The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-10

invading army, and made the quickest
abdication of which there is record
He simply sprang for the back door
and bolted for Kansas SOIL, He
reached it, and, since his cares Of
state had left him no time to arrange
an extradition treaty with Kansas, he
was safe there from molestation, and,
grinding his teeth, he watched the
ruin of his kingdom.
If Johnson had entered the back
door he would have had Lewis, for in
Indian Territory he was supreme.
However, he was not thinking very
much about the king just then. Nor
did he regard the courtiers and no.
bility at the bar and gaming tables.
who made their exits in record time
also, some seeking shelter in the Ter
ritory and others in Kansas. John
sons principle design was to put
Monte Carlo out of commission
Johnson and Keller made grab for
Killion and Elijah Paradise. and in a
trice had them in irons.
"But you can't take US for this"
walled the prophet, as he tried to
wriggle out of his handouts.
That's what the lawyer told the
man in JAIL" answered Pussyfoot.
Then. grasping a heavy bung start
er, Johnson entered upon his favorite
pastime. The roulette wheel went in
to splinters, the tables became pile
of debris, the cards were torn to
shreds in Johnson's strong fingers,
while he whistled I'm the Man Who
Broke the BANS at Monte Carlo"
Having satisfied himself that the bank
was broken beyond repair, Pussyfoot
turned his attention to the liquid re-
freshments. The sacred prohibition
soil of Kansas, and the equally uncon-
taminated soil of Indian Territory
soon became a morass, through which
dozen rivers of tanglefoot and "Old
Rye" wended their sluggish ways.
When everything was an irreparable
ruin Johnson yoked his prisoners to-
gether, got hem into the buggy which
he had in waiting, and started for
the town of Caney, whittier Lewis had
already fed.
Johnson had smashed the gambling
tables, he had smashed the bottles,
and he had hacked the bar good
deal. Johnson has a child-like i'm
petus toward destruction; his set
smile as he welded his sledge-ham-
mer was well known to many carica-
turists. Johnson can smash cast
steel safe that nothing else except
gun-cotton could open. On this oc-
casion he had performed one act of
destruction which was to involve him
in serious difficulty: he smashed the
cash register.
It was a fine new cash register, and
too shining and tempting for Johnson
to resist. He did, indeed, instruct
Elijah to open it and take out the
contents. But Elijah refused, and so
Pussyfoot got his axe into play and
soon strewed the bar with pieces OF
metal, incidentally obtaining a sum OF
several hundred dollars. which he
counted and placed in his pocket,
with view to handing it over to the
sheriff.
Lewis had preceded Pussyfoot to
Caney, and he at once went before a
justice of the peace and obtained a
warrant for Johnson's arrest, charging
him with the malicious destruction Of
property, to which was subsequently
added the charge of theft. He also
alleged that Johnson had introduced
intoxicants into Kansas-which was
true enough, for the river Of whiskey
certainly reached Kansas soil. Be-
sides, Johnson had samples of the
stuff in his buggy, to be used as
evidence. Consequently, hardly had