The Red Cloud chief., 1894-02-23

ELK CITIZENS: II CANDIDATES
FOR SHERIFF DO o LOoM UP MUCH
FoR BEAUTY, ESPECIALLY MY FRIEND
HERE, WHO IS BUCKING ME 0 THE
OFFICE"
kidnapped! by the eternal!" shouto1-
Jerky.
What do you mean?"A&Asked.n~T
"They have stolen our candidatc,"
repeated Jerky, "and we will have to
pay a good round price 10 get him back,
or we will get left on the election.
Hurry home, and run off 1000 hand,
bills, offering 500 reward for informa.
ton of his whereabouts. Head il
LOST so that it will attract atten.
ton. Then get out an extra issue Of
the paper, and pour hot shot in to
Riley Holt. by the way, you can d o II
all thro ugh the paper, and save cost OF
the bills. Give it to him hard. Re.
member the city backs YOU
The following is the editorial that
appeared in the next edit on of the 10.
cal paper:
While delivering a telling speech al
Red Rock, last night, the mayor OF
this city was actually abducted from
the stand where he was making the
effort of his life. The lights were put
out, and the mayor was taken away
on a horse. That sncaking reptile,
Riley Holt, who is his political oppo.
nent, and n Dirty Dave, who was
run out of this city for not changing
his clothes since the town site was To-.
Gated, and who is a fit companion for
Riley. are known to be responsible for
the mayors disappearance, as they
were heard forming the plot after the
first speech of Saturday night, when
his honor did the cowardly Riley up SC
badly that the crowd left the grounds
before Riley had said a dozen words.
This city offers a reward of SlOC
for any information that will
lead to the discovery of the
mayor, and If the town of Red
Rock had not been dead for the past
decade h would do likewise. In all
proba bility the editor of the sheet pub.
lished in Red Rock will not know OF
the rascally abduction until he receives
this paper, lie rs "a Holt man, and is
some years behind the present
sive era. His skull is thick, and con.
sequently there is very little room ia,
brain. lie Is in the first edition OF
Darwin, and his correct name Is Mon.
key. If he can get some one to read
him and his bird Riley, they NAV get
something of an idea of its meaning
during the next month, and then Won
will see some charging.
The Senator's people are always nj
home, and would drink a quart of
mountain sage-tea for the pleasure of
a business call from either or both OF
the vermin.
We are informed that the red.
headed lawyer, who, on the Fourth OF
July. got drunk and fell out III the
stand and broke his arm, and
threatened to sue the city for damages.
IL going to take the stump for Riley
lie Is a good sample of Red Rocks
lawyers, and his step will show this
height OF his aspirations.
IL our mayor is not set at liberty
within ~forty-eight hours after this
publication, there will be several new
hoies dug, and some of them will bo
hiled with dead politicians. We near
business. '"p
The mayors wife kicked the barb
on all the trees in the front ward. than
TOOK her gun, mounted her horse. and
started for Red Rock. The town Is
Iiaoie TO be aroused to activity in the
near future. When villainy is SO ram.
pant that u community will steal a
candidate for Office, and that. Too
while delivering n speech, the linz
should be drawn aud stealing nnnishne
by hanging. W. W. GxE1Nsase d