, 1907-06-29

any equals they have not as yet been
discovered. Magnificent homes add
~lustre to the genius displayed by the
Budget printing Office; rare articles
please the reader and make one long
to see the reality. OF this grand work
Bill might have consistently boosted,
but there is nothing in the forty-fout
pages that reveals either egotism or
buster. 1t is simply left for the ele-
gance and beauty of it all to speak in
manner entirely surprising the rhetor-
ic and %eloquence of a There are
splendid photo-engravings of illustri-
Gus sons of Douglas-men who have
carved their fortunes out of the natur-
al given to central .Wyo-
ming and who have builded homes al
great value and architectural merit.
They are the Kind OF men VINO make
| cities.
Bill tells many incidents of early
days when the law was hard to ad
minister and when mems souls were
often tried to the uttermost. Among
these incidents the following will
| serve us u lNDl'di iiuotiotioh " sAN
dangers encountered by the peace Off
GERS and of the manner in which they
~stoically performed their duties:
Here, too, occurred an incident
which-although our h population
Included many desperate characters
and a large lawless element-had
much to do with establishing and
maintaining that law and order which
has been our boast from the first
Charles T.. Clay-a former freighter
and a direct descendant of the famous
Virginia family of that name-was
our justice of the peace under appoint
ment of the board of commissioners
of Albany county of which we were a
part. August oath a fellow named
Joe Bush, employed as a thumper In
bin fuckers dance hall, was arralgr'
ed before Mr.. Clay charged with hav'
ing brutally beaten a drunken man
and was given 500 fine and SIX
months Imprisonment. That evening
Trucker, who was a killer and who
finally died in the Texas penitentiary'
called on the justice accompanied by
La %half-dozen of hrs kind. Mr.. Clay
was a grocer, and his store a large
tent. Tucker protested that h court
had been too severe on his employe;
but finally said he would pay the fine
serving notice on Mr.. Clay, however,
in behalf of himself and colleagues
that the jail sentence must be remit
ted else they would ar and feather
the court that night and ride him ou'
of town on 4 rail. Mr.. Clay replied
somewhat in this wise:
Il keep this place open from IN
the morning until s at night; but
also sleep on the premises, and II you
fellows want to tar and feather me
you'll find me here most any time
Joe Bush starts for Laramie tomorrow
If I'm alive and will serve every min
ute of his sentence-and you blankety'
blanks get right out of here now OF
by God I'll get busy"
Speaking of the winter OF 1857
well remembered by all old residents
of the state, the Budget says:
''The winter of 1857 was n of
the worst of Wyoming history-wlp
ing out over eighty per cent of range
%icattle. At that time there were nc
sheen in this part of the II
Much snow fell and during h winter
La local druggist named Brodbeck ex
hibited about the streets one day
bottle of mercury frozen solid. Splrl'
thermometers indicated as low as
sixty-six degrees. Snow-fences hao
not been built as yet between Douglas
and Chadron and during the latter
mart of November we had but ont
train in ten days-which meant han
and bacon instead of ~cranberrles ant
turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
in January again the railroad was
blocked for fifteen days, during whlcf
we were absolutely cut off from the
outside world And meanwhile sixteen
hundred people were living OFF a C
other. Every line of business was
largely overdone and already every
BODY began to realize that they west
facing a proposition which meant eth
er starvation or survival OF the fittes'
that Douglas had been doomed tt
DEATH"
Bill may congratulate himself or
having issued one of the finest illus
trated editions that has ever emanat
ed from any printery.