The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-01

Good morning March-we greet you,
though We do not trust you much, you
nave a reputation for
MARCH fickleness and such,
COMES according to the Calen-
dar, you ought to start
our spring; its up to YOU, Old Bluff
fer, the seasons change to ring; |
hope you've left your lion, tied fast
outside the door; | do not like his ugly
scoWl, l do not like his roar, 50 /
trust you've brought our lamb along
to frolic every day; though lamb
comes high this time of year, we'll
try the price to pay; for unless you've
brought your lambkin, | cannot do a
thing; if your lion gets to roaring, /
cannot write of spring; and, though
l don't expect to get, so much as one
lamb chop, III have to get the price
of beans or else come to a stop; so
trot out your little sheeplet and let
him frisk and play; for then I'll try
to jingle some sort of springtime lay;
I'd like to jingle something new,
something sweet and nice; I've ex-
hausted all the rhymes l know for
cold and snow and ice"
That alligator may yet be discovered.
T~rainmaster ShoWalter has a redhot
clue. Yesterday he
FRESH received a telegram
CLUE from San Francisco
telling of the discovery
of an alligator near the bay. The mes
sage didn't describe the animal nor
give any of the details connected
with its discovery, but MI. ShoWalter
is optimistic and believes that his pet
has been found. Certainly the alli-
gator is somewhere far from Mis-
soula: this city has been thoroughly
searched. Jim Brown moved every
thing in the depot. cleared out every
drawer. looked behind every desk,
turned the whole works upside down.
The alligator wasn't in the place. 1t
seems that the little animal was
quite a Splinter. He could move across
the floor as fast as q mar can walk.
The accepted theory now is that he
escaped from his cage and took to the
ties. The kidnapping theory has been
dropped. Hagerty and Grant were too
emphatic in their denials. Yesterday
+it- u ~ An AIN VI
police in San Francisco and to the
governor Of California, i%nstructing
them to arrest all alligators unable to
prove their identity.
The arrival in the city of Manager
Clifton Blankenship set all Missoula
to talking baseball. The
BASEBALL fans, who have been
GOSSIP living on a winter diet
Of last years dope
came out into the open air yesterday,
to examine the weather signs and to
discuss the prospects for the coming
season. The disagreeable wind and
the light fall of snow didn't cool the
enthusiasm of the bugs II bit. The
managers arrival means that the
season is not far away, no matter
what sort of weather the Grounding
and his loW-lived assistants may fix
mp. When Blank first appeared yes
terday morning he ran squarely into
Il baseball delegation. Il thought the
season must have opened over night"
said the manager, "On the corner
We're skipper Roberts, Mig Perrine,
Bassey, Frary, Daschbach, Hughie
Campbell and Charley Hall. 1t looked
like summer for fair" So ii went all
day, The fans talked over recruits
and veterans n discussed the other
clubs of the league. There wasn't
much gloom to the fan-fest, either.
The bugs feel certain that Missoula
viii be in the first division, if not at
the top.
II manager says, too, that the High