The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-28
TALK OF TOWN Bits %a@ %.g se STORY OF CLARK


make any difference to him if he laid 1t
on the ground, so the hoop was lowered
and the prominent citizen, ramming his
spurs deep in the side of Mr.. Broncho
went for the hoop with a rush like many
winds. But fate was against him. The
| broncho got within about ten feet of the
ring without having noticed it as it
Hoped in the wind, and then, as If his
rider has lassoed long-horn, he
stopped-stopped as if he had been
| stricken by thunderbolt-every muscle.
/ every movement Of the broncho quit at
once, but not so with Mr.. Prominent Citi-
| zen He shot forward with the rapidly
| and hiss Of Mauser bullet, and with a
! Gluten TO the speer he went flying through
| the hoop and lit about forty feet on the
! hard ground beyond. Fortunately, ne was
| not seriously hurt, but he had the gall to
claim that he had won the bet but the
crowd who were the judges decided
against him on the theory that he was
to throw the speer through the hoop. no.
carry it through. The Texan would not
take the money. He said that his friend
could have it to buy court plaster and
the orator insisted that when this rennarl,
was made the broncho winked at the
crowd. They did not hesitate to record
Ih-s' Tor the orator seemed perfectly COM
posed.
Then, said the orator, do you remem-
Der the first carnival? AS a matter of fact
the first ever held in any city west of st.
Louis. Charley Schattner was the NOV
ing spirit. The procession was about A
mile long and the take offs were rich and
racey. The orator remembered one nice
young man. the neatest dresser in the
town. took notion that he could run a
newspaper, that his divine mission was
10 manage some great journal. Through
some OF the incidents incidental and
more or less frequent in the early career
Oh an evening paper, he came into pos
session Of Now, the nice young man had
lots of good clothes, standing collars
fancy neckties and so on, but TO start a
big newspaper required other caDitaI and
the young man soon got onto this prom
osition and began to borrow from his
friends, he remarking as he tapped them
lor nifty or a hundred that he would soon
dispose Of his herd out on the Chikaska
and then he would have money to throw |
at the BIRDS but one morning the town |
was startled by a notice posted in the |
postoffice that the said presses, the |
good VIII Of the institution, and in fact |
all other npDertenances belonging thereto |
mad been taken in by the holder of q |
ehattle mortgage, and then the boys be- |
gan to look for the herd Of cattle which |
they found grazing on the fertile pastures
OF the nice young mans mind. The take
on at the carnival on this was a very
ioan, measley steer, put upon a plat
form. surrounded by the victims out at
the elbows and in diver and sundry other
places.
And the theater, said the orator still in
good wind, was simply great, Byron
Raphael was the moving spirit in its or
ganization Frank Fisher, Johnny Allen
Frank Smith and w. 0. Hills. were the
leading actors and each a star in his own
line Frank Fisher was the heavy vii
IAN IN all Of the plays, and no play went
that did not have a heavy villain in il
because a part Of our every day show in
those days was some supposed villain.
heavy either with bug juice or with some
'ther sort Of incentive which made him
'illainous. Frank always wore a Dair of
rubber boots about four sizes too LARGE l.
With very high tops and the suggestion
which came into every mind as he
stepped across the stage, would be how
ong would it be until the boots absorbed
he actor. as he seemed every few mo-
nents II sink further into the boots and
'eiore the play was over bets used 20
'e made by the boys in the audience as
@ whether there was more boots or more
'ctor. and then, the relator of this ma
alive began to breath hard and a wild
ook was noticed in his eyes as he began
baseball story and the listeners quietly
that he take flyperdermic in
ection and save the baseball story for
NY other old time.