The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-03

aggy, Just as mother and / we're eating
nch. He ate with US and went
bme. The next week he came to get
litter and eggs. One day he said that
/ had no objections he would come the
bxt Sunday and take me to church. I
Id him he would have to ask mother. She
id it was all right. She told me he was a
hiet, well-behaved fellow. I went to
purch with him that Sunday, and there
as a circus at Rockford, and as all the
rls we're going I went with them. 1t was
cry place like that. l went with him
bout five months. Then he asked mo to
AIRY him. l told him / did not van to
pt married. He said Then you have been
poling me- I said no, that I had made him
b promise. Father spoke to me about 1t.
i'd said he thought 1 liked Fuguella. / seid
did. He always behaved himself. l told
Their l was not going to get married.
Rther said / was the only n he had left
i'd that he and mother were getting old
hid that the rest of my sisters were mar
ed, and he thought I should stay at home.
kept going with MIN. l used to take little
ips to Spokane to visit my sister. One day
lark told me he thought he would quit
eterson.
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In away with HIM. told him I was going
Spokane to work. He said he would quit
eterson. At Spokane he came and visited
Q at the Eagle hotel. | told him he came
b often that ! did not think it was proper,
nd he quit coming to see me. l worked at
he hotel two months and went back home.
o came there the first evening. He asked
ps. l knew some girls in Spokane and we
ere going to Cheney to work. Clark
Bked me how 1 would like to 60 to Mon
ma, and said I would get good wages
lere. He told me it would only cost
1850 to go to Missoula, and that l could
BIT a good position, and that it was a better
Duntry than Washington. He kept talk
lere we could keep company as usual. l
greed to 60, but not to start with him. /
bld him if father and mother should see us
art they would think something was
rong, He went to Spokane and | followed
nd went to the Bellevue hotel. 1 did not
70 him the first day and thought he had
Tiled me-. The next morning l met him
zou have come I said yes. Well. we
rolled around town that day. That even
y he came to me and said: DO you know
you are going to Montana . can't go
j girls clothesT 1t was about 10 O'Clock
i'd he was sitting in tho room
it'll me. He said: You can
to Montana and work, but ut
iris clothes. I told him l could not agree
) that, that it would put mo in trouble.
q said no. He told me I had q boys face
nd features. You can put on pants and
D a. we'll AZ t. I told him to give me four
avs to think about it, and he waited.
Veil, he came to me and | put the pants on.
he first thing he did that night was to
In ~ J,upp %n fbo V,houtnr Nop,inua He
OF me to take two drinks and l got dizzy.
never drank anything at home. Father
ever kept it in the house. l went out of the
unique to get into the air and he wanted
10 to go back to the show. l saw a police
nan and got afraid and ran. Finally we
tent back to the show and staid there until
bout II O'Clock and had a couple more
now what l was doing. He took mo out
I there and We w%entdown to the hotel. The
ext morning he asked me If l were sick. !
mid / was and wanted to go home. i asked
i'm for my clothes. He told me I had no
lothes and said it would not be very pleas
mt for me to 60 back after being in the Com
lue in boys clothes. ! was afraid and let
go. We .stayed in Spokane until the next
ny and the next morning took the train
nd went to Missoula.
That night at the hotel in Missoula
man said to me. "Do you want
job, young !fellowr" He told mi
o wanted n hotel clerk. 1t was Z
mall place, the Grand Central. His name
az Charlie Broadbent. / went to work fol-
i'm. Clark went to, work for a steam filter
worked there two months. and then wen
. work for Mrs. Kline, who kept the stsl
clearinghouse, M night clerk for three
months. She had a young niece, and she
I course thought ! was a boy. We used Il
ave conversations about different things
nd she thought l was trying to make NJ
nth her niece, and SO she fired me. / thel
bent to work for Charlie Tiano, OF the Al
,ations saloon, tending bar. That was las
inter. Clark was In Anaconda working a
he amelter. ! got u letter from him. an,
nally no came baok. Charlie Tiano sol,
vt and CLARK went 10 work for a oolorst