The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-28
THOSE STRIPED STOCKINGS.
A Lewiston Man Tells a Good story Of 81
Indian Territory.

A Lewiston Man Tells q Good story OF ths
Indian Territory.
Tho returned Lewistonian fell to talk-
ing over a revolver that he carried in
the arrest Of adesperado in New Mexico,
and then he aiverged ard told this story
Once when we were going down ia
the IIfaiaii Territory as we rode ont III
the yilll1o We passed the hoEsc where
a Rev brunswick R.irl had Just come to
live in the little prairie village. There
had been considerable joking about the
new arriral, III .J we passed she came
out to hang np lor washing on the line.
| rcde o little red pony-o1le that / had
sxappcd q shotgun for-and when I saw
the New B-rnsTic lex girl hang up q pair
OF the longest, biggest striped stockings
/ had ever SEEN ! rode right mp into the
yard and under the c~lothegline and
seized those stockings and pulled 'em
OF the line and rode away.
"Al that trip down across the hot
plains and over the rustling buffalo
grass the boys plagued me about those
stockings. Ihad put them into my trunk
and kept them. I don't know what I
took them for or why I kept them.
well we got down into the territory
and among the Indians They are great
gamblers, you know, and we bet with
them everything we had Weraced and
won, from them all the money and
blankets they possessed
ssThe blankets were United States
army blankets. but we can use them sby
cutting ontthe 70. s. At last We oame
down to- foot runners. and the Indians
brought out their He was tall,
broad chested and long imbed He
could go like the wind, and our best
runner was nothing compared with
him. Why he wa the best physical
man | eve saw. He looked at a man,
and his thick lip curled IN derision.
He no good-Aget b man
.aYhe savage was stripped to his skin.
] looked at our man. 49,
Jake, I said, you wait d minute
Then 7 went and got these stockings.
Whom bronght them out, they created
the biggest kfiidaof d sensation, ana the
curiosity to touch them was something
comicaL sod ~ q
s'They just,wanted 10 put their hands
them to see what they were,
Il did not let them satisfy their Gu
but carried them through the
crowd ID II they were only relics.
a Jake put those ON and run with
them, y khaid. &a II s41s1
sasvv5hy, ! can't run with those On.
be said
you dan. DON'T You see that
they are mystifiedr' 80 HAsaA ~ u
ssHS put them Oh, ana Enough he was
b large man they came clear tohis hfpsa
pinned them up, and be started
the big Indian. nc was plain by
the Faces CT tho greasefs thar they hads
lost all faith In their man asagainst the
ssockinga ThS Indian IN aslit
sleb distanoegand th8a Tell bshisad wztEpI
bib eyesfixed In tef4orsaoaa these Ayink
stockings. He vas bsaeeEE Ard DO youI
knows + s0ld shos6 seedlings tb tbs -
lian Cor Ase1poniss and 3 rifeess-Lew
lston J0uEnaL n s
rs DrsaAH1isst Dian,s Conne Trne.
In the Interests ok common sense ii
i wsl ID 0ccAsionally relate iii thei
ixeAzas WLlch didn't come true. one
Il t1e contasnnqg heirs dt IA aged Bsthi
ady dfeaxaed three nights ii successfod
;hak thefe was i Will and that iii hadf
buried With, The. Woraaaa. oh th0
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