The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-08

German Army charged down the street
and stopped the fight.
Apache George was thought to be fa-
tally wounded, having been shot iA the
groin, and fourteen others were also badly
hurt. several fatally.
The melee broke up both shoes, and as
soon as the men were able to leave the
hospital they returned to the United
States. Apache George at once struck
out for the plains, and ever since has
worked off and on in Wild West shows
and on the praiFies.
II walked into San Francisco, coming
clear across the Moiave Desert on foot,
and was busted when I got here" said
George yesterday. But so long as can
get so feet of rope I'll make living"
he added, ana then offered to show the
reporter some of his feats of skill.
Taking rope and putting running
moose at one end, Apache George asked
the reporter to 60 down the street and
walk toward him. He first caught the
reporters left foot with the rope as he
went to make step, throwing the rope
with his right hand. Then the reporter
jumped up and down with both feet, as
if skipping a rope, and George pinioned
both legs. Quick as flash he caught
his right arm, then his left, and, pulling
his rope tight, threw half hitch over
both arms and finished with another
hitch around the neck.
He then did number Of fancy tricks,
such as catching the reporter on dead
run and then throwing the rope in half
hitch over man standing close to the
spot where he brought his first captive to
stands:ill. Lassoing horses, men on
wagons with the horses going at a trot or
catching small boys by the feet as they
ran was mere childs play to Apache
George. $50
"Now take this paper" said George,
handing the reporter piece of newspa-
per about six inches long and folded up.
He next produced "blacksnake" whip
that measured 12 feet from the tip of the
buckskin cracker" to the handle. Tell.
ing the reporter to hold the paper at
arms length George backed off and TAX
ing the whip began cutting the paper off
an inch at time. AS the paper grew
shorter and shorter and the singing lash
welded by the man standing IL feet away
cut nearer and nearer to the reporters
fingers he grew nervous, but just as he
was about to tell Apache George that he
was satisfied, more than satisfied in fact,
the cowboy gave the whip an extra flour
ish, and with a crack like pistol shot
the lash cut the paper clear and clean
less than quarter of an inch from the
finger ends.
"Now I'll show you something else,
said George. Taking two chairs, he called
one man weighing 50 pounds and another
weighing 165 pounds and asked them to
be seated. Standing between tile chars
George took of his IA. and dividing his
long hair so that about half Of it hung
on either shoulder he stopped and told
the men to take hold of his hair with
both hands and hold on as they would
rope. The men obeyed, when Apache
George Strengthened up, lifting both men
clear Of the chairs. There they swung,
holding on to his hair for second or two,
when astonishMent made them loosen
their grip and drop their feet on the
ground.
81 haven't got an iron jaw" laughed
George, "but III pull against any man in
this town with my hair for any amount
of money"
As rife and pistol shot Apache George
docs not claim any special merit, but
with RATA, lasso, lariet or the whip he
defes all coyners aud is truly wonder.
He is q handsome fellow, and, despite
the wild life he has led, very much of
gentleman. He neither drinks nor chews
tobacco, and to his abstemlous habits he |
attributes his splendid health.
"But I'm getting DID," said Apache
George, land I'm thinking of going back
to the plains and settling down. Cow
boys of to-day are not what the cowboys
were when l was one of them, but the
plains are the same, and after all would !
rather live on the great prairies than in
the Palace Hotel. Yes, l think I'll go
back" and the speaker roped stray
horse that had got out of a corral near by
and was kicking up its heels. Then he
sighed and cooled up his rope.-C. B.
Harton, in st. Louis Republic.
Origin of "Getting the Mitten."
An old time New England expression,
getting the mitten," meaning getting
your offer of marriage rejected by your
'best girl" has an origin in the customs
Of the earlier days. One hundred years
ago gloves were unknown in the country
towns. Mlttens were knitted aud worn
IN oil fayniliee IF a vopnu man roipr