, 1900-12-28
WYOMING FOLKS IN
THE DENVER PAPERS
Continued from page L.

Swede sli5 as change from his bill.
told him he was all right, that he had
bought just seventy-one bottles of
champagne and that they had enjoyed
his company immensely.
Vosberg woke up the next day and
decided he had neglected his business.
He bought a new white apron and
started for the saloon. When he got
there no one Knew him. Then he de-
cided he had been buncoed and com
planned to the police.
The fire and police board decided
that Lane Bros. & True were the ones
who should stand the Jewish treat ana
notified them that they could pay Vus-
berg back 1855 or get out of business.
Drunk and Woozy.
The Post arrives with two on Wyo-
ming, one relating a German ~tailor's
woes. the other concerning the antics
of a bibulous man from Cheyenne who
was used to wind but did not like it
hot. Here they are:
William Rossin. a merchant tailor.
told the detectives such a peculiar
story yesterday that they belieye he is
insane. Rossin is a German and
through Policeman Sick. who acted as
an Interpreter. told his story. He said
he formerly conducted a tailoring es-
tablishment in Wyoming. He failed in
business. he said. on account of two
employees. a man and a woman, steal
ing from SO to IS per day from him.
He came to Denver three months ago
and has stopped at the Cleo, near Nine
teenth and Lawrence streets, since he
arrived here. A few days ago. he says,
the man and woman who had stolen his
money moved into n room next to his.
He says he thinks this couple has beer
appointed by the devil to follow him
the rest of his life and rob him as often
as they can get into his room. He said
the man has colored his hair white and
that the woman wears a mask so he
will not recognize them. but for all this
he discovered their identity and wants
police protection.
Rossin says the woman has half a
bushel of diamonds, which she pur-
chased with the money she stole from
him. The detectives promised him
protection.
The Man from Cheyenne.
A Cheyenne man took possession Of
Union Pacific chair coach No. 1872 this
morning. and having nine points of the
law in his favor thought he could bull
doze the railway employees. The depot
policeman's uniform, however, fright.
ened him and he finally surrendered.
The Union Pacific train pulled in
about 7 o'clock. All of the passengers.
with the exception of the nan from
Cheyenne, promptly alighted. The Wy
oming man curled himself up in one of
the seats and was overlooked by the
inspector.
The car was sidetracked and the
man was not discovered until the yard
men began to clean it.
The cars are cleaned with hot air
not the political kind, but the kind that
ia blown through a long hose with such
force that it blows the dust out of the
smallest crevices.
The man had evidently %partaken too
freely of the juice that jags, for when
the cleaners asked him to leave the
car, he said:
"Can'd do it, parish. I'm goin' ter live
here; it'll shave me a hotel bill, she?"
The car-cleaners replied to this burst
of hot air in kind, giving him a pun
from the hose. 1t blew down the Chey-
enne mans neck and it was not long
before he was thoroughly renovated.
Even this did not persuade the Wyo-
ming man to w
The yardmen were compelled to ap-
peal to the depot policeman. The Of
ficer told the Cheyenne man that the
car was running away. The fellow
said he did not believe it, but he had
enough respect for brass buttons to
move his headquarters when request
ed. He told the policeman that the
reason he had refused to nov was
because he WIS afraid of robbers. lie
said he had been held up while here
ten years ago. so this time be did net
want to take any risks, as he hal a
great deal of money about his person.
The policeman directed him to the
Park hotel on Nineteenth street and
let him go. That's a Christmas pcs