Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-08-29
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ubq Adds color to the-which?
,,arratiye! Well, d'n' know about
4hat RELY couldn't say as it does.
Rut mentionin' color, the thought of
,bot little affair do make my face as
cod "a a cow-town on payday. When
turn that tale loose we'll make a
ore-night stand of 1t by the grub
wagon. 1t comprises shippers pass
N Sioux City, suH1-thing game in
+bat moral town, which / win out by
Sackin' my Judgment with my Colt.
an, a police court wherein the bank
roll and my pile was rake-off for the
court. Charge, gamblin'. All hands
plead guilty. All correct says you, an
4 unite accordin' to the statutes made
/ an peryided: an SO says I, ontil I
/ casually picks up paper in Belle
Eourche, an sees that 1t was phoney
oolice court, not only owned and con-
trolled by the shell men, which
wouldn't be surprisin', but privately
/ iustalled as sort Of accident insur-
snce on their other game.
Hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned," Mr.. Elklns remarks to me
one day, but all that Is goin' to be
changed when ! ketch up with that
/ police judge.
Ridin' the range makes man talka-
tive with the scenery, an when I sees
that Sioux City paper, turns loose
some remarks in the presence of a
gentleman who subsequently turns out
to be Mr. Elkins.
Thanks" says he.
when did you acquire any chips In
this little solitaire blasphemy gamer?
says J. mad, as man allus is If he's
ketched solloloquisin' to himself.
"A man." says he, with all the side
tracks filled with cars o. cattle an
more comm, an no gang, is in, ex
proprio vigore," says he, whatever
that means, anywhere where cuss-
words is trumps."
He never smiled except back in his
eyes, an !, likin' his style, hires out
to him, an was third man on the j.
Up-And-Down Ranch from the day the
dogies begun to be unloaded, till
James r. Elkins went to New York,
with a roll that would choke a blood
sweatin' hippopotamus.
Third man, says I, an if you think
the first was the Old Man, J. R. E.,
you know, you've got another conjec-
ture comm. Number One was Mrs.
Elkins, an reckon some Of her New
York friendsll enter into conniptions
to know that, in lessn' a year, half the
boys called her Josie-in their dreams,
at least-ar some on 'em to her face:
but none to her back, 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 in the collapse of the
boom at baltimore; an them as
thinks refer to any loggin' accident
Is informed that mean the town-lot
boom in the city of baltimore, as Is
more fully set forth elsewhere, the
same bein' made by reference part
hereof, marked Exhibit A." which ex-
plains the broken bones aforesaid.
Financially, he was millions worse
than nothing, If you can understand
that Personally. can't. Zero is the
bottom of the spondulix scale fer me,
although the thummometer seems to
prove it amt necessarily thus. Any
now, the Old Man had Josie, an any
man from Sturgis to Dog Den Buttes
would have shouldered all Mr. Elkins'
shrlnkages, especially the beIOw-zero
part, tove had her jest once smooth
the hair off his beaded brow, let alone
take charge of him like a HEREFORD
helfer does her fust calf. Which is
sure the manner Josie took a-holt and
managed the Old Man. But this
nain't no love story. Quite the re-
verse. It's the tale of Ten Thousand
Dogies."
found out that when Mr.. e. went
INTO the bulb in business way, this
Won Nose Crick Ranch went around
bankruptcy, instid of through it, be-
cuz, mostly, nobody thought it wuth
ia thought. An to them as think
strange Of ten thousand sters, even
Sogies, bein' bought by busted
z, Al otcStS lu1L ally HIGH Win
tne same range, an not absolutely
convicted hoss-thief, could've got 'em
Ny glyin' the same cutthroat chattel
IaWgltch. Old Aleck Macdonald did
sure sell 'em to Mr.. Elkins reason
@oie' though, because James R. had
made him good deal of money in
.nls boom, an they was only dogies,
anyhow.
Now, this bein' my evenin' fer tellin'
sne truth, I'll state that ten thousand
uosieS Is sure complicated problem
"a the range. The distinction be-
SHeeh them an regular native range
=. yUws lays in the lap o. luxury in which
suo oogies is dangled In the farnitn'
teeiOns where they originate. The
alst little blizzard, they'll hump up
~ plat fer home an mother. They'll
saSe iondly at a butte ten mile of.
ApectiR doors In It to slide open.
~ racks full of clover an timothy to
null out an be forked out to 'em.
h buey look grieved an wiring their jaws
st IIuz water with the chill took on
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