The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
Whole Town Stung Up

There was a good deal of excite |
ment in this vicinity on last Tuesday |
morning at half past o'clock a. m,
which for time greatly disturbed the |
erstwhile calm and quiet of our
thriving community and resulted in
pain and profanity to large number
of our most respected citizens.
Lafe Hoover has a piece of ground
which borders on the west side of
Bingville, perhaps 10 acres in all,
which he let come up in timothy this
season. LATE set last Tuesday to
cut this timothy and employed Hank
Dewberry to help him do the same.
LATE and Hank started in bright and
early. Hank he drove the mower and
LATE he come behint later with his
old sorrel mare hitched to the hay ted
der.
There was large crowd along the
street leaning over the fence watch
ing LATE and Hank do the work and
offering suggestions as to how it
should be done. 1t is the general be
| lief that this crown was attracted
by the spectacle of Hank actually
working, which is so rare a sight that
the people of Bingville can hardly
be blamed for turning out en- masse,
as you might say.
Along about $50 Hank suddenly
| drove over a bumblebees' nest and
what happened Immediately after
wards almost beggars description.
| Hank hadn't been stung more than
dozen times until he dropped the
lines and started to run for the fence
where all the people was congregated.
AS soon as the horses found them
! selves at liberty they too. goaded by
the bumblebees, lit out for parts I'M
known, dragging the mower after them
| at the rate of about Is miles an hour
and running into a stump and break
ing off the cutterbar Then they pro-
ceeded to the far end of the field and
run into a stone fence, and finding
their progress blocked in this direc-
ton and several bumblebees still prod
ding them they stood still and begin
to kick and kicked until they kicked
every durn bit of harness often them
and then they went to eating grass.
AS Deacon Bradbury feared the
bees then begin to scatter and to at
tackt the innocent as we'll as the
guilty, sparing neither men, women
or children. Mrs. Salina Cooper who
had come out to the fence with her
infant son aged three months and is
so heavy on her feet that she can't
run very fast being as she weighs
275 lbs, started home, but the bees
stung her once on her escape and
once on her infant son.
Deacon Bradberry was stung a
couple of times on the ear, and one
bee got fast in his whiskers and he
don't know how many times it stung
him before he got 1t untangled-he
\ counted up to IL stings and then
he lost count, because it was too pain
full to remember.
Miss Sally Hoskins, who was pass
ing along the street to mail letter to
her best fellow who lives at Snake
Bend had a bumble-bee to sting her
on the ankle through her openwork
stockings.
Snide Petersby had two bees to get
up his pant leg and he got out in the
road and danced jig for about two
minutes. Ras Slocomb said after 1t
was all over that he never knowd
Snide could dance like that being as
Snide always complained of being
crippled up with rheumatic, but with
them two bees up his pant leg he was
as suppl and spy as 16-year-old.
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failed to get were stung on different
localities, and in a short time after
the bees got into the crowd the street
was deserted being as those who had
got stung dispersed at once to their
homes where they bathed the affected
parts in various linaments.
Hank Dewberry suffered awful.
His face, especially his lips, was all
stung up fearful where the bees jab-
bed it to him. Hank said he wouldn't
be exaggerating it any if he said that
his upper lip felt about two feet and
a half long whereas it was only about
three inches long by actual measure,
ment.
LATE Hoover whose moving ma.
chine was almost a total loss not only
refused to pay Hank any wages Tor
helping him cut his timothy. but has
Hank charged up with the loss of his
mower Hank says Lafe is welcome
to the money to pay for his mower
If he can get it. Hank says before he
would pay for that mower after hav
ing his feelings outraged and hisselt
mutilated so by them bumblebees he
would carry suit for damages up to
the Supreme Court and spend every
cent he had in the world fighting the
suit. If Hank spent every cent he
had in the world he would expend
about is cts.-"Bingville Bugle" Items
in the Boston Post