The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-08-18
KISSED TIE GIRLS.
A Couple Of Cowboys Take sweet Revcns
II For sharp speech.

A Couple Of Cowboys Take sweet Revenge
For = sharp speech
Talking about the unusual, the as
tonishing, Notwithstanding fiction and
all that said Ben Ward. of Portland,
to reporter of the Examiner, 81 have
heard of few stranger things than some
thing witnessed on board fast North
ern Pacific train one night in December,
1884.
Il had been to New York and was
coming west via St Paul In the St
Paul depot, while we were waiting for
the making up of the Northern Pacific
train bound out to Puget Sound, mo-
ticed two young cowboys They were
good looking, wore broad-brimmed
white hats with leather bands, and
were otherwise got up as frontiersmen,
being very picturesque in appearance.
nice fellows, as afterward found.
Aboard the same ears in which / and
the cowboys happened to take passage
was an elderly lady and several daugh-
tiers, two of them being young women
For couple Of days we bowled across
4 the Dakota prairies into the Bad lands
and finally into the Gallatin valley.
Myself and the cowboys had become
pretty well acquainted, the days and
nights were lovely and things were
about as serene and satisfactory as they
we'll could be.
Zone day suggested game of cards
to while away the time. One Of the
|-cowboys said he was willing, but he
had no partner, and suggested that
ask the two girls if they would join us.
He said he could fight the Sioux or
Crow, or rope the widest of wild steers,
but when it came to talking to women
it wasn't his best hold hadn't talked
to them hitherto, but at his suggestion
concluded to ask them, and finally did
SO as politely as could, the young cow
boy happening to stand near at the
time.
mo, sir, said the elder of the girls,
spitefully, we can't play cards and we
don't want to learn
There was no occasion for such a
remark | simply ignored II, turned
and walked away. But the cowboy
took it as further personal arfront,
because of his rough clothing. All the
rest of the night and the next day he
said nothing in reference to it, but the
iron had entered his soul. About 10
o'clock the next evening we noticed
both girls asleep ahead of us in the car.
One cowboy remarked to the other
what joke it would be for each to
kiss one of them as he got off the train
little later at Billings, the place near
est their ranch.
Zone dare led to another, and finally,
| oddly enough, it was agreed that they
do it. 1t was just midnight when the
train reached Billings walked
ahead, according to pre-arranged
plan, and opened wide the door andre
turned to my seat Each cowboy then
advanced with his valise and bundles
! in his hand, and, having previously Sc
lectcd his girl. impressed upon her lips
"a fervent kiss, shot ont of the door and
was off like flash. You better believe
there was a commotion.
"All the passengers were bursting
with laughter. One of the girls dream
lily awolSe, realizing that she had felt a
| mustache on her lips. and at length
sang out: f"Who the dickens was that
man that kissed me?' The other girl
also realized that she had been kissed.
Nobody told them who it was, however.
They went to Spokane Falls and for
aught know are living there yet
'As for the cowboys, was in Mon
tana not long ago, and took pains 10
Enquire about them. They are both
very prosperous, and one is the owner
of several thousand cattle on the Rose
bud, near Billings His name is Lee.
Thousands of people in Montana will
know him when this story is mentioned.
He will not deny the story either. =
| San Francisco Examiner.