Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-08-28

and corner of the town and. for q
wonder, got back to ship without
serious diminution in their number,
and with high opinion of the police,
who seemed bent on protecting the
blue-coats from the states and MAX
ing the best of their exuberance of
spirits. ,
Only one row of any consequence
occurred within the forty-eight hours
OF their arrival. Three of the Colo
RADIO volunteers playing billiards in q
prominent resort were deliberately
! annoyed and insulted by some mer-
chant sailors who had been drinking
heavily at the expense of a short,
thick-set burly fellow in loud check
suit and flaming necktie, stranger
to the police, who knew of him only
that he had landed from the Doric
and was waiting the coming of the
Miowera from Vancouver for Aus
tralia, and she was due on the NOR
row.
He had taken quarters at second
rate sailors lodging house and at
| first kept much to himself, but, once
starting to drinking with his mari
time neighbors, he became noisy and
truculent, and sailed forth with four
of his new-found friends, all half
| drunk and wholly bent on mischief.
The sight of three quiet-mannered
young fellows playing pool in the
saloon was just the thing to excite
AL the blackguard instinct latent in
their half sodden skins, and from
sneering remark they had rapidly
passed to deliberate insult.
In less than minute therea ter tho
young volunteers, flushed and pant
ing, were surveying the police and by
ISLANDERS engaged in dragging out
from under the tables and propping
up some wrecks of humanity, while
the head devil of the whole business,
the burly civilian IN the loud checked
suit, pitched headlong out of rear
window, was stanching the blood
from his broken nose at the hydrant
of neighboring stable.
The volunteers were escorted to
the landing with all honors, and their
antagonists, barring the ringleader,
to the police station. The affair was
over SO quickly that few had seen
anything of it, and only one man had
pitched in to the support of the SOL
diers-a civilian who came over on
the Vanguard by the authority of
Southern Pacific. While the Colorado
men had little to say beyond the
statement that they had been wan
tonly insulted if not actually assailed
by gang of strangers, the railway
man was ablaze with excitement and
wrath over the escape of the leader
of the vanquished party.
1--WE seen that cur dog face Of his
somewhere BEFORE" said he, land the
quicker you find and nab him the
better. That mans wanted in more
than one place or I'm duffer.''
And so the police spent hours that
night in search of the stranger, but
to no purpose. He kept in hiding
somewhere, and their efforts were
vain. Search of his luggage at the
lodging house revealed the fact that
he had lot of new shirts, under
wear, ETC., but not paper or mark
that revealed his identity. The pro-
prietor said the man had given the
name of Spence, but he heard two of
the sailors call him Sacl1ett.
The following evening the general
and his staff dined at the beautiful
home of one of the old and wealthy
residents, and towards nine o'clock
Mr.. Stuyvesant asked his generals
permission to withdraw, as he had
two calls to make before returning
aboard ship. They were to sail at
dawn.
Bidding good night and good-by to
his charming hostess and declining
the hospitable offer of post-pran-
dial ''peg'' from her genial lord, the
young officer stepped blithely away
down the moonlit avenue.
It was beautiful summer night.
The skies were cloudless, the air soft
and still. Somewhere, either at the
park or in the grounds of the Royal
Hawaiian, the famous band of Homo
lulu was giving a concert, and strains
of glorious music, rich and full, came
| floating on the gentle breeze. Here
and there the electric lights were
cleaning in the dense tropical foliage
and sounds of merry chat and mu-