The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-01
SETH BULLOCk'S STORIES ON.
ROOSEVELT AND DEADWOOD.

steers hanging around feed yard bawins
their heads off. That horse Bleistine of his
is Il pretty good one. but I'll bet you the
President has ridden many pony over the
Northwest plains good deal further in a
day than Blestine can go. However, you
see. Mr. Roosevelt is a good deal heavier
now than he used to be- and it takes Il
good-sized animal 10 carry him"
RESPECT FOR TREES
Your country looks 10 see him elected
President
does cut our way. But ! did not intend to
talk politics. My business now is looking
after trees. and l tell you. after man has
lived on the Western plans for few years
he begins TO have great respect for a
tree. Forest preservation naturally appeals
TO a man who has lived in a region where
sometimes has had TO use Il wIgon tongue
because he couldn't find a bit of timber
Things have changed a good deal cut
West. To-day you will find Deadwood
much more law-abidng place than the Bow
cry or even the most orderly part of Chi
cage l remember the time when there
was good deal Of shooting in Deaiwood.
The old-time gun fighters were great feat
ure The friends of two7 men who were
mandy with their weapons would egg them
on. and finally they would meet and then it
would be a good time to take 10 cover
Those fights always differed from some
Of Of the fs4ts you have had in, the East
minds me Of story of two chaps who
were out in the bush and ran across a
bear One of them made his tree all right
and kept yelling to the other: Run. Jake
run! You blankety-blank, run faster, Jake
faster" Jake finally made his tree. Just in
time to escape the bear. and when he re
friend: Say. Bill, what did you keep yell
ing to me to run for? Do you suppose
was going to throw that race?
ALPHONSE AND CASTOR.
when Deadwood was first established
We had queer doings there. We had a
preacher who was afterwards scalped and
killed by the Indians. He did not have n
church. Land in Deadwood was too valu-
would preach every Sunday, standing on a
dry goods box think II was in Deadwood
that the originals of, CASTOR and Alphonse
lived One was Travers, the auctioneer the
other was the dominic.
The preacher would come out with his
dry goods box ;,, ready y to begin, and across
selling a cayuse. The dominic would wait
until Travers was through: then Travers
turn Then the service would be held and
when the dominic was through he would
call across to Travers: Go ahead. Mr. Auc-
tioneer; it's your turn next and Travers
would complete the sale of his ponies.
Il am going TO New York Tomorrow to
spend a few days; and while there shall
now treasurer OF the New York and New
England road. He was West with me and
made some money. Then he came East end
IF you could be with us when we get to-
gether you'd hear some good stories of tine
old days Of the Deadwood coach. Sherwood
tells one of a fellow named Meade. ho
kept an clearinghouse about forty miles cut.
Meade had some chickens and on Thanks
giving Day his wife made him kill them
and serve them up for dinner. There were
six white men at dinner and one China
man. The Chinaman had q table by him
self. Possibly this was from choice. Meade
went around the white men ard took their
orders.
ITO the first one he would say: Nice pork
or chicken? To the next he would say:
body said chicken Then he went over to
the Chinaman. John said he. nice pig.
nice scuky pork?' OF course, John said
Chickee.'
Meade called out the orders to his wife
in voice of despair and added: That's
the way it goes. If pork was 81 pound
and chickens 10 cents a pound every blame
son-of-a-gun of you would want pork.
And there Is a good bit Of philosophy in
that