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Show COLLINSTON SODA POP Brine Pure Boyli 111 To t lit Surface. Sur-face. Editor Bugler: Please give space in your valuable valu-able paper for the following remarks re-marks from a Collmston friend: The health of the people is good. Prospects of a bounteous harvest are good; will start the headers today. to-day. The prospects for alfalfa seed are good and if all goes well there will be several carloads shipped from here this full. While the country is in an uproar up-roar over the striice, the people here are Bailing along, and attending attend-ing to their business as though nothing had happened, although we are pleased to see the mail train running again, and to get the news of how the people are doing in other parts of the countr)'. We celebrated the good old day, the Fourth Day of July. Horse races and a general good time, with one little row, wherein Mr. J. got sprinkled with soda pop and got j awful mad; went to Brigham and I swore out a complaint against two J of our best citizens, before Com-! Com-! missioner Coombs. The court on ! wheels issued his warrants of ar- rest, and placed them in the hands of our genial Sheriff, C. C, and the parties were duly arrested. arrest-ed. Time for trial set Monday morning at 10 o'clock ; at that time thedefendants, with a host of subpoenaed witnesses were on band, but the court on wheels had not arrived. We supposed it had gone on a strike, but about 12 o'clock, noon, word got here by wire that the court would roll in here at 4 o'clock p. m. and to wait its pleasure. At the last set time the court came into view. The first thing on docket was a court room. The court was at a loss to kno.w what to do. The blacksmith shop was suggested. As attorneys wen-scarce, wen-scarce, each man could defend himself, him-self, hammers being plentiful. At last the wareroom of Royle & Busenbark was selected and one defendant called in to answer to battery, with bottle soda pop. He plead former conviction; was discharged dis-charged at once. The other defendant de-fendant stood all those long hours shaking in his boots, waiting his turn. At last the time came, and lo! and behold! the court on wheels rolled out of town, and left defendant defen-dant No. 2 etill shaking in his boots. What was wrong with the court on wheels? Mh. Doe. Collinston, July 10. |