The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-24
MEDrorNB mars SNOW man.
Bill Perrino Has made Enough Out Of Him
TO Buy Out n Saloon.

Bill EorTtno Hno Made Enough Out OF Him
70 Buy Out n Saloon.
MEDICINE HAT. Northwest Territory. July ID.
D Perrine has bought the saloon and lunch
room next to the railroad station here, thereby
upsettinR the prophecies OF nine-tenths Of the
people in Medicine Hat. who have said. time
and again. that Bill would die a pauper. Bill
PerrIne has lived here ever since there was a
town. When the graders who built the Can
adian Pacific Railway reached this place thoy
found PerTine digging for gold. He told them
30 many stories Of the big nuggets he had
found that half the men wanted to quit work
and 70 prospecting, For several years no kept
on lying at such a rate that he earned the sobri-
quet of Bogus Bill" Perrine endeavored to
promote many enterprises. but no one wanted
to be associated with him. Tor everybody be-
ever bring him in q living.
Three years ngo an Indian brought q huge
brown bear. which was half tanned. to Medicine
Hat. Bogus Bill" had only 90 cents and the
Indian wanted 81 for the bear. Perrine tried
to raise the money, and told every one OF whom
he tried to borrow that he had q splendid idea
Of how to make money with the bear. He Of
fered any one who would advance the half
dollar an equal share OF the profits. BY sheer
perseverance he got the money, but the man
who loaned it told him no did not want to go
into partnership with him in any business be-
cause Bill was so unlucky.
Bill got the bear and began building q big
pen near the Canadian Pacific Railroad depot.
Citizens OF Medicine Hat had never seen Bill
work before and they gathered around jeering
him. When Bill got the bear pen done he
pawned his rifle and revolver for S3.95. This
money he put in a box with a glass front and q
slot in the top. Underneath he printed in large
letters: ,u.u..., 800
cents; When he gets five dollars he will be set
M SO tSd b ID IT. the ss dS5isiG on VI, Nth ,o which sul be
face wore a confident smile as he sat In front Of
his bear ear pei. waiting ngG for for the !, overland ,,rlPd1 a. tr SiI,
got up on the dry goods box and soon had a
psr F% SSs S E. dSSi9s Ct e t 2slS asSsi' isyaI tss t ;sS
gentlemen. an I've just gin this here bar
SIsdlv q make ! up had fko S SHS thi sRpS ev vys GaHl yin yin
him from his 1njun owner and turn the pore
from, behind the bars with a pathetic. glance
that brought tears to the eyes OF the ladies and
was plain, they said. that no one but an Indian
%GS = have mo th 3 heart IF ito 10 s 9Grss up m s u sm 2 n nsn
man and brute. constituted himself collector.
the box. Bill made the Indian open the stock
ade, and the bear started of on q slow trot to-
ward the woods, The bell rang and the pas
they had been able to perform at least one good
action while making their overland journey.
BIZ fastened away t3o, catch the bear. The
You burned fool, you gould haye got twice
GUS Of Bits new found prosperity. ,,
Bill. as he changed the sign accordingly. From
that day to this the people on nearly every
passenger train which has passed through
BR iIi's bear h set h free. co Sometimes the he om no See
was not quite made up and the bear was not
turned loose. When the neXttrain came along.
howevsr $50, was still necessary to set bruin
on for a month Medicine Hat people began to
change their minds about Bill. He even had a
rival. A man who had failed in the drug bust
only had a little. bear, and by this time Bits
bear seemed to know what was expected OF
him.. His mute appeals were so much more
that Bill got most of the crowd. Public senti.
ment was against the eX-apothecary, too. and
the citizens who congregated to meet every
overland train obstructed the pathway to the
druggists bear cage.
Bits rival soon quit the business, and the
civilization. sought his cave in the forest to
while Bill bought considerable whiskey. ut the
tavern. but at last he came to the conclusion that
It was gs seheS3iP p moh buy the Ts saloon Itself sed.s and d bs1Ea n
was the price Bill paid for the saloon. He has q
few hundred in the bank, and his bear is still
working. 1t has become unnecessary for Bill
to make any oratorical effort to induce tourists
to part with the price of the bears freedom. and
Bill, after he tells the stranger about the people
of Medicine Hat. who have no financial ideas
often adds:
THAT bar of mine over there. II no lives lonQ
enough, will make. more money than any othel
man In this town."