Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-09
HALF A BURRO IN DISPUTE
Gould Diets and Archie Love and Their
Ak-SarRep Purchase.
soARo OF GOVERNORS TO AHBlTRATE
Zach Claims 60 own the Maud End, as
the Ldverymsn's BilI IL Charged
Against the Bride
Half.

Whom the board Of governors OF the
knights OF -Sar-Ben hold their annual
meeting at the Omaha club tonight the
hardest problem in eleven years will come
up for settlement
Anything that Solomon was put up
against was easy alongside the decision
the governors will have to render. The
members OF the board are going around
wearing d worried look and consulting au-
thor1ties. They admit there Is no prece-
dent to steer by In the annals of Samson.
and they wish 20 the roof of the Coliseum
and back again that the initiatory rites
last summer had not required the active
cooperation Of FIVE Colorado burros, now
referred to slightingly as mules" 1t is
the mules that caused the woe and con-
comitants Of expense bills and the way out
looks tortuous devious and mournful.
But one certain burro-the meanest,
ugliest and most unchristian OF the lot
is doing the heavies. When the others had
ended an engagement wherein they were
required to tote around Tipperary Indians,
Milesian cowboys and divers other freight.
they were gotten rid of satisfactorily-to
a certain degree. Lee Grier. clerk Of the
police court, bought one and had hfs head
nearly kicked off, TO be sure, but Lee al
ways was clever in getting rid of bad bar
gains, so he palmed the beast off on some
poor foolish one at fair price and pro-
ceeded to hire a force of men to repair
his home and outlying property. Another
mule was bought at the auction at the Den
by Major Wilcox for the use of children
and two others went to poor but honest
tradesmen OF the suburbs for these are the
only ones who have yet cashed in to
Treasurer Penfold.
Basis of Partnership.
1t is on record at the auction that Gould
Diotz bid the great sum of SIS for the
pick of the five critters. 1t CHANGED how
ever that Mr.. Dietz was last to HE HIM
self to the spot when the animals were
distributed. He snorted with contempt
when he found he had paid the highest
bonus for the beast of the lowest grade.
Archibald ]. Love stood nearby-and here
is illustrated the folly of soft heart and
a loose tonguc-for he proclaimed before
witnesses that he would assume half in
terest in the property Mr.. Dietz had been
cheated on However sportsmanlike it was
for Mr.. Love to thus thrust himself in the
breach, it was the veriest folly. as Alfred
Henry Lewis would say, for in this wise
the seed of trouble was deftly planted
where It would grow the quickest.
Mr. Dietz had considered II a nice thing
TO do TO buy n burro for the pleasure of
his niece and nephew, the little Nelson
children, whereas Mr.. Love as n second
thought had deemed it well to use his halt
interest for the enjoyment of his SON
Archibald j. Love. jr.. aged years. II
appears that Mr.. Dietz was so chagrined
with the quality of his purchase that he
refused to betake at once possession of the
mule, which he christened Walter Fake
Penfold Jardine, when Mr.. Love suk'
gested the green meadows of his country
home at Benson as a fitting domiclle for
the brute Mr.. Dietz was willing.