The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-03-06
APPLETON BY GASLIGHT'
Here are Some Rich Develop.
ments, and Truly Sweet
MOrsels.
Talked of Breach of PrOmis>
Shit, Attempted Blackmail-
ing Etc.
special Correspondence To- be BAZoo.
APPLETON CITY, Mo-. March 3.
CHATTER

APPLETON City, Mo-, March 3.
CHATTER l.
Ours is not a metropolitan city, neither
do We assume metropolitan airs. We have
no long and wide msca'!amized streets, liz
up on either side Nv luminous gas Jets to
guide the belated pedestrian to his humble
domicile or enable the vigil police man To-
more plainly see the entrances and exits
of the different business houses, that none
but the proper parties enter therein, after
the DAYS bushes, is done We have no
morgue, where 50 often we read of some
poor unto, tunaie woman having been be
trayed by lover, rushss to The river,
and throws herself into it's merciless depths
and its tished ont by a poor fisherman, ard
her friends, II she has any, identify her as
"the once beautiful, happy Susan Jane"
now cold in death at the morgue.
No, NO, we have none of these things in
Appleton City. We have modest corps
of inhabitants. and plain, comfortable and
unpreientious dwellingf, mo stone fronts,
and the business houses generally built on
good foundations, whether their occu banis
are solid" or not. In midwinter, the
mercury runs just rs far below gro in
Appleton aS IL does in any big city in no
colder climate. The sun shines just as hot
in July, and fellows hunt the shady side OF
building the same as they do in any me-
tropolis in the same latitude. The "great
silver moon" sends just as mellow r, fec
tiOns upon our unpretentiOas little city as
it does ON Chicago, st. Louis or New York,
and now we've ct to where we wanted to
get off" at. That same moon was shoot
ing her mellow darts out tre either night
right square down on the roof of Fourth
street restaurant, when the female portion
OF the said restaurant was getting in her
work" on a well respected and wealthy
stock man from Cooper county, and the
quie. that had settled over our city wa
suddenly broken BY the cries OF the said
female, of ''let him go, Wesley, I've got his
FIVE dollars" 1t Was like this A young
man, whose name we withhold, who lives
in Cooper county, and is a prominent cat
tie dealer, had occasion TO visit our CITY 10
that capacity, and after attending to his
business repaired To the aforesaid restau-
rant for supper.
The land!a.iy, who is oil rather a prepos-
sessing appearance. used every effort to en-
terrain him and enter into his good grsces
When he went tn paw his bill he displayed.
ticing it and taking it for granted that men
easily succumb to the fluctuations of pretty
women" asked him to make her "pre ent
of i've dollars" No doubt he thought that y
"bad bre. K" for a stranger, especially a wo-
man, and after retiring from the restan-
rant, sent her a note, the contents of which,
can lie judged from the reply he got, which
we give as much as our mOdesty will per
nit !: IL will go for So"
She went, got five doll rs, and threaten
ed him with the presence of her husband
unless he "anted more" The husband ap-
peared on the scene about that time, and
with q revolver in hand demanded $25
'hush money" but @Cooper county" was
grit. and din't propose to be robbed. Real
izipg the situation he was into, he put on .
bold front and determined to knos his way
out ii no better way presented itself. The
woman, taking in this fact, screamed out
to her husband to ''let him go, Wesley, I've
got his five dollars
Evidently it was put up job to black
mail and brow-beat the gentleman out OF
what money they could. 1t is not reces
sary to mention any names, as every citi
zen of this place knows the parties and
the majority of them are acquainted with
the facts in this matinee"
CHAPTER III.
There is IN old adage, st takes all
kinds Of people to make q world" The
term might be used relative to corpora
ton, town or city. &c to the metropolis
and you will find people OF all rational
tiles and among the different nations rep
resented Won will find more different peO-
ple-that is, in disposition, etc. Now, we've
got 'em in Appleton. We've got one OF
the most wonderful women in st. Clair
county. She is known star and wide"
and has played 'cu'e" game on the
butcher" ditto on the butler OF the
Eureka club house. They played it fire
for a short time, but murder will out,
and now the butcher, who is a widower,
nearing the shady side of lie, is beginning
to realize that he has made jackass OF
himself in paying public attention to a
| woman who is weil-known as bad char
acter.
The butler of the club house has been
led by this same scheming female, and he
being man OF family, is now DESTROYS o
shaking" his partnership mistress. The
woman came to this place from Sedslia
her name having frequently appeared il
police c2urt news