The Anaconda standard., 1899-07-06
BUTTE News.
STRING HAIR AND HIS LU
Strange Adventures of an Indian
and His Bride of Week.
CLEANED OUT THE BAND
After Winning All the Other Braves
: Money String Hair Bets $50 Against
Piker Joe's Pappoose and Wins.
Lu Thinks of Suicide.

There is woe in the camp of Sol
Levy's band of Indians. The red boys
and squaws made a flashy show in the
parade, and after it was all over Sol
paid them off by giving each partici-
pant few pieces of silver. They re-
turned to camp in merry collective
mood. They joshed one another and
seemed to enjoy themselves as much
as their white friends did. With silver
jngllng in their inside pockets there
was nothing else to do but think that
the world and everybody associated
with it were all right. They built air
But, alas! there came to pass game
of craps!
1t was jolly game during the first
half hour, but luck deserted the bucks,
one by one, until they were all broke
but String Hair and Piker Joe. Then
the game grew hot. Piker made a
lucky pass and raked in 40 pieces of
silver, and String Hair became excit-
ed and plunged. He was lucky after
that and soon Piker Joe was as hard
up as anybody. Piker proposed that
he put up his yearling pappoose against
$40. String Hair held a consultation
to play for the kid and String Hair
won.
String Hair and his bride of a week
came up town on horseback, the pap
poose hanging to the horn of LUIS sad
die. The child was happy amid it's
new environs and Lu smiled like
mother as she stroked the fiabby
cheeks of her hubbys winnings. They
We're going to one of the big stores
to purchase clothes and other things
for their bridal tour through the Stink
ing Water country. They met small
band of Crees that had just arrived
from Soap gulch. not far from where
String Hair found his Lu on the banks
of the Big Hole Lu recognized them
as her prosecutors and she told her
husband many things about them, and
String Hair waxed wroth. The straw
boss of the little band, whom String
Hair addressed as Long Neck, looked
at the pappoose at LUIS name strap
and then cast whitening glance at
the foster mother. Lu understood the
meaning of the look, and she jumped
off of her cayuse and SHE'D a brick at
Long Neck, and then the fighting did
begin. In the melee the brides horse
broke for camp, carrying away the
pappoose. Piker Joe met the riderless
horse and then he reclaimed his lost
kid. The Piker and his family left at
once for the Hole in the Wall country.
Lu and String Hair cleaned out the
band of renegades and hastened to
camp to overtake the horse and baby.
The horse was there, but the baby was
gone. Explanations followed, and
String Hair opened up on his bride and
gave her a severe tongue lashing. Lu
wept. White Skunk, dashing young
lieutenant in company of bone pick
ers from the Canadian plains, inter-
vened and offered his consolation to
the weeping bride. He had expended
but a few lines of his gush when
String Hair gave him a left on the
solar plexus. and the lieutenant retired
to his corner.
Lu started for the city afoot weep
ing bitterly as she walked with heavy
tread. She contemplated suicide. AS
she passed the cemetery she resolved
more firmly to join the silent band.
She reached the bridge that crosses
Silver Bow creek at the foot of Mon
tana street. She looked down into its
murky depths. She resolved to end
her life there. As she was just about
to tumble over the railing String Hair
appeared on the scene and hauled her
back again, thus preventing a specta-
Gle, for If Lu had fallen she would have
soiled her new calico frock that Sol
Levy gave her for a wedding present
The water is very muddy and shallow
Lu and her husband left last night
refusing to leave their postoffice ad-