The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-09-10
SOME STRAY SCRAPS OR STRAY CONVERSATION
Captured Listening Only for the Benefit
of Those Who Have Nothing Better to Do Than to
Spend Their Time in Reading Them y ~ *
"seems as though it oughtY'

Seems as though it ought?"
! "Well, see this notice over on this
other tree?''
eyes. ="
''Well, this one threatens to fine
campers who leave fires, $500, and is
signed by the county commissioners.
l was along here several times when
that United States notice was the
only one here. A month or so later
this other notice was put up. Just
seems like the commissioners got
onto what the United States officials
we're doing and wouldn't be outdone,
and concluded to run Opposition
down the halls of fame-they prob
ably thought the Secretary of the Inte-
rior didn't amount to shucks and if
people we're to be warned, in a way
they would heed, it must be by some
one who was some punkins I'd
whose memo would carry terror-and
so along comes this other notice and
pastes itself up, like bull from the
Pope of Rome along side the screed
of some country preacher. And to
tell the truth that name Hitchcock
isn't half so terror striking as this
name Phillips, over here-we know
he lives in Cambridge, and who has
ever seen the other fellerY And that
name Richards, there, who would
pale with fear at that like he would
when he sees Mcclure in big letters
over ON this tree-bet his herders
used to set out fires enough, too.''
"Oh, thunder Jim, you're radical.
If the notice from United States
authorities wouldn't have any effect,
the commissioners warning and a
smaller fine, too-wouldn' scare peo-
pie any more. -
Eyes it would, now. faint been
three weeks since saw family
camped down on Boulder, and on a
tree right by the camp was one of
them Hitchcock warnin's. l saw
them pulling out, and, when everything
was loaded, the old man walked over
and read the notice all over. Then
he deliberately walked over and piled
several logs on the fire then walked
back to the notice and took out big
chaw of terbacker from his mouth
and divided it into three wads-
that's fer you, Richards smack
That's for you, Hitchcock smack !
That's fer you, Sharp smack = And
when he got through, that notice
looked like wild geese had been roos4-
in on it. WE'LL. he got up on the
seat and-drove away and clear up this
side of Round Valley, about eight
miles, he saw one of them commits
sioner notices. He stopped the team,
got off and went up and read it
again, kinder pale like, and then
put the oldest boy on the saddle
horse behind the wagon and sent
him back eight miles to extinguish
that fire. That's why say this notice
is more scarey than that one over
there
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Travelling along the road, l met
the constable of -.
"Well, Constable, what have you
got that sack of silver tied to the
horn of your saddle for? Been rob-
bling some one?''
No, that darned sheriff has busted
up all the tables at Meadows, and as
there is going to be dance down at
49, tonight, l thought l would go
down and open up little game for
the boys
who's keeping order at -
while you are away, ConstableY
"Oh, nobody. Everything is quiet
down there
"Well, goodbye, Constable, don't
break all the boysH"
81 won't goodbye
This scrap of conversation seems
sneaking in me, to write to the paper,
but l have at least done my consci-
ence the justice to omit names. and /
hope the constable will forgive me.
especially as his jurisdiction is over
the line in another county.
q q q
The two ladies had gone 10 the
able with their hats on--a fact
which at once conveyed 10 the initi-
ited that they were foreign 10 the
little mountain whose femi-
line population Is not given 10 the
ways aud customs Of the outside I
sorid' Being strangers, they were
naturally the object Of curious side
dances From the several eaters bend,
~ Over the food upon tho two OF
.Nfee tables The strangers, being
splplne, sefe naturally exalted aud 4
pn'lpeq by these curious Rlanees,
ffsnlelly "a fley pege conscious thai 4