The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02

interviewed and departed almost by first train
bearing letter to the resident superintendent
In which he was instructed to give her well
como and afford her. every opportunity for
nshtlng cuss. words and whisky with senti-
ment. It is due him to report that. being
practcal man, driver and a profane official,
ne swore5yig orousy and wrote out his resig-
nation and consigned Miss Amelia Wright to
Jerlcho 1t ds also due him to add that,
.pelng man of sense, he finally tore up his
resignation and found as comfortable quar-
Sters as circumstances would permit for the
woman With a mission
q Her advent at the Star created greater ex-
scltement than II all the hosting machinery
had suddenly fallen into the shaft and wages
had been raised to So day.; At her home in
tho east even Miss Wright's best friends had
crltlcised her nose. mouth, hands and feet
and eyes, but on the slope of Wolf hill she at
once became goddess. Pine Hill was early
on the ground to give its opinion. The whole
town, Chinese laundryInen ard all. marched
over, with banners flying, to size up the new
arrival, and the conclusion was that she was
a peach. News went down among the cow
boys and they came up by skies and dozens
to swing their hats and cheer and declare she
was a Jim Dandyess Taken all around it
was a grand welcome, and it seemed to Miss
Wright as il the soil was ready and waiting
for her missionary work. On the fourth NOR
uiuso sWASu the HlSilt SllLC CAME -upsnOt man
of the day shift would go down. They were
cutting and combing their hair, washing their
red shirts and backing their. red boots and.
as one of them put it to the superintendent:
We've got lady in camp, and - our
eyes il we don't show her that are -
gentlemen and know how to behave our -
manners!"
5 They called upon Miss Wright one after
the other to be introduced personally, and
q MI her hmm
When gently refused, they assured her that
they stood ready to break the lucky fellows
neck. Despite the protests and entreaties of
the superintendent the men persisted in maxi
ing holiday of it, and there was no room to
doubt that reform had begun.
The Pine Killers, however, returned home
iii disgruntled mood They recognized the
fact that they were bad lot and in need of
repairs, and if there was any reform going
son they wanted to be counted in. 1t would
be blur on the escutcheon Of Pine Hill to
play second fiddle to the Star mine. At an
early morning hour there was another general
movement toward the mine. and on this occa-
sion every man had his gun and-a determine
ton to conquer or die. A demand was made
upon the Star for it's goddess that she might
spread her tender influence over the shacks
and shanties of the town on the crest OF the
hill. Then followed fight that lasted for
two days and caused a new graveyard to be
surveyed and opened. Everybody on either
side was ready to die for the goddess, and
respectable number of them were duly ac-
conlmodated.
The; Pine Killers were at length driven
back, with their hopes Of reform rudely
shattered, and the Star folks were binding
up their wounds and singing paeans fzVic-
tory when the cowboys came swooping down.
They were signing for sentiment and ewoman's
influence. They rode over the miners and
captured their goddess and bore her away.
Two hours later they bundled her aboard
freight train on the S. P. road, and their
leader, lifting his sombrero, explained:
AS we have no grazing ground for a god
dess out here, ma am, we've got to let you
go; but III be respectfully cussed and the
other boys will be respectfully blowed if we
propose to let any burned galoots up atSthe
Star or Pine Hill get ahead Of US on refine
mentn'