The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-08-30

- not of record in the case. I
En-, Adds color to the-which?
narrative, Well, d'n' know about /
.n., RELY couldn't say as 1t does.
But mentionin' color, the thought of
So, little affair do make my face as
"A A a cow-town on payday. When !
,urn that tale loose we'll make a |
onAnisht stand of 1t by the grub |
vssou. II comprises a shippers pass
N Sioux City, sure-thing game In
hat moral town. which l win out by
h.etin' my judgment with my Colt,
~, a police court wherein the bank
NIL and my pile was rake-off for the
sourt. Charge, gamblin'. All hands
,asad guilty. All correct says you, an
mite sccordin' to the statutes made
ss' pervided; an SO says /, ontil !
casually picks up paper in Belle
Fuurche, an sees that ii was phoney
solice court not only owned and con-
trolled by the shell men, which
vouldnt be surprisin', but privately
installed as a sort Of accident insur-
apce on their other game.
Hell hath no fury like a woman
sorped," Mr.. Elkins remarks to me
one day, but all that is goin' to be
changed when l ketch up with that
police Judge.
Ridin the range makes a man talka-
tive with the scenery, an when ! sees
that Sioux City paper, | turns loose
some remarks in the presence Of
gentleman who subsequently turns out
to be Mr. Elkins.
Thanks" says he.
sWhen did you acquire any chips in
this little solitaire blasphemy game?"
says I. mad. as a man allus is If he's
tetched 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
4 proprio vigore," says he. whatever
that means, anywhere where cuss-
words is trumps."
He never smiled except back in his
eyes an I, likin' his style. hires out
10 him, an was third man on the j.
UpAnd. 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 blood
sveatin' hippopotamus.
Third man. says |, an II you think
X the first was the Old Man. J. r. E..
you know. you've got another coniec-
ture comm Number One was Mrs.
Elkins. an I reckon some of her New
York friends'll enter into connibtions
to know that, in lessn' year. half the
4 boys called her Josie-in their dreams,
II least-an' 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
Il 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. I can't. Zero is the
bottom of the spondulix scale fer me
although the thummometer seems tC
prove It amt necessarily thus. Any
how. the Old Man had Josie, an any
man from Sturgis to Dog Den Buttes
would have shouldered all Mr.. Elkins
4 shrinkages. especially the below-zerc
part to've had her Jest once smooth
the hair off his beaded brow, let alone
take charge of him like a HEREFORD
heller does her fust calf. Which Is
sure the manner Josie took a-holt md
managed the Old Man. But thi:
hain't no love story Quite the re
verse It's the Tale OF Ten Thousand
Dogies."
/ found out that when Mr.. E. wen
Into the bulb in a business way, thi!
Wolf Nose Crick Ranch went arount
bankruptcy. instid OF through 1t. be
cuz, mostly. nobody thought 1t wutl
IA thought. An to them as thinl
strange Of ten thousand sters, ever
dogies. bein' bought by bustet
boomer, I'll state that any man will
the same range, an not absolutely |
convicted hoss-thief. could've got 'en
BY givin' the same cutthroat chatte
mawgitch Old Aleck Macdonald dit
sure sell 'em to Mr.. Elkins reason
able. though. because James r. hat
3 made him a good deal Of money II
this boom. an they was only dogies
anyhow.
Now. this bein' my evenin' fer tellin
the truth, I'll state that ten thousan,
dogies Is sure a complicated problem
On the range. The distinction be
tween them an regular native rang
g COWS Laws In the lap o. luxury in whicl
me dogies is dangled in the farmr
~ regions where they originate. Tn
nrst little blizzard, they'll hump u
an blat fer home an mother They
gaze fondly at butte ten mi'e of
expectin' doors in II to slide oper
an racks full Of clover an timothy (
pull out an be forked out to EN-
they look grieved an wiring their Jaw
oecuz water with the chill took o.
amt nfped to their stalls, an the
moan cause they amt no stalls. I
@ soon run a Women's an Babe,
nome. You CANT get It into thei
ueads where the water-holes is, a
rs allus an even break whuthe
neyIl stan an freeze in their track
VI chase after some bunch of 2:10 n;