The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-07
PROVIDING FUEL.
A Black Boarding House Kept
Warm by .Scheming
BOarders.
George Washington and Hayden
Vaughn Come to Grief and
are Sentenced to the
Rock Pile.

Mrs. Mary Jackson, fat, black and forty
or fiiIv, he. Us a coluled boarding house Oil
the European plan
Tie boarding house is situated near the
gae houee, and MAS probably selected viii.
yl,w 10 ,c.n,nilZIlS vIciual>, as lhe lci-
fume arising from Jim Montgomery :
eelablishu.. nj tends much toward nIakin-
the IhI,r usn 81 even negro stale anu
0nproiltabe.
1 lac European plan, rs Is well known,
consists in u.eais Wien You can g,t them,
1nd lodgings al home.
Mis-. Jacksom's hotel sports two rooms
Que Is ret aside for hers. II, offspring ana
Maybe somewhat OF 4 hasDani the Other
to ELI. Tier from thI> cold and un,, mpatheiIc
February such African guests may Wish
to sIay With tier.
The naInrs of the guest, far as know n
are George Washington and laydel,
Vaughn. There may bc more inhabitants
OF The hot,l, but ii There are, the same are
unknown 10 the historian oil the BAZoo.
Ii WIS on the seventeenth of January
one ol tine cold, ST days of this winter.
The two European boariers OF Zulu
d, scent were sitting 10y slim fire in Mrs.
Jackson's boarding house. Shouted Mrs.
Jackson:
"uean! Jawge Washington
George Washington hadn't paid his
room rent since he took lodgings at the
hotel, and Was unwilling 10 offend the
landiady.
"Heahl Mary Jackson
"Jawge, WEES cold, an We amt got no
coal"
"Heah! Mary Jackson, Use goin' ter gin
some"
The other boarder, Mr.. Hayden Vaughn,
or rather the other renter, Tor Mr. Vaughn
takes no meals al the house, also owed for
week or twu's rent, aud Was Of an accom-
nodating spirit.
'Jawge, ii you 60, GO" said he, and he
took up sack that was an heirloom In the
family, and was used by them on foraging
expeditions.
Up the railway track went the two
Ceorge and Ha,den-until they were al
HoustOn's coal yard.
IA tnere Mas ANY cu"l in the country ii
vas in that yard both George and Hayden
knew that, and they laid their plans ac-
cordinglr.
George Washington is even blacker than
the ace OF spades, brcause the latter has no
criminal charges against ii, which George
has. George told Hayden Vaughn:
Hayden, you go'n get the Coal, whilst |
stay here an watch"
1t WAS colder than ell, and George had
. high time waiting.
ULsophisticated HAYDEN Vaughn pro-
ceeded TO a box car loaded down with the
black diamonds that afford so much COM
fort during cold spell, and filled up the
family sack.
When the thing was accomplished, the
two darki.s proc, eded 10 their lodging
house and emptied the sack.
Mrs. jackson asked:
''Jawge Washington, whered yer get
that coal?"
SCOT a grand stand-off for the coal,
Mary"
This thing as stated, occurred on the
seventeenth of January. Ii was very cold
night. rs was verified bv the record of the
weather kept in Judge Webber's Office.
The two negroes. when th, y started out
in search OF the black diamonds, did not
know that they would soon come to grief,
but nevertheless they did, for George
Washington was arrested few DAYS ago on
another charge that of securing, without
permission from proper authority a pistol
that didn't belong to him, and in the course
OF the trial the coal transaction cropped
out. Mr.. Washington, as well as his partner
In the speculation, Mr. Vaughn. were ar
rested last night, and brought to trial be-
fore Judge Webber this morning. The
facts i'm the case were not disputed by the
colored gentlemen, and the squire, taking
into consideration the cold weath..r pre-
dominating on the night the offtnse was
committed, sentenced them to the stone
pile In the county Jail yari for ten days.