The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-25
HAD TO DIVIDE HIS PROFITS.
Got Away with $4,000. but Was Held
In for 81 %

10 NEW IlAafE hN lAANH dllh -
Louis In New Orleans by water. h. in
Chicago for the nrst time since the big
fire. He Is a Mississ!pp.an and a ref
ugee from yellow fever. He H. going
home this week To sill out and come To-
Chicago. He declares hat he never In
hi lifa struck So many easy things
as he has found in this city. why. all
of 'em are p~uddir's." said he To Eli
Hacket; yesterday. They amt gam
blers: they amt tin horns. In the va
zoo swamps we call EN- pollywOgs. !
amt seen a real live sport since i been
In town. That's right. ! done win
enough money To dig another well In
Meridian
Wei in Meridian" asked Hacke:t.
What you dom dlggin' wells?'
Amt you never heard about my
wells in Meridian? ST. Louis-all the
boys down there have heard about 4.
Say. don you guys up here read the
papers? Them wells T. advertised as
'Doherty wells and is supposed TO cure
everything from an ingrowin' toenail 10
a case of 'willies.' Is you amt on,
suppose | got tn tell you. Member the
time / went South in ate-ate CSs) to
clean up that Shubuta gang OF poker
players? Umph-you is funny. say.
Never mind. though. Ill tell you about
that first.
{" Member Abe Rosenbaum. who used
" Ftll hilAf ,AAA' "
dead, as YOU ought 90 know. but you
didn't tell I told you about IL. All
right. Abe he gets into Shubuta. Shu-
buta Is a Notwithstanding town IN The
Mobile a Ohio. not FAR from Mobile.
The houses is yaller frcm age. but al
the merchants IL NOT only poker play
ers right. but they has the dough To
back up the hands, and they only
plays 'em as II they made they livIn'
that way. which amt go. because they
is got money in all sorts of n1snnul
banks. and beside. they is got mog-
cages on everything in that country
biggein a cat. The country isn't pow
erful attractive. because rs lryer'n
Arizona. that is IN a Kicker way.
Speakin' as thoueh ! got A pat lush
In my hand. I would say that a mighty
thin crust divides the town from bell.
That's whatever. Its the only country
! ever seen wheifiay birds Is pun 'ty
happy ON Fridays'|'
jay birds happy on Fridays? WHAT
you mean by that. John?"
Course you don't. and | am givin
you some more information. Jay birds.
Eli-jay birds. proper Is supposed 10
tote sand to the devil on Fridays. See
what I'm tryin' to get at now Thanks
"AIl right. Al | Was slyin', Abe he's
dead now. Remember that. don't you?
Well. when Are was in the flesh and
selling ~ruttabeggar saddles he dropped
into Shubuta one dav to see II he
! couldn't sell a Few. He met little Ike
Champenois, the biggest merchant
there.
Champenois wanted some saddles. AMI
Abe Was willin'. We got his order book
out and Champenols he begin To tell
him what to write until Abe had his
book filed from kiver To kiver. oh. lie
didn't do a thing to IL. More'n ~. 100
worth ordered. Abe hadn't sold so many
! saddles before i'm a month In his lie.
Happy? why. he'd "a bought wine I'LL
they an no more. but there want
any there to buy. After supper. when
Abe was sittin' at the little hotel they
got there. up walks Mr.. Champenois.
That was early I'm the evenin'. | d didn't
start out to talk so much about Abe as
myself and the wells at Meridian, and
I'm leadin' up t. 'em just as fast as
can. When Abe he left that town the
next day he was shy six thousand
that's right. More'n that. when he got
to Cincinnati he lone found out that
Mr.. Champenois done cancel his order
by telegraph. Abe he got fred for
BLOWN in the company's money. ana
| for n long time ne s~washbuckled around
Fifth and Vine very much ON the hog.
| Presently he gifts "A stake n hunts
me out. At that time I'm dealin' Tor
Ned Parish and things II comm pretty
much my own way. But when Abe
tells me what's in sight-how them Shu-
buta folks throwed the harpoons INTO
him SAYS TO him: Abe, I'm WITH
you. Yes. I'll go along
II gits me some big trunks Ike "A
/ drummer's. has me cards printed. sits
tine Law Of the town. bundles a wad i'm
my clothes and lights out. ! amt gotn
q S%hubutl direct. Not Johnny. ! gifts
off the train at Meridian and hires a
chap to 20 to Shubuta and buy up all
the playin' cards they is In the town.
He does so. and is back In "A half a day.
ON The mex train ! sends a Teller Town
there who vas s'posin' 10 be sellin
stationery. and. among other things.
I plavin' cards. lie offered his truck
and the druggist what sells the cards
says 10 him:
How long IT take you to git me
about 200 packs
why. Is you entirely out?' asks my
boy.
"Ue is. Well. my boy tells him that
he's got about so packs down in his
sample trunk that he'll let him have as
an accommodation. and he does so. Is
you followin' me. Eli?
This happens on "A Friday. Sat'day
I rolls into the town and my trunks is
rolled of after me. I am spotted by the
hotel runner n put i'm the same room
what Abe had stopped at. ! knoved
that by the guilds OF fine cut what had
been throwed up against the wall and
stuck there. Abe chawed fine cut. the
natives log twist. l sawed about the
town that eyenin' until I meets NJ.
Champenois. I was sell.n' clOthin'. Did
he want any2 Well. he didn't know.
When was ! gOin' tn open up my sam
pies? 7 said bein' that II was Sat'day
7 would hold the deal until Monday.
When ! said 'dear he spotted me. He
sized me w a. a hundud dollar drum
- a. q > a lnNs md nod
set In a game for about 50 maybe.
'Taint no use goin' into all the nTelinni-
naries. That night I set 49, 49,
day noon ! got Up with SCI. 900 velvet.
About the time | gifts a train these fell
lows tumble 10 themselves and they
begin tapuin' the wires They haulS