The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-03-13
WAISTS Wall.
A Former Sedalia Lad Writes
from Laramie, Wyoming
Territory.
He Mourneth Greatly Because
Things are not as They
Used to Be.
LARAMIE, WYOMING, March. I.

EDITOR BAZoO Il expect soon to make
visit TO that beautiful and enterprisibe
city. Sedalia, No. d. not mention this
fact in the hope that the citizens of Sedal,a
headed by their mayor, will get mp in the
night and come out on a special train to
meet me at Dresden, and escort me to the
Queen CITY Of the Prairie.
In order Ia guard against an uprising Of
this kind, intend To travel under an as
sumed name and In special car What
troubles me most is the TACT that when
again visit Missouri. l hall b. a stranger
in strange land, or words to that eject.
Many Of my friends are not now living
in Missouri-in tact big majority Of
them are not living 1T all.
The time was, when such personages a.
Cole, John and Jim Younger, Jesse and
Frank James, Bob Ford, and others were
to BE- found mingling i'm the first families
o. Missouri and other states. They were
always To be found i'm the lead in all great
enterprises, and as hnanciers they had but
few equals and No superiois.
Jay Gould, who claims To know some
thing about finance and such tn .ngs, has
never realized more than fifty per cent.
profit on al investment, and Oftentim-s he
wonld not realize half that amount. Now
in . majority Of cases the firm of James,
Younger Il Co., have made as high as one
hund1ed per cent. profit on certain trans
actions. This firm might be termed an
Inherent one, While you conld expect them
at any time, you could not tell how long
they would stay. In thu. respect they re-
semb!ei the French cahine'. 1t was with
great sorrow, through the associated press
dispatches that / learned the above firm
had di-solved partnership and gone into
other pursuits.
Bob Ford has taken to the stsge and
hari drinking; the Younger brothers are
engaged on contrac; which they entered
into with the government of Minnesota,
and which they have agreed to complete
within given number Of years-99 l be-
lieve; Frank James is guest OF the citi-
zens Of Gallaiin, Missouri. and when his
stock sf alibis is exhausted, I understand
he is to he made colonel on Governor
Crit'enden's staH, while Jesse James is in
heaven.
When, my dear readers, has the history of
Missouri sustained s.ch another loss as she
did when the firm Of j., y 4 Co., went in
20 bankruptcy and could not pay four
mills on the dollar.
A story is related of Frank James, that
at one time he was studying for the minis
try. Frank at first made rapid progress
in his studies, applying himself with a
ptrslssency equal 10 that OF bank burg
lar or book agent After having studied
for about week, one day Frank threw
down his Bible rmarking that he would
be darned il he would BE- gospel dissem-
inatOr." Upon teiny asked FIR his reasons
for thus changing his mind he replied: The
pages in the Bible are not d, inferred, and
/ haqa just devil OF q time trying to
find and keep track Of the lessons I shall
give up religion and study for the sssse.!'
Aud he did.
However, shall try and make my visit
to SedaIis rs pleasant as possible. and
hope that the p ople Of Missouri will treat
me kin lily. and not urge me to become .
candid ,te for governor or United States
senator. may have gone wrong many
times but do not consider that Pm de-
serving Fl such ill-treatment a. that would
be on the part VI the people.
Very Respectfully,
Ed WALSH.