The Elbert County tribune., 1905-11-23
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Pluck and Gdventure.
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RATHER LAssoED BY BOY.

County is now in the possession of
robert Il. Johnston, schoolboy. of
zolo Grove street. who captured the
reptile at Swope Park ON Sunday.
Johnston was taking Sunday out
ing when he ran across the snake
coiied up under bush. By the dex-
uous use OF a rope he got a moose
around Its neck and fi:slly landed 1t In
a box. which he conveyed to lis home.
Inc reptile measures seven feet in
Iengsh and has fifteen rdttles. Master
Johnston, who is pupil in the manual
training school. proposes 10 sell the rat
tIer anc purchase sclIooiboots with the
proceeds.-kansas City Journal
CHECKED THE CANT MuTINY.
Il 'spose there are some pretty tough
characters who go into the woods now
adays." said man who had spent
the better part OF forty years lumber
ing on the Penobscot and lis branches.
Somehow, though. 1t don't seem 10 me
uhat any of the crews they get together
now can equal some of the old ores for
downright cussedness. About the worst
ever came across was in camp up
near Cooper Brook 4 good many years
age.
The crew went into the woods in
September and worked Along without
much difficulty until the early part OF
the winter. They had beer cutting
timber on mountain, and when it had
all been taken of, on one side. the crew
wanted to continue worl. in another
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this proposition for n minute. He said
1T would mean the loss of hundreds of
dollars. The men didn't care ii Il did.
They weren't going to risk their lives
aay longer, they said. working with
horses OH the side OF a mountain as
steep as that particular one. Every
thing might have gone well IL three
of the men hadn't gone out TO the iron
works, and from there to Brownviile
one day.
This trio got bacl, to camp three
days later with all the whisky they
could possibly carry, both inside and
out. Their arrival was the signal for
the rest of the crew 20 stop work and
that night the fun started. Big Buck
Sanderson, the bully of the camp, and
the acknowledged leader of the fac
tion that was opposed 10 the boss, an
nounced that the crew would either
work where they wanted to or they
wouldn't work at all. If the foreman
didn't like it, he could leave. In fact.
Sanderson limited, it would be better If
he left anyway.
1.-The boss was man named Web
ster. who wasn't afraid of dozen
camps full of drunken lumbcrmen. He
formed plan for the undoing of the
mutineers, and that night he put it into
execution. The snow was some six
feet deep all about the camps. aud he
figured it out that man with his
bare feet couldn't travel through it to
any great extent After the last of
the revelers had dropped over on his
bunk and subsided, Webster cautiously
entered the camp and began gathering
up the moccasins and rubber shoes of
the sleepers. he took every bit of foot
wear in sight, including legglngs, and
hid the whole pile where he was GER
tain it could not he found. Then he
went to his own camp, locked the door
and turned in.
''The next morning there was trou-
BILE. Webster had sort of suspected
that there might he, and was prepared
for it. From the window of his log
stronghold he be,d out terms. He
would agree to fight Buck Sanderson
and lick him, but Il he did the men
must agree 10 abide by his decision i'll
regard to working. If Sanderson didn't
wish to fight AMI the men still persist
ed in their refusal to follow his direc-
ton, why, he would break camp. He
had the key to their supply camp and
all their footgear. He would make
tracks for the settlements on snow
shoes, and they could follow as best
they might.
1.-The men didn't take long TO con-
slider Wcbster's offer, and Sanderson
agreed to carry ont his part of the
agreement. The fight that followed
was one of the bloodicst ever seen in a
Maine lumber camp. 1t lasted nearly
two hours, and when 1t was over two
men had TO start for the iron works
after Il doctor for Sanderson. Webster
had broken his nose, right arm and
three ribs. l believe he finally pulled
through. The next morning the men
went back TO work, and there WAS ne
further trouble.
HE had mighty persuasive way.
that Webster" Bangor (Me.) Core
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