The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
HAD TO DIVIDE HIS PROFITS.
Got Away With sci 1000. but Was Held
Up for 81. 200.

'"A AWAY WI 1eisuuo, but was hfia
! IN for 1000.
John Doherty famed from Cincinnati
to New Qrledns by rail, aud from st.
I Louis To New Orleans by water, i IN
| Chicago for the fifst time since the big
I fire. Re i Il Mississlppian and ref
usea from yell 4W fever. He Is going
home this week 10 sell out and come Ia
/ Chicago. He declares that h never IL
his lie struck 50 many Easy things
As ~ has found ia this city. why all
! of EN- are luddn's." said he to Eli
/ Hackets yesterday. "They amt gam
tltts; they amt tin horns. In the va
zoo swamps we call em pollyw@gs. !
I amt seen Il real live sport since | been
/ ia Town. That's right. done win
enough money TO dig another Well in
I Meridian"
We'll IN Meridian" asked Hackett.
What you doin' diggin' Wells2'
"An't You never heard about my
I wells in Meridian? ST. Louis-all the
I boys down there have heard about i.
| Say don't you guys up here read the
paperse Them wells + advertised as
'Dohefty wells and is supposed To cure
/ everything from an ingrowin toenail u
! a case Of 'willies.' As you amt on. !
i suppose | got t. tell you. Member the
/ time | went South in ate-ate CSS) 70
! clean up that Shubuta gang Of poker
I players tFmph--you Is funny. Say
/ Never mind, though. I'll tell you about
that first
( Member Abe Rosenbaum, who used
4 10 sell saddles from Cincinnati2 He's
! dead as YOU ought 70 knox. but you
didn't tell | told you about il. All
right. Abe he gets into Shubuta. Shu-
huta is a -hoTse-looking town IN tie
Mobile & Ohio not far from Mobile.
/ The houses is yaller from age. hnf IL
| the merchants S not only poker play
ers right. but they has the dough To
back up they hands, and they only
plays en- as If they made they iiyih
that way, which amt 50. because they
is got money in all sorts Of nashnul
banks. and besides, they Il got mog-
cages on everything IN that country
biggern a cat. The country isn't pow
erful attractive. because is .ifyer'n
Arizona. that Is iii a Ticker Nay
Speakin as though ! got 4 Pat hush
in my hand would say that a mighty
thin crust divides the town from R@ll
That's whatever. It's the only country
| ever seen where jay birds is puff Ply
happy en- Fridays
Jay birds happy on Fridays? What
you mean by that, Joan?"
course you don't, and | am gitin'
you some more Information. Jay birds.
fli-iay birds. proper. Is supposed 10
tote sand 10 the devil on Fridays. See
W lldb 4 III l1SlH ib get Ill i1N / hdAikSs
All right As / was s1yin', Abe he's
dead now. Remember that. don't you?
| Well. wren Are was in the flesh and
selling ruttabegear saddles he dropped
into Shubuta one day Ia see if he
couldn't sell 4 few. He met little Ike
Champenois. the biggest merchant
there.
Champenois wanted some saddles, an
Abe was Wilin We got his order book
a11t M +hatg4nnsanix he hnpri11 - I'll
him what to write until Abe had his
book filed from kirer to kiver oh. l.a
didn't do a thing To IL. Moresn 50, aee
worth ordered. Abe hadn't sold SO many
saddles before i'm "A month in Ills lie.
HanpY2 Why, he'd IA bought wine til
they want 10 more, bnt there want
any there % buy. After supper. When
Abe was sittn' al the little hotel they
got there, Gp walks Mr. champenois.
That was early IN the eNenn'. | didn't
start out to talk SO much about Abe rs
myself and the wells at Meridian. and
I'm leadin np e. iem just as fast as |
can. When 4 he ne left thai town the
next day he WAS shy six thousand
that- right More'n that. when he got
to Cincinnati he done found out that
Nr champenois done cancel his order
hy telegraph. Abe he got fired Tor
BLOWN in the company's money, and
fer 4 long time he swashbnel<lea around
Fifth and Vine very much on the hog.
Presently he gifts a stake ard hunts
me out. Al that time I'm dealin' for
Ned Parish and things il comm prattE
much my own way. But when Abe
tells mo what's n sight-hoW them shn-
buta folks thrawed the harpeons into
hin--I SAYS 10 him. Abe. I'm WITH
You. Yes. I'll 20 along
Il gits me some big trunks like
drumner,s. has me cards printed, sts
the lay or the town. bundles a Waa in
my clothes and lights out ! amt gein'
Ia Shnbut direct. Not Johnny. ! gifts
off the train 81 Meridian and hires a
chap 10 20 IL Shubuta and buy up all
the nlayin cards they is in the town.
Re does 20. ard is back IN half 4 day.
on the mex train | sends Teller down
there who was s,posin' to be seilin'
stationery and. among other things.
playin' cards He offered his truck
and thu druggist what sells the earis
sass II him.
How ion" Il take You to git me
about 200 packs7'
Why. Is you entirely Out . asks my
boy
..He is Well. my boy tells him that
he's eot about so packs down III his
sample trunk that he'll lei him have as
an aeef mmeda ton. and he does So +
you falloNin me. Eli
This happens on a Friday. Sal day
/ rolls into the town and my trunks is
rolled off after me. / 1m spotted by the
hotel runner and nut in the same room
what Abe had stopped al. knofxed
that by the guilds Of ane cut what had
been thfc~ed up against the Wallfaad
stuck there. Abe chaWed fine cut the
natives log wis. | sawed ahota tn
3pNn that esenin' until | meetS MIR
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