The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02
A JOURNALISTIC rENpERroor
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morning. similar expeflenec. pet hapS, though perhaps not so pronounced and prosuberant
 Early one summer morning a gawky young tendeIfoc,, both as to the west and the details of louInal,sm. came into the office and asked me ioI lob as cor. respondent to write up the mines m North Tank. He were h,s hat, loneish and ,ried to make Il curl. The result vas greasy ooat-collar and the general tout ensemble ot the genus smart AleSk " He had also clothed himself in the e>, ua,asant clothes cf ,he dime novel scout. and beautiful g,rl.re<cuer of the iudian country. He had been driven wes, b, ~tld desire to hunt the hagran, Sioux warrior and do q general Wild Bill bust ness. hoping no deub, before the season closed Ia rescue enough beautiful captive maidens to Eet up A young Nassai col- ickc m Wyoming CT Montana.
 told him that we did not ,aie ioi A mining correspondent ~he did not know piece ot blossom rock from ketan,um knew Il took man a good man, years ,o gam knowledge enough te know where to sink prosNc, shah even. and as to passing opinions on vein. tt would seem almost wicked and Sa,t,eg,eu> to send a man eu, there among those old g,,sl, miners ~ho had spent then lses in hiuei c>pctiente, unless the young man could readily d,sungu,sh points ot difference between a chunk nt ifee milling gnatt' and a fragment ei bologna sausax'.
 He Nill thought he tould ~u,e us lct. 'ers tha, would do the pape, some ete,nal good. and though l told h,m, as he ~lung my hand and left. to ieiraln t,am ~n,ng or do,ng an, ~elk ioI Us. he wrote letter before he had rea, he'd the home station on the stage road or M least sent as long leue. nom ,heie |, might have been written betote he started. however.
 The letter was oi the we-ha,e=weni and !" l-hayc-ns ser.s sa~ variety. and he spelled curiosity "qtosstiy" He worked hard ,o ge, the word ,n,o his alleged let ter, and then assassinatrd II
 Well. we pa,d no attention whatever ,o the letter, but meantime he got into ,he m,nes and ,he way he dead headed feed and sour mash. on the strength of his relations with the press. made the elde, miners weep.
 huek h,ammei go, li,tlr worried and wrote ,o me about II He sad that ouf soite eyed mining sayani was getting us A good many subscribers and writing up every hnle gopher hole m No,lh taik and Ning on Cincinnati quail, as we miners tall baton but he said that none oi these inc blooming letters regarding the assays on The Weasel Asleep,e he iauper', Dream" :" The Mar, Ellen and The Over ntah." ever seemed 'o cop out in the paper
 Why va. ity
 wrote back ,ha, the white eyed pcl an ircm the baek~heat enamellsd q plains of Aikanaaw had not iemit,ed was not employed by us and that would ~t,e and publish A lt,le oard oi introduction ioIs'h bilious li,etatsnt Ina, would make people take ,n then domestic animals and lock up theit honi fences and gaidsn iountaina
 In the meantime they sent hlm up the guIch to ilnd some " float He had wandered away from camp ,h,t,, miles before he remembered thai he didn', know wha, float" looked like Then he thought he would go ba,k and in quue He got ioA, while Tn dark brown study and driiicd into ,h- bosom of ,h- LIT NftlU Ultth iHt UAfk unul petpepdit ular wall oi ihr Roo by Mountains about soo feet h gh, iose np and hi hun aih~sti the nose
 He ,ommuntd ~nh nature and eo, o,cs ore nigh, and had pretty tough ,ime of Il He hofe his nn,e partially of and the cay otsa tafne and gnawed hiA ln.le d,mplsd toes He passed sre,e he'd night and ~as f,es,ly annoyed by the sold, winch al iba, elevation sends ihe mercury toward oto ali through the sum. met nights
 oi eouise he pulled the sodlac pan ually over him. and uied ,o button has alpaca dustei a hitie ciotei. but hia sleep ~ss troubled by the sotiab,hiy oi the .o,otts and the midnsgh, t~,,ssi of the mountain hon He ate moss araies rare ard spiu.e gum fof brsakiast When hr got to camp he looked like ior,y day s,atsatlonIAt hunting tof A lob.
 They 4aked him fl he found any float. and he sa,d he didn't Ind 4 blamed drop of water, say nothing about float, and then ,hey all laughed meity laugh and sad that f he showed up Al dAyhgh, the fesi morning within the limits of the psfk the orders were to bum him a, the stake
 The resi morning neither he nor the beat bay mule ob the Troublesome was io be te.n sith naked eye Alter ,ialse heard of mm .n he San luan cornify
 II. had iae.faisd the hnes helipgs oi h.. fnlnss tcwn ,hste sId had violated ne euqt.i,e oi san uan, 90 ihsy krked 6 ftui bati.i eh hom under hlm enc clay ~hen tt nas leohing ihe other way. and i.irg poor igh'.,ors peiioimef he grt '@nYlsd up ii 4 pise, fi insh rope ln aueh vsy ,ha, L. dse si ha fn, turie1 I<I, eiI ItSs P,eff
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