Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-17

packet he hadfour hours 70 make up.
IL Hooked InaOsslbie. AT 81. Joseph
thousands wea gathered ON the bluffs
10 see the las rider come IN. People
hardly BREATHE as the time drew near,
and yet no sigDof his approach
Ii was gettln 10 be torture TO wait
No one spoke Is the time was almost
mp 3 little cloa Of dust rose on the
western horizon then soon after the
measured beat I pony's hoofs came
pulsating ON IN breeze, and, lathered
from head to kels, the painting pony,
with wild eye nd nuttering breath.
came stumbling the spot, making the
last mile In on minute and fifty sec
onds.
St. Joe was thasst residence Of Jesse
James. He live here quietly. having
travelled a greaa deal formerly by rail
during his life, ,peting up with strsn-
gers on the canand conversing with
them briefly on crrent topics. Thrown
among strangers he was 80 much all
his life, ii is not range that at the last
he oourted quiet nd rest with complete
change of scene.
He lived in st. ioe under the nom de
plume Of Howat, and those who were
impudent to him that time now often
start up wildly irthe night and shrek
with terror afte dreaming that Mr..
Howard has retrned to life in st. Joe
and with large hotgun in one hand
and q John l.. Sllivan ultimatum in
the other is engaged in settling up old
scores.
Mr.. James liveth very uneventful life
at st. Joe. and thgas man who remem-
bers now the the when he and Mr..
Howard were aloe in the cellar looking
at the meter. an how Mr.. Howard
spoke rather feeliyly about the feeble
veracity Of the Ieter, and how he (the
gas MANI talked lad and got red in the
face and bullied lr. James into paying,
now trembles Ikea leaf when he passes
tho house. and On hardly look q gas
meter in the face
Prior to the tim Mr.. James lived here,
Mr.. Eugene Fiele now of Chicago, was
~ ICSlQGllt VI OF fOC. DCll0OOk &OSnl al
and Major Bittnger now run The Ga
Eette and Herald respectively, and Ma
jor John N. Edw,rds for years Uttered
up the streets Of st. Joe with the shat
tered vitals of his foes. During the hot
weather it was sad that Major Edwards
foes who were waiting their turn at
the undertaker's became even more Of
fensive than theywere during life.
st. Joe is a great overall center. The
regalia of the Farmers Alliance is made
here in great numbers, and the overall
girls throng here like blackbirds in the
spring. II had time could stand for
hours watching Them with deft and
agile fingers overriding and painting for
the trade.
st. Joe is said to be the richest city of
its size in the worh. In travelling about
] run across a good many Of those. The
richest city Of it, size is getting to be
very plenty in America, and in numbers
is only equaled by the ''town which has
never had what you may call boom,
but has q regular, steady and healthy
growth" wish could remember how
many of these towns have encountered
just this season.
A short time ago / visited The Bee
Office, in Omaha. Mr.. Rosewater says
it is the largest newspaper Office on the
globe. 1t is cert,inly the largest / ever
saw. It is freroof and very well
planned for convenience.
A short time az, we passed through
Galloway county, No. Galloway county
has the honor Of having seeded ut one
time from the stste of Missouri. Acting
on the principle that if state could So
cede, the divine right also belonged to a
county, Galway refused to recognize
the emancipation fad and also rocked
back on her launches and refused to
pay taxes to the state. This ran on for
some time, but at last che was forced to
come back into the Union because for
eign powers refused to recognize her
sovereignty and her currency was not
taken at par by other nations. as it was
poorly printed by an amateur job printer,
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