Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-04-14
Robust Indignation.
sOME VERY ABLE STORIES ALLEGED TO
HAVE BEEN TOLD IN NEVADA.
From the Carson City Appeal.1

From the Carson City Appeal
Yesterday afternoon, when the lawyers in
Justice Cary's court were waiting for tho
verdict in petty larceny case, Attorney
Soderberg related ut incident Of his early
childhood in Minnesota, illustrative Of tho
peculiar customs 10 vogue in that State:
IL know sn old iurmer there who owned
ten acres OF timber land where millions of
pigeons came each year to roost. They
devastated the wheat fields, the old coon
used to catch the birds in nets aud thrssh
them out on tho barn floor. Each bird had
three ounces of wheat in his crop, and it was
bad year Tor old Old Thompson when he
couldn't snip n thousand bushels of whcat
to market ut 81 GO bushe, and it ranked
A No. when it reached the Chicago
elevator. If there had been few millions
moro of pigeons he would have como pretty
near getting corner on the Minnesota
wheat crop"
II know planter down in Alaoama," said
Kittreli, "who was fully as sharp as TINT.
lic trained an alligator to work up and down
tho river and catch the Little picaninnies that
played along the bank. The alligator would
take the little kids 10 his jaws and swim
back to the plantation. It was a dull day
that he couldn't corral three or four. Tho
plunter raised 'en carefully ond when they
got big sold 'em in New Orleans OF prices
ranging form three to ten thousand apiece
ae was rolling 10 wealth when Lincoln's
emancipation proclamation was issued, and
after that tho alligator never did any more
work. The man is now barely keeping body
aod soul together in Washington, cIerking
in Of ka b,,s
a year"
Judge Cary evidenced the greatest inter
est in these weird tales, and edged up to
the group.
"Thcse are curious yarns, gentlemen,
but believe them all. had a dog once,
back in Nebraska, that kept to herd lum-
ber."
beg Jour pardon, Judge; did you say
the dog herdcd lunbel?"
'.Ycs, sir, cottonwood boards. We always
kopt dog there to bring the lumber in at
uight."
Every ybody now paid the closest a.ten-
tiou, as they knew that the boss was at
WORK.
ut was this way. Cottonwood boards
warp like thunder in the sun. A board
would begin to hump its back up about
uius in the moraing, aud ia half 90 hour it
would turn over. BY eleven it would warp
the other way with the heat, and make
another flop. Zach time it turned it
moved couple Of feet, always following
tho sun toward the West. Tho first sum.
mer lived in Brownyille over 10000 feet
OF lumber skipped out to the bills tho day
before had advertised house raisin'. I
went to the county scat to attopd lawsuit,
aud when get back there wasn't stick of
timber left. 1t hud strayed away into the
np!.nds. An ordinary board woald climb
two-mie hill during hot week, and when
it struck the timber it would keep wormin'
in aud out among the trees like garter
snake. Every farmer in the State had to
keep shepherd dogs to follow his lumber
around the country, keep it together, and
show where it was 10 the morning. We
didn't need any fumes there for lumber
We sawed it East of the place we wantol to
use it, and let it warp itself to it's destina-
.io,i, with men and dogs to head it off ut
the right time. We never lost stick.
Well, here comes the jury" continued the
Judge. "The witnesses have lied, so guess
they will disagree"