Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-11-22

Partlow.
He paused to note the effect of
this announcement.
Mr.. Bits uttered an ''uh-huh" Of |
assent, and withdrew within his
shell.
Yep" continued Mr.. Partlow
with pathetic pride, Il reckon I'm
the unluckiest man 'twixt this an
anywhurs. I've ben mighty nigh
everything but plumb killed."
That's bad" commented Mr..
Bits, without emotion.
"Um-ahl YOU bet!" pursued Mr..
Part!ow, warming up. I've ben
shot by a deputy sher'f for hawse
thief. I've ben blowed nearly out nv
the county by cyclone, I've stood
on a barl with rope around my
neck, waitin' for vigilantes COM
mittee to decide whether | was the
teller they wanted or not, an | was
tarred an ieathered once by mistake.
I've ben held up by road agents an
robbed NV my last three dollar. I've
be'n chased by "a crazy man. My wife
ran away with man who owed me,
dll WIZ WIS 1CNNOlltN w tllt W uC
sure pay. Awell cayed in on me once,
an kept me buried for forty hours
with a half inch crack to breathe
through. I've had the rheumatic off
an on for ten years. an the ager
right smart NV the time. An, all
things considered, | reckon luck's
agin mel"
Looks SOL agreed Mr., Bits,
mildly interested.
oval, resumed Pnrtlow. latter |
had drifted about all over the west,
finally struck this part NV the state
an settled down, u lew miles south
uv we're on n claim iinin' the one that
Ike Blue took up next day. | lowed
that out thar on the flat land, with
little to steal I'M apparently nobody
to poster, might sort o live down
my lrckt'
4 He went on to tell how Mr.. Blue
Z and himself had erected their shanty
4 across the dividing line uf the two
\ claims, each sleeping on the part of
/ the cabin on his own homestead, thus
making cheap pretense of comply
I ing with the requirements OF the
homestead law demanding a place OF
residence on each claim.
Then, before they had got more
than tnirlv settled, the Transcontin-
entail railway put in an appearance,
cutting their claims in twain, and
remunerating their owners but scanti-
ly therefor.
M SariO,t. r,iSrn-Eupo h.I oy-ar
taken Mr.. Partlow, however, but his
accustomed i'll luck manifested itself
often enough to keep him in mind OF
the fact that man is Of few days and
full OF trouble.
The only COW possessed by the
partners choked to death on almost
the last of their turnips; the chinch
bugs made merry with their discour-
aged looking wheat, and a train on
the Transcontinental so frightened
the team OF horses that Blue and
Partlow owned jointly that they ran
away with a borrowed moving ma.
chine and Mr.. PartlOw, running the
former and endangering the life OF
the latter.
But all this was nothing more than
he expected, he said sighfully, and
it was therefore met with becoming
resigna ton by Mr.. Partlow. But
: Mr.. Blue. less familiar with misior
tune, began to look with suspicion
: upon his partner as sort ofmodern
and degenerate Jonah.
Shouldn't wonder" commented
Mr.. Bits.
1t had been but lately that Part
low, though feeling physically out o
shape. as he expressed it, had ridden
to New Chicago on an errand Of nc
| interest to us, and while returning
J had become weak, i'll and delirious
J and ,as he learned afterward, had been
round wandering aimlessly about al
: a considerable distance from the way
: he should have pursued, and faith
fully followed by his old horse
Partlow had been taken in and
: cared for by kind souls, and was now
only Just recovering from a severe
} illness.
J He was ready to prognosticatt
more i'll luck for the future.
: Prompted by what he had believed
ii pFeuiOHlJlOH, he lldQ,' before ledV
, ing the double claim, given Mr.. Blu,
: a laboriously executed document re
, sembling a power of attorney, Civ
ing him authority over his claim
r during his absence.
And now it would not surprise hin
' much, he confessed, to find that Blue
2 concluding that he had feloniously
i, run away with the racking horse
z had INDUCED in some retaliator,
: measure. He could not see how Blu
could avoid entertaining an uncom
j plimentary opinion of him, at til
y very least.
n 1.-THE claims air jest over beyon,
: the timber thar" he continued; IAN
/ wouldn't be surprised If
s His further forebodings were inter
3 rupted by the appearance of littl
/ squad of horsemen, who came ga
L Looping toward them out of the tim
her, just ahead.
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