Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-01-12
ON HIS TRAIL.
The Old Farmer Wanted a Settlement
with tho Heartbreaker.


Ills this the place where peopls
'ome to relate shameful cases?n he
asked as he walked into the Central
station at 10 o'clock the other night.
The sergeant raised his head and
sized the caller up as a man on the
downward side OF life from a back
township, says the Detroit Free Press,
and quietly answered:
eyes. we listen TO shameful as well
as other kinds OF cases. What have
you got TO tell?n
my hull family has been shame
fully treated by Teller named Bill
II oyt, and want him arrested"
"Well, what did Bill Hoyt do?"
"He cum along to my place last May
a-sellin' wire clotheslines and was
token sick. Ny wife she tended him
as If he had been her own brother, and
] sot up with him and waited on him
as would my own father"
81 see."
"Bill was sick and layin around foi
three months, and all the money he
ever offered me was $40. He had
chicken soup and custards and mashed
taters and the best in the house, and |
told him he needn't worry about what
he owed. T'other night when ] was
miikin'. he came out in the barnyard
and asked for the hand of my darter
Mary. He'd fell in love, he said, and
he wanted 70 marry her right of. 50
Il am listening,n said the sergeant,
as the old man paused.
"Wall, he talked so smooth and nice
and made SIGH promises. that told him
10 go ahead. He said he was a leetle
short o. cash; and lent him $50 10
60 ahead with. Next day he started
for Detroit to git his clothes. and we
hain't seen hide nor hair of him since.
We've heard Of him, though.
What did you hear?'
1--WE got three gals-Mary, Sarah
and Jane. The blamed scoundrel
was engaged to marry all three Of
EN-"
"No!"
True as you live! There are five
other gals in the nayburhood and he
had three Of EN- on the hook as well,
maxim six gals he was goin' to mar
ry."
HE was hustler. said the SER
geant.
Yes, he was. Yesterday my wife
owned up that he tried TO coax. her
into elopin' with him, and the wife OF
one OF my nayburs says he writ her
three love letters"
We'll. ! declared"
"And we suspect he was also en-.
gagged 10 the school teacher. in love
with two hired girls and had his plans
all laid 70 catch wilder. Isn't that a
shameful case?"
II should say It vast
There's sighin' and weepin' and
jawin' and lamentin' fur six miles up
and down the road. but Bill Hoyt he
cometh not"
And you want him caught?"
"Yes, want you 10 ketch him. l
think he's right here in town and en-
gagin' hisself TO a different woman
every day. II you ketch him want
70 be locked in a room with him fur
about fifteen minutes
"For what reason?"
Fur the reason that ! want TO take
of my coat, spit on my hands and
make him a speech. ! want to say 70
him: Bill Hoyt, durn yer picter, you've
got 70 produce them $50 you borrowed
o. me or I'll hammer We within an
inch O. yer life. ~
"But about his love-mal1ing?" asked
the sergeant.
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kinder think | orter lick him fur
Dustin the hearts o my three gals.
and agin feel kinder sorry fur poor
cross-eyed Teller who has never known
a mothers care. II will sort O. de-
/ pend, guess"
depend on what2"
IF he hands me over them $50 and
about 81 fur my trouble, and sorter
cries and says he's sorry and wishes
he hadn't done it, I'll probably let him
| off. but. sir-but. sir"
But WHAT" asked the sergeant, as
the old man pounded on the desk with
his fist.
''But, sir, I shall give him TO en-
phatically understand that the next
time he asks one o my gals TO marry
him-one o my gals. sir the very
next time. sir, he's either got to walk
up 10 the rack or-or--n
"Or what?n
"Or I'll hunt him down and take
him by the throat and make il cost
him at least S24 to settle the case.
Yes, sir, I'll do it, sir, and goodnight
and ketch him II you kin, sir!"
On the Front Platform,