Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-24

There Is letter living before rs on our
buhl escritoire which tells its own story.
II was penned By one OF the most mag
nifcenr liars west Of the Missouri, and
that. we suppose, Is the principal reason
il is noE lying before Us. Il IS plain
tive appeal from : broken down, broken
minded, world tossed waSf who was ths
late city editor of the North Platte (Neh. }
WiadgaH, local paper of good inten-
tons and some circulation.
The plaintive appeal states that the
writer, Pe:etiah Pan2ioss, has left the
Wlsdcalgs tripod. knowing him aswe.l
as we do, il is great wonder to us that
he didn't take tue tripod with him and
pawn il for North Platte dipsoo.ania coz
dial. But Mr.. Pansloss has resigned his
position, severed his connection, as he
calls it. and ia his own glowing descrip-
tion of the gross injustice which has been
melted out to him, gives in the following
testimony:
II returned late in the evening to the
WiadyaI Office from long, cold ride in
the country. / found that the paper was
shors of copy and ali ready to go TO press.
Tired and jeded threw myself onto a
nail key and abandoned myself to a mo-
ment's reflection. / overheard one of
the boys speaking of man being in town
named Puildo. Twas determined to write
him up, knowing it was the policy of the
papsr 70 never swerve from the cold truth
exccep. a. q stipulated price per swerve.
went TO work on the facts then in nv
possession and as / understood them.
They were as follows:
Col. Seneca PulIdoo, formerly we'll
known and dreaded In this town, has re-
turned from New Mexico, where be has
been lately engaged in stealing cattle
and robbing the United States mail. He
xiu be we'll remembered by parties in
North Platte who have in the miserable
past loaned him money to blow in at thu
Senate" and "One-Eyed Susan's," as
Well as by his unfortunate bondsmen,
who bailed him out for firing the Meth
odist Church. Mr.. Pulido is well up in
the artfui lodges, and though In enc dis
aStrous raid on the bank at Cheyenne the
vlgilarteS caugh. him and branded him
l. Z. On the port check and slit his ears,
he contrlyes. by the skilifui use of COS
iuetlcs and dressing like o retired cier-
gyman, to deceive even expert detectives.
Although he viii remain in town but Il
short time, the Eisdgan advises every-
body to lock up and stay in the house.
and would also recommend q police pa
troll to accompany the Colonel from bar
to bar and take turns standing guard
over the National Bank ana County
Treasurer's Office. Mr.: Pulldoo's old
chums. now ia tho panitentiary at Lin
coin, would doubtless be glad to welcome
him back 10 his old stamping ground, the
dear familiar scene o. is many narrow
escapes from the telegraph pole. but cir
cumstances now render what would no
doubt prove An affecting reunion utterly
impossib.s. hr. Puildoo has but enc
wife III Cheyenne, two in Denver, and
has recently married fair haired. fragile
thing in Las Vegas, which ceremony took
place III the presence of the brides ia
Their and her two brothers, armed with
Winchester rifles.
"Tnat was all there was of it. 1t jus;
filled the space III the local columns, the
paper went to press, and / pressed my
lonely couch at the close of the deyA l
reached the IFiadgaH Office early the next
morning. The proprietor WAS there
ahead OF me. There was an elderly,
ministerial gentleman with him, in gold
spectacios and white choaer. / seized a
copy of the IFiadgaH and gloated over
the deadener had given Puildoo. which
was calculated 10 open the eyes of all
nesS residents and set some of the older
inhabitants to thinking. The proprietor
said,
Step into the ofiics moment, Mr..
Pangloss.'
:" bounded airiiy into the presence of
the two gentlemen.
This is Mr.. Pulidoo, the
"'Oh. you are Pulldoo, as big as life.
Allow me to congratulate you, colonel, on
your mako up. and have
- This is Rev. Mr.. Puildoo,' said my
boss, sterniy.
"'That's what he calls himself. inst
limited in my article
"'This is the Rev. Pulldoo. the travel
ing agent of the American Bible Society,
and your infamous jump at an unwar-
ranted conclusion has not only deeply
wounded the feelings of a truly good
man, panied a large circle of friends,
my own as well as his, but has cost you
your position qa the paper. The ,Piad9dN
caunot be made the medium of antagon-
izing the church and purveying gross, IL
bellous aud misleading articles.'
But Col. Seneoa Pulldoo-you knew
his record-how was to know
".That is sufficient. You can come
in Saturday afternoon and draw your
stipend"