerable frame.
| "Parson," sed he, Il am an old man.
and cant endoor privashuns as | wunst
Good. | will venchur out to see eff we
kin compromise with these crooel, crooel
menu
And the Deekin went He reached the
jug, poured out refresher and swallered
it. That act wuz the demoralizashen Nv
| the party. Pennibacker rushed out, Is
| saker Gavitt follered, Bascom follered
him, and NV course | follered Bascom
We drank, and bein out Nv our strong
hold, wuz arrested, one by one, without
trouble, amid the jeers Nv the officers.
Above all rang the jeerin latf Of Bigler,
who exultinly remarkt that he knew that
not one Nv us Good resist the attrackshuns
wv a jug marked Free"
That mite we all slept in the Jail at Sc
cessionville, from witch we only emerged
on givin bail for our appearance at Court.
This wuz wat happened to us, and the
way it happened. The Modocs, eff they
are like otter Injuns, hev as ardent affek-
shuns for whiskey ez the average Cross
Roader. Let the commandin officer post
sharp shooters in front up the sekret hidin
places Nv the noble red man. Let him
roll out atore their hidin places, and with
in range Nv the sharp-shooters, a barrel
Nv new corn whiskey, and put on it an
inscription in the Modoc language Free ~
Then as they come out for it shoot EN-. A
Cross-Roader wood come out eff he knew
he wuz agoin to die the next mint, and
bleev the Injun wood. | wood sejest,
however, that they be allowed to take a
good pull afore they are shot. Let us not
be crooel. Let the noble red man die
happy.
Ez remarked, eff the Government is
grateful for sejestions, and proposes to re-
ward me for this simple method Nv endin
a costly war, my address is still at Con.
tedrit Cross Roads, witch is in the State
Nv Kentucky.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
| (Which wuZ Postmaster.)