, 1875-01-31
COLD IN COLORADO.


| II NAF1lpA3C ACCOUNT O06 Il
fse Tafkcs1 Cautiously.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel has been Interviewing
gentleman from ColorsIb il regard to lhe cold
weather there, and tho following incitient f1
'1tono BILL" tile Colorado gentleman msn
tuned. is the result:
zone night Scared Pete tie biggest 1d.t
aud best enchre-playsr III Heleua, was beat
in all tho boys at tic game and elttin' auay
with thur STAMPS like ]iShti1ih'. 1t It'd cu:a
up awful cold that afternoon: Thar Hatnt
| no thermometer an we couldn't tall hon
low she'd got. But tito we'd q red-hot fra
breaths friz right up, and wo bud to knock oh
the icictes from our mouths every few minutes
The habtlla on thd ice OF ctils cracked and fell
off. and no one would tech spade, cos twas SO
three kings Long Jim Lad three aces, queen
and the little joker Scared Pets put down
his right. Long Jim followed with his joker
Scared Pete took an ace with tho left. 1onR
jim gobbled up Two of hia kings with two aces.
Pete swore no man ever before'd played L %
il Jun hadn't stocked the keettls: Then
there was jiss tue prettiest little ROW
T ever sa*n. Pete got Jim down. and
afore d minute their bteaths had friz tigh:er't
'em il they we're Mt got free: You see thets
want no water nor noshln' to- thaw 'em outn
tLat, 50. they pulled Jim ana Pete 'longsde the
sluv: T "an't bo use; They'd friz so tight thai
hot pitca N0ltlilE & tnt1t EIQ.
''We had to let 'ehi lis thar all that night
You see everything WAS f4lz up; no axes not
nothin' to chop the ice OF. Next day they ataid
thar, and next night. Yes, stranger, for th1ea
days and nights Pete and Jim were f1iz 10
gcther. They stuck closer'n brofhetB, nov yoa
began to grow q little warmer, and by night tba
weather Was tol'abte. We also sot rennd' piaJin'
keerds, an me an Ugly Sam had just begun to
set in some big ncks-me'n Sam wis pards, Joa
know.
'.Au Of . suddlnk like, we heard an awful
crash. looked round, on condemn my pictef,
ef them two 'fahoos on the floor hadn't thawed
out. Yes, sir, aud thar they wero claTin' sni
pnuc!1lh' and guusm' just aheta they'd left Of
afore they frlz together. By that time we'd u
Well, stranger, an I'm q telin you fax, knivea :
cola 10 ole could draw blood. Aitsf IN hour q
SO the fun let up. jim aud pota got otto theit
feet, lookin' DIS fresh Us Eoees. Hadn't
seisss as n tban moro ea n1sal'f Satn enns: 81 ss
door: Well, that party broke up. !. bout
morning. We didn't think anything Of it tilla
day or two after. Then she began to thaw, IN
stranger, there was the awfullest time you ete1
the store begun to bleed like stuck hogs. Fact.
bled more'n gallon. aud thought I'd have to
hand in my checks. But all but one feller cot
fixed up and did purity well. Scared Pete snd
Long Jim Tas purity well tuckered out though.
You sec when she got warm, why Ws began to
sort o thaw out. aud the jabs and cuts we got
that night began to tell on Us, and the bigger
the cut the more We b1ed. Nov, stranger, that
was only one Of the effects Of that little cold
snap, 'twasn't nothin' to what happened altar
ward!"
Here Lone Bill began to move uneasily about
Noticing that We watched him rather curions'Y,
he remarked: - You see, soou as Git trlla
warm feel uneasy like and smart; an Hare 70
light ont into the air. This climate don't
suit 'xactly, an I'm goin' to strike tor old Non
tany again. I cum down har in Injiany to seq
bout sotne people, sort Of relativea Like |
tried to get 'em to come out o. this,-pul up
stakes and 60 whar o man can breath aasv."
Saying this Lone Bill spat with amazing ~
:uracy at a. nail head on the wall and. wipins
his mouth with the coat-tail OF his linen dustar,
armed his melancholy face and No. II boots To-
karil the door.
Hating with his brawny hand on the door
mob, he hestatingly eaid: '.If you should Prent
anything I've sed, an ef you've got room4 tust
Jay that Lone Bill will swar to anything he's
,aia. At home I'm sometimes known as ne
catamount,' an no man don't call me = LIZ
wlct."
We hasteued to assure him that We supposed
lin to be, truth embodied, and that any mAo
sho could dispute his word WIS no better than
la should be, aud hcrse- thief into the bargain.