The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-11-24

Rocker there with a What's the
matter inside?"
"Oh. this d. fool in here's tearin'
his mattress all to pieces"
The ID foor' referred to was
Harry Caldwell, a printer, who has
been confined in the Jail for the past
few days. He is a printer and two
or three times he has got so drunk
that the police finally shut him up for
good Since he has been incarcerated
he has amused himself by trying to
climb the walls of the cell and in vari-
| Gus other stunts of like nature.
But this time he had a new one.
When Sergeant Rocker entered the
cell he found Caldwell busy tearing his
mattress to pieces, carefully tearing the
stuffing between his fingers and pick
ing it over. He had just about deVasta-
ted the mattress and was making good
time on what was left.
What are you trying to do?" de-
manded the sergeant.
"Sh-s h-s h'', was the reply, with fore
finger uplifted in warning. There's a
nest Of kittens in this mattress and I've
got to find 'em. Don't bother me-"
But the sergeant did bother him and
gave him cell without a mattress
or nest of Kittens to worry him. Cald-
we'll was given 10 days in the county
Jail for vagrancy later in the day, and
Jailer Claude Berry is now watching
for possible kitten hunts.
Flight" yelled someone down the
street. Fight" 1t was thrilling,
blood-curdling cry. At once the blue
coats who were pacing their beats with
| measured tread and little or no inter-
est in life, pricked up their ears, Sc
cured a firm hold upon their trusty
"billies,'' in order to do the most eff
fective work in the shortest possible
ward the seat of the supposed dis
turbance.
Not to miss anything as good as a
ree-for-all, pedestrians who were on
the main stem" emulated the example
Of the 'cops" and hied themselves
away toward the firing line, on which
a large number of the curious ones
had already gathered
Nothing appeared to be wrong with
anything or anyone until all of a sud-
denness Water Superintendent E. A.
knight sped around the corner of
Third and Main streets, closely pur-
sued by an irate-looking individual
who was seemingly determined to
make extinct the dispenser of wetness
from the city's mains. After reaching
Of Mot 4
stopped short-so short that it seemed
| almost painfulahd his adversary
continued his unotstructed approach,
until the two stood facing one another.
1t sure loked like "fit'', and when
e. A. made a pass at his opponent and
received another by return mail, the
interest was so deep that it could al
most be- felt. But before the spectators
had placed their bets on the final
outcome, the two began to smile, and
1t was then quite apparent that it was
nothing but stall"
[ 1t all came about through knights
familiarity with the men in his de-
partment of the city government. AL
though the superintendent is admired
and highly respected by every man On
|
the boys" and rough and tumble scra DIS
are common when the men are not
| crowded with work. Just once Ernest
struck a snag, and that was when he
encountered bunch Of newspaper
| boys In the hall leading to police head
| quarters. Announcing good-naturedly
that he was going to clean out" the
bunch, his bluff was called and but for
the interference of the sergeant he
would have been given a taste of life
in the city bastile
The water superintendent is a !. firm
believer in the policy Of mixing pleas
ure with work, when it does not inter-
| tere with the work, and to that is at
trlbuted many of the contests INDUCED
In by himself and his men.
|
From Durand, Mich, to Walla Wal
Ia. Wash, besides having made the
trip through nearly all of the large,
cities of the United States was the
experience of an old shoe which was
received at the local office of the
| northern Pacific Express company. 8
lew days ago, and was day or so Ia
ter shipped by express to John Good
agent of the Office in Olympia. The
history Of the time worn piece q,
leather. could it and it's travels have
been put on paper, would have been 9
most wonderful piece of reading.
AT the start, so the story goes. /,
was shipped by the union men in Du.