The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-10-11

Philadelphia, but in New York, where
he was high-class favorite. He was,
| indeed: 1.-The American Gentleman
| belonged to the Lotos Club, the
Lambs Club and several others, and so
! grew to know him closely in my many
visits to New York.
| The first pressure brought upon
me, almost Immediately after my
quiet and unannounced arrival in
Boise City, was as to pardoning
Johnnie Behind the Rocks. who had
killed a mining engineer, connected
with a camp near Haley, because he
had alienated the affections of Ban
Ito Nell.'' The main argument OF
counsel was that it had not been
| the habit of governors to carry out
the court sentences in such cases.
had determined to carry out the laws
| in the hope of stopping "gun pulling"
and declined, in this case, to inter
fere with the judgement of the court.
Johnnie" was hanged in Haley.
When the cart brought Johnnie
under the moose, for the sentence was
carried out under very primitive
scaffold, and everything was ready,
Johnnie struck a match to the leg
of his trousers, lighted a cigarette,
took a few whiffs, as his hands were
tied behind him, and then said:
Don't forget, old timers, that I'm
bein' hung by a dude governor" He
then passed into eternity.
About my next official act was
to marry a COW puncher to a swar
thy little woman with a large black
mole on her right cheek and Ger
man accent The woman, think, was
in the employ or service of that gifted
authoress, Mary Halleck Foote, who
wrote "The Led Horse Claim" etc,
and who, at that time, resided in
Boise The COW puncher, who was also
of foreign appearance, had pair of
hands like full grown hams, and I
married the mole to the hams, for I
really was not cognizant of anything
else at the ceremony.
The next effort was to address the
scvhoo1 few days after I had made
a Fourth of July address in circus
tent They seemed to go we'll enough
measured by the applause and the
comments.
From the start I was dead set
against po1ygamy, but l declined to
enter politics, or be drawn in, except
to quietly help elect an anti-polygamy
council and house of representatives
We succeeded in doing that, al
though it caused the defeat of the
alleged republican candidate for dele
gate to congress-, and elected John
HALEY, a fine, true all-around man. /,
The republican anti-polygamy coun
Gil and house of representatives, the
first / think, in the history of the
territory, passed the Test Oath law. Z
my experience was in
structive and delightful, with very
few trifling exceptions. I made many
amous and heroic acquaintances and
ound strong minds ready advise
and help me for the general good, as
veil as to join me in Tightening care {.
md making life brighter; hence l Of :
EN- find mysef wondering what hap
3ened to the Sage Brush club, mod
lied after the lines Of the Glover
Tub of Philadelphia, for the Promo :
ion of Social Intercourse and the En-
enlargement Of Hospitality"
remember, with rapture, the ini- ;
ia1 dinner Of the club in the Over Z
and hotel. Dear old Hosea Eastman, 7
With his infectious laugh, was in full ;
barge of the gastronomic features, G
nd the banquet was not bone dry.
I remember Alright, that great legal n