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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
BILLY'S FEARLESS WOE

Bily's camp. If they are there. they
hunt brush when they see me cleaVing
the air. Maybe it's a good thing for
me. Most of these punchers have got
a bad case of the gypsies. and that
dog seems 10 hold Billy level. Now the
dog is sick. He is getting thinner
won't eat. and ] don't know what's the
matter with him. Dogs don't round
up much in cow-Outfits. Do you know
anything about a dog? can you feel
a dogs pulse and figure out what is
going on under his belt?"
1 admitted my helDlessness in the
matter.
Taps, chaps. and Iadigo straps-if
that dog don't get we'll my horses can
look after themselves, and ii dies,
Billy viii make the Big MeCl ne. 1
lose anyway" and Mr.. Bolette slid of
the fence
L reckon we had better go over 10
Billy's pasture tomorrow. and shove
some drugs into Keno. If 1t don't do
any good it may help bring things TO
a head-so that's what well do
On the morrow. late in the afternoon,
we took down the bars in front OF
Billy's lonely tent on the banks of the
Little Big Horn.
On a bright Navajo blanket in the
tent lay a big black Scotch staghound
the sick KenO-Billy's idol He raised
his eyelids at US, but closed them again
YEARLY.
Don't touch him." sharply said Bo-
lette. Il wouldn't touch him with a
shovel in his grave when Billy wasn't
around. He's a holy terror. When
one OF these Injuns about here wants
to dine with Billy he gets off that hill
and sings bass at Billy, till Billy comes
out in front and rides the peace sign;
otherwise he wouldn't come into camp
at all. An Injun would lust as soon
go against a ghost as this dog. Keno
never did like anything about Injuns
except the taste, and it's a good thing
Tor a line-rider to have some safeguard
on his ness-boX. These Iniuns calcu-
late that a cow-Duncher is a pretty
close relation. and Injuns don't let mat
ters like grub stand between kinfOlks.
Then again there are white men who
cut this range that need watching, and
Keno never played faVOrites. He was
always willing to hook on to anybody
that showed 10, and, say, when that
dog was in good health you wouldn't
want to mix up with him much
over the hills from the south came a
Speck-a hOTseman-Billy himself as
the ranchman said. Slowly the figure
drew on-nOw going out of sight in the
wavy plains-moving steadily toward
the tent by the river, He dismounted
at the bars with the stiff drop peculiar
TO his species and. coming in, began
10 untackle his horse.
He never bowed to us. nor did he
greet us. He never cast his eyes on
US sitting there So far from any other
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
Some Peculiar Things


How many vans viii be necessary
how many moved you in Philadelphia? ,"
Three said the man.
Say, this is getting 10 be sort of un-
Canny" exclaimed the van manager.
DO You know that's just the answer
the other fellow made me? Have you
a piano.
Neither had he. b. the way, l see
on your receipt here that the Blank
company moved you in Philadelphia.
Well, that company moved the other
didn't come from houses with nearly
the same numbers-yOurs was 1910 and
his 1872"
The man and his wife who went to
2O5 West One Hundred and Third street
had no more than got settled when the
wife said one evening At dinner:
i made d surprising discovery while
] was downtown shopping this morn
ing. l almost ran into a school friend
of mine from PitJsburg. Her husband
has just moved here and they've taken
- apartment in this street just two
blocks away. And she said 10 me, when
We got 10 talking about the worries of
moving and all that Who moved you
into ypur apartment l told her. And
what do you think she said? Why, the
same company moved US, too. "
Since she has been in One Hundred
and Third street this woman has dis
covered four friends of her schoolgirl
days living in the same street, and all
except one preceded her 10 the city by
several years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
Cannonball Green
Greatest of All the Stage Coach Drivers Never Lost Bet

It's hot" suggested Cannonban
Green after a time.
kinsley aSsented.
Thirsty" inquired the owner Of the
stage line.
The Santa Fe mans mouth was
parched. H--
"A few cold bottles would go good
now, wouldn't they suggested Mt.
Green.
Kinsley was angry at the mention 90
the seemingly impossible, and sat with
out replying. Green sat for q long time
without saying anything. Then he
went to the other side OF the coach.
turned W a seat and displayed an ice
chest with as choice a collection of
liquid refreshments as could be mag
med.
Some time afterWard Green received
a letter from the Santa Fe stating that
the company was about 10 send q new
private car to California, and asked if
he would like TO occupy it. He accept
ed the invitation. and it is needless 10
say the car had been well stocked with
cold bottles beforehand. While in Cali
fornia Green received another letter
from the Santa Fe stating that the
company was about to send a private
car back as far as Topeka. and in
quired if he happened 10 he going that
way. 1t was not until then that Can
nOnball Green realized that the rail-
road company was returning the cour-
tesy shown an official
The stage business was short -liyed
The railroads nut the stage coach out
Of business. CannOnban Green soon
found il was impossible TO run a stage
line for a distance Of less than 100
miles. There were few places after the
territory was opened where there.
wasn't a railroad within 100 miles. and
for distances less than that the livery
stables took all the business. It was
soon over. Green had made lots Of
money, but had spent it. He took a
claim in Grant county and was elected
county treasurer of that county. He
then settled in CaddO, the newest cOun-
~ in the territory, where he has a
farm near Bridgeport large enough to
furnish a profitable livelihood for his
sons. Green is now 66 years of age.
and does little but look after his farm
occasionally.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
SECTION THREE.

Al R. BOLETTE, ranchman, sat with
wi me on the corral fence. looking
away at the yellow meadows
seeing them through our squinted eye
lids, as they rolled, one plain into an
other-growing pinkcr and more cola,
losing themselves in blue hills, unTu
one had to squiut the more 20 distiu-
guish what was finally land AMI what
was cloud form. When a mortal looks
on these things he ce9s es 10 think 1t
does him so little good. As a m Entail
proposition il is too eXhausJing. Like
the ocean lying quiet at midday, it is
only tit for brown study.
Presently our vision came back 10
the vicinity of the corral fence, where
was passing a coW-puncher on u pony
with a small basket on his arm.
"GOOd-by, Billy" sang out BOlette.
The individual addressed simply
turned his solemn brown face 10 US,
and broke away into a gentle lope.
THAT basket is full OF pie" exclaimed
the ranch owner.
"Pieo"
Yes; it's the only bait that will draw
Billy of the range, 'cept medicine for
a dog"
Medicine for a dog?"
oh, yes: Billy's all snarled up with
Scotch stag-hOund. He just is ma
turally in love with the beast-Wont
let US put out wolf poison on account
of him."
The receding Bully was a handsome
figure on a horse; brOnzed, saturnine,
silent. This might in no way distin-
guish him among his kind. except that
IL did. He was prOnOuncedly more so
than others. His mission with the Coon
Skin outfit was horse wrangler and rid
or of the western fence. He lived in a
tent miles away in a small horse pas
ture on the banks of the Little Big
Horn, and. only came up 10 the ranch
buildings at long intervals 10 report
matters, and petition for pie. One Of
Bily's few weaknesses lay strong on
the fat pastries fabricated by the Coon
Skin chef. He rarely stayed longer
than was necessary to tell Mr.. Bolette
that "Brindle Legs" got cut up in
some wire which had been carried down
by the food that sloppy Weather"
had sore back, and to recommend the
selling of Maggie before time set too
strong against him, and TO acquire the
pie.
As Billy grew smaller on the rolling
grass, Mr. Bolette observed: THAT
puncher don't come here often, and ne
don't stay long, but his dog is sick now,
and he can't stay at all. 1t beats all
how that boy hooks uD 10 that dog.
He don't appear 10 care for anything
or anybody in the world but Keno. 1
don't believe that Billy has a brand
of anything but that pun. Most of
these puncherS and lne-riders tie up a
little 10 some of the POcahOutases from
the agency, but never saw one around
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SECTION THREE.

be weak. and he may be lost. It's no
use to tell me that Keno wouldn't
come back TO me if he could get back.
! don't give d-n what dogs do when
they die. Keno wouldn't do what any
ordinary dog would
We sat about under the shadow or
the great trouble, knowing better than
TO offer weak words to one whose
rugged nature would find nothing bur
insult in them, when an Indian trotted
up and. leaning over his horses neck
said: Billy, find him dos-he IN &c
follar me.
In due time We trOtted IN single ME
after the blanketed form Of Know
Goose. For FIVE miles down the Little
Big Horn we wended our way. and the
sun was down on the western hills
when the Indian turned abruptly into
some long sedge grass and stopped his
horse. pointing.
We dismounted. and. sure enough,
there lay KenO-not a lovely thing 10
look at after two days of water and
buzZards and sun.
He must have gone 10 the river and
fallen in from weakness" was ven
tured.
No; there was water in the tent,
snapped the surly cowboy in response,
for this implied a lack of attention on
his part. AS there was clearly no use
for human comfort in Billy's case, we
desisted
The COW puncher and the Indian went
back on the dry ground, and, with
their glOVed hands and knives, dug a
shallow grave. The puneher took
fine Navajo blanket from his saddle.
and in it the carefully wrapped re-
mains of Keno were deposited in the
hole. a fifty-dolIar blanket was all
that Billy could render up to Keno
now. excepting the interment I'm duo
form. and the rigid repression of all
unseemly emotion.
i wouldn't have pulled out on him.
I don't see what he wanted To so pull
out on me for" Billy said softly, as we
again mounted and took up our back
ward march.
When we reached camp there was no
Billy. After supper he did not come,
and for four hours there was no Billy,
and in the morning there was no Billy.
II have got 1t put up" soliloduized
Bolette, that Billy is making medicine
over in Riley's saloon at the station,
and ! reckon l can get a new horse
wrangler. because if / understand the
curves of that puncher's mental get
up. New Mexico or Arizona will see
William Fling about ten days from
now, or some country as far from
Keno as he can travel on what money
Riley don't get"
So it was that Keno and Billy passed
without tears from the knowledge Of
men.
Copyright by the S. s. Mcclure Coz
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
Followed to New York.

A few months after Smith had moved
hack TO New York a man who had been
under him in Philadelphia moved 10
the metropolis, where he took with
Smith a position somewhat similar in
character TO the one he had held in
Philadelphia. ON the day that the van
company started 10 transfer this ma s
household belongings TO the freight de-
pot, several squares away. the manager
of the company. who was superintend-
ing the work, said casually;
, But the way. we're also shipping 10
New York today the household goods
OF a family on the street next 10 yours
and the number of the house they'Te
leaving is 1912. while yours is 4Sl0.'
Two DAYS later the man was looking
along one Hundred and Twenty-fif
street, in New oYrk, for the sign of a
van company. Locating one. he went
in and asked the man at the desk, who
CHANGED TO be the manager, II he could
undertake the job that day.
Sure" was the reply. Where are
the goods coming frOm?"
philadelphia.
Where did you have them billed
tor"
THE Harlem river station.
That's peculiar. Not ten minutes age
another man, who had moved from
philadelphia and had his goods sent 10
the Harlem river station, dropped i'm
and engaged me 10 haul him. Where
do you want your stuff taken?"
1.-TWO hundred and five West one
Hundred and Third
Pretty near the same was the re-
ply. THE other man has taken a fiat
at LOG West Que Hundred and Third
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12

Of the tent, and, sitting down. Cazed
Yacantly into the woods across the Big
Horn. A passing word from US met
with no response. The man himself
would not show his emotions, though
the listless melancholy was an emo
ton, but the puncher did not recognize
il as such. The fierce and lonely mind
was. being. chastened. but so long as
we were the other side of the canvas
there could be no weakness; at least.
he would not have permitted that-not
for an instant-had he known.
3 Night came on, and, with supper I'm
ished, we turned into our blankets.
My eyes were opened several times
during the night by the Uashes of a
light, and ] could distinguish that it
was Billy with candle, looking ever
his dog.
In the morning Bolette and role the
range IN pursuit of his details of bust
ness management-fences and wash
outs, the new Texan 2-year-olds. and
the sizing up of the beef steers fit for
Chicago, and then back to Billy's on
the second day.
As We logged up the river we saw
several Indians trailing about in the
brush by the river-weird and highly
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
BY FREDERICK REMINGTON.

eolored figures-leading their ponies
and going slowly. They were looking
or a lost object, a trail possibly.
What are they doing?" ] asked.
Don't you put in your time worrying
what Injuns are doing" said Bolette.
When they are doing anything, 1T
worse than when they amt doing any
thing. An 1njun is all right when he
is doing nothing. ] like him laying
down better than standing up"
OH l say, old One Feather what
you do hey?" shouted Bolette, ard
"One Feather" thus addressed. came
slowly forward to us.
"Ugh-Billy's dog he cow-eek-he go
die-get f. dollar mabeso We find am.
Bolette turned in his saddle to me.
and with a wide, open-eyed wonder
ment slowly told off the words, BILLY
--kettle-is-full-of mad" and 1 saw
We'd
This time we approached the camp
from down the river, through Il brush
trail, and Rolette pulled up his horse
on the fringe, pointing and saying in q
whisper, Look at Billy"
Sure enough, by the tent. on a box,
sat the bent-oVer form of the puncher
who desDised his own emotions. His
head was face downward in his hands.
He was drawing on the reserve of his
feelings. no doubt.
We rode up, and Bolette sang out:
Hello, Billy; hear Keno's passed it
up. Sorry bout that, Billy. Had 10
go, though. / suppose. That's life,
Billy. Wen all go that way, sooner or
later. Don't see any use of worrying. "
Billy got up quickly. saying: Sure
thing. Didn't see anything of the pup
did yOu?" His face was dry and
drawn.
mo. why?"
ooh, d-n him. he pulled out or
mel" and Billy started for his picketed
horse.
In chorus we asked: What do you
mean-he pulled out on you?''
Turning quickly. raising his chin, and
with the only arm gesture 1 ever saw
him make, he said quickly: "He left
me-he went away from me-he pulled
out-savvy? Now. what do you sup
pose he wanted TO do that for? To
met
We explained that it was a habit OF
animals to take themselves off on the
approach of death-that they seem &c
want to die alone; but the idea took pC
grip on Billy's mind, for he still stood
facing US, saying; But he shouldn't
have gone away from mel would
never have left him"
Saddling his horse. he took a pan OF
cooked food and started away dOwT
the river returning after some hours
with the empty tin. II put out fresf
grub every day so Keno can get some
| thing to eat if he finds it, l put little
| caches Of corn beef every few rod:
along the river, enough To give rim
strength to get back TO me. He may
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12

About five wears ago a business man
of New York whom it were well TO des-
igrate as smith received and accepted
an offer 10 become manager for a large
manufacturing concern in Philadel-
phia- He and his family had been liv-
ing in their new home perhaps two
months, when Mrs. Smith announced
10 her husband:
You remember my speaking of the
family of Joneses who lived on the same
floor OF our fiat house ia New York?
We'll. ] met Mrs. Jones downtown this
morning and she told me that they had
moved here also, and that her husband
is manager for -," mentioning the
name of the chief rival of Smiths firm
We'll that's peculiar remarked
Smith.
Yes" answered Mrs. Smith, and
they're living at 501 South Forty-ruth
sucej and our number Is 500 south
Forty eVGuth street
ON going to Philadelphia the Smiths
hai placed their daughters in boarding
\schoOi. \ few days after Mrs. Smi,h
lad met Mrs. Jones the smith Siris en-
nCUnCed:
well. it's funny, but Ethel Jones,
the girl who lived on the same floor
with US i'm New York started in at our
school this morning.
The Smiths stayed in Philadelphia
nearly two years, then moved back TO
New York where Smith became man
ager Of a business entirely different in
character from that of which he was
the responsible head in the Quaker
City. The family home was estab-
lished in an apartment house nearby
Columbia university, that the girls
might be sent through the various
schools and still be at home.
They had been in the Horace Mann
school but a few weeks when they
came home one afternoon bubblins
with excitement.
What do you Jhink?" they eX-
claimed. Ethel Jones started i'm at
Horace Mann this morning. Her father
has come here 10 be manager of a
business that is 10 started in Opposi-
ton to fathers. And guess where they
live? ON the other side of our street,
Just two doors below us"
Both Smith and Jones are sIil AT the
head Of the rival concerns, their homes
have not been shifted, and one of the
Smith girls and the Jones girl are now
in the same class al college.
And a peculiar thing about all this
coincidence is that though they have
tried 20 meet each other numerous
times. and made appointments 10 do
so. something has always interviewed 10
keep Smith and Jones from making
each others personal acquaintance. Yet
they feel that they are not exactly un-
acquainted, and doubtless with good
reason.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
SURE CURE FOR TIGHT DOORS
Knowing Furniture Man Tells How to
Open Dresser Drawers That Stick.
New York AIail.)

patrons come to me every day and
say that the drawers and dressers and
other furniture stick fast and cannot be
opened or shut without difficulty" said
the complaint man" in a downtown
furniture store. This is a trouble
with much furniture, especially that
which is new. and is especially common
in the spring.
What do we do with such cases?
We simply tell the customers to wet
the surface of d bar Of common laun-
dry soap and rub il firmly over the
parts Of the wood that stick. This
make the surface smooth and slippery,
and in nearly all cases the drawer viii
slide easily, especially after it has been
opened and shut few times.
This also is valuable with doors,
which, in new flats, are likely to settle
or are apt to scrape at the top as the
building settles. Just use soap on them
and save the trouble of calling in a
carpenter, who viii plane the varnish
off.
China cabinet doors, with curved
glass, cause lot of trouble. but most
of the tightness can be Femedied by the
use of soap and few applications of
Sandpaper''
The furniture man gave another help
full hint"
If mission furniture. with the dull
finish loses its smooth surface and char
acteristic waxy appearance. he said.
do not despair and send it 10 the reno
vator. Take a pound cake of common
flor wax and rub it over the surface
until the finish is restored. If you have
no floor wax use beeswax, and if you
prefer something made especially for
the purpose you can buy liquid prep
arauons, one of which will remove the
old finish. leaving the table top or
other object ready for the application
of the other substance, which viii du-
plicate the original finish"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12
Crossed the Wires.

Several years ago a certain man sud
denly disappeared, as men and women
sometimes will. His family and clos
est friends made every effort 10 locate
him, but with no success; IL was as if
the earth had swallowed him up. TO use
an old expression. one friend, in par
ticular, who had important dealings
with the missing man, was extremely
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12

Have you any idea what's the mat
ter with the dog" was asked.
mo, | don't savvy his misery? I'd
give up good if there was a doctor
within wagOnshot of this place. I'd
bring him out here if ! had to steal
him. I'm afraid the dog has got to
Chicago He can't eat, and he's got
TO eat TO live, l reckon. I've fixed up
all kinds of hash for him-nore kinds
than Riley's Chinaman can make over
to the station, and Keno won't even
give it a smell. / lay out to shoot a
little rabbit soup into him about once
a day, but it's like film old ca fridge
shells. Been sort Of hOpin' he might
take a notion 10 come again. Seen a
man once that far gone that the boys
built a box for him. And that man is
a-ridin' somewhere in the world to-
day"
*To die.
Billy made his soup, and we put
aconite and cowtownie whisky in it.
The troubled puncher poured it down
KenO's resisting throat with tea
spoon until the patient fell back on
the blanket exhausted After this the
poor fellow went around 10 the far side
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-14
sou beast.
Samuel NJ Yeatman, 81 years. 11o 1
street northwest.
FUNCTION POSTPONED.
Washington Canoe Club Housewarming
Set for December az.

Owing to the fact that more time than
was anticipated viii be required to put
the finishing touches to the new home OF
the Washington Canoe Club, on the Po-
tomac river. just above the Aqueduct
bridge, the housewarmng and reception.
which was 70 be held next Monday even
ing. has been postponed until Wednesday
evening, December ~. The new clubhouse.
it is expected, will be in fine condition by
that date.
The various committees. which have the
affair in charge. are lsboring TO make IL n
success In every way. Steps are now be-
ing taken to furn sh the Interior OF the
structure in a fashion suitable 10 the char
acter of the building and 10 render the
site as accessible from the District end
OF the bridge as possible.
Electric lights have been Installed In ey-
cry portion of the building and In a few
days these viii be in perfect working order.
The floor of the large assembly and dane
ing nall on the second floor is being put in
good condition for the dance on the night
of the housewarming
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-14

Mr. and Mrs. James T. Barbour will give
a dinner tonight in honor OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Thiebaud the latter a sister of the host.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thebaud are returning to
Europe January f.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-14
Deaths in the District.

Deaths were reported to the health Of
flee during the twenty-four hours ended a;
9:45 o'clock this morning, as follows:
Warren f. Anderson, 16 years, 1929 East
Capitol street.
David P. Craig, 60 years. 800 street
northwest.
Rose r. Elicit, g. years, 800 18th street
southwest.
Archie Griffin. IS years, Emergency Hos
pital
james Harris, q years. 81 jackson street
northwest.
Joseph Johnson So years. Deanwood,
d. c.
John George Kahl. IS years. 514 9TH
street southeast
Martha A. Martin, so years, $40 street
northeast.
Julia Porter months, so5 street
northwest.
court.
James Hampton Tucker. 81 years, front of
80 street northwest.
Malvina Upshaw. ~ years. 10 18th street
southeast.
Lemar r. Weaver ) months. 90 New
York avenue northwest.