The Ketchikan miner., 1907-06-01

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 knaw og their existence, from the
 fact shss Gario and his brother apprentice had time and again amused
 themselves and dissUr0ea the entire community hy loading up the whole
 shooein' match, and firing them of in rapid succession from the roof of ,he building At the tunsfal hour of two o'clock in the morning. So,
 when. his patience being completely exhausted. the Colonel arose one
 morning and found the eaw paving her respee $ t0 his cherished cab bages, and Curio aS usual on hand for
 his matalinal meal. he promptly and pegemp,orially ordered che latter 10
 return 10 the office, load one of the
 muskets and return Sith il, express
 ing his determination 10 "pepper her cabbage so that she wouldn't want any more of II. Curio 0bsyed, not with the most cheerful alacrisy. and
 reaching the ottee he selected gun
 of the 'kicaing' qualities of which 
 he had had | taste, and proceeded 70
 load is for big game. He poured into it's capaclols muxzle an ample
 sstfeiency of powder. tamped il down
 win some dry paper, then hammered
 down on top of ,ha, some more paper
 no; quite so dry. then put in a hand
 full of old tY}e from the hell box
 covered that with some more paper to keep I. in place. and then marched triumphantly home, speculating all the
 way which would get the most benefit
 out Of she gun-shs Colonel or the
 CON. Arriving al the house. the Colonel ehu ekled maliciously as he
 reached for ths gun, when colloQuy something like this ensued; Hadn't ron better let me do the shooting,
 Colonei:, What do you mean you young scamp: Dye think ! don't
 know how 10 shoot nusket?n The
 gun kleas. that's all. Let her
 kick. Gimme. that gum" There
 upon he seized the muskes and was
 starting down through the iu,eryen-
 ing pla. of high grass 10 ger closer range, when Curio timidly ventared
 the suggestion that he'd better put some pepper into her." whereapon
 The serg4a. girl was called. and into the gun wen. couple of handtalls Of red hot pepper berries, with still another paper wad. Taking the
 musket. he managed to get what he considered the proper range of the
 COW, ogoadside o1. and suddenly . ere
 WAS an explosion which much more closely ressmbled the roar and stock of
 small sized earthquake than that caused 6y the discharge of single
 piece ot mu>ketry. "B-a-u-g-h long
 drawn our. beloved The bovine. and
 switching her caudal sppendage like
 aa iniuri iated wild beast. for the first
 lime she got out of the garden the
 same way she got in-over the fence though good deal heavier, and carrying with her enough old type
 10 prin. fall edition of the Valdez [ Proepscto.. The Colore! was willing . 10 take | solemn oath that Il was an earthquake. and CuFiO was afraid The
 earth had actually opened aad
 swallowed him up-Or dOwn-for he
 lay motionle-s in the tall grass for
 full minute and then with a few
 vigorous kicks aad still more vig- 0rous paths. he raised 70 his hands and knees ard began 10 crawl away
 from the near vicinity of that nu-ket
 H-s-l-e-n b-I-a-z-e-z Alfred, what
 did you bu. in that gup:i he finally asked. Powder. sir. powder: only
 powder = Powder. I should think so. A whole keg Of 1t al the very least. Well. young man, that's the laSt shot you'll ever have at mel and
 much more 10 the same efe-t. Suffice to s4y that the Colonel paid for the COW and Curio went west
 But all stories have. or should have ! sequeI-and this one had. \ num- Der Of years elapsed ar rd Curio. whose inciPielE m1>tache had expanded into Iuxuriant growth, having himself grown from boy 70 mans stature though retaining the old mischierous spirit, was publishing q small weekly paper. of the democratic persuasion ' III 2 northern territory, when the Colonel was sent out as it's governor l oy President Buchanan. Business called Curio go the territorial capital . and he lost TO time calling on his old l. friend. the governor. Entering the ] executive chamber, he found the gov ernor seated al his desk, boring over some official document. ''Coy. M. presume "Yes: is there any ! thing can do for you, sir:'' Well ! yes. goTenOr: am running 2 little [ democratic paper down in the south part ot the territory, and find il uphill work called to see if you couldL't give me au appointment of some kind that will help me out a little. Well, sir. the governor of a territory has very little patron age 2. his disposal, and know of 10 present vacancy in any of the offices