The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-01-27
"BURRERS" BANNED BILL
CHEATING HIM OF BRIDE

celebration that she said this. The
boys were all celebrating uncommon
and set up several times breaking
the good news to several that I was
to be married and they all congratu-
lated me, drunk how to me and my
intended at 81 per treat.
Then seen Jim higgins end I
says, Jim have you got any burners
for sale? He says. That l have. Bill.
I've been appointed agent for seven,
burners left out ir bunch some fell
lers imported from Arizona. Yer kin
have the hui bunch for prices dirt
cheap, ranging from about $50 to $50
he says and being as I'm yer friend
I'll take half down and yer mote for
the balance in sixty days at 10 per
cent interest.
obsessed BY Desire
Well I figgered round considerable
trying to find bargain and looked
at all kinds Of burners till could
see packs Of the critters every night
when tried to sleep. Most as own
! ed burners was opposed to part from
SIGH without cash in advance ranging
up to unreasonable prices. They fig-
gered to have me cinched, but I'm,
inder klose in kalkulashun when 1t
comes to trading in burners and
mules. Besides l wanted to leave all
my spare money amounting to $1,000
with the gal. She says to me. Bill,
II you don't leave that money with
me I'll think yer afraid to trust me
and she sung a little song:
Could you look into my heart dear,
You would know I'm only thine.
So I gave the gal the $1,000 and
took the bargains of Jim higgins on
them bsrers. bid goodby to the
gal and set out from Goldfield with
them seven burners and the time I
had Citing out to Tule Hole in Death
valley war hell, which. as them noos
paper fellers says. lack Of space for
bids US to relate. The pint I am
Citing at Is what them durn bur.
rers done to be a coming back. It
war hot enough to make Teller crazy
II he war not of ancherly sound in
tellect. I could smell my clothes q.
scorching in the heat and It war not
long till the seat Of my trousers tore
out as being no more substantially
than a noospaper. had to drink wa
ter that we're almost billing and the
rattlesnakes and hydrofobus skunks
and SIGH had 1t in for me like pizen.
Then a trading rat took most all my
grub leaving ornery pieces Of rock
and SIGH as payment. But 1t was the
best that the pore cuss knowed and
! didn't bother him.
Diet Change Menaees
For weeks before leaving Goldfield
them burners had been living on the
pictures and kromos of candidates
that was running for office. Some
fe.lers had said that for burners to
have to live on SIGH were next to
Vandalism. And so one hot dark
night when the burners ct up all Of
!, the dynamite they was taken sick
} with wind collie.
h l got along somehow a digging and
panning till / struck the pay streak
and filled my sacks on a lokashun
called The Golden Fleece. Figgering
7 that I'd be solid with the gal now,
! set out at night to git back to
Goldfield in doc time for the we'd
: ding and ! went along singing till at
} the durn kyotes barked in regular
forus.
| | was having hell with them bur.
rers right along, to say nothing of
rattle snakes, till | come to where
the road crossed the salt marsh in
Death valley and there would not a
durn one of them buffers cross the
> NAoo'o pNAA6 uiieiu VI mi III lhtll
feet.
J | was riding big mouse colored
burrer with white belly and ears
= like the steering paddles of an air
ship. tried coaXing him to cross the
: mud, and holding him by the rope |
walked ahead to show him it would
not mire nobody. But burned If that
; Burner would come an inch and he
: jist rared and jerked back until fin.
, ally | seays to him, dam your sole,
| says, I'll teach yer how to differ
with the genus homo, and | hawled
off and hit him with a sledge ham
mer.
Well 1t never faxed the cuss so far
as making him amendable to reason
but he broke and run down the road