The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17

4 \ risin'?" asked the Head Bell Boy of the Hotel St. Reckless, Wno still reads the Young Pathhnder serle9 in tbe privacy of his apartments. :.
 "I didn't know there'd been one said the Hotel Clerk. But at that rye always looked for the day to come when Buffalo Bills troupe would or. panize the International Brotherhood of Scalp Finishers and Feather Worh- CTS and go on strike for an elght-hour day and a closed shop. l suppose py this time Cody's names been posleu on the unfair list outside the Second Presbyterian church and the Woman club at Rosebud, s. D., and they're 11x' ing to take old Major Burke's union card away from him. Or maype there's been a walk-out up at the Hip podrome on account Of the employ ment of scab foreign war dancers rom Canada? Right from the very start always contended that the late Slttihg Bull had the right name for a walklng delegate. because I never saw one yet that would walk when he could sit, put why" |,
 LAW, quit your kiddin', MT. Mclean SHlu Ine DCli l1Oy So- what mean-the Utes."
 "Oh, the Utes," said the Hotel Clerk, "the sassy little Unitarian Utes from the Utah university. Why didn't you say so? Well, I understand that the truant officer sent out and found them playing mumbly-peg back of the coal shed. The .ringleaders have all been stood up in the corner with their hands behind them and the next time they run away they're going to be made to stay in at recess. The off, cials unite in the statement that stern measures will be taken, if necessary, to break up this habit of playing hockey from the reservation in the fall of the year. They may even resort to spanking"
 "That ain't the way I've been read in about it." insisted the Head Bell Boy, evidently endeavoring to quote the account from memory. "The Utes is the last of the old on-civilized tribes, and recently when efforts were made to reduce their rations they broke from bounds, being by. nature bloodthirsty in the extreme"
 "Well, I don't much blame 'em for being thirsty" said the Hotel Clerk, "seeing as how our Zealous govern. ment restraints 'em from indulging in anything stronger than red pop. On a reservation it's just like life in Kan. sas without the hospitable drug stores, which, I am told, make glad even the most arid of Kansas landscapes. But you take it from me, Hops, it ain't blood that the Utes been thirsty for. It begins with B, and the other three letters are two els and an r, and if you're smart boy you can guess the rest of it for yourself"
 "Ain't they the same bunch that broke loose about ahis time last year?" demanded the Head Bell Boy. "It seems to me like they wasn't so tame then"
 They're the same bunch, always al. lowing for the natural increase in young Utelets since that time," said the Hotel Clerk, 'and I distinctly re- call the function on which they em- parked. Possibly it wasn't so tame, as you have just remarked, but if it had been any tanner than it was it would take words of one syllable to describe 1t. As I remember, the Utes were seized with great longing to return to their old hunting ground far away to the westward in the general direction of the Setting Sun, not to mention the unseated Schmitz and the seatless Ruef. How should they have known that their former hunting grounds are now densely populated with real estate agents, homesteaders from Indiana, and Federal office hold CTS engaged in working up a healthy third term sentiment?
 "So they put on the war paint and took the war path. That is, they thought it was a war path. But 1t wasn't. It was a board walk. And owing to the clerk in his hurry get ting his labels mixed, instead of war paint what they got was Florida water. Poor things, they didn't know the diff ference. But they had the very best intentions in the world. They took along their ladies with them, it being what would be called in college circles a coed war party.
 "There was great excitement throughout the country. The war de.