Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-05-04
INDIAN SCARED: HIM.
But. THE CONGRESSMAN WAS Merry
AND SHOWED FIGHT.

Whereby He Afforded a Lot of
ers, Who Soon, However, Found 1t
Convenient to Leave Town.
From time immemorial it has been
fad with American college freshmen to
appropriate everything that strikes their
fancy, from cigar lighters to barber shop
poles, while out on frolic, says the New
York Mail and Express. These spoils
are used later in the mural decorations of
the collegians' rooms. In recent years,
however, the students Of the better
known colleges have largely abandoned
this practice, but the custom still exists.
A New York hotel man who formerly
conducted a large house in Washington
tells All amusing story on congressman
from one of the western states.
1t seems that the gentleman from the
west returned from a gathering of con-
vivial souls at Chamberlin's one evening
and on retiring to bed in rather foggy
state of mind neglected to lock his door.
Shortly after the congressman reached
the hotel large number of collcgians
who were stopping overnight in the house
trooped into the lobby, fresh from an
victory.
Now, it is an accepted psychological
fact among hotel men that collegian in
the flush of an athletic victory is about
as gentle as the proverbial bull in china
shop, and so when the mob of hilarious,
ribbon bedecked youths gathered around
the desk and attempted to insert humor-
GUS biographies of their college professors
in the hotel register the night clerk sim
ply smiled patiently and hoped they
would get sleepy. He did not see two
muscular young fellows separate from
In the general disorder did he notice them
return almost Immediately and slip up
stairs bearing between them an object re-
sembling vaguely an unconscious man.
Had he been in position whence an I'M
obstructed view of the two might have
been had he would have noted that the
seemingly unconscious man was in reali-
ty an Indian cigar sign holding threaten
ingly in his upifted hand an immense
wooden tomahaWk.
Shortly after the disappearance Of the
two men with the Indian the crowd
around the night clerk babe him an up
roarious farewell and. %surged up the
stairs -.
Ten minutes later the clerk was quietly
congratulating himself on being rid Of the
collcgians, without disturbing the entire
hotel, when a series Of blood curdling
yells that sounded much like Indian war
| whoops reused him from his self congrat-
| ulatory mood.
"Kill fat pale FACET cried one voice.
'Big chief take scalp!' yelled another.
"Fat pale face got no scalp. Baldhead"
ed" shouted third.
"Then cut off his head" shrieked the
second. ~ ..: :*
And then pandemonium broke forth.
As the night clerk rushed up the stairs
he. recognized the voice Of the western
congressman. "Murder!'' he shrieked
"Indians, devils. police9' !. =.
On reaching the second door, where
the congressman's room was located hi
found the corridor rapidly filing up will
t=exeited patrons In their nighfdresses. HI
rushed straight to the room and burst il
the door. -" -:*: +: -,
On the floor lay the representative lock
ed in" a death struggle with a wooden
cigar sigp. He gripped the arm of thu
Indian which held the tomahawk. Appar
emily the wooden "brave" was attempt
ing to deliver a death blow. AS often a
his exhausted breath would permit tn.
congressman shouted for help. Grouped
about the scene Of conflict were the yell
:! ing, excited collegians, urging both con
testants to their best. =
patrons, shouldered his way through tn
mob Of students and rescued the con
gresham, who was on the point Of givin'
up the unequal struggle:
The next morning the congressman
went out and bought revolver, but OF
his return the birds had been warned an(
fed on an early train. Before leaving
however, one of them told the clerk how
they had started the struggle.
'When we brought the aborigine in the
hotel. we intended standing him in front
Of an old maids room on the third floor
but on reaching the second landing some
one heard the congressman's shores and
tried his door. 1t was unlocked. That
settled everything. Some one suggested
that we throw the Indian into bed with
thescongressman, but as that might have
resulted in heart failure we stood the no
his tomahawk Immediately over the
| oACCpSA ucdU AAcu We WOhc luc ldltcI
with few original remarks. which you
probably heard down stairs. There was
no necessity for any action on our part.
We simply stood around and laid wagers
on the result. BY the way, who do you
think had the better of the argument? l
have a couple Of bets on the congress-
man."
The clerk thought that it was a draw.
'SWell, tell him for me that he's the
most natural born Indian fighter east of
the Rocky mountains. Goodby. Be up
to see you again next fall"
But when the same crowd applied for
| apartments a year afterward they were
told that there wasn't an empty room in
the house.
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| Many Lives Lost!
The Doctor-Professor, how many hui
man beings are supposed to inhabit the
earth at the present time?
The Professor-Not nearly as many as
there used to be. The newsboys are kill
ing them off recklessly all the time.-Chi-
! cago Tribune