The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-30
DIDN'T DO A THING
TO rubber BlLL' AT
~LEITERVlLLE.
Thew Nailed up His Pants With shin
gle Nails-Waller in the Role of the
Lost Charlie KOss-EducatiOnaI Re-
grets-Giddy Jack Mcguire.

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week. Mr.. Reeves is an old friend of
''our Jimmy's," not Jimmy, the lad
les man." but Jimmy. the fat boy
and has been looking for him in Sheri-
dan, Wyo., and all over the western
country: meeting with Messrs Letter
and Teal in Butte and learning that
Mr.. Walker was in Leiterville. he ac-
copied the invitation to spend a few
DAYS at the mine and renew his &C
~quaintance with "our Jimmy" On the
train from Butte to Dillon. a kind
hearted travelling man from Salt Lake
thinking the boys We're imposing on a
tenderfOOt. gave him some good advice
as to how he should dress for the ride
to Sheridan. closing the argument by
the substantial donation of a pair Of felt
boots. which of course "Rubber Bill
took, in fact he would take anything
of that. On putting on the boots before
starting out. he remarked: THAT fell
low was a nightly mean man: he evil
IDENTIFY had worn OvershOes with these
boots, and he ought to have given me
the Overshoes too It was mean. it
hadn't occurred to me before. but it was
a mighty mean trick. We ran him up
against all the games we had up here.
out he escaped wonderfully we'll: took
him through the mine and up to Pete's
place. gave him a Turkish bath in the
smoke stack. made him walk a slippery
log and climb a creased rope. thinking
sure he would fall into the old Slopes
below. but he didn't. We took him
through a hole in the wall about a foot
square and he wiggled through that.
We got him on the bob sled and took
him down the mountain without an ac-
cident: it seemed that we couldn't down
him: we got him On a pair of snow shoes
and-then we had him. | don't exactly
know what happened, but we gathered
him up, pinned up his pants with shin
gle nails and led him into camp. He
had a good time and promised to call
again next June. by which time we
will have some new games for him.
T. Benton Letter and Thomas II. Teal
went to Butte last week. the former TO
buy a station pump and the latter went
along TO see that the former kept
straight. At Dillon they picked up Mrs.
Teal, who went along to see that Mr..
Teal kept straight: the result was they
both kept straight and returned home
two days ahead of schedule time.
Our school has been closed for the
past month on account of scarlet fever
in the Chaser and Frew families. The
disease has been of an exceedingly
mild type, combining the patients in bed
only for a few days.
We regret exceedingly the enforced
absence of our school marm-some of
us suffer the pangs of regret much
more keenly than others, but we all suf-
fer and will continue in this unhappy
stale of existence until we have her
again in our midst.
A son was born on Sunday ~. TO the
wife of Ed Wright. Ed says he is a
dandy and will make a bully brake
man for the tramway.
We have it on good authority that
Engineer Jack Mcclure will shortly ask
for a lay off for the purpose of engin-
eering through a deal with one of our
beautiful widows.
Miss Alice Franklin is to be married
on the 10th of May. The above was told to
me in confidence by the lady herself.
SO | know it is all right. l could not
find out who the bridegroom is to be.
but will start the pump and try and
give you the information in my next.
Bert Ribble has been placed in the
foremanship of the mill. Mr.. Ribble
is a first class amer man and amalga-
mator and knows when things are run
properly. The mill has been partially
O~verhauled and is now in first class
shape and is kept there, too.
Charley Hill has moved his family
Town on the ranch for the season.
Charley is stuck on ranching. so much
so, that he would like to give someone
$3.50 to take the place off his hands for
the year.
Engineer Churchill coupled on the
new fly wheel to the engine in the mill
to run the dynamo last Wednesday.
The plant is here and we are waiting
for the electrician to string the wires
and start il uD.