The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-25

Tue M{ttous rHo"<ts
Ny attention has very recently been
called 20 a stranger who seems 10 DC =
feature of the great mountain exodus.
He wears a Mexican sombrero. broad
AZ The base and shallow OF crown. with
.sstrangu. Wild fancNs." as Colonel
Downev would say, worked in scarlet
and gold upon il, and q gold cord with
cardinal ~tassels Of great size. His coat
Il a lone buckskin garment. Gu plain
like a night shirt. with leads workcu
all over IL. and buckskin strings attach
ed TO il along the seams and around the
tail. He has other odd, wild forgery
about him. aud seems 10 feeldisappoint-
cd because be hasn't killed anybody for
an hour OF two.
When the passenger train from the
East comes in he stands at the depot
with a PARKWAY look. like one whose
thoughts are roaming among the ranks
of erass-grown gravesin his own private.
cemetery, where he plants those who
do not love him.
The passengers look at him with
solemn awe and respect anddo not speak
To him. because they are afraid they
will disturb him and make him irritat-
ed, and he will put q six-aush on the
train and mix up . ghastly array oi
mutilated corpses.
No one seemed to know who this man
was al first. Some said il was the left
wing Of the James boys Others, still.
said that il was a cui-throat known as
The Howling Demon OF Pappoose
Canon The old frontiersman said
that il wa The Wild-Eyed Man Flat
tenerfrom Sinking Water" Others said
thew recognized him As 1.-The Sanguin-
ary Gixzard- Eater OF Yuba Dam"
But he was none OF these noted char
acters.
The citizens called a convention and
decided that they would draw lots TO
see who should hold an interview with
him and find out II there was any way
by which we could alleviate his woe and
ease the canker which was eating away
his heartstrings. Ii was decided that
the people Of Wyoming should let him
have a man to kill, il that was the Sc
cret of his consuming grief, and, rather
than see him pining his young life
away. a victim would be provided for
him each week at least.
The bloody task Of interviewing this
wholesale and retail dealer in funerals
and headquarters for cemetery and
medical college supplies fell on me.
babe adieu To my family, rehearsed
a part Of "The Immortals'' to work in
a diving speech, wrote 10 Washington.
sending in my resignation as United
States Commissioner. and, having put
on nv new clothes, / went to this a
who carries with him a death record of
those who have died at his hands, which
looks like the advertised letter list OF
the Leadville Post-ofice-
wondered afterward how | came to
fv into the very jaws Of death as did.
but I kept my piercing eye on n
graveyard monopolist till he quailed- l
Strengthened up 70 my full height and
taking a step ladder ! went up and
threw back nv aurora borealis locks
from the wide honest brow. If there Is
any feature / possess which excites my
pardonable pride. it is my square open
brow. II l had as much money, as !
have brow. | would ride around the
country on special train. but | haven't,
Year alter year / am keeping over a
larger and larger stock CT shop-worn
brow for which there is no demand.
cam away from the interview with
this man greatly relieved. He was no
carniverous as we mad supposed. He
was not grieving for a chance TO battle
himself in gore. He wa introducing 3
new kind Of grease spot e~radicatcr. ant
he was suffering a good deal Of menta
anguish because he couldn't bring hi
sales IN TO fifty cents per day.-"Wyo
nina Kit" 1 Denver Tribune.