, 1898-09-20
REVIEWED.
Resume of Wyoming News by a Man
With Fun in His Composition.
denver Evening Post.1

At the Frontier day celebration at
Cheyenne a visitor whose feet were yet
somewhat sensitive asked one Of the
Indians: Are you an Apache?" Lo
gazed at him n moment with the olden
~scalp-hungry CLEAN in his eyes and
snappishly replied: mo. Me Episco-
pal"
Editor Crawford of the Saratoga Sun
has been e M to the Omaha Exposition
to look after the Wyoming exhibit and
depict the advantages of that great
state in their true colors. Mrs. Craw-
faEd was sent along with instructions
to give him a cautionary dig in the ribs
every time he cuts loose on a wolf story
in a moment of forgetfulness.
Who paid DR.. %Johnson's fare to Ev-
anston?" asks Editor Chaplin Of The
Laramie Republican, and when he put
his hand to his ear for a reply he heard
only a warning "Sh-h-h-h!"
One of Torrey's Rough Riders con-
tributes a song to the Cheyenne Sun
Leader, one verse and the chorus of
which jingles into the listening ear in
this breezy shape:
Down in this hot country is
always ill;
They take you to the doctor and he
gives you a quinine pill;
1t will either kill or cure you. they
don't carr a damn;
The doctor has done his duty, YOU be-
long to Uncle Sam.
Chorus:
Then it's home. boys, home; it's home
we want to be;
Home, boys. home. in our own country:
For the plains are always healthy, the
climate is first rate,
In our dear old native country, in old
Wyoming state.
On Frontier day at Cheyenne one
blooming maiden and six grass widows
from Colorado were married to men
who believe we are going to have I'M
usually cold nights next winter, The
events were programmed in the wild west
feature Of the big show.
The Rawlins Republican reports
that the hoshone Indians returning to
their reservation from the Cheyenne
Frontier Day festivities gave a dance
for the ~edification OF such of the people
| nf that ,t0un 90 1tlrtt ,,;-J A. -,
west fragrance thrown off by ~perspiring
warriors who look upon a bath as a Gre
alton Of the evil spirit. The whisper
ing breezes soon returned the atmos-
phere to its usual state Of purity.
The papers of the state are printing
pictures of DeForest Richards just to
show the people what a nice. handsome
gentleman is going to permit them to
vote for him for governor this fall
when the frost is on the pumpkin and
the folders in the shock"
The Evanston Press editor reports
that the campaign fires are beginning
to glow with fervent heat out in that
corner OF the kingdom, but as the
nights have become SO cool that the
hobo fraternity is compelled to light
tie fires along the railway track the
good scribe may have been mis!ed.
While the bloomer girs' base ball
game was in progress at Evanston, sew
eral married ladies went to their hus-
bands places Of business and found
their office chairs chilled and vacant.
This will explain the wild cacklinR
Sound i~nterspersed with three-em
dashes and studded with bristlinR ex-
clamation points that We heard com
ing from that direction a few evenings
ago and continuing until away into the
might.
The editress Of the Saratoga Tyre
thinks that the life Of the late president
of the Mormon church was IAN indus
trious and useful one. and in many re-
spects a remarkable one" She no doubt
thinks that the industrious and remark-
able features OF his life were IN the
matrimonial field, but heskates to
print the fact.