The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-11

Dal nCutlOulu COlOF, tHN nOuR0 OIL
hat little affair DO make my face as
red as q cow-town on payday. When
I u that tale loose we'll make a
one-night stand of II by the grub
wagon. II comprises n shippers pass
% Sioux City. a sure-thing game in
hat moral town. which l win out by
backfn' my judgment with my Colt,
an q police IA wherein the bank
roll and my pile was rake-of for the
court Charge .gnmblin'. All hands
plead guilty. All correct a y you.
an quite accordin' to the statutes
made an pervided; an so says l.,
until ! casually picks up a paper in
Belle Fouche. an sees that II was
q phoney police court. not only
owned and controlled by the shell
men. which YOU be surprisin', but
privately installed rs n sort OF acct
dent insurance on their other game.
Hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned." Mr.. Elkins remarks to me
one day, but all that Is going to be
changed when l ketch up with that
police Judge.
Ridin' the range makes = man talk
alive with the scenery. an when /
sees that Sioux City paper, / turns
loose some remarks in the presence
III q gentleman who subsequently
turns out TO be Mr.. Elkins.
Thanks" says he.
When did you acquire any chips
In this little solitaire ~blasphemy
game?" says ]. mad, as n man allus
is IL he's ketched s~olloloQuisln' to
himself.
"a man." says he. with all the
side-tracks flled with cars o. cattle
an more comm. an no gang IL in,
ex proprio vigore." a y he. whatever
that means, anywhere where cuss
words is trumps."
He new smiled except back in his
eyes. an !. likln' his style. hires out
to him, an was third man on the j.
C~p-and-Down Ranch from the day
the dogies begun to be unloaded. till
James r. Elkins went to New York.
with a roll hat would choke a blood
sweatin' hippopotamus.
Third man. says /. an n you think
the first was the Old Man. j. X. f..
you know. you've got another conjec-
ture comm. Number One was Mrs.
Elkins. an I reckon some Of her New
York riensll enter into %conniption
TO know that. in les'n a year. half the
boys called her JOsie-in their dreams
at least-an'some of 'em to her face:
but none To he rback. by a damsite,
The Old Mana lot OF us called him
Jim habitual-was "a ~one-lunger when
this doggy enterprise started. all
mashed in body I'm the collapse Of the
boom at baltimore: an. them "a
thinks | refer 10 any lOggin' accident
Is Informed that ] mean the toWnIot
boom In the city Of baltimore. as is
more fully set forth elsewhere. the
came being made nv refe-enc a part
hreof. marked Exhibit A." which ex-
plains the broken bones aforesaid.
Financially. he was millions worse
than nothing. II you can understand
that. PERSONAL. I can't. Zero H. the
bottom OF the spOnduliX scale for me.
aInougn the thummometer seems 20
prove II ain't necessarily thus. Any
how, the Old Man had Josie. an any
man o Sturgis To Dog Den Bufte~
would have shouldered all Mr.. EIkins'
sh-inkages. especially the belOw-zcrO
part, to've had her Jest once smooth
the hair of his beaded brow. let alone
take charge ~ him like a Herford
heifer does her fIst calf. Which Is
sure the manner Josie took a-holt and
managed the Old Man. hut this
haint no love story. Quite the re-
verse. It's the "Talt ~ Ten Thousand
Dogies."
found out that whom Mr. +. went
into the bulb IN a business way. this
VOL Nose CriCk Ranch went around
bankruptcy. instid OF through g.. be-
cuz. mostly. nobody thought II wuth
"a thought. An 20 them az think
strange OF ten thousand steers. even
dogies. bein' bought nv "A busted
boomer. III state that any man with
the same range. an not absolutely q
convicted hossthief. could've got 'em
BY giving the same cuihroat chattoi
maVgitch. old Aleck Macdonald did
sure sell 'em 20 Nr. F1klna reason.
able. though. because James r. had
made him a good deal % money In
this, boom, an they was only dogies,
anyhow.
Now. this bein' my ovenin' fer ,eufn'
the truth. III state that ten Thousand
dogies is sure "a complicated problem
on the range. The distinction o..
tWeen them an regular native range
COWS lay In the lap ~ luxury Goo which
the dogies o. danrlrd in tho flrmfu'
regions where thoy originate Tho
hrst little blizzard. they'll hump IN
an blat Ter home q mother THEY'LL
Eaze fOndly ~ n butte ton mile on.
expecting doors iu 90 10 Slide opnn.
on racks full of clover nu' timothy fo
p1n out an boz fnrknd out to cm
They ooh Erieyfd an wiring their .Irs
becuz wator with fhe chill f00k m
amt plpcd 70 their stalls. 4r they
moan cause fhcr aIrf rr stall. TI
a. soon run FL Women. ar. flLioe
Homo. YOU raIrf r.f If into their
headH whore fIr HHf.r HnIf. e rr'
It's allue Iu fHnu break H.u.Irr
they'll stan on frr.J. Boo fIr.r .r..
NJ chase after soWc bunch 1f Zoo rl.
uves ontll fhoir l1otss drop oF
That's why Macdonald talked a. is
did about en-. as I'm informed
Take 'em Gays Doc - dYrt n.t.
Ger yourself rm drnaf.r. arfthIrv
They's no feed frr .nm boo fhe.r nlf.fa
Iowa ~ any Twin price. an Or f..
other hand. 80 rrr cent NJ rmif fs
Eettin' ovrr fho'r homrsirkntrs rn fta
range fOul have ~ boz or mo g. r
stickin' you vhrr 0 know NOR.
about the cattle hus moss For fh.
Lords sake fsfe 'rm before They .ai
me out ~ every dollar Two gof leftf-
Some ~ th.a was IraIrhf goods a4.
some stall bur thai frrf viuter usr a
special ~pOvldcnce m they over vl-
y So mild and harmv from so.
tember fo March that fhe pa.r Ir dog.
forgof 10 hrle up. on Mrs EIFIns
served ~TharksF.vn fdinrer ia tbe
bpen afr on fnc f"fzy.az1. no fhf
1nch an rhe rod. flr range vifh