The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-15
OBSTARCzYKS
They RUN Away
Here Is Written the Sad Tale Of the
Big Sheriff and the Two Small
Boys.


Joe and Antoine are two small
boys, aged twelve and fourteen years
respectively. They have another
name, which, as it sounds like a
sneeze, can easily be pronounced by
anyone having a cold-Obstarcz
(Note to the reader-you had better
try this by yourself couple of times
before you spring it on your helpless
family.) These boys attend school
In District so. In District 81 is locat-
ed the Lone Star School House. Of
course the pupils of one district look
down on the pupils of another dis
trict, this has been so since the be-
ginning of time. Then how could
so better lower the pride of 81
than by raiding their school house.
So thought Joe and Antoine; and to
think with most boys, is to act. Like
Indians, under the sheltering wing
of darkness they crept down on the
Lone Star school. When they re-
turned among their fellows great
glory and much spoil was theirs.
Uncounted pen points, numberless
lead-pencils, many paper tablets, and
priceless glory among their fellows
but,-oh, those terrible 'buts'-Papa
Obstarczyk, in the words of the poet,
got next" Now Papa o. was some
thing of diciplinarian and had en-
deavored to keep them from spoil
ing, by strict adherence, to the old
maxim regarding the rod and the
child. They had a very lively an
ticipation of what would happen
when he caught them-they consult
ed together-they felt outlawed, and
they took to the sage.
Enter the sheriff.
Papa o. falling to lay hands on
his willy offspring, came to town and
swore out warrant for the culprits.
This was given to sheriff Thorp to
serve. The day was raw and bleak,
but with undaunted courage the sher-
iff armed himself, said goodbye to
his faithful and almost weeping wife
his faithful and almost weeping dep
uties and started on the trail of the
miscreants.
We will omit the long hours of
danger and hardship he endured
while trailing them to their lair and
proceed at once to tell of the capture.
After satisfying himself that they
had not broken for the Hole-in-the-
Wall country, he finally trailed them
to an abandoned cabin near the gov
eminent dam. Tho the villains were
now at bay and probably desperate,
he fearlessly entered the cabin-it |
was empty!
Looking around the sheriff saw a
low bunk nailed to the floor, from
beneath which protruded a foot and |
six inches Of leg. "Ah-ha!," said I
he, something tells me there is a
boy attached to that Leg" He stoop- !
ed, grasped the member, gave a
steady pull and withdrew several
bushels Of dirt and-Antoine. Fur
Their in vestigation convinced him
that Joe was still under there. He
meditated-while he was not as slim
as he used to be, he was still strong
and in his prime, but-the bedstead !
was very low.
Now just what happened at this
point we must confess We don't
know. Everyone is reticent. At the
Court House they deny absolutely
hat the sheriff crawled under the
bed after Joe. They say the story of
him sticking fast there and being
obliged to call for help, is base fab
'ication of a diseased brain, and f.
lally they accuse those who tell of