Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-05-02
"IWFUL" AND "HORRfBLE'
GARDNER.
"casI~r" In Dc,roi, Fr~e l'--.

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Back now 10 tina, hsht In ls00 The
list Of victims of the hiyer,ials disaster,
which occurred the s,me iay that tncls
Bill Tovee vas buried. contained tho
name Of the Hcv Howell Gardner .,
could never have occurred 10 yoa of
course. that the Rcv Howell Gsr,insr
was the same Horrible" Gardner Who
was knocked out 10y Bill Toyee twenty
odd years ago. after n hard fought hat
tie ~ thirteen rounds. He uss. though,
just the sane. except that he hal given
mp pugiliam for preaching. which cer
talnly was to his credit. Hack some
five aud twenty wears ago there wer.
two brothers in Gotham Who hal
distinguished themselves as mighty
cough cases. and who. N cutting the
same pranks to day. would i,e known ss
"tcrrors." Their front names we're
Orvillc and Howell, and their bach
name was Gardner. Hut no on. knew
them as either Oryille or Howell The
elder Gardner rcjoic"t In tho cognomsa
Of Awful Gardner. and the younger In
that Of Horrible Gardner. famou. in.
deed, were they IN knock down and
drag out scrimmage. Awful Was ths
hardest hitter and the readie~s Zoe .
fight, hut Horrible was not far behind.
A tougher pair than tho two brothers
could not be found In oil tho highways
and byways 81 Gotham. Remembering
what they were. you can easily SEQ
how their names became changed
from Orvillo sni Howell b. Awful
and Horrible. The story of how
Awful Gardner got religion and be.
came man of peace, hes been told
hundred times n struck him 30
suddenly that he won't whoopins
out ON the highway and scared chs
whole neighborhood. The conversion
of Horrible Gardner took plscs later.
The two brothers then became active
rcvivaliats and honestly. I believe. tried
to make amends for the misdeeds and
general mischief of their early life.
Orville, who is now advanced In years,
has been nm inmate of . home Tor Tho
aged and inhrm for some time. Before
his admission % tho home he had be-
come no poor and helpless that his con.
dition was but little hotter than that of
q tramp. Howell. bcing several yesys
younger. fared son.ewhat bettev, and
has contrivcd to get q decent living.
Does u not seem rather strange that
the canse of his death occurred ths
same day that ths mon Who whipped
him in the prize ring three and twenty
years ago was buricdf Not . coinci.
dence. Of course, hut cusions.
Cssgressaas l.ashams Me osssssss.
Washington correspondent hes bssa
cipbcring with Congressman \. ". r.
Lanham, of Texss, sad Anda that ths
Eleventh district Of the stats. which ~
represents. contains sbout t1zOO0
square miles He writss, "rhsse ng-
nres convey but va9us impvsssios of
In magnitude. II Will BE- better undsr.
stood when ] say that II 10 - large -
the combined area Of Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,.
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jssssy.
Delaware. MAryland snd Ohio Tkls
seems incredible. hue 10 u tsus.
a. the reader may ascertain ~
himself. These staecn ere ruos
rsssntsd In congress By sisoy-sso
members, and The ssms area n
Texas by Lanham. 70 viii BE- u.asv-
stood that this district snbsasss ~
western and northwestern part. nsesly
half Of the state. which h but sposss1y
settled. Many Of ths counetss ere 9
yea unorganinsd. rhs saeisa s1o4s e
Texas has sn extsat oi Soo.0eo squose
miles. To realize vhel - empire n =.
II We add 10 che tsa slrsady naned ~
great states of New Yesk. rsnaeylvanla
and Indiana, ths vhols thigtsea vsulA
still lack I2.000 square uilo a eQual.
ing Texss. u 10 larger then ~ vheee
Of France, with her 10000. 900 pssPle
II IL larger than England. lselan4s
Scotland and wslss combined. 1Aege
are three counties In NJ. I.snkamS ~
trict each Of whieh 10 larger then
Massachusetts, and Counsc@lcut ~
gethsr. The three countiss- --Psees.
Preside and Tom Oresa --havs . Co.
sidsrably larger area than shs ssass q