The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18

too much strain on me- 7 could guess
at what Congress was doing and make
up a pretty readable report, but foreign
powers and reichstags and crowned
heads and dynasties always mixed me
up You can look over what Congress
did last year and give a pretty good
guess at what it will do this year, but
you can't rely on a dynasty or I'll effete
monarchy in bad state Of preservation.
1t may 90 into executive session, or it
may 60 into bankruptcy.
Still, at one time we used to have
considerable local news to fill up with.
The North ard Middle Parks for
while used to help US out when the
mining camps were new. Those were
the days when it was considered per-.
fectly proper to kill off the Board Of
Supervisors if their action was distaste-
full. AT that time new camp generals
ly located cemetery and wrote an
obituary; then the boys would start out
to find man whose name would rhyme
with the rest of the verse. These were
the days when the cemeteries of Colora-
do were still in their infancy and the
song of the six-shooter was heard in the
land.
Sometimes the Indians would send us
in an item. 1t was generally in the
obituary line. With the Sioux on the
North and the peaceful Utes on the
South, we were pretty sure of some kind
of news during the summer. The parks
used to be occupied by white men win
ta1 I,a1i
really the pleasantest time to go into.
the parks, but the Indians had been in
the habit of going there at that season.
and they were oclannish that the white
man couldn't have much fun with
them, SO they dee ded they would not
60 there IN tue summer. Several of our
best subscribers were killed by the
peaceful Utes
There We're two daily and three week
" papers published in Laramie City at
that time. There were between two
and three thousand people, and our lo-
cal circulation ran from one hundred
and fifty to two hundred and fifty,
counting dead-heads. In our prospect.
US we stated that we would spare no
expense whatever in ransacking the
universe for fresh news, but there were
times when it was all we could do to
get our paper out on time. Out of the
express office [ mean.
One Of the rival editors used to write
his editorials for the paper in the even.
ing, jerk the Washington hand-press TO
work them off, 90 home and wrestle
with juvenile collie in his family until
daylight and then deliver his papers on
the street. 1t is not surprising that the
great mental strain incident to this life
made an old man of him and gave a
tinge of extreme. sadness to the funny
column of his paper.
In an unguarded moment, this man
wrote an editorial once that got all his
subscribers mad at him, and the same
afternoon he came around and wanted
to sell his paper to us for $4,000. /
told him the whole outfit wasn't worth
ten thousand cents. 5A
81 know that" said he, ''but it is not
the material that am talking about. 1t
is the goodwill of the paper"
We bad rising young horse-thief in.
Wyoming in those days who got into
Jail by some freak of Justice, and it was
so odd for a horse-thief to get into jail
that / alluded to it editorially. This
horse-thief had distinguished himself
from the common, vulgar horse-thieyes
OF his time by wearing a large mouth, a
kind of full dress, eight-daY mouth. He
rarely smiled, but when he did he had
to hold the top of his head on with both
hands. remember that i spoke of
this in the paper, forgetting that he
might criticise me when he got out of
jail. When he did get out again he
stated that he would shoot me on sight,
but friends advised me not to have his
blood on my hands. and | took their adj
vice so | haven't got particle of his
blood on either of my hands. s.ssais
For two or three months I didn't
know but he wodld drop into the Office
any minute and criticise me, but one
day friend told me. that he had been
hung in Montana, Then l began to
ningle il society again and didn't have
to get in my coal with double barrel
shot gun any more. = =, f'f-s4s
After that [ was always conservative
in relation to horse-thieyes until we got
the report Of the Vigilance Committee.
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