The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-15

alteration OF the mind from the effects
OF big Mouth Bobs' barbed wire whisky.
They cut OF his hair close to his head,
save for a ridge down the middle. which
gave him the appearance of reached
mule Mr. Finnegan eventually woke up
and ne felt bad. He was panied. He took
his big rife, and. stepping out to where
hc could get a good view of the town, be-
gan to burn" II up. The first shot went
through the printing office OF the Bad
Lands Cowboy and came out on the OPP
posite side. closely followed by the editor,
who was setting up an editorial on The
Majesty of the Law" The next took of
the corner of the stud table in Blood
Raw Johns" oyster grotto. by this time
the citizens were rapidly making tracks
for the fringe of timber along the base
of the blufYs. their speed accelerated by
an occasional bullet. seemingly as big as
a calf After making pepper boxes OF the
few buildings Bad Man Finnegan Shout
dered his rife and sauntered down the
river. Finding boat tied up, he appro-
priated II and drifted down with the cur
rent until he came opposite the Elkhorn
ranch, where he spied handsome hunt
Ing boat, completely equipped lie imme-
diately made a transfer and passed On.
things We're coming his way. Mr.. Roose-
Welt shortly after came into town and
heard how the gentleman from Bitter
creek had been amusing himself. Soon
mad doesn't express IT, lie quickly got
another boat and followed. A tail chase
is a long chase. particularly when the cur
rent of a river carries the pursued as
fast as the pursuer. II is enough to- know
that the young New Yorker followed his
man for 40 miles and eventually captured
and marched his prisoner out of the will
derness and finally lodged him In the adj
joining county jail at Dickinson.
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AR. ROOSEVELT employed men cooks
wv on hts ranch and washed his own
clothes by placing them in the river
and Weighing them down with powders.
He took part In frontier bali and went
down the middle" with the giggling part
ner OF Kangaroo Bill" The billiards. of
the winter of 1861 cost him thousands OF
cattle, but he restocked his ranch and
persevered. While doing all this he was
gathering material for his famous west
ern books. His Ranch Iife and the
Hunting Trail is the best story of the
kind ever written. Frederic Remington
illustrated The volume. and II IA repiete
with Information OF period fast passing
away in the history OF the West. He
describes the ranch country as "one gi-
Eantic. unbroken pasture. where cowboys
and branding irons take the place OF
fences" Here Is one of his descriptions
OF the range streams:
The stream twists down through the
valley In long sweeps. leaving oval
wooded bottoms first on one side and
then on the other. aud In an open glade
among the thick growing timber
stands the long. low house OF hewn
logs. just IN front Of the veranda ia
line of old cottonwoods that shades
IL during the fierce heats Of summer.
rendering II always cool and pleasant.
The other buildings stand In the same
! open glade with the ranch house. the
dense growth OF cottonwood and mat
! ted. thorny underbrush making wall
all about. Deer sim lie In ~, only a
couple OF hundred yards from the
house. and from the door sometimes in
| the evening one can see them peer out
| into the open or make their way down
timidly and cautiously. 10 drink at tho
river.