San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-17
THE TAKING OF THE BAT CAVE.

squad was commanded by Captain
Callaghan, differed by Lieutenant
Dashiell, Sergeant Smith and Corpo-
raj Russi.
Major Anton, cave commander, saw
the attacking forces through SeffePs
legs, and snatched a bandana from
Recruit Norm, and Haunted it as a
white flag in token of surrender. He
then jumped upon Attorney Berg
strom's stove pipe and shouted "The
court is theirs ~ He gave up without
even shooting off his mouth. His
staff, however, defended the fort.
Jailer Valdez fought them
hand to fist, and deserves promo
ton to sanitary inspector Recorders
clerk, Heiligmann, also reache d
out from the shoulder and made
great gap in the enemy's ranks. Cor
poral Sanchez took up the rear and
weighed heavily for the beleaguered
forces, but finally fell in the soup and
was smothered. Recruit Kramer made
a sort of left-handed fight, but was
captured by Braden and tied with
Johnson grass. The victory was then
complete.
After sweeping the vanquished and
piling them up in corner, the vic
tors took the upper hall and called
themselves to order. Lieutenant
Dashiell was inveigled to the chair,
with Sergeant Thad as secretary. Cor
po,al Fritz was put at the key-hole.
The minutes Of previous meeting
were not read and approved, as they
were written in English and could
not be understood by the privates.
Private Bruui got the floor, some
how, and shelled the squad with a
mixture of bo-Spanish and gumbo-
French. His periods fell short, how
eve., and the little gunner ceased fir
ing and commenced making ciga-
rettes.
Lieut.. George then pulled down his
vest, winked at the chairman and
swelling himself several times, fired
the following at the company: "You
boys stuck to us the lasttime and you
can risk several mortgages on your
lives that we will stick to you this time.
Yes, we will as long as there is any,
thing to stick to-worth holding. Your
kindness we will never forget-as
long as there's an office in sight. We
are for Office and so are you. On this
point we're transfixed solid. This
isn't good English but it's a fact.
Here some one shouted. LET Ter go,
Gallagher" when the speaker re-
sumed his seat on a heXagon block.)
Fritz, the town blacksmith, chinked
the key hole with plaza mud and fol-
lowed George. Said he: II tell you,
my fellow accomplices, that you must
put back the old crowd. There's
Conner, Richey, Reimann, Schreiner
and one or two other statesmen must
be returned. We need them in our
business. They suit us whether they
suit the people or not. In these days
of craftsmanship politicians please
themselves and not the voters.
That's what's the matter all day.
We will then have all the Statesmen
in town on our ticket, while the
other fellows will have to go to the
people for aldermanlc timber. Do
you catch on? With them on our
ticket it would be stronger than a
politicians breath, and that's
mighty enough.n
Capt. Callaghan next arose and
looking around to see if any people
were near, broke off in English as fol-
lows: You know, my fellow friends,
that I'm not much on the Gringo lin
go, and as most of you understand
Mexican, l will wrap my thoughts
in that lingo. If Sen. Ferguson doesn't
comprehende in that language 1 will
have the secretary to interpret my
speech"
Here he Topped over into his favor
tie tongue and loaded them with Sec
ond-hand politics. In the middle of
his haranque-outang some one near
the key-hole shouted, "There's a
French procession outside" The
room was emptied in one minute and
fifty-nine seconds. They rushed out
as if there were a dozen dog-fghts on
the plaza. But the procession"
proved to be only Boulanger and
Claudon passing. Whereupon the
politicians dispersed. SHARPEYE.
Gets Away With the Express Co.
DEsMOINEs, Iowa., January IT,
F. s. Higgins, station agent for the
Rock Island railroad and agent for
the United States Express company
at Burlington, has been missing since
Friday night. An investigation of
his accounts discloses a shortage in
the express company of S95, 900 and in
the railroad funds of $3.50, 900. Hig-
gins leaves an invalid wife and two
children in destitute circumstances.
There is No Use of Going Barefooted