The border vidette., 1934-03-10
BILLS INJUN TROUBLE
By Bruce Kiskaddon

aint never got intO print as l
know Of, but I know it happened
because I was there and done
seen it.
Yes it was my old friend Bill
that I have mentioned before in
the colums of this here COW
paper. l hadn't seen Bill fer q
spell havin' been down in the
lower country, but I was like
Betsy from Pike" 10 the old
song. I was Full of that strong
alkali" so I drug it fer the high
country again were there was
good water and lots of work in
the sumner time.
got into the little town where
we used to bold out and seq hello
to the bartender and soter re-
lakes as folks SEE these times.
And takes to waitin' fer bill be
tween drinks. Well I am in q
friendly frame of mind when I
see Bill comm. He is ridin' a
raw bronc that be can jest about
turn With the hackamore. [
don't rush out to meet him like
some politician, this not bein'
good manners in them parts. He
knows where, I'll be if I'm in
town, so be looks fer a place to
tie. l ort to gone out and let
him tie onto my saddle horn but
/ was in a state of mind where q
feller overlooks any triflin' mat
ters.
Bill CANT tie to no porch posts
fer the bronc might set back and
bust 'em and there is q few old
buggy and wagon teams tied to
the only two hitchin' racks in
town and if the bronc tares down
rack it is going to bust up
things bad. Bill don't think to
go and turn him in the corral
back of the livery stable, but be
gifts one of bis big ideas.
Next to the saloon is the pool
room with q seegar stand. and
out on the board porch is q
seegar statchu of . Iojun. In
one hand be is holding out a
bunch of seeears and 10 the.
other tommy hook ell raised
like he was Roin' to knock you
in the head. I softer fggered be
was supposed to be jest DARN
any fel!er to try and swipe bis
tobacker. This Injan Chief is
stood up. on q high pedestool
that has rollers onder it like one
of them fancy bed steads. I see
right eff that Bill has got a
couple of drinks some place be
fore be lit 10 town fer be has
that look be allus had when he
din't care cuss fer nothin'. he
looks the lay out over and then
be cheeks the bronc and gifts
down and gifts bis boss as close
as he can to the seagar Injun
and tied his rope right around
the middle Then he comes up
to where I am and we cuss each
other out right friendly and 60
inside and take q few and find
out what we have been a dom
fer the last year and then some.
We are jest to the pint where
Bill tells me bout how a married
woman that I admired a heap il
now divorced and livin' happy
ever after, when the citizen that
run the seegLr place busts into
the bar room and starts to throw
sand on bis back about that boss
bein' tied to that-seegar statchu.
Bein' in peaceful humor me
and Bill starts out to move the
boss. But this here peevish cuss
gifts in front of Us and 10 make q
shown be rushes over and soter
pints his finger at the bronc.
Well the boss jumps back and
jerks the rope and that Injun
chief on the rollin' pedestocl
goes right toward him and the
bronc don't know whether the
Iojun aims to feed him tobacker
or brain him with the tommy
hook and be eint waftin' to see.
There has. been some talk about
who led Geronimo out Of Mexico
but there: was no doubt about
who led this Injun out from
there. It was Bills boss. He
shore went frum there q runnin'
and q kickin'. The seegsr statchu
follerin' about three feet behind
when it amt swingin' in circles.
The pedestool busted loose fust
and then the arms, laigs and
! l;tomm hook and wooden feathers
and tobaker softer scattered out
and the bronc logged it down
the street With jest the main
chunk a draegin'. A public sper