The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-10

fight himself and Just looking for trouble. r,'.b
sherif-he says: Everybody get hold Of
"And then he went out and met the gang
and gave the head man some stall about how
he didn't want to see anything started when
the community was SO infamsd and how he
would surrender his men as soon as he got
to the next county seat That didn't go with
the Las Vegas gang and "a as e., soon as the ola
it was case of fight from that time until
we got on the cars.
Then the agent wasn't going to telegraph
couldn't get him to until he held gun to
his head. on, that was 2 tough old show.
There're few like 1t now
DoInes at Mt. Carmel.
'About the worst thing I ever saw pulled
reformed press agent, twas back in the early
nineties or the late eighties at Mt. Car
mel 'tin Pa; show Wa. VIII, .na,, ;. n.m.,ss,
but it was tough show then and the graft
was strong. It's a grating show yet, with
a privilege car and all that sort of thing.
But it don't try to work the graft in the big
towns and never works it in the little towns
unless the authorities are axed.
And by +. the way Of explaining my recent
business isn't what it used to be I'll tell
you that it's harder to fix the mayors and po-
they are wiser and maybe, the people are,
or they may have grown honest. Anyhow
you'll notice that the grating shows don't
get a chance to work as often as they
used to- 81
''That season we showed Mt. Carmel the
graft was, was pretty strong. with the plate game.
They're a lot of Huns and things around
Mt. Carmel and by the time the grafters had
gotten into them for few and they had
gotten wise they began to get rough.
"Along about the end of the afternoon
show down comes a thousand of them I
cut the ropes, sliced the canvas and heaved
rocks to beat the band and things looked bad
Finally the old man got hold Of the sheriff.
Mr. Sheriff, he said, I have license to
show in this place and I demand protection
for my property from these citizens of your
~ can't do anything for you,,' said tho
sheriff, but I'll give you leave and authority
to protect 1t your proerty yourself, 49,.
"I certainly do said the sheriff.
when a man has three or four thousand
dollars tied up; in show and he sees it
going to smash before him he's liable to do
things. At that time we carried about forty
WinchesteIs Just for such an emergency,
and the old man got them out and put them
in the hands of the fellows who knew how to
when the gang came out from under the
sidewalk with the guns in sight the Huns got
They chased the mob up the road to bridge.
Here they couldn't get across very fast and
being caught in hole turned and began
firing rocks
"It was show down and the old man said:
Let EN- have It,.
when that thing was all over stood on
that bridge and counted seventeen dead men,
and the show got out of town without
scratch, except few cut ropes and few
places where the show fellows got hit with
rocks The Mt. Carmel people said that it
was the best thing that could have happened
to the Huns and that show can 60 back there
any time now and do business without in
reference.
But, just the same,' said the reformed
press agent In conclusion, cts mighty good
thing that that grating days in the circus
business are about over
And the Society of Ex-Troupers sang eve
Amt Coin to- Graft No More" and adj
journed for the evening. ./'-Et T.