Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-04-11

FIRE nesday night, rs we were sitting
in our sanctum bcwailing the deartll of local
items wherewithal to regale the readers Of
the AvANT COURIER, and fervently PRAYING
for some peripatetic star of the night to walk
IN and invite us to 60 and take s.nighteap, .
our ears We're startled by the alarming cry
OF Fire. Fire = and before we could re-
cover our last new ch apeau from the embrace
of the lye-bucket-wI whittier It had beer, con-
signed by the kindly consideration of the
devil for the purpose OF divesling it of
its superfuous grease spots-we were inva-
lied by furiously frantic crowd of excited
individuals, who wild sestichlations and
brcathless, incollerent words, proceeded TO
convey to our be-muddled understanding the
consoling intelligence that the building was
on fire, the town half burned down, and we.
unless we stirred our stumps pretty lively,
doomed to become a permanent boarder in
his Satanic Majesty's Mammoth Hotel III less
than ten minutes. The scene that ensued was
describable. One excited gentleman went
inadfy to work and tore down about fifteen
yards OF clustering iii 4 futile cnleasor to
break through to the root. and only succeeded
in filing his his eyes with lime and sand.
causing him to utter etring Of adIectiyes
that would make bull-whacker ashamed of
himself: another pulled the tove to pieces,
thereby inficting so many burrs on his cor
porcal corporosity that the dressing of them
will create dearth of linseed oil i'm the mar
ket; a third jerked ont couple Of window
sashes IN his eagerness to show to the admir-
ing populace that he could double discount
Joe Farrelfs celebrated donble-back-actio
somersault from the flying trapcze to the
stage by making tllree-cornered leap from
the first-foor window to the roof: number
four, in his wild anxiety to do something,
ran his head against the panhandle OF the
press. damaging his starboarl optic by the
the concession (we'll cali it square with that
f How; "a fifth knocked the Proceedings of
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aud the prospectus OF the Mon
ana. North Pole & Useless Railroad Conn
Dai y" into the prettiest mass of "pi'. con-
,eivable; while we-well. we rushed down
o Cows and took sssnifter'' or two of that
Did 9th District, and on returning, saw a fell
ow going to the scene of action with two
mpty buckets. one OF which had save out,
md the other had a hole in the bottom big |
.nough to pnt your fist through; tile fire
vas out, and forty or fifty exhausted humans
yiping the moisture from their perspirii g |
rows and .scussing'' everything in general
sid our stove pipe in parti cular for having |
so ID much SCOT in it !" after which, we
rent Gown to Cows. and to * another /
snifter;'' then to Dave Carpenters and |
nbibed some beer, calling at the Kiyus and |
'en-pin Alley on cur re, urn; then walked
p to Odell's to ''Sec that the town was ali |
ight; I" and finally. retired to rest anil dream
[ burning cities, steam tire-cngines. hook
nd ladder companies. fights with Bowery
oys aad speuting geysers; waking up in
b. morning with Il terrible brain-ra cking
nd hair-pullng. just as we were about to
Ike flying leap into he lake that bnrneth
18th fire and birthstone. When we were
recovered to assess the profit and
,ss of the affair. we found the result to be
) follows: Damages: Two window sashes
roken; one light damaged d little by COM
o,lnd fracture; lot Of plastering scattered
rough the eases" broken stove and
considerable '.pi." Contra Cr.: Cock
ills; 4 Beers IS Whiskey straights; -.somc'
nashes IA lump under the ri mt ear. caused
I contact til Dutch Johns M. Us while
III il the capacity Of ladder for the
oresaia Dutch John to noun. to the roof
l, and i splitting headache the following
prning. Total: About even. e