Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-03-06
SOME STRANGE TALES.
REMARKABLE RECoLLECrIoNS OF SOME CT THE
LEGAL FRATERNITY.

Yesterday afternoon when the lawyers il
Justice Cary's Court were waiting for the
verdict in petty larceny case, Attorney
Soderberg related an incident of his early
childhood in Minnesota illustrative of the
peculiar customs III vogue in that State.
CoRNERING THE WHEAT CROP
II knew an old farmer there who owned
ten acres of timber land whrre millions OF
pigeons came each year to roost They de-
| vastated the wheat fields aud the cd coon
used to catch the birds in nets and thrash
| them out on the barn floor. Each BIZ d had
three ounces of wheat in his crop and it was
q bad year for cold Thompson" when be
couldn't ship a thousand bushels of wheat
to market a, So 80 a bushel, and it ranked
a No. l when it reached the Chicags ele-
vator''
didn't the grain get rather mixed up
with the pigeon meat inquired Judge
Gary.
He ran the whse business through
screens said Soderberg, lighting fresh
| cigar. eff there had been a few mi lions
more of pigeons he would have come pretty
near getting corner on the Minnesota
wheat crop
GEN. KITTRELL'S ALLEGATIONS.
% [ know 2 planter dUwH in Alabama"
said Kit:rell, who vas fully rs sharp as
that. He trained an alligator to work up
and down the river and catch the little
picininnies that played along the bank
The alligator would take the little kids il
his jaws and swim buck to the plantation
1t was dull dag that he couldn't corral
three OF four. The planter raised EN- care.
fully and when they got big sold EN- in
New Orleans at prices ranging from three
TO ten thousand apiece. He vas rolling in
wealth when Linco,n's emancipati n pro-
cismation was issued, and after that the
alligator never did any more work. The
man Is nov btrey keeping body and soul
together in Washington, clerking in one of
the Government Bureaus at eight thousand
a year."
"REMINISCENCES BY CARY.
Judge Gary evidenced the greatest inter !
est in these weird tales and edged up to |
;'e group.
"These are curious yarns gentlemen, but |
I believe them all. I had dog onca, back |
in Nebraska, that I kept to herd lumber"
Beg pardon Judge; did you say the dog
herded lumher?''
Eyes sir, cottonwood boards We al
ways kept dog there to bring the lumber
in at night"
Everybody now paid the closest attention
IS they knew that the boss was at work
1t was this way. Cottonwood boards
warp like thunder in the sun a board
would begin to hump its back up about
line in the morning and in half an hour it
he other way with the heat, and make an
'ther flop. Each time it turned it moved
couple OF feet always following the sun
oward the west. The first summer lived
q E-ownville over ten thousand feet of
lumber skipped out to the hills the day be-
ore l had advertised house raj in [
vent to the county seat to attend lawsuit
nd when | got back there wasn't a stick of
imber left. It had strayed away into the :
plands. An ordinary board won climb l
two mile hill during hot week, and when
struck the timber it would keep wormin'
n and out among the trees like garter
make. Every farmer. in the State had to a
eep shepherd dogs to follow his iumb,r ]
round the country, keep it together and t
how where 1t was in the morning We
iin't need any fumes there for lumber.
We sawed it cast Of the place We wanted to e
Sc it and let it warp self to its destina- )
on, with men and dogs to head it off at Y
le right time, We never iost stick. Well,
ere c,mes the jury" continued the Judge.
isagree.