The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Ssain came the look OF pain ana s,,o,,.,..
ana az, again Jim went of on another t.cL
=. tfs m the canon isn't what n ,..d .,
d,,+,sis ING pig coal mines up al Horr began
Copl.liss 49,, 'sihhgs IN the river. Roscoe
SonNiing caught the biggest hsh TIA, $500.
sSt caught IN the canon; he wac go. 80
I WIN the rod but, in my opinior 49, "
ts'eu as public man. He hss ,b. -. =.
nea' me out OF the price Of case on beer ,rb -,
"e was through here, Ordered II for a co,,nIs 80
a';s,.n ioaos OF his party, and then drove off
No., sp paying tor It, Those politicians are slim
oe the only straight one in the lot W. o. ~
NUM- an over this country, you know never
met nim myself but he often STAYED vs;,h y.,.,
oFeF IN Pleasant Valley ! remember ,oore ,h.,,
ten years ago that Yaney told me ,ba, he t;Lsd
young Fellow named Roosevelt who cam. o,,-
dltel Elk from Dakota, better than anv ~ ,bs
,,.s mar put up with him because he al
80 'o4Nea after his own horse and never
H'ekea about his grub and bed Did yop ever
near OF the time that the tenderfoot tr;.d 10
enea' asney BY offering to pay his reckoning Of
30 with a hundred-dollar note; Nap Wei
aney took the bill-sad he'd been wanting one
long time-and paid the fellow off with ninety
si'Ver dollars in change, which he happened N
time" 0"S @'0'Ae'
/ his was too much Would he never talk Of
Kiplingf almost despared Of H. but resolved
on one more effort
JIM interrupted, rudsly enough, as re.
Helnoefea afterwards is 1t really true, as Kip
ing telis' that you saw squaw burned at the
| stake when you lived with the Indiausi"
immediately he lost his assumed air Of
spFishthness' and the look Of tired resignation
that his lace had worn when l came again an
peared. He tried to dodge no longer.
Il knew you'd ask that when YOU came" he
SAID everyone asks it, sooner or later I didn't
understand 1t at first, and then one day, the
editor OF one of the Butte papers who had once
stopped here with me sent me a COPY OF the
book with the chapter about me marked / had
almost forgotten the little Engshman, and
certainly never expected he would become as
famous as he has"
Then, suddenly he assumed an almost defiant
air, and, throwing himself back in his chair and
looking ME straight in the face exclaimed
Dung man, do look like man that would
stand by and let woman, Indian az white, be
burned at the stake before him; Why my old
Colts would have shot someone all OF itself at
such an outrage, He said ! said, she hollered
considerable. What did you think OF ME when
you read that? What have all the other people
thought when they read it The unhappiest
night | ever spent was the one when read that
chapter. ! knew at once that the book would
have big sale, just for the way he criticised
everything. Besides, its a hue piece of writing,
only ! can't help believing that where he talked
with the different people he wrote down their
sayings just as he pleased just to make them
look ridiculous and carry the point he was trying
to make But / was the only one whose real
named he used--people know me as Yankee jim
better than they do as Georges Why couldn't
he have made up some name for me as he did
with the rest OF them, il ne was going to lie
so. Its actual fact that have hated to meet
strangers ever since read that about me and
the squaw.
Il don't see as many people now as used to
in the old days before the railroad was built
through 10 Cinuebar, and everyone had to come
in on my toll road through the canon, but those
that do come now stop because they have heard
of me in some way or other, and more than
half that come in the last four or FIVE years read
OF me first in that book, and have wanted TO hear
the story of the squaw that was burned at the
stake Why, only week ago man and two
women had the train stop here for them When
it pulled on they stood for while by the track,
as scared as a lot of young Indians their first
visit to town, At last the man sneakcd up to the
window and peeked in then the women got their
courage up and peeked in beside him. ] felt like
a bear in the circus. Next they came around 10
the door holding all together for protection, and
the man asked me If ! was the Yankee Jim that
Kipline wrote about and the women Clipped in
about the squaw, and then they all gggled
My old rheumatism was giving me twinge
! or two that day. and besides, their actions alone
we're enough to drive well man crazy, Anyhow,
I ! paid no attention TO them After bit the
Young dude winked at the women TO give them
to understand that he knew a way to make the
/ old bear growl and taking a coin IRON his
pocket he started to come in saying he would
/ give me dollar If / would tell the story.
Young man. from the time this cabin was
built to 1865 to that day, several thousand peo-
/ pie had stood at that door and asked for admit
lance and never 10 white man or Indian, had IT
been refused. had harbored many tough
character and been robbed several times as re-
ward, but l kept it up just because ] was proud
of the record Well, ! made an end OF 1t all
right then and there, for | slammed the door
square in the Young fellows face, bolted it, and
went TO bed Lucky for them that Gibbs, who
lives couple OF miles up the valley, came along
in the course of an hour. He hauled them up to
Cinnebbar and brought back ten OF the dudes dol
lars for the service.
"Iye been sorry ever since that lost my
temper and acted as I did, It's like man keep
;ro from, LIQUOR all his life and dying drunkard
/ ~ course il can't be helped now, but it was ali
the fault of that blamed story, and that is only
one Of the many times that it has been brought
back 70 me And all the other stun he wrote
/ about us here hadn't any more foundation than
The souaw story, Let me read from the book
And lin went 10 the blackened SHELF apoye the
6replace and took down gTimy copy OF FiOA"
Sea to Sea" He opened it readily at the aouoe-
49, asred nages greasy from much lingering
uberein he was the central figure, and hndng the
Mace he wanted, read
The fish had prepared me for any, surprise
wherefore when Yankee Jim introduced me to
Young woman of FIVE and twenty. with eyes l ii
The deep fring,d eyes Of the ga1elle ana on inc
icy the small head buoyant, like bell mower
in its bed l said nothing II was an IN the
DAYS events She was Calitornla-Tsisee' the WIZ
/ Oh ti-4 and with her husband tenant OF