The morning news., 1892-12-29
CRAZY HORSE ROTEI.
A Rather Lively Hosiery Up in the
CCeur c'Alenes
From the Seattle Press Times.

From the Seattle Press Times.
Whoever enters the region of the Metal
Heart should not fail to visit Wallace, the
metropolis of the Coeur d'Alenes, and who
soever visits Wallace can not conveniently
do otherwise than stop at the Crazy Horse
hotel.
The proprietor, aided and abetted by two
or three dusky porters, meets one at the
depot by a vehicle drawn by ANIMALS which
exhibit pronounced symptoms Of insanity,
and lead one to believe that they are de-
scended from the ilustrious equine after
which the hostelry is named.
There is only one Crazy Horse hotel in
the Coeur d'Alenes. Patient as the people
are they will not submit to the indignity OF
another. The proprietor has been at one
time or another mayor. justice of the peace,
leader or the vigilGntes, chief of the fire
department, chief Of police, elder in the
church, purveyor Of choice LIQUORS and has
held a number of other Offices. He has re-
Gently become an elder in the church, and
after the evening meal he fills pipe OF
| huge dimensions, and il the least encourage O.
mens is offered will recite the history OF the
Cosur d'Alenes and express his belief that
every town lot contains mine.
"It's the most desirable place to live in the
whole United States" he said. 1.-The peo-
ple's morals are improvin'. Never see sich
sights now as there used to be- Why, when
was chief OF police it just kept me busy
| chesin' from one place to another stopping
people from hsA'in'' 1t just seemed as
Here man stopped up to the bar and
asked for the best brand OF embalmlng
fluid. A bottle Of whisky labeled the
'Road to Glory" was set before him, and
he poured out one glass ana drank it, care
fully retaining his hold on the neck Of the
bottle
LAS was sayin'. stranger" continued
the boniface, ''this is getting to lie such a
moral country that it's durn monoUoonus
sometimes"
Here the man at the bar filed up his
glass again and drained it without ep-
parent effort. The lines about the old mans
mouth began to grow firm and there was an
unmerciful ring in the voics as he con-
tinued:
s'This is the moraIest country-hyar.
stranger, drop that bottle. l don't whole
| sale licker. nor do keep distillery to fat.
ten hogs"
Angry words ensued. The visitor was a
man of athletic build, but the old man
grabbed club Of prodigious dimensions
| and victory soon perched upon his banner,
and the strangers blood flowed on the bar
room floor. The stranger fled.
''Such things will happen sometimes" -" be
said. apologetically. and then added:
Just wait until wash my hands and
we'll go over TO prayer meetin'"
Landlord Bancroft of Coeur d'Alene City
is another peculiar character Not so very
many years ago he was so much dlsgusted
because tenderfeet would persist in giving
him small change that he gathered up all
the and 1O-ceut pieces he could find in the
town. He put them in a bag and suuk
them in the lake. Almost any fine day now
he may be seen in boat at the locality
where he threw them overheard fishing for
the once despised coin.
The editor Of a weekly paper in the Coeur
d'Alenes is an adept at the suppression of
news. 1t happened that duel was fought
i'll tie main streets of Mullan, and, thinking
to do the editor a favor, the intelligence was
promptly communicated to him. The
editor listened in an apathetic sort OF way
while the tale of blood was unfolded, and
then said: 'Well, il those two fellows want
TO carve each other up. faint any of my
business. as can see; besides, Col Brown
has just sold an acre lot for SIS cash, and
my article, Real Estate on a Boom will
crowd out any such little thing as duel be-
tween two miners about q woman"