Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-09-15
A HEALTH eEEkER. y
He Concluded, However, That Connecticut Was Good EuoueT, for rz;,n

 At a certain far west railroad station wa got into conversation with a man who was siSting on the depot platform waiting for the train.
 "l came out to this country few days agop he said after talking some time. flor my health, but am going back to Connecti- cut on the next train.n
 Doesn't the climate agree with your' asked Briar.
 "Yes, think the climate would agree with me all right, but the people don't went up here few miles. A friend of mine had spent summer near there on Big Nose Georges ranch, and he recommended the place to me.
 ''I simply went there for my health, in- tending to board during the fall and return home before cold weather. As got off the train when it arrived noticed quite crowd of men on the platform, all wearing big flat hats and spurs and walking very bow legged. started down the steps toward tho hotel when one of them approached me con hdentially and said: Be you goin' to open bank, partnerp A whatr 1 asked. A bank, he said Why, mo- said I, what made you think was going to engage in tho banking businessr 'Oh, l thought you looked little that way,' he replied cMe m the boys lowed you had your outfit all excep' the tables in your grip-the boxes, an' keerds, an' chips, an layout generally You are mistaken l replied, good deal bewildered, and went on over to the hotel. While l was registering the clerk leaned over and said: 'Goin' to deal faroq sNo. sir replied, light beginning to dawn on me a little. Keno or hazard, thenp he went on. Nothing of the kindr said warmly. sJess straight draw poker, 1 s'poseP be continued. No game at all,' l replied 'Aint goin, to try to work tho boys on no thimble rig, I hopeg he said anxiously. They dropped roll on that last week anK they are n little cross about it. No, sir n have no gambling apparatus at all,' said I T simply came out here for1my health, aniH went and sat down by the door.
 ''l saw him looking f-tme pretty hard, and after a while the crowAi II had seen at the sta- tion as well as others began to drop in and whisper to the clerk and talk low among themselves and look at me Pretty soon one of them, who wore such big hat that it made him stoop shottldered, came over and said: Stranger, my name is Pete Doyle they call me Webfoot, Sut my right name is Pete Doyle I am plt* *sed to meet you, Mir. Doyle,' said, shaking ands with him. He started little and theH said: I reckon you better call mo Webfoo# I'm more onto it. am one of the city ald& Inen and cheer1nan of the council committ4 on strangers The committee directed hel to ask you ques- tion.' Go ahead replied We wanted to ask you'-and he lowered his voice almost to whisper-'what you had to leave the states forP I didn't have to leave the east for snything,'I replied; I came out here for my health Webfoot looked at me very hard and started to re- treat, when l heard so(ns one behind me say in loud whisper: tksk-him-how-f fur ahead-o'-the-sherif he-wasr Webfoot looked at me a minute nd said: I take it there want no sheriff 'No,' replied. "A lot of others we standing outside and looking gloomy and d essed, and polishing up their reyolvers wi heir pocket handker- chiefs
 "One man was talking very loud all the time about this idea of trying to make the town a corral for the escaped criminals from the states being about played out. I after ward learned that was the postmaster. And about this time the mayor of the town began to walk up and down the middle of the street with a shotgun on his shoulder, all the time looking of across the prairie. heard him explaining to the probate judge that
  ! he lowed to give it toi lem fore they got into 1 town and got foothold like this rooster hat | dona
 Then another man. made me roll up my | trousers to show that ! didn't have striped | pair on underneath. tie went out and tolt the mayor that I ibro5ably had time k change them. The mayor said he noticed my hair had grown ont some too.
 II was now thinking of Connecticut mos of tho time. And all the while those fellow were discussing the probable amount of th reward for my captuq nd another began 1 to speculate as to whs $I had the money i Eaa suoIei aUVu5 IuJ #cl or iii my a.IvlIoi
 "Aad all the time bounty sheriff wa riding up and down {5iV sidewalks, with hi horse on the run, shouting: All members o vigilance. committee npeet at Maverick hous in thirty minutesl EhsSless of importanc with small man from tbnrecticutr
 "I gave the subject q good deal of carefu study and concluded u bat Connecticut was pretty good place afteF all. I couldn't SC why should have ever thought my healt was poor there.
 "The coroner dropped fin and looked n over, and l heard him promise dozen dii ferent men to see that each was on the 1T quest.
 About this time my old friend Webfoc came down the street, dragging long ror behind him, with hanghan's moose on th end of it. He looked in and said was th man who refused to shake hands with him ( call him by his last name He said any ma who was too proud to shake hands with ol Webfoot, councilmank from the Second warc had got to hang. aeen be. threw the ror over the limb of a f&& in front of the door $ could look off acIz. he prairie through tl moose and enjoy tHseAnery.
 1.-The sheriff wals now announcing that u vigilance commiptee would meet in fiy minutes. I got a gleam of hope just thel when saw the city marshal coming wearin his star. appealed to him for protection but he looked nle all over and then said reckoned it was best for the civil authoriti to take their own course, and he waved h hand so as to include every cutthroat sight. The proprietor of the hotel came and presented hfn for S2, for occupying h house two hours hnd said better pay befol the exercises; an heard the county judf yelling that the me was up.
 ''I then starteC out the back door for Go necticut l found that my health was fir rate for running, When left Connecticut thought needed change of climate, but concluded that I still needed one mo change. There's more health in Connecticl than I ever gave it credit for Good-by.n .n Fred H. Carruth in New York Tribune.
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