The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-10-23
4 Guests Who Leave Tastr Property at the
4 :.Ss8 n u Hotels 1hey FreQusnt. Al

guests OK the hotel. The cashier fshed
outlfrom the collection pair Of specta-
Giles, to which was attached q little tag
On which was written q ound in room
1s, September {; 1884. 4 The specta.
eles were ediately mailed to their
owner at Saratoga. III
DO you receive many communica-
tions like that telegram r. a Times re-
porter asked.
6 Yes;s kilograms Or letters nquiring4
for watche 8, rings, pocket books and
everything q traveller carries come to US
every day. We've got lots Of things
that have not been asked for. We shall
keep them 50 long as We have a hotel
here. Every thing found Is put away and
carefully tagged with its history
- FL 8 Do guests freq uent1y leave valuabIes
after them 2" said Clerk Cormack, Of
the sGirard House, eehoing the report
ers question. should say they do;
50 frequently ind eco, that. we've got q I
man, known as property clerk whose
duty tits take chargeio every thing
left in the rooms and try to trace the I
owners. Sometimes he \ succeeds and
sometimes he does not. Only this
morning We received q letter inquiring
for seal ring that was left on q wash
stand. The writer said that he valued
the ring because it was an heirloom.
hunted up the man 3 name on the reg
lister and found what room he had occn-
pied and then went to the safe and
found the ring labeled. The rings on
its way down to Wheelings W. Va. "a
guest with barrel time to make the train
and q Thousand one things to do ii th at
time viii be pretty sure toll leave q pair
sof slippers under the bed, o night gown
under the pillow, cor watch on the:
smantel-peic or an umbrella or cane in8
the corner Of I the room. Gen. Simon
Cameron, with just three minutes to-
reach the Broad Street Station, started
one N orning in d carriage to meet the
IL o'clock train, Ten minutes after
ward Twas surprised to see him walk
into the hotel Office. Z had to LET the
train go, s1he said laug hing1y I left my
spectacles up stairs. I cant go with
outEthem; i swear by 'em. S. a. porter
found the glasses, but Gen. Cameron,
had to stay until Is 80 before he got an-j
other train. II ia a
Last; week; a patron u of the house,
who lives in Harris burg, came down and.
sstaid over night hen he came to-
The tumble ed through his pocke cts, looked
up at me with q puzzled expression and
said Il haven't any money; why, I've
been: robbed p know all about it now
Invent to tile theatre last night and
afterwards rode in a. horse carr The
car was crowded !, and III stood up and
grasped III strap with my right hand.
Z that pulled my coat away from my vest
81 had $500 in bills in one roll IN my;
right hand vest pocket OF course lie,
couldn,t pay his hotel bill, and I even
had to lend him SIC to take him back to
Harrisburg. He hadn q got twenty
miles out 81 town before the chamber
raid who fixed mp the room that be had
occupied brought the man 8 roll Of bills
down to the office. She said she
found il under the pillow pf his bed
photographed to Harrisburg that
night received So reply telling me
TO take the amount of the hotel
bill and $40 out of the. roll and transfer;
the remainder BY elegraph. We had
rs hot time here several onths ago about
alady's solitaire diamond earring, She
lost il IN bed and made lie great time
about her loss. Ves took all tile furni-
ture apart, ripped up the carpets; in
fact pulled every thing out of the room
But the diamond could NOT be found,
The woman accused the poor chamber
maid of stealing it, but We felt satisfied
that the servant was innocent. Two
months afterward the diamond was
found in the mat tress. It had caught
under one of the buttons that holds the
hair in place and had remained secreted
there all that time. s.
We have several watches in the safe
that have been left und or pillows, q few
pairs Of bracele cts, lots Of gum shoes and
slippers, q book case full Of novels,
pack Of playing cards, peck knives,
;razors, hair brushes and combs and va
rious other thing suppose enough
TO start regular pawnbrok er's auction
store. There To- any number OF umr
brellas and canes. But nightrgowns
lsbeat eyerything. They have been acous
mulating. for years and we've got over
800 Of them, some elnborat elyS mbroid-
cred. IA few! are trimmed with expenss
siye lace and . great many are prettily
marked with the owners q Initials:
Hardly q day passes with out our receiYr
ing letter asking after the fate Of q
certain night gown. Some people won't
write for them and wouldn't admit the
lSownership Of them il we should for
ward Their. i received letter from
Isa lady this morning asking us to LOOK
up a night-gown that was left here
we'll besable to- find it Nearly every
day anight. gown is sent up to the laun-
dry ;;a label IS then put on il, showing
The room il was found in and the date,
land then it lis pack away with the 9TH
lsn7ght- gowns to be kept until called for.
There are q hund red & 81 them, yellow
with age, Anna Pixley, the actress
LEFT awhile satin night dress here The
last time she played in this CITY. 1t
Twas embroidered all down the front
with d dozen kinds pf sewing silk and
must have cost ~ s. q We sent it 60 her
in q few days after shss left here.
Trench and German ii Schools.
Lord Ray eigli in taking the chair at
the opening 81 the session Of the British
Association for; the Advancement of
Science. in Mon treal, took occasion to
lsaY, in the course of a very able nd
/ dress &c believe that French and
German. il properly taugh which 4
I admit they rarely nre at present would
go far TO seplnce Latin and Greek from
adisciplila point Of view, While TIE