The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-18
TWEEDY'S ONE GOOD ACT.
4 NiTUR4LLT MEAN MAN WHOSE
14REER 4 TOMCdT ENDED.
Ho vaccinatcd n whole Moqui village with

| SANTA FE June 5.--The action of the Gov
| eminent in sending soldiers to enforce the
| vaccination law at the Moqui Pueblo drew
| forth some pertinent remarks from Joe Eagle
| OF Archuleta at Billy Burtons saloon the other
afternoon. especially regarding previous vac
| cnation fight up in the Snake Dance country
| some seasons back.
"Th' Gov nment must be hard put to get rid
| Of its coin" remarked Mr.. Eagle. when 1t has
to send soldiers around to jab smallpox points
into them Moquis Pity they amt got Lem
| Tweedy up there now Z save them soldiers a
| job. Lem he vaccinated the whole "a MoGui
| one summer so crafty they never knowed it
| were done. They knowed there were some
! thin tn matter with 'em. but they never
| knowed 1t we're vaccination.
They was hard lot. them Tweedy boys.
| They're all dead now but ono and they say he's
reformed that is, he's gone into politics an
amt carryin' on any such out an above board
devlment as conforms with traditions in tn
| Tweedy family. Lem was about average in tn
| bunch. an this vaccination trick he turned
| were the only good thing ever heard IA his
| doin' EXCEPT gettin' hung. He were tn one
| got hung along OF a tomcat down in Tucson.
but that's got no bearing on this vaccination
| performance up at Moqui.
You SEQ it were some time after they got
this college raised agent up there. him that
nhu tne DubDO upTlSe Oh MIN, not upGteln
| with certain land in sevcraty ideas no fetched
| West out a tn civil service examinations.
! Well. that turn made old Crook. who was up at
| Wngate that time. so mad he sworc there
| shouldn't never another saddle be cinched fer
that agent If tn Moqus took him out and filled
| him with Kerosene an SGT fire to him. So
| when they begins to get in smallpox to'ds tn
end OF tn summer an tn MoGus kicked
| on bein vaccnated. this yere young
| chap were up ag'nst it good an hard,
| Tn Interior Department. havn' preju-
| dices agn smallpox. says, 'Naccinate EN-
! An tn Mouuis, they lowed. II he so much as
| drew lancet on 'em. they'd take him out an
| corral him with tn three or four bushels a
rattlers they was collecting fer tn big snake
dance Bout that time in drops Tweedy, an
! Lem he lows he amt never done lick a
work in his life. but he Just thinks he'll vac
cinate some Moquis ef it's tn first an last job
he ever does.
! They was a nacherly wuthlcss lot. all them
| Twcedy boys hard an wuthless. They come
from over at Wagon Wheel. which has been
! counted hard by some. But Wagon Wheel
weren't big enough fer tn Tweedy boys an tn
rest a tn population. so they moves between
days Lem T Heedy he driftcd down to Santa
| rs. That was before tn railroad come in there.
an Santa Fe weren't no young ladies' seminary
! In them years neither But Lem Twecdy he
were too much fer tn PATIENCE a Santa FL.
an after they had a chanst t git right well ac-
Quanted with him they jagged him. Just on
general principles.
were n trouble II he'd lust lit in an done
sS9}methn, T. give EN- excuse they a hung ~:
was was bard. an they expected 7 haye t hang
1HfT NJ cru HI He wouldn't ASH leu cut bait bait
ner Eit out'n tn, boat. So they rugged him.
sent Elm ou, on I'll 2 Win IL cha gang
t work. but they mout c2 well started n hog
2utt fly, Lem he !est went over t !, MESQUITE
lacked him. up about it, but he might Just rs
vel! sqnG hym M T. freiGht team len
w@rRin f Ter tn county fer his o %s an odgip
IN county tuck IN, says he. an now tn
nsk % tn chain sr fear
i'm on bread an water at III Iail. Nut they
didn't have no solitary confinement cells an
Waracn "Een stump are" red an blue Gs pen
ell an ini9t"H I'm w. deck 2 cards whereby e,
| tn rest a tn pr soucrs had rlayu' monte
Bout that time two Grcasers XII ed a man
ont on, II edge a town. an Andy Bowen. 10
Til Warden kpowed all about it. a course. an
So he tells I'm, c@nlI;itini: III jail were
about to be attacted an III boys was hodin' =
| caucus rs I whether lNrN ndun T Just as wei
Grras"rs. An tn Warden adds rs how in tn
excitement i ,ud b" most healthy for him t
course Lem tHdw'd til law an order olc-
ment had been thlpkin serious on his case. so
he figures its good wis" r'ayt take III Ward
ems hint about change Of venue. SO. shore
Sm"Hgn IN n n mi4ft Z tn %Xtemsnt "yGr
pulls out an, bids farewell t Santa Ft
spit" a his reckless. imprOvidcnt ways. he
/ had tn savoy [ take small rantppn q water
an t steal N day k"eper gun before he flits.
R E gh th ri ss R on "4Es I'll
runs plum put inter III sand hills, he It?pst'
UP Tx" a rasln; SO he lays down in an alfalfa
Nc!d Ter III night t think it over as T whether
back I, town an risk Gtttin' M in tn world {
KEEP thrm Two Gre ai%Is r9mpany
Jerry K"am freiShtin' over t. Arrhuleta with
u spike team. SO Lem raced i'm fer ride.
ssr Mr G1 S1GE i'm Gavin GAVIN" ne
know e. his tenn .'ud hold out a"rost tn sand.
E'in,,in' out how his of leader were laid Tp with
how. Jerry lowed how ho'd rid behind spike
tenn before an warnt too proud { do T. again,
com" anyhow. Jerry sees h. nint ,rpe fer dis
mnt"s, out + sirike a bargain that, if Lens
minded { waive Pullman nccpmmodotions and
hhclp cook an l2ok out fer tn team he'll haul
We'll. thcv makes put all right an parted IN
Archulcta very good friends Jerry feelin' at
tn same time he'd done an act n, charity and
done his town good turn. too riddin It a one
a its worst cncumbranceS.
We'll. a course It weren't far over { Mo-
uu an that's how Lem drops in there so sea-
sonablc on tn cy" n this vaccination outbreak.
Seems they Il drtrd in some smallpox cases
on m" pueblo from Jane, an tn order was =
vnrcnnte tn whole pueblo Might as well set
Z vnccinatin painters. Tn bucks nn, priest =,
Just clnwed tn air an howIcd. III padre lily m
Their. tried { smooth III path fer h agent. but
M MoIuis says they amt goin' { have no gov
nmrnt mnn ,rnnnin' brand on EN- NcNt
they know'd tn gov'nmcnt I'd he packin' EN-
on cars an sendn' cm East { soil
Well. tn agent was about locoed an tn
smallpox wns a-Splttn' on its hands an rcchin'
fer a fresh holt when Lem sNnters round an
declares himself in on tn game. TIL agent
don't know anvthin' bout Lem though his an
prHrauce might a been NOR" ia hiunahlc. Int
scc'n' tn agrncyS fving signals n distress
anyhow, he figures hC'i let Lem try his hand;
Lem asks i'm r. all it's necessary T. do il I
cit some n tn vaccination lnir" ntOth' Moqui,-
rrculatin' system. Tn agent SAYS. that s
whatever so LON he gathers NJ ' passed. a
va""in" pntS an Gmbles IN with I'm Pretty
soon he comes hack an sets down very orncou-
sorncd for aemokc. Th' agent asks him what