The Red Cloud chief., 1895-08-16

although the fire fiend had secured a
good hold the boys quenched it before
the house was burned. The damage
was quite serious to Landlord Ranney |
who ownes the furniture, as the same
was badly drenched. The insurance on
the contents was 1890. 1t was a very
close call for the building,
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TIE CHEF has been o%pportuned to
give the men who assaulted Nightwatch
Miller a few nights ago a good roast.
The men deserve the roast all right and
should have been held to the district
court. Such lawlessness should not be
condoned by any class Of people. There
is no better class Of people living than
railway people, and it is not right, NOR
ally or physically, to allow the law and
officers overridden by a few, to the detri-
ment Of the other boys, in that manner
There is no excuse for 1t, and there
could not have been any excuse for the
act. Miller may have been hasty. no
doubt was, but that would not give the
men who dubbed him the right to do so.
There is altogether too much disregard
for officers Of the law. We may have
been mistaken in the matter, but from
what we can learn of the facts $40 was
u very light fine for 30 culpable offense.
On last Sunday morning lightning
struck II. G. Sawyer's barn at ~Inavale
killing four fine horses and seriously
shocking Mr.. Sawyer and his hired man.
The bolt struck the barn on the west
side, followed the ~rafters until it reached
the east side and then passed down the
joist killing the horses and knocking
the two men down. Mr.. Sawyer was
taken out doors and revived, but for a
few minutes it was thought that life was
extinct. The other man was not so SER
iously injured. One Of the teams be-
longed to an emigrant who thought ii
was going to rain. He drove his team
into the barn, unhitched the team and
tied them in the stall and started for
the blacksmith shop which he had not
reached when the lightning struck. He
hu rried back and found his team killed
and the men in bad condition. In a few
minutes more DR.. McKeeby arrived. and
gave medical aid. We are pleased to
note that the men are getting along
nicely. 1t was a very close call.
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Charley Potter a few years ago visited
in California. 1t is said Of him that he
walked fifty miles one day supposing
that he was going to a neighboring camp
but he took a circuitous route, landing
at night at the same place he had left in
the morning without recognizing the
place. Charley halloed, "Can l stay
here all night, colonel" The answer
came back, "Don't know why yer can't
yer staid here last night" 1t is said OF
Charley that his prayers that evening
were much stronger than usual. The
next day he took the highway, and com
ing to Trinity river, a mountain stream
very rapid and very deep, he disrobed
tied his clothes on a horse and wal
about to ford the stream. The horse
didn't want to take a bath and hune
back. With a good %pursuader and u few
invectives Charley lampooned the beas'
and in a sudden frenzy plunged into
the current, leaving Charley on the banl
disrobed. There he was in a pretty fix
no clothes on, nc friends in sight, tn,
horse on the other side of the stream
What to do he didn't know. The stream
he couldn't swim. For ten hours it I
said by u informant, Charley meal
dered up and down the banks Of tn
, ripping waters, trying to discover som
{ method Of crossing. After searching
the stream for miles each way he foun'
a log and at last his clothes and he wer
united. Charley said to a friend a littl
later that II was a "bare" accident tina
no found the log, Our reporter hs
since left California, but oft times take
Q great smile at Charlsy's expense.