The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-11
HAIR PULLING IS
JUST AVOIDED
EXCITING SCENE AT N. p. DEPOT
LAST NIGHT WHEN ONE Wo-
MAN eLoMMEp ANoTHER's
BRAND NEW FUR coAT-PRoP-
ERTY RECOVERED.

The people who happened to be at
the Northern Pacific passenger sta
ton last evening were given little
excitement and amusement when one
woman picked up another woman's
new fur coat. took 1t aboard her train
and tried to hide it. There is nothing
that will make a woman madden than
to try to swipe a new fur coat and
get caught at it.
The trouble came about this way.
A rather corpulent woman from
Mapleton came to Fargo yesterday on
a shopping tour and among her other
purchases bought large fur coat that
surely did not cost her less than a
hundred good cart wheels OF Uncle
Sans coinage.
AS train time approached she COLI
lected her purchases and toted them
down to the depot to wait for her
train. Her new coat was neatly pack
ed in a hat box OF large proportions
and in addition to her other purchases
she carried her old fur coat on her
arm, 1t being too warm to wear 1t.
After entering the woman's waiting
room she deposited her priced box on
the table and put her old fur coat
on top OF 1t. Sitting in one OF the
easy chairs she looked out of the
window and happened to spy deLen-
drecie's store across the way. 1t is
probable that the sight brought back
to her mind some forgotten article or
1t may have been she had missed the
store in the shuttle and positively could
not afford to pass it up. Whatever
the cause, she nevertheless mad to go
to that store. She picked UP her old
coat, but when she got a view Of that
big heavy box containing the new one
her heart failed her. 1t must be re-
membered that she was rather obese
and the box very, very heavy. But
she had to go to that store.
Turning to a young woman sitting
near she asked If she would take care
Of the box until she returned, and on
receiving an affirmative answer went
her way in peace. 1t was then about
thirty minutes before time for the
train to depart. The cars with the
engine had just pulled up to the sta
ton as the woman left the door on
the south side of the station. A few
minutes later, the stentorian voice of
the train announcer was heard call
ing "All aboard. Train going.
There is nothing that excites a wo-
man more than that call of "AIl
aboard" They invariably imagine that
the train has already started even If
1T Is twenty minutes before the time.
The effect upon the young woman
playing watchdog over the new coat
was what might nave been expected.
Hurriedly snatching up her own be-
longings she rushed out leaving the
big box to the tender mercies OF the
other occupants of the waiting room.
short time before the train was
ready to start the corpulent owner of
the new fur coat returned and was
mortified to find both the young wo-
man and the coat missing. She board
ed the train and while looking for the
young woman in whose care she had
left the box, happened to spy cor
ner of the big box protruding from
beneath the skirts Of another woman
and her daughter who had been in the
waiting room. Only it's size revealed
it,
1t was upon this discovery that
things commenced to happen. The
owner of the coat pounced upon the
usurper with awful intent and the
talk waxed so hot that it attracted the
attention of even those outside on the
platform. She got the coat back and
only the fact that she had to leave
town at once prevented her from hay-
ing the other woman arrested