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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
! Pointer for the Sheriff
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When the sheriff of Bowlder county finally got his grip on Joe Blackburn, who was bad man in general and q stage robber ill particular, he deter mined to hold fast, and the prisoner was placed in the strongest cell in the iail and chained to the floor. He had been arraigned and bound over to the higher court, and the prospects of his being hung were first-class, when a woman arrived at the jail one day and asked for Joe. The sheriff was a polite and bip-hearted man, but he didn't know the woman and therefore refused. When she found she couldn't get in she wiped the tears from her eyes and said:
 T heard he was a bad man, and l wanted to talk with him about his soul. [ was in hopes to make him arepentant man."
 ''Ye might as well waste yer time on a grizzly bar, ma'am."
 eDo you think he would accept and read a Bible?" she asked.
 "Mebbe so, but a pack of keerds is more in his line. I'll go in and ask him."
 Much to the sheriff's surprise the prisoner said that he was languishing for Bible and was in the mood for re- pentanee. The woman had one under her arm, and was delighted at the thought of making the man better. It was passed in and she went her way. Two nights later Joe escaped and got clear away, and they found behind him his Bible, two files and saw. The three of them seemed somehow to be connected, but the sheriff wasn't able to solve the puzzle until he accidentally met the woman a year later in town 100 miles away.
 "Ala am, you will excuse me," he said, but l jest want to aX few queshuns. Was thar anything in that Bible passed in to Joe?n
 "of course" she replied.
 Was it files and saws"
 @Yes..
 "Reglar Bible, was it, marm 9'
 "Yes"
 Had the story of Jonah and the whale, Cain and Abel, and all that?'
 Ut had. Didn't you look for your self?"
 Not very keerfully, marm. All the Bibles ever saw back in the state of Ohio was all readin' matter, while this we're Bible was readin' matter and saws and files and Joe Blackburn all mixed up together. It's the only one I've seen fur five years back, but if that's the kind they are rushin' into market I'm willin' to bet that Jonah didn't stay in that whales belly 15 minits, and that the whale ain't got over feelin' bad to this day!"
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! HUNTING FOR A VICTIM
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 There were six or eight of us on the hotel veranda when man past the middle age, whose gait showed that he had been drinking a little too much. came up from the street and stood for a moment to look each of us over. He finally edged over to the Boston man and said:
 T don't want no fuss with nobody. but I'm after man who has got to an swer few questions pretty straight. ;
 ''Is he here?" calmly asked the Bos- tonian, as he looked up.
 That's what I've come to find out. Anybody here named Nero?"
 Nobodyansweredto to the name, and the man struck a column of the veranda. q hard blow with his fist and exclaimed:
 No hangin' back, nowl I'm after Nero, and if he's in this crowd I want to know it!"
 "ls it stranger you are after ?'' asked the Bostonian, as all looked m in wonder
 "of course. Nero never lived in this town, as I take it.''
 What sort of looking man is he q',
 Dunno, but should say he wore his hat on his ear and was a Jim-dandv. My son Bill would know him on sioht but l couldn't pick him out. If he's here l want few words with him: if he ain't then I'll pass on."
 My friend," said the Boston man after doing little thinking. .'it. ean,t be possible that you are after Nero of old?' - V oi
 Dye mean the chap who used to run Rome and make things howl?"
 Yes"
 Then he's the man I'm after-the very critter!"
 But he's been dead hundreds of years"
 ''Who says so?"
 everybody. If your son Bill has oeen reading up on Nero he'll tell vou so, too. It's no wonder you can't find Nero around here. Did you want any thing in particular of him?"
 No foolin' now, but is he dead oY asked the man.
 Why, certainly"
 No chance for mtstalze?v
 ''No, sir''
 lilil knows all about Nero and never .tolds me, and I fingered on finding him here and malSin' him swaller his own chln-Whiskers. Bill orter told me-he
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] SQUAN CREEK FOLKS
 Jcp Jones Tells About the Yellow Fever Scare That Almost Ruined
 the Town.
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 Everybody in squan Creek was lyin' and braggin' as usual, and bizness in the fish and oyster line was never bet ter, when the schooner Mary Ann Jones" put in one day to land man who had bin taken sick. We felt sorry fur the sailor, and when he had bin taken up 10 Jim Westoyer's house most everybody in town called 10 see him. l don't remember what sort O sickness the doctors called it, but he kept grow in wuss and wuss and finally died. On the day he was buried three or four of our people was taken sick, and in day or two more it was known that we had the yellow fever among us. When this news came out purity nigh every man in Squan Creek took to his bed. Some had the fever and some was only scart, but it operated just the same. The preacher was away on his vacation, and Uncle Silas Jackson was the only man to be sent fur. It was Abner Jones who got him fust and who said:
 Uncle Silas, Pm thinl5in' this is q judgment on squan Creek for it's bad ness. Do ye think might escape death by confessin' my meanness?"
 Tt might draw ye back from the grave, though we've waited mighty long time, replies Uncle Silas.
 Then Abner went at it and confessed to everything fur ten years past. He owned up to stealth two fish nets, seven
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slept I dreamed that she was bein' ct up. Three different times that night got ready to go up and drive away that bar, but I felt sorter hurt in my feein's and stuck it out till daylight. Then I started out"
 And you found Mrs. White still up the tree?'
 q did. sah Yes, sah. she was still roostin on that same limb, and the ole bar was still sittin' on the ground loolSin' up at her with longin eyes. didn't want to pear in a hurry, and waited round in plain sight fur five minits befo' I says:
 ''Wall, what bout them hosses and dimundis and silk dresses?'
 "'None O yo'r bizness! says she, hevin' lost none O her pertness.
 "'Any time yo' want to cum down jest say so, and I'll kill the bar
 "'Me'n the bar is all right, and we don | want nc odds of nobody!'
 ''Wall, yo' kin see how it was," said Zeb, as he turned to me. ''Sumbody had got to give in. I was mad and she was mad, but it was agin human natur' 10 leave her up that tree any longer. I sot around till almost noon, hopin' she'd give in. but as she didn't show no signs of it l drawed up and shot the bar"
 And then she came down? 2" I said.
 "Yes, arter about half an hour. She wasn't in no hurry. Yes, she cum down and we went home together. Mebbe I orter left her up that tree. What do yo' think? Did pear to give in?"
 "What yo' folks tall5in' 'bout?s de manded Mrs. White, as she suddenly appeared in the doorway.
 Bout bars" humbly replied Feb.
 'fWall. yo' let up on bars and take yo'rself up to the Co'ners and buy ba- con fur breakfast, and when yo' cum back thar'll be a lot of wood to cut to last over Sunday. Git up and be a-git- tin'!"
 She disappeared, and Feb rose up and looked at me in mournful way and whispered:
 That's whar' I made mistalSe-not leavin' her up that tree fur week or twol'
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POO lies and to throwih ink on the doors of the Methodist church to spite the preacher.
 Simpson Smith, who had made aftl- davv only month before about seem n lobster crawl up on the beach and carry off yearlin' calf in his claws owned up that he had perjured hlsself' He also acknowledged that he stole four bags O taters and a smoked nam from Dan Hopkins woed-shed, and stood calmly by while, tramp was semi to iail for six months as the guilty party. =
 Sum 30 different men sent fur rTnele Silas and made confessions and signed 'em, and all was ready to dle and go to Heaven, when the doctors found out it wasn't yaller fever at all' but sum sort O blood pizenin' from bad water or sunthin'. 1t wasn't q week before all the sick was wall1ln abont agin and most of 'em was also lvin' about how near death they had bin. All at once it was remembered that they had confessed to Uncle Silas, and that he had the documents to show. The crowd got together and sent Abner Jones as a delegate, and when he found Uncle Silas he sez:
 "Mebbe you was in to see me the day the doctors gin me up and said I'd be dead before sundown?' ?'
 "Mebbe was," calmly replies Uncle Silas.
 q was outer my head. of course, and didn't know what I was sayin'. You ain't the sort O man who'd write down my dyin' words and hold 'em mp agin me. Can't nobody make me believe you was as mean as that"
 But you axed me to write 'em down, and you signed your name" sez Uncle Silas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
} Hn Experiment Cbat Failed


 Gentlemen" began the man who had lugged two bulky satehels into the ear with him and at once began hunting through them for flask. q ann not exactly in my normal condition, and if drink alone I hope no one will take any offense."
 He was asked how he happened to be off his feed, and after taking a long pull at the flask he replied:
 ''When in New York yesterday I went up to the Central Park zoo. A friend of mine had told me a queer thing about hyenas, and I wanted to test it. Did any of you ever hear that you could make a hyena lay down and roll over by looking him fixedly in the eyes ?"
 No one ever had. In fact, no one present had r2a3e the hyena study from any standpoint.
 "Well, went up to try it. I picked out the biggest hyena in the lot, and after half an hour got his eye. He seemed to know that I was there for business, and for a long time he looked in every direction but mine. When l got him at last I concentrated my gaze and held him spell-bound. I've seen thousands of hyenas in my day, and l always supposed they had yellow eyes, about the same as eats. This fellows eyes looked yellow when I first started in. but presently they began to change In the course of 30 minutes they showed every color of the rainbow in success sion."
 Some one observed that it was a dis covery which ought to be copyrighted. and the man with the flask continued his tale:
 Well, we gazed into each others eyes for three-quarters of an hour, and then the hyena began to weaken. He began lifting up his paws and wobbling his legs, and I was sure that in an other five minutes he would lie down. I was bracing myself for a last effort to conquer him when a sudden shock ran through my system. I never had such a feeling before. I seemed to rise up and come down hard, and then to float out of the house and bring uE against the buffalo pen. This sort of trance lasted about five minutes y
 And when you recovered your senses a policeman was talking to you@ queried one of the men.
 He was. sir"
 And did you catch the expression; Move on, now!'"
 q think I did"
 And don't you somehow feel as if a No. 10 boot had something to do with the lift you got?"
 "Somehow do = yes, sir. Do you think it can be possible that-that-?'
 Quite possible. The hyena's eye had nothing to do with it. The shock was purely physical, and was caused by kick. When you felt yourself float ing policeman had you by the collar
 Then, sir, would you say my expert ment was failure?" anxiously asked the hyena man.
 "Decidedly so. Yes, sir, as an ex- pertinent it was a failure''
 Nothing was said for the next five minutes. We had all lighted our cigars and opened our newspapers when the hyena man heaved sigh and softly whispered:
 'sYes, think it was, and I'm so sor- ry!"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
LonnI nistnrhances.

"Diclxie has to wear his evefS-u clothes to Sunday school now.
 Why is that?" :. 4ha "Well-he fights about war Wllh lllit sIt other boys on the way home. .'-pe'ro'' Free Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17

really had. IfNero's dead, bovsu.. ..l no use O my bein' down on bi,, sl ilt' longer, eh p nm an,
 Not a bit, you are too late to ,.. any dealings with him." V nay
 'Yes, it looks that way, but t1..,
 plenty of others left. As I've po+ at \ 2 down on somebody, and as I've sg',9 aoa ] let up on Nero, I'll git a dripl. sVs ss q bar and then go out and h 1ao'. ~ U Christopher Columbus or Georss ,sSn W. !! ! ington! I'm in town fur bizess, 9s sas sunthin's got to break or bustis ss' al
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Matched.

Do you wear eye glasses becaaSs 9S you think you look better with then asked Miss Pert. -,aol,
 q wear them because l know 'ov st- better with them" answered the sn0i sighted man, sadly.-Harlem Life.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
A strnnge Marriage.

Sue Brette-Was the marriage scene in the new play natural?
 Foote-Lighte-Hardly; they as w" driven off the stage by shower ol gsss gss instead of rice and old shoes.-1 onAei9 Statesman.
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prnnf Positive.

'Is your baby intelligent2' ,,t
 Intelligent! Why, if she Was4 4hs she'd never be able to underslahu q language my wife talks to her. -7p'as and White.s
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
uis Cboicn

What kind of poetry do you enjoy most2a inquired the sentimental young woman.
 .'Triolets," replied MT. cumrox. They're always ort..-Washington Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
.Tust ms Easv.

Quipps-TH never borrow a dollar again as long as 1 live.
 Phipps-Why this admirable resolu- ton?
 Quipps-Beeause I've found it just as easy to borrow five as one. - Town Topics.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
Oh, Say!

Editor-The meter of this poem is de- fective.
 Contributor-I meant it to be-the poem is entitled, The Charge of the Gas Company Puck.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
A Novelty.

Held like to see that 16-inch gun which is being made for the defense of New York harbor.
 she-So should I. had no idea any of those guns were as short as that N. Y. Truth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
] LUCK IN THE WEST

9est oelore the trail reached the rived we discovered man lying on tbe n.s ,.ss under tree, and when we roao s.sss s- the spot it was to find that his al6p1 and ankles were tied, and that bs Y, b.a noosed rope around his neck. Tb.t1 was still alive, though unconscious sa speedily aseertained, and as we % aa away the thongs which bound him ~ ~ saw that the free end of the rome bsS become unfastened from the ink above. The half-senseless body w,s carried down to the river and sprinllsd# with water, and after many minutes tbs 2 man revived sufficiently to ask.
 'Who are you fellers, and what's basn going on yere2"
 We are travellers" replied tbe colonel, "and it appears that an effort has been made by some party or otber to hang you. Can't remember what happened?"
 "Purty near fl, replied the victim after a long drink. T was on q boss l was goin' over the river. i crowd of about ten fellers overhauled me and strung me up. Am I on earth or sun. whar' else 2"
 You are still in the land of the liy.I ing. Was it a stolen horse you were riding?"
 "0f course it was"
 And the crowd hung you for steal. ing the horse?"
 Fur sure. They hain't hangin' a man in this kentry fur jest ridin' along and mindin' his bizness. See the boss around yere anywhar?"
 No"
 And has the crowd left?"
 "Yes."
 "I'hen durn my hide if I ain4 gOin' to kick! say it ain't far deal, and say-!"
 And here he sat up and waved his arms about and cursed in such dread ful manner that we all fell away from him. When he had exhausted himself the colonel said:
 My friend, you are an ungrateful man. If the rope hadn't broken-ifw we hadn't come along to loosen the moose and work over you-you would have been a dead man ere this. You even seem to regret that we have saved your life"
 Say, it's jest my internal luckio re piled the man after another period 0. cursing. "In the fust place, spen three days dodgin' around to git hol of that hoss. I hadn't had him an houl when I was oyerhauled and lost hlm Then they hung me up an l orter ne died. You fellers cum along and slol water all over me and bring me to, ant now-now-"
 Now what ?"
 "Now Pm dead-broke, got a sor throat, no grub, and hev got to wad the river and walk 50 miles before kin raise dollar or steal another hoss Next time you cum across one O thes leetle affairs jest hey sense nun ! ride on and mind yer own bizness'
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
Like Work

Toyls Knott Wouldn't it be nice to be an angel an fly t'rough de clouds?
 Lazy Lawrence x Fly? Nit. Ye'd have to flap yer wings.-Up to Date.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
A Ennr FInsh.

Spotts-I might have won coupe of fifties from Hicks last night. . Lotts-And didn't take the chance Spotts-No, hadn't the heart-neeg' ed one more to make the tiush.-N' l. World,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
ql,e Golden opportunity.

Mir. Pompus-Iam wholly selt-mao7 man.
 Miss Pert-Too bad you made such an awful mistake.
 MT. Pompus-How-what? .. Miss Pert-In not selecting better raw material.=Ainslee' Magazlne.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-19

that comes along. There is a
new class of buildings going up,
big two and three story affairs,
that at present we could not
touch for want of proper appli-
ances. l do not intend to ask for
much in the shape of new appa-
ratus, beyond that needed for the
Makiki station, but / do intend to
urge strongly the necessity of
purchasing modern hook and
ladder truck. Such a one
as l want and ought to
have right now is known
as the Hayes Improved. One of
the third class will do for us for
20 years to come. A truck of this
kind weighs about 1900 pounds.
1t carries one stationary exten
sion ladder from so to 55 feet
high, and in addition other lad
ders %, %, IS, 16, IA and II feet
! NJ. The three longest of these
ran on rollers and the 90 and 1S
are so arranged as to be spliced at
n moments notice. With these
trucks are provided everything
necessary to handle them,
ropes, axes, buckets, gong, two
hand extinguishers and a
lot of other useful articles for
fighting fires. The whole thing
would cost only about $4,000, and
it would be money wisely spent.
"More h ,semen are needed in
the department badly and l shall
ask for a small increase in the
force on that account. | am proud
of the department and of the work
done in the last biennial period
but the only way to keep it up to
its present efficiency is to have
modern apparatus and enough of
it."
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-19

Davey displays large photo of
the Sharpshooters Company, taken
during the banquet last Saturday
night. As in all fashligbt views,
many of the faces are away. This
i particularly true of j. Marsden,
j. 5. Martin, Fred. Oat, VIM. Wall
and others. A w. Keech is given
adecidedly Napoleonic appearance.
Considering the fact of its being
night view the picture is a special.
ly good one. All of the gentlemen
present are easily recognized.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-19
Commissioners Sale Of Valuable Beach Land
Property, Situate in waikiki, Homo
lulu, Island Of Oahu,

In compliance with an order of the
Hon. w. l.. Stanley, Second Judge Of the
Circuit Court Of the First Judicial Cir
cult, dated December 30, 1897, and filed
in the Clerks Office Of the Judiciary
Department, i'm cause entitled NJ. =
Robinson and others versus Caroline j..
Robinson, the undersigned as commits
sioner thercunto duly appointed, will
expose for sale at public auction on
MONDAY, January 81, 1898, at ~
o'clock noon, at the mauka entrance to
the Judiciary Building, the property
known as the Robinson Beach Premises
situate on the Waikiki Beach, Waikiki
side Of the premises now occupied by
Marshal 4. NJ. Brown.
The property, at present occupied as a
dwelling by Mr.. 5. c. Allen, commands
fine ocean view, and has three or four
cottages so grouped together as to form
one large dwelling.
The apartments consist Of one large
sitting room, four spacious bedrooms
and one large lanai, with kitchen and
bath room attached, also II stable and
barn. The property has all the conve-
niences Of homestead. Beautiful
shade and hau trees abound on the lawn.
Inc lou llcHSUTcS lou lcct pdiailcl WIN
the mauka road, and has Il depth Of 300
feet from the mauka gate towards the
beach, also about $50 feet sea beach
frontage. Area one acre, more or less.
Title fee simple. Terms Of sale are
cash, in L. $. gold. Deeds at expense
Of the purchaser. Sale to be subject
to confirmation by the Court. For fur
ther particulars apply to the under
signed at his office in the Judiciary
Building.
HENRY SMITH,
SO4-td Commissioner.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-19

"Our little boy broke out with
eczema. We were obliged to ii ,
his hands to keep him from scrat-
ching and he suffered erything.
We began giving him Hoods
Sarsaparilla and in a short time
his face healed. He took five or
six bottles and has not had sick
day since" Olney Scucie, Pho
neerville, Idaho.
Hoods Pills are the only pills
to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Easy and yet efficient. 4
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-19

Mrs. Mabel Briefly has been
discharged from the billet of
motor woman on the electric cars
at Middletown, n. Y. The super
intendent considered her a de-
triment and that the men on the
line were getting dissatisfied at
having a woman occupying one of
their places. Mrs. Brierly's hus-
band, an engineer on the Erie
railroad, went to Middletown and
endeavored to get his wife to re
turn home, but she declined 60.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-19

For a nice clean shave drop in
at the "Elite Barber Shop" King
street, near Alskea. y
Mechanics Home. corner Hotel
and Nuuanu streets, lodging by
day, week or month. Terms: 25
and 30 cents per night. 81, and
IL 10 pSl week.
Your photos will soon be spoil
ed if exposed without glass over
them. King Bros. have struck a
very neat and inexpensive way of
doing up ph .tos which is giving
great satisfaction. ITO Hotel
street.
If you want anything in the
way of spokes, axles, springs
rims and carriage fittings of all
kinds, take a look at the stock car
ried by the Honolulu Carriage
Mandatory, w. w. Wright, pro
0rietor. 613 Fort street. Tele-
phone 608
The Oliver Typewriter Is pro.
nounced by experts, the best ma.
chine in the world. 1t has many
valuable features, which have to
be seen 10 order to be appreciated.
The Oliver can be seen at the
Office of A. V. Gear, No. 2l0
King street.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-19

Foremost among the attractions
of Honolulu are those of the Cri
terion Barber Shop. The
courteous and exact manner with
which patrons are handled is
pleasing to all. No butchering of
head or feeling in this shop.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-19
For Rent.

House containing four ROOMS, with
kitchen, pantry and storeroom. Pre-
misses on Liliha street opposite Kua-
KIM. Immediate possession given.
For terms apply to w. G. farke,
Kaahumanu street, or c. Creighton,
Merchant street. 7s8-tf