Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-05-06
The Deadly Brecch.

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On the hanks of the Father Of Water
there recently dwelt a - a youth to for
time and to fame unknown bnt lik
Yourg Lochnivar he came ont "f III
west, aud he brought up at Phil,,it
phia. Yet unlike Lnchuiyar, he aid 40
ride cali unarme,i," for be brouEb
with bin curIonsly wrought r:uzzl,
for cannon. |. aching the checker
hoard Of hrotheriy love, he waited npol
John Roach, whom the Do.c reader
know as the great steamship builder
who can carry away such gross wCIgh
Of government funds for each ton o'
coal consumel. SAya the young vol
VERNE, See here, Roach. Iou have
made some right smart crafts. Sup
pose you now make the best cannon 1t
! the world, and SO get more famous, like
krupp and Armstrong! Now make the
rest of thi. gun for me, and We will &c
shares, and make noise in the world.
! Roach being assured that the youHg
man had money Jehi.d him went on AMI
finished the canMon. The inventor then
from got Mayor Stokely permit to try
bis gun; SO on one of the closing days
of January, he with Roach and few
friends, had the piece hauled down near
the river, Just after dark, and then get
ting behind bank they fired her 10y
pulling a fish lioe. The For CORE
spondeut interviewed one Of the work
men, and gathered the facts as fol
lows:
You see, mister, the fellow told the
boss they'd make noise in the world,
and you can just bet they did; but they
never will again-not with that gun.
A success! Well, yes, you may say so.
in Que sense. If you could go to war
with such guns and contrive to lose 'em
to the enemy, and the enemy should
try to fire 'em at you, pretty soon there
wouldn't be any enemy left.
1.-The muzzle lit out into the river,
and so that was safely cared for, but the
new breech just went round promiscu-
ously. A 45.pound piece smashed
through Mrs. Grosser's house, 39S east
8th street; 17-pound piece just
skinned off half the roof of Van Pelt's
saw mill in east 10th street, and then it
dove down the sky-light and killed
Jimmy Armstrong; dog that was fetch
ing upa litter of seven elegant fighting
pups who'll die now; and then another
piece took down the 10th street ferry
way, knocking over the little caboose
where the fellow takes the money, and
throwing it top of MIR. Louis Coutrie,
him AS almost ran for the Asst nbly a
while ago; then the bang shook up the
little telegraph office, breaking the
windows and throwing the telegraph
girl of her stool backwards, and putting
out all the gas far and near, while lot
of small pieces just peppered the stern
of the ferry boat, North Side, beside
knocking over the car starter, and
smashing great lump of the cannon g
stern half through the driveway of the
ferry. Still, nobody was seriously
hurt, except the dog"
The owner of that maternal canine
had refused S25 for her, and the pups
we're almost above price; Mrs. Grosser
has q house the sanitarians would rec
ommend to OTHER people, on account of
the thorough ventilation; and these
sufferers join with Van Pelt in wanting
to know who pays the damage. The
frightened inventor went back into the
west by express as soon as he saw the
mischief done by "the deadly breech" of
his gun, and Roach says he doesn't
know his address, nor that of the mon
eyed men behind him. Roach dis
claims all responsibility, and says he
was merely employed to make the
breech of the gun as a piece of job
work, and that he has received nothing
for it. So he shrewdly joins the cry of
WHO is to pay the bills?' The car
starter doesn't care much, except that
he had been six months regulating his
clock, and now he has got to go all over
ut again for the next six months. Mr..
Coutrie hasn't been heard from. The
telegraph girl says go, that horrid
bang is it that you want to know
about Well, it was perfectly dread
full" And such was the way our Young
'Lochnivar made"a noise in the world"
= Vox Populi.