Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1886-01-23
BILL NYE',5 TRIP WEST.

Chinese agitation, which came SO near
upsettlng lsw and order, and visit from
the wild, untamed Bill Me at ne and at
the same time. If less sagacious man
than Gov. Squire had bccen at the helm
there is no telling what the result might
have been. When full grown humor-
'S' with biooa in his eyo and the maadv
deeply seated in bis system is turned
loose upon An offending community IL is
indicstiYe of judgement from wrath,
Deity, or else an old and deep seated
grudSe from some source, When such
confirmed aud inveterate victim Of the
humorous hgbit, as Bill Me uncorks on
us, and that, too, when our social forces
are strained to their highest tension to
! prevent internal revolution over a horde
OF measly Cinnamon, it makes a fellow
wish tho Milerite prediction about the
end OF the world hadn't been such a farce
after all. Congress should he petitioned
to restrain Wyoming from allowing her
Journalistic monstresities to run at large
The festive William thus describes his
recent western trip III letter to fhe Mil
waukce Sentinel: ,
~ have just returned after short tour
in the far west. l made the tnur with
my new lecture, which | am delivering
this winter for the benefit and under the
auspices of a young man who was a sut-
terer of the great rise up viii lam Kelley
and -como-along>wth-m cyclone, which
occurred in this state year ago last Sep
tembcr
In said cyclone s,id Young mar was
severely eqres.ed by the elements anG
tipped over in sucha way as to shatter
the right LIZ JUST bclcw the giant ir.' j iat.
| therefore started cut to deliver a few
lectures for his benefit, and in 50 dong
have made u 4000 mile trip over the
Northern Pocltic railway and the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation Co's road. On
the former line the passenger is fed by
means of the dining car, very good |
style of entertainment, indeed, and well |
worthy Of the age iu which we live, but |
at Wallua Junction l stopped over to
catch west bouncd Oregon Railway
and Navigation line.
That was when l fooled myself. | |
should have taken my val SO an rub.
bei door mat from the sleeping car and
crawled into the lee Of snow fense for
the night did not give the matter
enough thought. Ijust simply went into
the hotel ard registered my name as n
man would in other hotels. This house
was kept. or retained l sh ould say, by a
relative of the late Mr.. Slylock. You
have heard no doubt, how some of our
American hotels have trownec, on Mr..
ohylock's relatives. Well, Mr.. Shylock's
family got even with the whole American
people the night | stopped in No 2, sec-
pnd floor of the abomination of desola,
ton. As a representative of the Ameri-
ran people, received for my nation.
vlcariously, the stripes Intended for
many generations.
No. 2 is regarded as room by people
who have not been in it. by those who
have, it is looked, upon as morguc.
When stepped into it, l noticed an
oder from the dead past. 1t made me
shudder my overshoes off. The first
thing that attracted my attention after l
was left alone was the fact that other
people had occupied this room before
had. and, although they were gone, they
had left kind of an air of inferiOrlty
that clung to the alleged apartment. an
mir of plug tobacco perspiration, it you
will pardon the expression.
They had also lett n pair OF Venetian
From this clue my active
brain at once worked out the proolsm
and settled the fact that the party who
had Immediately preceded me was a
man. Long and close study of the halJsts
and cha faeteristics of humanity has
taught me to reason out these matters
and to reach accurat,col3lu,iolt with
astonishing rapldity.
He was not only man, but he was
short man with pareuthetca legs and