Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-29

risk Of being misquoted IN your inac-
curate but entertaining columns.
Here. then. ID the. horrible truth: !
did know q squaw named Annie-per-
hap6 she was Lyon then, az now-cer-
tatnly somebody 10. Please take 10
offense, dear sCitisen. Her name was
Annie. but she was better known in
the colorful and expressive idiom Of
Rampant as Short and Dirty" The
nickname. assure you. was not un-
warranted. The lady who languishes
IN your local bastile as the result Of
evu influences you so generously at
tribute to her association with me may
be the same-I don't know. am led to
believe it is. for recall no other "An-
ME- in Rampant, and the one / knew
was even at that time marked with .
ravenous appetite for booze.
WHY HE MOVED.
You will doubtless find verfication
for your assertions that she was my
former wife when confess that the
same roof sheltered both of us for
time. But it SO happened that it like
wise sheltered five other white men.
two Of whom had come from the States
with me in search Of gold and glory.
Those two young men, each nowlpros-
porous in business, were my partners.
They will undoubtedly find much in
terest in your story Of my past. But
to return to that roof-alas! 1t and An
ME herself belonged to another man
from whom my partnerss and I had
taken a mining lease. / regret to state
that we were not happy family-even
during the brief interval that we all
dwelt there together. Memory tells
me that one reason left that roof and
sought another was because Annie, my
"sourdough" associates helpmate, in
sisted upon boiling frozen fish heads
In a tomato can and eating the eyes
while we college boys were at our
meals 1t was not appetizing to try to
eat while those fish craniums were
being vacuum cleaned. Nor were An
MES other habits those to which we
were accustomed in our homes.
Anyhow, l moved. / am moved now
to tears at the thought that, all m
Willingly. l injured the maiden's pros
poets, wrecked her later life and be-
came squawman, by refusing to stand
Tor those fish heads. / am assuming,
OF course, that the Incorporate LADY
mentioned in your columns and my ex-
associates light o. love are one and
the same. But I hear you scott. IL
hear you exclaim, "Ha! the wretch be- |
trays himself! Another's wife, for
scoth! This Beach has written moth !
ing but lies about Alaska. This is |
gross libel upon the name of her fair |
daughters aud constitutes his crown
ing infamy."
GHOSTS OF THE PAST.
In the light of those notifying dis
closures contained in your dignified |
editorial page / am reminded that a |
mans evil deeds will rise to plague
him, and | am constrained to advise all |
young men that they cannot be too
careful in sowing their wild oats, lest,
surer than shooting, some insane editor
will harvest them, and offer them for
public sale.
My dear Alaska Citizen, you cannot
lnow what emotions you have aroused
n this breast of mine by thus prying
nto a past which I considered dead
Ind gone, nor with what feelings /
mall paste your clipping into my scrap
BOOK, after 1t has gone the rounds of
hose other fellows who knew Short
md Dirty 1t has the makings of a
splendid press story in it, and 1 trust
iou viii pardon me If I avail myself
If that fact, giving due credit, of course
o the Alaska Citizen.
In closing. permit me to assure Won
hat you have added greatly to the en-
oyment of dull winter, even though
hat enjoyment is tempered by the mel
ncholy conviction that your paper Is
dited by a maniac
Admiringly and sympathetically
ours, REX BEACH.
I'm nTn YIN rYrrr $500