Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-03-11
CHAPTER w.

Day was dawning In Buenaventura
> republic of Sobrante, as invariably /
dawns in the tropics-wlthout extend
, ed preliminary symptoms. The soft
silvery light of full moon that haC
stayed out scandalously late hat
merged imperceptibly into gray; the
gray was swiftly yielding place to 8
faint crimson that was spreading and
deepening upward athwart the east.
In the patio of Mother jerks estab.
lishment in the Gale de Concordia
No. 10, the first shafts of morning
light were filtering obliquely through
the orange trees and creeping in I'M
der the deep; Gothic-arched veranda
thanking the western side OF the pa
ito. Presently. through the silent
reaches of the Gale de Concordia, the
sound of prodigious knocking and
humping echoed, as of some fretful
individual seeking admission at the
street door of Ell Buen Amigo, by
which euphonious designation Mother
jerks caravansary was known to the
public of Buenaventura. In the sec
ond story, front, window slid back
and woman's voice, husky with that
huskiness that speaks so accusingly
of cigarettes and alcohol, demanded:
"Quien es? Who is it? Que quiere
listed? Wot do yer want?"
Eye might dispinse wit that para
queet conversation whin addhressin'
the likes av me- voice replied "Tis
me-Cafferty. I have a cablegram
Leber give me to deliver"
"Gawds TRUTH Would yer wake
the ole 'ouse with yer 'ammering?"
"All right I'll not say another
word !"
Without the portal stood Don Juan
Cafetero, of whom a word or two be-
fore proceeding.
To begin, Don Juan Cafetero was
not his real name, but rather free
Spanish translation Of the Gaelic
John Cafferty. Mr. Cafferty was an
exile of Erin with a horrible thirst.
He had first arrived In Sobrante some
five years before, as section boss in
the employ of the little. foreign-owned
narrow-gauge railway which ran from |
Buenaventura on the Caribbean coast !
to San Miguel de Padua, up.c country
where the nitrate beds were located. |
Prior to his advent the railroad PEG |
pie had tried many breeds of section
boss without visible. results, until a
Chicago man, who had come to So
brante to install an inter-communicat-
ing telephone system in the govern
ment buildings, suggested to tile su-
perintendent of the road who was.
German, that the men made for bosses
come from Erin's isle; wherefore Mr..
Cafferty had been imported at price
OF 50 day gold. Result-a marked
improvement in the road bed and con-
sequently the train schedules. and the ]
ultimate loss of the Cafferty soul .,
Something in the climate of Sobran.
tie must have appealed to a touch of
laissez faire in Don Juan's amiable
nature. for In the course of time he
mad taken unto himself, without bell
or book, after the fashion of the pro-
letariat of Sobrante, the daughter of
one Esteban Manuel Enrique Jose Ma
ria Pasqual y Aiiramontes. an estima-
BILE peon who was singularly glad TO
have his daughter off his hands and no
questions asked. Following the fash
ION OF the country, however, Esteban
mad forthwith moved the remainder of
MS numerous progeny under the man.
Tie OF Don Juan Cafetero's philan-
Lhropy, and resigned position which I
Tor many years he had not enjoyed
-to-wit: sailing and packing green
hides at local abattoir. This fool j
hardy economic move had so incensed y
Don Juan that in fit of piaue he D
'purned his father-in-aw 1--WE must e
all Esteban something and so whv
plit hairsD under the tails of his s;
amisa, with such vigor as TO sever Il
oreyer the friendly relations hitler Il
o existing between the families. Mrs
jafferty (again we transgress. bur di
That OF IT'D subsequently passed away W
child birth, and no sooner had she bl
cen decently buried than Don .Juan M
ook week off to drown his sorrows. 81
In this condition he had eneoun- in
cred Esteban Manuel Enrique lose &c
''u !" iuoquui y MlrumOnteS and er
allied him out of his name. In thc 70
Iteration that ensued Esteban. fully in
onyinced that he had received the de
ub end Of the transaction from starr tn
finish, cut Don Juan severely. Don mi
lan had thereupon slain Estehar ne
18th -44-caliber revolver and upon
merging from the railroad hospital n h
onth later had been tried by So. II
'antean magistrate aud fined the sum II
$4,000 legal tender Of the republic II
Sobrante. OF cour~ he Ind nnid II
off within six months from his i =
ages ns section boss hui the mems
y OF the injustice always ranlleh
m, and gradually he moved down nal i
ale OF society from section boss n ~.
y laborer, day laborer 10 tronicni =
amp. and tropical trump 10 beach q.