Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1892-03-29

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status. Further meetings will no
doubt attempt to pass further ordi.
nances on the matter. but the Council
will pass down to posterlty as "the
lightning change councI|.'
| OLD, BIT OIL MY.
| How Colonel Malone of the Milwaukee
Taught u Cowboy tiooa Lessou.
A rat'liug good story has reached
here from Montana, In which Colonel
| Malone, tbs Milwau~ee's freight
agent ut Miles City, figures as the hero.
Col. Malone IL Il venerable gentlemen,
| with snow white hair and cheerfu!
countenance, und naturally ha. hosts
TT friends, who respect him as much
~ hey like hiul.
The other mor ing e ,lnnet Malone
boarded an east-hrund Northern Pa
c'tic truin ut Miles City. a few stu
IT, n- further On the eoIone: tti& ughi
he would indulge in little wAtk UP
anu down Tie 1t ton platf9fn,. He
left hl- uvercoAt aid vA1i>e lii his vent.
| When nt returned tn til. cnr ht f1uuu
his +seat orcuti*d by au l|I-'avvrei
r"w'oy, aud ii young woaIen, evi 4.
/ dcutly hi4 hrld~, while Got. MeI .nt'>
overcnAt and <atchel lay In .,eap Oh
the 1lnor. "
ibid you do tha&:' u-ked Col Ma
lone, looking ut tilt cowtt,v and print
/ inv TO the luggtve on the Il ~:
"Ye=, did, waS the 4tl4Inn i.n~wer.
| "fou IRE II" gtn,1ensan.' quietly
ot,str>ed The cnInnel. = H.
'"Nna,'s THAR" yel'tn The iututln I'd
cn~hoy. .... ~: :::::>
'"fou art no gentlt man,. repeated
CulrneI Malone, slowly aud di=4luctly.
| "IIt ste you tattr' remarked The
cDwhoy, with significant snlilt.
| "Do," >nld The culone.
| Aud he did. C,lnl,el Ms lnne picked
up his property, walkt d inlu the next
car nud took seAt, Five nlirute'
later in CAME the cowboy. Approach
ing the colonel be exclaimed:
| "Did you say I waa no gentlennau?'
| Il did, and what /. mole, I meant 1t
and repeat II" replied The colonel, who
had by this time arisen from his seat.
The cowboy glared ferociousIy at the
while haired gentleman, and thtn
struck him full in the face. It WAS
cruel blow, but not a marker to the
one Colonel Malone landed on the
cowboys ] Nv. It was the cleape4t
knock out you ever saw. Down Drop
ped the cowboy.
He had no sooner struck the floor
than the colonel got to work on him.
No hotel beefeteak ever received such a
pounding as that cowb) " was treated
10. The colonel beat him, kicked him
aud stamped on him, until the other
occupants OF the car pulled him off.
When the cowboy came to aud got
up, he was sorry sight. There was
a lump Oh bis jaw as big rs your fist,
blood was trtckliug down from his
nose in n steady trickie. and both eyes
were closed.
The cowboy and his BRIDE left the
train at Dickinson. As they walked
along the platform, Col. Malone stuck
hts head out the window and OBJ
served.
"Young man, it your wife was not
with you, ia stop off with you, and
1t did, you would rot sleep here to-
night,'
The above IL taken from the Mimi
eapolis Tribune and all details except
one agrees with the story brought
hcm" by Skew johnson, the item ot
difference being, that the party who
was thumped was no cowboy, but
Kent Thomas. the manager of thf
Caroline Gage company.
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