La Junta tribune., 1909-12-25
Board Bill Jumper Come. to Grief.

success OF this kind of business.
others only partial success, while
still others make dismal failure.
Among the latter one day this week
was a Santa Fe employe who board
ed with his brother-in-law on Lewis
avenue He worked the trother-in-
law racket until he had run up a
six weeks board bill.
On the last Santa Fe payday he
called for his time and received
good fat check. Later in the day he
stole his suit case from his room and
hiked away to the Glenwood House.
where he engaged the best room in
that hostelry and spent the afternoon
and evening of December 18th in
dreaming varied assortment Of
pipe dreams and having visions Of the
good times he would have in the
booze and other joints of Pueblo or
Denver, spending $40 Of his brother
in-law'S money in riotous living. He
was evidently believer in the old
adage, What is the use of having a
brother.in.law II you can't use him?"
About o'clock of the aforemen-
| toned night the victimized brother.in-
law. accompanied by his nearest
( friend, entered the office of the Glen
wood House in search of the would
! be board bill jumper, and they gave
such an accurate pen-picture of the
man they were after, that the man.
ager, Mr. Finity, remarked instanter-
Hes in my parlor bedroom, and
told me he would leave town tonight
at midnight"
Mr.. Finity did not ask them to walk
into his parlor, after the manner OF
the spider and the fly, but the broth
er-in-law and his nearest frieNd want
ed to break In, and In terms more
forcibIa than elegant declared their
ability to collect that delinquent
board bill by taking 1t out OF the
po'h'A Vt lHt Hlu' VI lHt Npuiu W
jumper.
Mr. Finity thereupon remarked.
Nay, nay. Pauline" also Nit" and
suggested that they 20 out upon the
highways and hunt up Big Augustus.
night guardian of the peace. They
acted upon the suggestion and forth.
with Immediately departed In thir-
ty minutes they returned, with Big
Augustus at their head. and when the
trio confronted the board bill jump
er in the parlor he wilted and look.
ed the part to perfection of the In.
be.
The night guardian of the peace
is not an orator. and probably does
not calm kinship to Brutus or De-
most ihenes. or any Of the rest OF
the bunch who were distinguished In
ancient times for possessing the gift
OF eloQuence. but he is good on per.
orations. which In this case was
thusly:
! Young man, We can prove that
you stole your suit case from your
brother.in.law's house last night. and
that you got good sized check from
the Santa Fe today. and We can
prove by the Judge here that you in.
tended to leave town tonight on the
midnight train. Now you can have
your choice pay that board bill
damned quick or 20 to jail"
Judge Finity. who was a spectator
of his interesting tableaun. says the
young man looked for all the world
like one OF the lost children of the
house OF Israel" When the trio re.
turned to the office and were asked
about their success they answered
In chorus. I'VE got the stuff all right
all right" and as they left they threw
! kisses at the Judge In token OF ap.
probation for putting them next TO
the whereabouts OF the - B Jump.
er,
The young man who starts out In
life with the notion that the way TO
get money Is to beat other people
out Of their Just dues. has started out
. on the wrong track and will discov.
, er Il In due time. The Tribune ad.
, yises all wouid.be and prospective
board bill Jumpers to beware Of Big
, Gus. the night guardian Of the peace
and dignity Of La Junts - after
dark. for he is holy terror when
, /, comes to collecting delinquent and
pos,humous board bills.