Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-02-02
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The ssMasher" Mashed.

| While there are few tricks of innocent
devilment unknown to 'sthe boys, in
jamestown, they would never do such
trick as that played on ''masher'' by
those in Yankt'n a few days ago;and if our
member in the council was mixed np in
the perpetration of the joke it was be-
cause of his having wandered away
from the restraining influence of his old
| associates in Jamestown. It seems
spruce young man at Glendale Kissed his
young wife and two interesting kids and
took his departure for Yankton to s'laboro
with the Legislature for the formation of
county which should have the honor Of
| bearing his own name. While there he
seems to have assumed the role of an
l. Sthario, ladies' man, q "masher," and
| by his snobbery and cheeky familiarity IN
making acquaintance with the young
ladies made himself target for ''the
boys who were not slow IN hitting upon
plan to cut his eye teeth. The day be-
fore the festive "jedge' intended to start
home the members of the third house,
of the legislature entered into deep laid
scheme. In note neatly written IN
ladies' hand they informed him that the
writer had frequently seen him upon the
street and by his handsome face and
polite carriage she had become cnamored
of him and would be very much pleased
to meet him at the street corner next day,
signing the name of fictitious lady to
the note. When he received the note he
"tumbled to the racket" forthwith went
to the hotel and re-engaged his room for
week longer. The boys who kept posted
Of the movements Of their victim found
him more of a gudgeon than they expect
ed and were in quandary to know how
to play their part in the balance of the
farce so they "chlpped in'' and made up
$40 and hired a young and pretty but
| frail damsel to personatc the writer of the
note. The street corner meeting was
held and the "jedge' and his inamorata
arranged for a meeting at house in an
obscure part of the city of which the
''woman in the case'' informed the bows
of course, and they appointed one of their
number the tragedian who was to be the
brother of the infatuated damsel and with
hideous mien stalk in upon them at a
critical moment. At the appointed hour
the tragedian of the occssion backed by
few of the gang who kept shady but con-
veniently by so as to be handy in case of
an emergency, repaired to the scene Re-
ceiving no answer to his gentle knock at
the door of the room in which the pair
were cnsconced he smashed the door
down and walked into the presence Of the
ephemeral lovers and with revolve
handle sticking out of the top of each
boot leg and with death pictured on his
countenance demanded an explanation of
peculiar circumstances under which he
found his sister. Of course she tainted
very successfully and the 'jedge'' vainly
looked for knot hole so that he might
drop through the floor. AS soon as he
recovered himself enough to speak he
proposed to settle the matter for con-
sideration, which mellowed the wrath of
the "brother'' so that meeting was ap-
pointed up town for fixing the thing up.
Upon arriving up town the thing was ex-
planned to the "jedge" who was so elated
over things not being what they seemed
he invited not only the s'lhird house, but
both houses of the legislature proper to
lrrigate at his expense, and returned home
on the first train with two full grown eye
teeth