The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-11-10
Dockstadcr Of The Stage.

From the Kansas City Times.
Frank Jones. Lew Docsstader and JACK
Malloy had "A little chat one evening re-
Gently after the minstrel show on the sub
ject Of hotels.
Jack said Dockstauer TO Malloy, who
is chief clerk at the Hotel Baltimore, "you
fellows don't treat Inc AS well as a land
lord up in Cedar Rapids did one time. /
struck the town with the show one tall
morning and this hotel man met ME at the
train with an auto. He assigned me tu
the best room i'll his hotel and had special
delicacies fer me TO eat. IN the afternoon
he took me out 10 see the city in the auto,
which hc rented a: the rate of 81 an hour.
Next morning when 1 asked for my bill he
said ! owed him nothing at all.
'How's that l asked.
You were my guest, Mr.. Dockstader.'
he said.
But l said, Il never moi you before.
What do you get out of this"
You forget he replied. that you gave
me two passes to your show That" con-
cluded Dockstader, illustrates the power
of the pass
Speaking of hotels came from Frank
Jones, when the minstrel man had finished
his story, you fellows probably didn't
know that | was once a clerk in Il hosiery.
Wen, | was. 1t was out in Caldwell. kas..
'''Sti AnSii.-llNe NttlS dSO. Adlu"tll dl
that time was a lively, tough town. Zig
herds of cattle We're driven through it
every week and the cowboys used to make
the nights red hot. ! forget the name of
the hotel In which | WAS employed but it
was the best and toughest in town. Mall
10y. YOU don't know anything at all about
real hotel work. Why, every day | used
TO have to carry trunks and DRINKS up
stairs. l was the only elevator the hotel
had V.1c also hnilhp,. ,,l tran,artl -
cook. Every time the cowboys wanted Il
little cNtsa fun they'd borrow our Chinese
cook. Sometimes they'd bring him back.
But sometimes they wouldn't and then
we'd have TO entice another chink to town.
lt'was yellow peril then sure enough
fpr the Chinese. When our cook was out
de!!shtins the cowboys I'd act in his place
IN the Kitchen. | used to nave to wiring
chickens nccks on chicken day. One day
a rooster got away from me, 1t was the
only chicken in town that day so [ had to
chase il. ] ran it five miles. got 1t
thought dropped dead. When i got back
Il ST. Louis dude asked me where I'd been.
! thought ia be d humorist. Out after IA
cocktail ] replied.
90, | See he said. You were the
chaser Tbs Joke ticklcd the COWBOYS Sc
they made me buy eight rounds of drinks,
which cost NE Il months pay. i got even
with the dude, however. | gave him Il
room with a haifbrced Indian, who slept
with his spurs on and had terrible night
mares.
'All the time I was clerk there l did
not use a bed. l slept on the counter.
Every night or so a drunken cowboy
would come in and wake me by poking me
III the ribs with a sixshooter. He'd tell
ME to give him 81 certain room and I'd
have to go up and throw the man already
in 1t out. How did | happen to leave
Caldwell? 1t was This way. One evening
when was acting as clerk, cook, waiter
and dishwasher, a cowboy asked for beans.
| brought him some, but he couldn't chew
them--tiley were petriiied. He got mad a,
them, though, and swallowed them any
way. That night he was awfully sick.
Next morning he sent me word he was
coming downstairs to get me. / decided
10 pull out"
You were afraid he'd shoot you, h"'
came from Malloy.
20. no. replied jones. "That wasn't 1t.
lie said he was going to make me eat q
dish of those beans"