The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-04-21
Items From tho HOrr Coal Camp.

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He's nursing an infant party,
Which he claims to be quite hearty,
And the same, bedad is going to wynn.
On the supreme bench Grover wants Carlisle,
/ He's been hankering after him quite awhile,
And Jimmy might fit
That way up sit,
But, the senate might object to his style.
The flavor of old Bourbon will hang
over and around the corridor Of the White
House, and the sweet strains of Monte
Musk go floating over the heads of digni-
| fed senators, if an acquaintance OF ours
has hoisted the winning names for presi-
dent and vice president, viz: The buffa-
10 chip, Grover G. and Tenneesee's gifted
fiddler, Bob Taylor.
Last Sunday party of boys, employed
at the mines at Horr, made the ascent of
the "Dcvil's Slide" Parties who have seen
Cinnabar mountain remember the broad,
red streak running from the base to the
top of the mountain, and can probably
call to mind the fact that the streak at
the top appears to be perpendicular. The
climbers state that the ascent can be made
with comparative safety by keeping close
to the great wall.
John H. Smith caught nine pound trout
last Monday, near Gardiner. The above was
furnished by heretofore trustworthy in
dividual Consequently, we pare down
the item considerably by stating that Mr..
Smith informs us that he did not go fish
ing last Monday, but he did on that date
purchase fishing outfit from Sheards
piscatorial emporium, and then and there
while examining his new purchase. made
the statement that he could land a nine
FOUNDER with the same. The truthful
portion of the item is, that Mr.. John II.
| Smith was alive and doing we'll on last
Monday.
We received six pound trout from the
upper river yesterday. We know it weigh
ed that, because letter accompanying it,
so stated. Our Junior had his doubts, SO
placing it on pair of Livingston scales,
it showed three and a quarter pounds.
While pondering over pursuits piscatorial
in this high altitude our mind is tortured
with pain and regret at the havoc being
made by the terrible shrinkage in trout
and truth.
Old jim Bangs had been telling some
rather tough yarns of the early days in
Montana, some of which were rather fa-
miliar, and during the narration of the
latter clipper young chap just from
the east would, as the gamblers say,
sscaH the turn in them before Jim had
reached the end. The narrator was be-
coming riled, but said nothing, and kept
on with his stories of hair-breadth escapes
from drowning in the Yellowstone. 1--WE
were crossing the river on the ice, Zed
and l; just opposite where Livingston
now stands Zed was walking in front
and behind. Zed was sl,ort-sighted,
and that was how he happened to get into
that air hole. dropped my pack and
ran down the rlver about fifty yards where
there was another air hole and -"
s,Oh, yes; know" interrupted the CHIP
yer young chap, "Zed popped out of the
other hole. I've heard that before. It's
awfrlly mossy." "Young man; that's
where you're off your base. Hooked in
the hole, and there was Zed, sure enough
'sDead?" "You're too fresh and preceiv-
ing, young man. Zed was there with his
pack on his back and head up stream.
Says I: why in thunder don't you come
up out of thcrc?' Says he: I'll tell you,
Jim and then he reached down in his
pocket, took out plug of tobacco, and
bit off big chaw, 'tbere is so DANCED
many popping into an air hole and CON-
ing out of another that the thing is be-
coming quite monotonous. Besides if l
were to come out and you were to tell
this on me, some gander-legged, watery
eyed, yellow haired little dude with a
No. ST hat and three-ounce brain, would
tell you the story was too aged, and had
moss all over it, and you would proceed
to drive tunnel through his gizzard be-
fore you'd think of hunting up proofs. So,
you see; l don't come out simply to save
you in the future He then turned down
stream and yelled back for me to
send his mail to ST. Louis 'sPoor fel-
low; he was drowned" mcekly observed
ike c. y.c. "Too fast again, young man;
decidedly too fast. Zed went to St. LOUIS
under the ice all right, and would have
gone to New Orleans, but, as he told me
afterwards, he was beginning to feel hun
gry and his clothes were becoming quite
damp, and, besides, he owed some debts
in St. Louis and he didn't want the folks
there to think he was scooting by to avoid
payment. So you see, young man; you
amt half as smart as you she uld be. and
you hear me talk, it shows bad taste in
green gosling to interrupt gentlemen when
they are speaking of things they have
seen happen when your folks didn't know
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