Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
To Parsons and His Bee,

where properly applied, but that it
would receive from Mr.. Parsons the
high recommendation that it has was
hardly expected by the writer. He as
sociates US with Sherlock Holmes, tells
how celebrated lawsuits have been won
by the process of elimination, and then,
forgetting the straw men he set up in
his first argument, and thinking only OF
how effectually the burr was removed
from under his saddle, he rushes off
down into the Sierras and brings back
little All Sid and tells US the little chink
has an industrious bumble-bee at work
in the gable end of his trousers, that
Bret Hart put it there, and that he
wants it removed. 1t is evident Par
sons has faith in the brand of elimina-
ton we have in stock, but however
much our heart goes out to little All Sid
in his pedicament, we feel the humble
bee, unlike the burr, has already "got
in" it's work, so we Il turn our attention
to other matter from which Mr.. Parsons
would draw our attention. Elimination
would be the best method of proceed
ure, but circumstances will not permit.
Mr.. Parsons has snapped horses, and
elimination or anything else can't get
near enough to him, to do any good as
long as his steed keeps up his tantrums.
We hate to say it, but it is our candid
opinion that Parsons, John Alden-like,
was speaking one word for little All
Sid and two for himself on that humble
bee racket, and if an examination were
made the inhabitant of the ''hive of in
dustry' would be found in the caboose
of his own breaches. Of course, we all
knew of All Sid's sorrowful experience.
That was the meanest thing Bret Hart
ever did. We will now attempt to To-
cate and remove the agitator that is
playing. such havoc with the disposition
of our friend Parsons. We can't get
near enough to use elimination; the
buzzer has him running wild, and, then,
while Parsons has faith in elimination
and would recommend it, still he thinks
it is too severe.
What has become of that credit Min
ing News failed to give the mining
camps and the towns, according to your
Free Press article; did you forget to
protect that little Give and let live"
argument; why did you not stand by
that 'lack of proof of Substantially of
the fund-why did you literally desert
all of your former arguments, save that
of "giving the devil his due, and then
flop over and shed lot of alligator
tears for this paper, the Sites Herald
and 'would-be-mining mani" Heavens
to Betsy, Parsons, don't ask us what
we would have done had that fellow
offered his contribution to us. If he
had done such thing we would have
died on the spot or else in the hospital
shortly after.
And there Stands little AS Sid with
that bee in his pants great deal more
in need of your help than any of the
other three. But, as we told you be-
fore, we think the bumble-bee is on the
neither region of your own anatomy, so
WEI II give our attention to you.
Sorry you lost out on that giving
Grangeville proper credit, aQd just to
post you on how it happened, well say
that the credit article (the last one twas
in type before we learned you had
written to Free Press.
We told you we were not on good
terms with his satanic majesty, so how
could we expect satisfaction from that
quarter. You are welcome to what
satisfaction you derive from humping
those facts from history for it is our
candid opinion that the facts are still
there however much you strive to lead
us away on other questions. Your def
milton of pioneer, that he must
hang up his hat long enough to belong
to the first bucket brigade and be at
home to hide the dog under the bed
when the assessor comes around, NAV
be all right. We don't know. It's too
fine point for us. But doesn't that
argument support the facts CLEANED
from the Cradle of History" Seems
to US you're getting the adults and the
infants mixed-but it's due, perhaps to
that bumble-bee, which now appears to
be located. In passing we might men
ton that we wear shoes here in Elk
City, but we haven't seen any that
were made in Grangeville have and
use great many articles in Elk City
that come from Spokane, and towns in