Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-04-07
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Some Very Able Stories Alleged to
Have Been Told in Nevada.

Some Very Able Stories Alleged to
Have Been Told in Nevada.
Carson CT Appeal
Yesterday afternoon. when the law
yers in Justice Cary's court were wait
ing for the verdict in a petty larceny
case, Attorney Sodenberg related an in
cident of his early childhood in Min
nesota, illustrative of the peculiar Gus
toms in vogue in that state:
81 knew an old farmer there who
owned ten acres of timber land where
millions of pigeons came each year to
roost. They devastated the wheat
fields, and the old coon used to catch
the birds in nets and thrash them out
on the barn floor. Each bird had three
ounces of wheat in his crop, and it was
bad year for old Thompson when
he couldn't ship Il thousand bushels of
wheat to market at $3.50 bushe, and
it ranked A No. l when it reached the
Chicago elevator. If there had been a
few millions more of pigeons he would
have come pretty near getting corner
on the Minnesota wheat crop"
81 knowa planter down in Alabama,
said Kittrell, "whO was fully as sharpa as
that. He trained an alligator to work up
and down the river and catch the little
picaninnies that played along its banks.
The alligator would take the little kids
in his jaws and swim back to the
plantation. 1t was a dull day that he
couldn't corral three or four. The
planter raised 'em carefully, and when
they got big sold 'em in New Orleans,
prices ranging from three to ten thou
sand apiece. He was rolling in wealth
when Lincoln's emancipation pro ma-
tion was issued, and after tina. the
alligator never did any more w,rk,
The man is barely keeping body and
soul together in Washington, clerliing
in one of the government bureaus at
eight thousand year.
Judge Cary evidenced the greatest
interest in these weird tales and edged
up to the group.
"These are curious yarns, gentlemen,
but | believe them all. had dog
once, back in Nebraska, that kept TO
herd lumber"
"Beg pardon, judge; did you say the
dog herded lumber"
ayes, sir, cottonwood boards. We
always kept dog there TO bring the
lumber in at night"
Everybody now paid the closest at
tention, as they knew that the boss WAS
at work.
at was in this way: Cottonwood
boards warp like thunder in the sun.
A board would begin to hump its back
at 9 in the morning, and in half an
hour it would turn over. BY II it
would warp the other way with the
heat, and make another flop. Each
time it turned it moved couple of
feet, always following the sun toward
the West. The first summer | lived in
Brownville over ten thousand feet Of
lumber skipped out to the hills the day
before | had advertised house raisn'.
| went to the county seat to attend Il
lawsuit, and when got back there
wasn't stick of timber left. 1t had
strayed away to the uplands, An or
binary board would climb Il two mile
hill during a hot week, and when it
struck the timber it would keep worm
in in and out among the trees like Il
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 in the morning Wouldn't need
any fumes there for lumber. WeSaw-
ed it east of the place we wanted touse
it, and let it warp itself to its dcstina-
tion, with men and dogs to head it off
at the right time We never lost Il
stick. Well, here comes the jury"
continued the judge. "The witnesses
lied 80 | guess they will disagree"