The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-05-12

four games. Thus far Mr.. Ed. Mar
vim, who has played all the games, i:
the champion, he having lost only
four out of the tweHty-four. The
members of the club or rather the
men in town who delight in a game
of chess are Ed Marvin, @ G Taylor,
John Cashman, j F Bosserman, Dr.
w d Scales, DIR E Muehl, Captain I
G Holland, Joseph B Roe, j Will
Byler and DR. George II Sheppard.
Mr.. Byler ranks very close to Mr..
Marvin as chess player, while Mr..
Taylor and Mr.. B0sserman make
good seconds.
Charles Ellis, of Saline county,
dropped in at the BAzoo sanctum
Friday morning. He was in a con-
versational mood and made short work
of letting the Gossiper know that he
is poet, who has assembled to the ut
most Parnassian heights and never
lost his footing.
Mr.. Ellis differs quite essentially
from Lord 1iennyson, in that the lat
ter reels off rhymes for not less than
$40 shining dollars word, while the
Saline sweet singer Graves only the
approval of the public, scorning the
sordid emoluments arising from
cash basis.
81 think the feet in my lines con-
tain more genuine poetry than any /
have ever SEEM" remarked the bard
from over the border. II don't ask or
want money for my poetry, she con-
tinued. Gall 1 care for is to get it
in the newspaper"
The Gossiper congratulates its
neighboring county upon possessing
so artless a child of nature. In this
day, when even the muse in many
instances is sacrificed upon the altar
of greed and gold, it is refreshing to
find character of this kind standing
loftily and alone upon the sunlit peaks
of poetry.
Seated in the rotunda of Sicher's
hotel yesterday afternoon, chatting
and smoking, were two gentlemen.
One of them was large and powerful
and wore wide-spreading sombrero.
This was w. 81. Pomeroy. The other
one was small, neatly attired, dark
haired, dark-skinned young man, with
unmistakable Spanish features. This
gentleman was Harry DeLeon, who,
with his compsnion is a resident of
San Antonio, Texas. They are part
ners in large southern circus aud
enterprise and were here
for the purpose of comforting with the
NJ, K. 81 T. officials as to railroad
rates and transportation over their
line in the South. Mr.. DeLeon is a
brother of the famous lion tanner,
Leon DeLeon, who, for the past seven
years, has been proprietor and man
ager of the great circus at Havana,
Cuba.
The gentlemen, after a visit to
NJ, K. q L. headquarters, took a
ride over the city and were greatly
pleased with SedaIia. They left for
San Antonio last evening.
A railroad official and a warm
friend of James Daily the superin-
tendent of terminals for the Missouri
Pacific at Kansas City, tells an anus
ing story on that warm hearted and
comical individual. Mr.. Daily was
a freight conductor on the main line
ever so many years ago, he having
been in the service of The company
near quarter of a century. During
one of his periodical visits to the super
intendent's Office that official called
him to one side and propounded
this inquiry: 'Mr. Daily, if you were
running passenger train and a pas
senger should claim he had paid you
and he had not and you denied his
statements forcibly and gentlemanly
and he would call you q liar and
make other uncomplimentary remarks
about you, what would you do?
"Well sir" answered the plain
spoken conductor, 81 would just haul
off and knock the whey out of him.
81 was afraid you would, but was
in hopes you had improved" said the
official. l wanted to give you a pas
aenger train but l can't do it now,
Jim"
"Jim" said he didn't care anything |
about passenger run but no corn
husker could tell him he had given |
him q ticket when he hadn't. "Jim"
g now a superintendent and one of
he most popular men on the system.
William Showles, the dashing
young equestrian, who is riding an
with Sells Brothers circus