The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-09-11


ton about dusk and ate hi
IL supper In silence. He'd beer
east for sixty days. and. al
though there lurked about him tn,
hint OF unwonted ventures. etiquett,
forbade its mention. You see, In oul
country that which a man gives vol
unfairly is ofttlmes later dissected
In smoky bunk houses or roughly
handled round pickering campiires
but the privacies he guards are In.
violate. Curiosity isn't exactly lost
art, but its practice isn't popular nor
hygienic.
Later l found him meditatively
the moment seemed propitious | In
quired adroitly. Ibid you have good
time in Chicago, Bitter Rootr"
Bully said be. relapsing into
weighty absorption.
"What'd you do% ] inquired. with
almost the certainty OF appearing in
sistent.
Don't you never read the papersT
he inquired, with such evident com
passion that "Kink" Martin and the
other boys snlckered. This from
Bitter Root" who scorns literature
outside OF the ARKANSAS Printing"
as he terms the Illustrations.
Guess I'll have TO show you my
press notices." and from hip pocket
he produced a fat bundle OF clippings
in rubber band These he displayed
jealousy. and stared agape. for
they were front pages OF great metro
politan dallies married with red and
black scare heads. In which | glimpscd
the words, Billings. OF Montana"
Bitter Root on Arbitration" "A
Lochinvar out OF the West" and
other things as puzzling.
Press notices" echoed "Kink"
scornfuly. Wouldn't that rope your
He talks like Big Ike that went with
the Wild West show. When punch
er gets so lazy be can't earn a living
by the sweat of his pony he grows his
hair. goes on the stage busting glass
balls with shot cartridges and talks
about press notices. Let's see 'em,
Billings. You pinch 'em as close to
your stummick as though you held
cards In a strange poker game
well. have set In strange game, |
amongst ALIENS" said Billings. disre- |
gardiDg the request, "and I've held the |
high cards; also I've drawed out with |
honors. I've sailed the medium high |
seas with mutlny In the stokehole.
I've changed the laws of labor. politics
and municipal economies. ! went out
OF Gods country right into the heart
of the decaying east, and by the APP
plication of a running moose In a
hemp rope ! strangled oppression and
put 5000 men to work" He paused
ponderously. Pm an arbitrator"
THE deuce you arer' Indignantly
cried "Reddy." the cook. who says
SOP
''Reddy" isn't up In syntax. and his
unreasonlng loyalty to Billings is an
established fact Of such standing that
his remarks afford no conjecture.
"Yes; I've cut into the nations peril
and the crying evil' good and strong.
walking out from the stinks of the
Union stockyards OF Chicago into the
limelight of publicity via the drunk
and disorderly' route.
You see | got those ten carloads
Of steers into the city all right, but
was so blame busy spattering
through the tracked up wastes OF the
cow pens and inhaling the sewer gas ,
Of the west side that | never got TO |
see newspaper. IL Id "a read one.
here's what I'D "a found-namely. /
he greatest. stubbornest. riotingest /
strike ever known. which means a {
reap for Chicago. she being the wet {
Nurse OF labor trouble. {
THE whole river front was tied up. I
Nary steamer had whistled inside 9
he six mile crib for two weeks, and '
LOCO men was out. There was hold c
Fps and blood shedding and picketing. c
which last is an alias for assault with I
ntents and altogether It was n prime
lace for cowman on quiet yaca- a
ion-just homelike and natural. b
1T was at this point that | enters. b
usting out of the smoke OF the stock o
ards. all sweet and beautiful. like K
he gentle heroine in the play as she b
walks through the curtains at the
ack OF the stage. a
Now. you know there's a heap OF s.
Inference between the stoekyards II
nd Chicago-its just like coming G.
rom Arkansas over into the United Il
tates Ia
well. soon as l sold the stock l W
it for the lake front and began to fl
round sluice the coal dust off Of my
alate. tr
II was busy working my booze by rs
raulic when | see an arid appearing L
ilgrim 'longside looking thirsty as an CO
kali fat. n,
"'Get in.' says l. and the way he II
beyed orders looked like he'd had III
Military training. | felt sort of Al
rawed to him from the way he m
andled his Ticker; took 1t straight and b;
mining over, then sopped his hands m