The Carbon County news., 1928-03-08
j. E. MUSHBACK
GETS APPOINTMENT
Continued from page one.)

mere. lie served Tour years as Clerk
Of Courts after which he was for
years engaged in the insurance and
real estate business and later, up to
the present time, in ranching.
Mushback has always been a stick
ler for form and decorum. 1t is writ
ten that in 1899, Gen. Nelson A. Miles
visited Col. VIM. Cody at the latter's
home in Wyoming and it came to pass
that while out on hunting trip Buff
falo Bill and The Great Indian fight
er each accompanied by his STATE
came to Red Lodge and were inter-
tanned at banquet given by the Red
Lodge Chamber of Commerce. An up
to-date chef was imported for the oc-
casion and Mushback acted as toast
master. Part of the menu was
consomme served in cups and many
members of the then prolitariet not
being used to fancy viands nor fancy
dishes so familiar to those who were
reared or had lived in the effete east,
mistook the consomme for coffee and
put cream and sugar in it much to the
embarrassment and chagrin of the
toastmaster on whose brow there hung
dark cloud for he was anxious to
impress the distinguished visitors with
the belief that this town wasn't more
than 45 minutes from Broadway when
it came to sophistication.
At the next Elks Smoker he was
still so darn mad that he resolved him
self into sort of criminal court Judge.
He called the meeting to order but on
his brow sat deliberation and public
care. He read list of names of those
who had sweetened their consomme at
the late banquet and summoned them
to stand in row before him. They
lined up as commanded for they knew
they'd better. In the row of offenders
who stood before the stern and glow
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VIM. Larkin, 7. F. Pollard, Fred AL
len, R. j. Fleming, Judge Pierson,
John Tolman and two or three others
and he gave them about the fiercest
lecture on etiquette, table manners
and social amenities ever heard in
these parts and wound up by filming
each of them $500 which was paid.
He is a charter member of the local
Elks lodge and was honored by being
elected it's first Exalted Ruler.
Politically he is always found in the
forefront of the unterrified and un-
defiled hosts of Democracy. That
party in this county has always been
poor in numbers but rich in strategy
Somehow or other it seems to make
plans and use tactics instead of con-
fronting the enemy on the open field.
Mushback has long been member of
it's war council. Between campaigns
he loves everybody, even the republi-
cans. But when the nominations are
made and the battle opens he is a
veritable Sitting Bull when it comes
to going out after Republican scalps.
The committee hands him a list of
speaking dates and he girds on his
armor with a smile and like Goliath
of old he figuretively takes up the
jaw bone and marches forth to slew
and slay the Republican Phillistines by
the hundreds. And he does. All of
which accounts in some measure for
the fact that for many years in a
county so overwhelmingly Republican
as this is the enemy have been able
to elect some Democratic county Of
ficers.
They say that when he enters his
boudoir during campaigns he does not
retire to rest without sending up a
supplication to the Most High to save
the democrats but to let the republi-
cans shift for themselves and winds
up with ooh, Lord, send us another
Andrew Jackson, Amen"
In 1924 he was elected to represent
Carbon county in the State Legisla-
ture where he Immediately took high
standing among the members of that
body. They found him to be man of
sane and courageous convictions.
What he thought he spoke. When he
reached definite and well considered
conclusion on a controversial matter
he did not hesitate to declare it in
positive and unreserved terms. He
was not prodigal in his intimacies but
with cordial and dignified fidelity did
his duty and increased and retained
his friendships.
The Mushbacks will not be strang-
ers in Helena. During Mr.. Mushback' 5
legislative career, both himself and
his charming wife were socially prom
inent and had wide acquaintance
ship in that city.
After April /, visitors are warned
to throw away their cud and clear
the mud off their boots before enter.