Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-05-01
INDIAN SCARED HIM.
BUT THE CONGRESSMAN WAS Merry
AND SHOWED FIGHT. ~

BUT THE CON GRESHAM WAS Merry
AND SHOWED FIGHT. ~
He Afforded . Lot OF
Amusement to the Red Mans Back
ers, who Soon, However, Found IT
Convenient to Leave Town. -'
From time immemorial it has been
fad with American college freshmen to
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 q large house in Washington
tells an amusing story on q congressman
from one Of the western states. .
It seems that the gentleman from the
west returned from q 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 a large number Of collegians
who were stopping overnight In the house
trooped Into the lobby, fresh from an
evening spent in celebrating football
victory. ..9i tx 49,
Now, 1t 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 a china
shop, and so when the mob of hilarious,
ribbon sbedecked youths gathered around
the desk and attempted to insert humor-
GUS biogra phies 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
young fellows separate from
the rest and steal out into the street. nor
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 a position whence an un-
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 uplifted 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
collegians, without disturbing the entire
hotel, when series Of blood curdling
yells that sounded much like Indian war
whoOps reused him from his self congrat.
ulatory mood.
. "Kill fat pale face!' cried one voice.
"Big chief take scalp" yelled another.
Fat pale face got no scalp. Baldhead-
ed" shouted a 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. police"
On reaching the second floor, where
the congressman's room was located, he
found the corridor rapidly filling up with
excited patrons In their nightdresses. He
rushed straight to the room and burst In
the door. ~ T.!
- On the door lay the representative lock-
ed in a death struggle with wooden
cigar sign. He gripped the arm Of the
Indian which held the tomahawk. Appar-
emily the wooden 'brave" was attempt.
ing to deliver death blow. As often as
his exhausted breath would permit the
congressman shouted for help. Grouped
about the scene of conflict were the yell.
ing, excited collegians. urging both con-
testants to their best.
The clerk, with the aid of a number of
patrons. shouldered his way through the
mob Of students and rescued the con-
gresham. who was on the point of giving
up the unequal struggle.
The next morning the congressman
went out and bought a revolver, but on
his return the birds had been warned and
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
the congressman, but as that might have
resulted in heart failure we stood the no.
bic red man at the head Of the bed, with
his tomahawk Immediately over the
sleepers head. Then we woke the latter
with a 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?
have couple Of bets on the congress-
man."
The clerk thought that it was draw.
"Well. 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 IN empty room in
the house.
Pavements Quite Useful.
Countryman-What's the good Of all
these stone pavements?
City Man-Up town the pavements &C.
commodate the crowds who wish to stand
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