St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-21
CRAZY HORSE HOTEL.

Sights at Noted HosteIry of the
CGur d'Alenes Region.
Seattle Press-Times.
Whoever enters the region of the
Metal Heart should not fail to visit
Wallace, the metropolis of the C4ur
d'Alenes, and whatsoever visits Wallace
cannot conveniently do otherwise than
stop at the Crazy Horse hotel.
The proprietor, aided and abetted by
two or three luSty porters. meets one at
the depot with vehicle drawn by ami
mails which exhibit pronounced sYmp-
toms of insanity, and lead one to believe
that they are descended from the Illus
trious equine after which the hosiery
is named.
There is only one crazy horse hotel in
the CRur d'Aienes. Patient as the peo-
pie are they will not submit to the i'll
dignity of another. The proprietor has
been at one time or another mayor, JUS
tice of the peace. leader of the vigil
antes, chief of the fire department.
chief of police. elder in the church,
held a number of other offices.
He had recently become an elder
in the church, and after the
evening meal he fills pipe of huge
dimensions, and if the least encourage
ment is offered will recite the history of
the CRur d'AleneS and express his be-
lief that every town lot contains mine.
Its the most desirable place to live
in in the whole United States'' he said.
The peoples morals are improvin'.
Never see SIGH sights now as there used
to be. Why, when was chief of police
it just kept me busy chasih' from one
place to another stopping people from
7 ightin'. 1t Just seemed as if"
Here man stepped up to the bar and
asked for the best brand of embalming
fluid. A bottle of whisky labeled tile
Road to Glory'was set before him,
and he poured out one glass and drank
it, carefully retaining his hold on the
neck of the bottle.
las l was sayin', stranger" contin-
ued the bOniface, ''this is getting to
be such moral country that it's durn
monOtoonuS sometimes"
Here the man at the bar filed up his
glass again and drained it without APP
parent effort. The lines about the old
mans mouth began to grow firm, and
there was an unlnerclful ring in his
voice as he continued:
This is the moraleSt country Hyar,
stranger, drop that bottle. [ don't
wholesale Ticker, nor do l keep dis
tIliery to fatten hogs"
Angry words ensued. The visitor
was man of athletic build, but tho old
man grabbed club of prodigious di-
mansions. and victory soon perched
upon his banner. and the strangers
blood flowed Oh the barroom floor. The
stranger had fed.
''Such things will happen sometimes"
he said. alphabetically, and then added:
just wait until l wash my harris
and we'll go over to prayer meetin'."
Landlord Bancroft, of CGur d'Alene
city. is another peculiar character. Not
Disguised because tenderfeet would per-
sist in giving him small change that he
gathered up all the five and ten-cent
coins he could find in the town. He put
them in a bag and SUNK them in the
lake. Almost any fine day now he may
be seen in boat at the locality where
lie threw them overheard fishing for the
once despised coin.
The editor of a weekly paper in the
C9ur dAlenes is an adept at the sup
preston of news. 1t happened that a
duel was fought in the main streets of
Mullan, and, thinking to do the editor Il
| favor, the intelligence was promptly
communicated to him. The editor
listened in an apathetlc sort of
| a way while the tale of
blood was unfoIded, and then said:
well. if those two fellows want 10
carve each other up faint any OF my
business. as L can see; besides. Col
Brown mas just sold an acre lot for s75
cash, and my article, ''Real Estate on
Boom" will crowd out any such little
| thing as a duel between TWO miners
| about a wOman."
There is. however, a strict sense of
justice among these people. and it wOuld
be just as impossible for one man to kill
another in an underl8nd manner and
go unpuniSlied as it would be anywhere
in the world. Many of the best fam
lilies in the land reside in the Cenr d
Alenes. however. and every settlement
has its church AND school.