The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
WE WE'RE LOOKING OUT OF OUR
WINDOW ABOVE THE KICKER
OFFICE"

No. Number two was an iRdivid-
ual whose cards bore the name Of.
Terrible Tom" According to his own
story he had killed twenty odd men be-
fore we happened to bump against him
at a street corner. He drew to plug US,
but his gun missed fire and he was
gathered to his fathers.
No. 3-This man passed under the
name of Savage Sam" and he came
hundred miles to protest against our
announcement that Nero was q good
fellow at heart and would have been
all right If his mother-tn-laW had let
him alone. We both fired at the same
time but 1t was Savage Samuel who
formed the basis of a funeral process
sion next day. No one ever came to in
quire about him, and we incline to the
belief that he was an orphan
No. This gentleman rejoiced in
the sobriquet Of THE Grizzly" and the
manner in which he would chank his
teeth and groWi made Shivers run up
the backs OF all hearers. We recon-
mended the vigilance committee to
hang him and he called and fired four
shots at US before we could get ready
for business. He didn't die for an hour
or two, but he died happy
No. 5.-'Bald Eagle" as he called
himself, came into the Gulch one day to
raise a scalp. Happening to encounter
US on the street, he was making ready
to raise ours when our gun went off by
accident and he fell from his broncho,
ana Ql6Q IOIklN1tAE his GllElUAES.
No. 6-This person called himself
the poet of the Rocky Mountains. and
after sending US over hundred poems,
none of which were printed, he called
in person to see what was the matter
The two Of US got into q controversy as
to whether cabbages or poetry were Of
more consequence to our readers and
after he had fired two shots we had to
arrange for his permanent stay in town
The funeral procession was a long and
decorous one. The poet seemed to have
another poem or two on his mind as he
fell, but he had no time to write them
out.
has never been ascertained. lie sim
ply wrote US a postal card from Utah
that he was en- route to remove Us to
hotter land than this. We took 1t as
Joke until he walked in on US one
morning and began plugging away Al
ter he had cut two buttons of our coat
and barked our left ear. we male ar
rangements for his obsequies- He had
forgotten to hand up his card, and he
expired too suddenly to go into explain
atoms. We have him recorded On our
books as Sudden jim" and noun
tain rose blooms on his last resting
place.
No. 8-We were running weather
predictions and congratulating ourseR
that we were hitting It once out of ten
times when Major Harper appeared IN
our sanctum with a gun in hand. We
DTEQlCLEu -
showed all his cucumbers under He
announced that we deserved death ana
began pegging away. As he was a cross
v,ved man we lodged him fer five min
utes but he got our range under the
desk at last and we had to add him to
our list We could have married his
widow year later, but forbore. We
trust that he awoke IN a better land.
No. e-This gentleman's business
card read: Happy Jim. Happy all
dav long HI raised on short no
tice" The notice he gave Us was short
! indeed. We had published the fact
/ that George Washington never swore.
Happy Jim rode into town and took is
sue with US The way he took issue
was to kick our door open and begin
4 shooting. He nicked US in the shoulder
and scratched US IN the side before he
I realized what sort of a crop he was
1 raising and i've minutes later he was
avinE around ia another land name
not exactly known. He seemed TO be
/ a 5oviaI cuss. smiling as he fred away.
I and we often wish that he could have
/ been spared to edit our humorous de-
4 Dartment
/ No. 10=We were riding out towards
1 Dog Greek one summers day and feel
/ ing at peace with all mankind. when
I we met Chaw-Em-Up Pete He was
J on MS way to town to pay rs visit