The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-02
CAUGHT IN THE JOSH NET
All Fools Day Made Merry by the
Usual Franks Of Jokers.
GREAT FLOCKS OF GULLS
Scent of a Luscious Red Rosebud Lost on
the Skeptical Air-Walsh's Midnight
Run-Straight Flush and 25 CT
gars-Easter Bonnet Won.

gars-Easter Bonnet Won.
Yesterday was All Fools day. and
about everybody In town knows II. The
first man to be caught in the josh net
was Constable Walsh. He was aroused
from his deep slumbers by a man
knocking at his door at an early hour
yesterday morning. He told the Of
ficer hat he was wanted Immediately
at an East Park avenue saloon. Walsh
was soon on his hurried way to the sa-
loon. Arrived there the bartender di-
rected him to a rear room. where he
was told in whispered words that he
would see the results of a terrible trag-
edy which had Just been enacted. The
officer stepped to the door and peered
in. There in the corne of the dimly
lighted room sat a man i'm a reclining
position on a couch. his head bandaged,
one arm in a sling and his left leg
thrown across a chair. The trousers
leg was rolled up above the knee. ex-
posing the ankle partly bandaged. A
handkerchief hung over the injured
mans face.
What's up?" whispered Walsh to the
bartender. who stood a few feet from
the door. just in advance of two dozen
anxious spectators. Il don't have to
arrest this man. He can't get away"
mo. l don't want you to arrest him,
only identify him. He said something
before lapsing n unconsciousness
about knowing you as a good friend.
See if you know him-lift the handker-
chief"
Walsh tiptoed over to the silent form
and. reverently bending over, lifted the
cloth, and there he read the awful story
of the midnight tragedy:
Our prices for today. April 1, 121a
and 5 cents"
DR.. Gattan stepped into Keppler's
jewelry store n greeted Emile Dub
reuill with the remark:
Another man found in the springs
Too bad" said Emile. that makes
ii bad for persons who like to take an
occasional plunge. How did it hap
penn"
THE mattress broke and the fellow
fell into Them said the doctor, and
Dubreuill looked at the calendar.
Larry Dobell of the Recorder wore a
large, newly cut, luscious rosebud in
his conspicuous ~buttonhoie. n he
couldn't get close enough to a man to
ask him If there was any news. They
all steered clear of that rose. 1t was
several hours before he tumbled to the
fact that he was the innocent man, and
that the others were all laboring I'M
der a miscalculation. The rose was all
rght-it wasn't a water nozzle, but he
couldn't maxi others believe ii.
DR.. Stephens dropped a nickel in Rod
Williams cigar machine and drew a
straight diamond flush Rod was at
the other end of the store, and couldn't
be persuaded 20 step up to the ma
chine and see the straight flush. The
o2tA. A-aa 20 A..
ing to get his 25 cigars. Customers con-
tinued to come in, and the doctor
wouldn't allow a man to touch the ma
chine until Williams would come and
certify n pay up. Still he shook his
head and said: mo. you don't; this
isn't my first April on earth. Oh, no:
nothing like that" Finally Tot Will
liams went over to the machine and
turned its face toward Rod Then the
doubling n saw that he was really
fooled. and settled.
officer Stebbins' daughter told her
father at the breakfast table that Cap
tain O'Brien a sen word to him TO
go to the city hall at ono Stebbins
left his hot coffee untouched and dart
ed for the door. AS he was going out
of the yard he heard one little boy say
to another: wait till we get around
the corner before we put this old hat
over a big rock" The officer retraced
his steps and promised his daughter a
new Easter bonnet IL she would keep
mum for two weeks.
Judge Duffy stood near the corner of
Commercial and Main and caught the
unwary with the remark: See the
latest from Mckinley" pointing to-
wards the brick wall near the entrance
to his office.
The judge stood for half a day in one
spot watching the gulls march VI to the
bit of white paper on which was writ
ten:
Two thousand geezers wanted April
l to read this"
Captain Roach of Silver Lake ate
breakfast in the city. He had six small
buckwheat cakes. coffee with two
Jumps of chalk, and three cute little
graham mullins. He ate the whole or
der, and didn't say a word abou. hav-
ing to digest nine pieces of muslin.
Chief of Police White walked leisure
ly down Commercial avenue looking to
the right and to the left; then at the
clouds. and finally at the walk. There
he saw his game. A tempting looking
pocketbook was right down there, al
for IL. and 10, IL was nailed fast to the
walk. He continued his stroll down
the street at a quicker pace. and he
boy laughed and watched for the next
lucky man.
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