The chronicle=news., 1914-12-10

and sort of free and easy bad place
The last word agents" had been re-
moved from the sign by some freak
OF the wind, leaving the other words
to stand as a joke on the girls Sol
Spetgelberg used to take great de-
light In calling the uttentio. of
strangers to the hiatus IN the sign
and they had man y good tipplc
over it. Another merchant in the
two-year-old town was Rugged Rug
giles. He was mn accommodating In
dividual and acted as an amateur
banker for the boys and wherever
they had an excess wal to pack
around they left it witt. eosf. old
Ruggles for safe keeping On. day
this Rusgles gent took his lady love.
the buxom young woman hunt out in
the short grass. \ gambler who had
gotten into pretty tiff roker
game with some high stopper ran
ashore for money ard remembering
his bank roll at the Il ,ssles store
went over TO get 1t.
! The clerk could not find the rem
orandum that went with the sport
ing gentleman's deposit and :skcd
him how much 1t was. He &C. the
s12. 900 and Hent away with 1t The
clerk began to sweat bl ,od for fear
lie had made mistake in taking the
| mans word for it. When the boss
came back from his RABBIT hunt with
the cafe lady the clerk sprans the
proposition. The boss himself tould
not recollect the amount OF the trust
| fund and asked: How much did
Tpn ~
| Sl2,000?" wei! If hn gave that
figure as the sum you can bet YOUR
| boots he is right Thi- it'll, fin
| ancial circumstance ony goes to
| show the kind of men we had here
| m the frontier in the DAYS OF raw
nide chivalry or whatever 1t tight
re called. Men were square then
and did everything on heir honor
with the result that nobody was ever
robbed and the CRATER was UNI
known.--Field and Farm
The Hole in the Door: Never card
| Of Jack MCGEE, the squaw man of
the Yellowstone? Well re was SIM
| ply a regular old hassyrmpa. who
lived on n squatter's claim n the
| mouth of the East and Wnst Rose bud
| where they came together and
dumped their limpid currents into
the saltwater. One time back in
the seventies before the white man
had come along to disturb :he e,luan-
unity of the pristine histt riany Nc
Gee missed four Of his best horses.
Stransest OF all, one horse d sap
peared each nigh. without evinence
that anybody had been arounu the
premises. There were 10 P+.gans
nor white men around and he was
too sleepy to sit IL p nights to solve
the mystery. 30 lie bethought OF a
Sherlock Holmes scheme. I'm GO
| ing to catch the thief" lie sad as
he got out a beaver trap and set IL
inside the hole in the stable door
just ove- the slide that served TO
lock 1t.
| In the morning Ii saw that he
had caught the right chap and to in
crease the exubcrance OF the happy
hour the culprit turned out none
other than the crow skunk Bustw ah,
who by the way was his own Di 9th
er-in-law through his sqiaw. letch-
ct. This red tape evidently laid a
good deal of store in his rusty way
on the philosoph" of K'pling, who
said: when Omer smite s. bloomin'
Tyre and wrote of men ny land and
sea; Just what e thought q might re-
quire Q went an took the ga mo tis
me y Ao1ee was Il meal old cuss
himself aud just left his buttohhole
relative N the trap all re livelong
and tnrturous day and tim let him
go. If you don't bring my horses
back am going TO kill ycu," he said
to Bushwah as he kicked I'm OFF the
ranch. The latter disappeared from
the reservation and Niece" never got
his stock back. whicl probably
served him right after treating his
relative the way he did Field and
Farm
The Wrong Trail: 1t o:turrec one
day to Joe Chandler, the lone settler
at the foot of Mount Scott near old
Camp Wichita, that lie ouaht to have
Il wife or something of that scrt 30
he visited the Penetaka Comm; nche
| tribe on the reservation and carried
eff Lupa, the best looking girl il the
whole zenana. She was a Mexican
whom the Indians had captured as a
little girl when out on one OF their
periodical forays down In the Texas
country. The sqraws as vas the US
ual custom with their ca otives made
Lupa work like a galley slave Going
all kinds of mental druid gerry, e she
was very glad indeed to take W with
a white man who would treat her as
his wife and he kind to her. Joe
| Chandler's counting like that OF
| Miles Standish was done in such
surreptitious manner that none OF
the wiseheads around the reserva-
tion knew what was going on. They
did not find out about 4 until the
gay Lotharia had carried or his
bride and esconsed her m the title
old log cabin at the foot of Mount