The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-06-04

some dust.
They was a meetin' held to Dago
Pete's whar Fubsby outlines the play.
"'"What we wants to start with
fust," says this horn toad, lis a street
cleanin' department. Now, who's
volunteerin' to laundry and bresh up
the ~bullyvards of this hawg run?"
"a white suit be said was neces.
sary, and there was on'y one in town,
belongin' to the Chink, Hung Wok,
what done the washin' for the Red
Light Dance hall. We sent a depita'
ton to wait on him, and I'm a mush.
rat eff the pagan didn't want to th'ow
off the honor we aims to fix on him.
We convinces him that it was a case
of public philanthropy. and appoints
seveerial interested citizens to sot up
the fust night and see at he smoOthes
the creases out of the roads proper.
What had some inflooence in persuad.
in him ter accept the honor, mebbe,
were the fac that old man Butterfoot
sot in the uUurway with mis- gun
pinted keerless like in the Chink's
direction.
oval, to do the critter justice, he
gin that ere street the greatest comb
In out 1T had sence the day of crea'
ton. Their was considerable amoose.
ment when old man Butterfoot, on
guard in the second story OF the Red
Light. let go at Hung absent-minded
ike with his gum, but otherwise the
reform move started a success, and
we alls turns in feelin' that we'd give
it a considerable hist ford. The only
mistake we made was in pervidin'
them old he bars on guard with a
jug of whisky, which the same they
pays more attention to than the street
cleanin' department., and so falls
asleep. leavin' that banjo-faced heath.
en- to run the town.
"'Jim Bowsler what had been set.
tin up with a wilder to Pizen juno,
KNOWN nuthin' of the reform wave
what had struck Red Eye and thinkin'
no evil. When his broncho see the
Chink craw-ishin' over the road, he
bucks and sings Jim through the
glass wlnder Of the Bostin store, wher'
he lands permiscu's on top of the
Dago that cleans up the place all
spraddled out. Jim never would low
there vas a fight, claimin' a Eyetalian
want IN his class, but l know a year
OR So vas swep' up the next day, and
it Was noticed at Jim wore his som
brey mighty low on his head ever
afterwards. Materially he didn't favor
the street cleanin' one, and alter q
few more of the citizens had got dam
aged, one day they grabs Hung, ties
him up, pastes a label on him, and
sings him inter the fust freight ca,
that happened along
81 suppose that kind of sickeneG
you of REFORM l asked the miner.
"'You'd ha' thanked so, but 20,
never knowed Fubsby! what this
yere camp wants sawed onter it wuss
than anything else" ses he, lis a pc
lice department." Now it was strange
but all them pirates that was hot fol
reform refused the job, so at last We
had to fix it on a Eyetalian that wa!
travelin' round with a tame bear. Thu
DagO had just got down to stidd!
work when one Of them catymount'
from Pizen Junction come sashyin
inter town looking for ammoosemen
and shoots the post-ofice winder full
of holes. The police sets out to hol'
him up, a %perceedin' which astonishe
the gent on the broncho a few. Blu
he RECEIVERS, lets go with the lariat
humps his pony, and the last seen O
the police he was blowing a furroy
in the prairie kickin' VI dust ike
cyclone. Ye'd "a thought things woul
have languished alter that, which tn
same they done, but on'y for a shor
time, Then Fubsby gets hisself az
p'inted justice of the peace. The fine
he scoops in for carryin' conceale'
, weapons would ha' run a faro ban
open limit. When he see that tn
, town was gettin' so mawral and dea
broke, he run off one night wit
9 every critter in the corral, and W
p hain't see hair, hoof, nor hide of tn
varmint sence.
e SO ye see, stranger, this yer
l. camp is likely to get keerless when
d TELLER from the yeast tracks in frOl
: not KNOWN what keerds he may hav
e in his hold out. If We want to play
d winner. I'd lose myself in the horizo
immediate, for they's some diSap'inte
:. pelicans we're that might take it int
o Their heads you was Fubsby in di
e guise, and wings would be yer porto
fore We could egsplain satisfactor,
Sabe?'
5. Il 'sabed,' and, borrowing a mu
A. tang from the landlord, never Dire