Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-09-19

that. RELY couldn't say as 1t does.
But mentioniu' color, the thought OF
that little affair do make my face as
red as a eow-town on payday. When
/ turn that tale loose we'll make
one-night stand Of it by the grub
wagon. 1t comprises a shippers pass
to Sioux City, sure-thing game In
that moral town, which win out by
baekin' my judgment with my Colt,
an police court wherein the bank
roll and my pile was rakeDff for the
court. Charge. gamblin'. All hands
plead guilty. All correct says you. an
quite accordin' to the statutes made
an pervided; an so says 4. ontil
casually picks UP paper in Belle
Fourche. an sees that II was a phoney
police court. not only owned and con-
trolled by the she'll men, which
wouldn't be surprisin,, but privately
installed as sort Of accident inshr-
ance on their other game.
Hell hath no fury like woman
scorned," Mr.. Elklns remarks to me
one day. but all that is goin' to be
changed when I 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 a
gentleman who subsequently turns out
to be MIR. Elkins.
Thanks says he.
When did you acquire any chips IN
this little solitaire 'blasphemy game ?"
says |. mad. as a 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
propFio syigore,"" says ahe. whatever
that means anywhere where cuss-
words is trumps"
He never smiled except back in his
keyes, anil HkiRi his style. hires out
to him, an was third man on the j.
tUp-AndsD Down Ranch tffon1 the day the
dogies begun TO be unloaded, till
james n Eikfhs went to New York,
with a roll that would choke a blood
sweatin' hippopotamus
bI Third man. says /, 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 friends'll enter into conniptions
to know that, III lessn' year, half the
boys called her Josie-in their dreams,
at least-an' some on 'em to her face;
but none to her back, by a damsitei
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 10 any loggin' accident
Is informed that 1~mean the town-lot
boom in the city Of baltimore, as Is
more fully set forth elsewhere, the
same bein' made by reference q part
hereof. marked Exhibit A." which ex-
plains the broken bones aforesaid.
Financially, he was millions worse
than nothing, II you can understand
that. Personally, can't. Zero is the
bottom of the apondulix scale fer me.
although the thummometer seems to
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,
shrinkages. especially the below-zero
part. to've had her Jest once smooth
the hair of his beaded brow. let alone
take charge Of him like HEREFORD
heifer does her fust calf. Which Is
sure the manner Josie took a-hoit and
managed the Old Man. But this
hain't no love story. Quite the re-
verse It's the ''TAleOf Ten Thousand
Dogies.''
found out that when Mr.. Z. went
into the bulb in a business way, this
Wolf Nose CriGk Ranch went around
bankruptcy, inatid OF through 1t. be
cuz, mostly, nobody thought II wuth
IA thought. An to them as think
strange of ten thousand sters. even
dogies, bein' bought by busted
boomer. I'll state that amy man with
the same range, an not absolutely q
convicted hoss-thief. could've got 'em
by giyin' the same cutthroat chatteI
maWgftch. Old Aleck Macdonald did
sure sell 'em TO Mr.. Elkfns reason
able, though, because James r. had
made him gpod deal Of money I'm
This boom. an they was only dogIes.
anyhow
New, this bei1i' my evenin' fer tefiiu'
the truth, I'll state that ten thousand
aogies Is sure p complicated problem
on the range. The distinction be
tween them an regular native range
cows lays IN the lap o. luxury In which
the dogfes is dangled in the farmin'
regions where they originate The
first little blizzard, they'll hump up
an blat fer horne an mother. THEY'LL
gaze fondly at a butte ten mile on.
expectin' doors in It to slide open.
an racks full OF clover an timothy to
pull out an ba forked out to EN-.
They look grieved an wiring their Jaws
beeuz water with the chill took ri
amt piped to their stalls. an thoz
moan cause they amt no stalls. -
as soon run a Women's an Babina'
Home. You caIn't get It into their
heads where the water-holes Is. an
It's ailus an even break whuther
they'll stan an freeze in their tracks.
or chase after some bunch OF 2.10 ma
lives oatfi their hooves drop OF.
that's why Macdonald talked az he
did about EN-. be I'm informed
Take EN-" days he, IAN don't fat
ter yourself I'm donatin' anything
Thavsa M fs,.d Ter am fu fhafr native