The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-27

I'm hep to all de dope and 1 proceeds to
kill butcher, in which I'm successful
Il takes stroll out to Catalina" (the
kid did not say how much of the stroll
was on water looking for mOonstones,
but. l sees dat all de mOonstoneS left just
before / got dere.
well, I takes boat for Frisco. L paid
de guy 81 for a ticket and when | gets on
de boat dey says to me, Here, young
man, down dis way please; you're steer
age TIL says |, how do / get first
class?' Four-fifty,' says de guy, and 1
takes one more lemon.
when 1 hits Frisco de first thing I
does is to get lost, but l runs across
Spider Kelly and some others OATS high
class meal tickets, and we hit her up some
more. We goes to de Hf-Ki show and
gets handed another little package. In
Chinatown loads up on noodles and gets
stung again But dat Chink town of
Frisco is de real ting for fair. Feeling de
need of solid refreshments | goes into de
Poodle Dog restaurant. Dere was three
swell guys sitting around a table smokin'
cigarettes and ] insinuates dey needed
company, but dere wasn't nothin' doin'.
Is the Candy Kid.
Meeting up wild a bunch of pork and
kid. 1 goes to see Sherlock Holmes and
l says to myself Dis amt nothing like
home 1t was a shame to take de money
for dis Sherlock Holmes show.
deal of adipOse tissue in de way of shek-
els, and I'm thinking harder and harder
about Salt Lake all de time. / sees all
desc guys looking for nutin' but de gravy,
and [ says to myself. | says, Kid, how
about you? 1t don't take me long to get
wise to myself, after feeling de size of
what didn't escape. De man in de ticket
office says, when l asks him does he run
trains to Los Angeles, Sure, Mike, lots
of them. I want to go home l says.
DO you want to go fast or slow? he
asks. L want to go fast / says. Dat will
be two plunks more; you'll want a sleep
er?' No I says, I'm used to sleepin'
standin' up
Is Below Weight.
when I gets to Los Angeles ! finds my
self away below weight, and loobn' for d
shady spot. l sees de Langford-B Barry
then / sees dat l can't make no peaches
and cream here, so ! starts.
AT Las Vegas an old friend of mine
and me boxed six rounds to a finish. He
needed de money. which was de gate re-
ceipts, just as bad as | did. l fought like
demon and takes de whole bunch, which
is 500. Caliente gives me a chance to
try my hand at patching and then l pulls
out. De first hog l climbed was going
down hill and the engineer and fireman
knew she wasn't hungry. But de next one
is a monster for food consumption. De
coal dat / shoveled, it looks to me- ought
to make de mining industry out of sight.
That brings me to Milford, and pretty
soon 1 bumps into Salt Lake. de shining
lights of which I've been looking for ev-
cry minute for miles
Home, Never to Leave.
''You can tell de people of Zion said
Mr. Bernstein, in conclusion, dat Pm on
de fly paper. wOTkin' side down, on Salt
Lake from now on. Dey don't get me to
go fishing for gold that's left by de tide
in China basin no more. and while 1 has
an awful good time and separates my
self from me dough wild enthusiasm,
any of it back Salt Lakes de only spot
on de horizon for me and l don't move no
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