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Show The Rejmhlio Naphi, Utab, Satnrfiiy, Feb. 13 6 I SOilE STItANUEjiflOiVEItS J jjp The Golden Eagle A. BOOtll . . Visible Only to the Alcoholized Vision of Tipplers. THE Spun by Seasoned Call" Tough Yarn .fornlan About Lizards and Other Small Deer Descending from the Clouds. t Judge Dukes and Maj. Finney came over from the ISarstow diggings one evening recently with a big story about a storm a few evenings before on the Laramie plains in which it rained lizards. They had been over the divide to the Waterman ranch, and on returnng were overtaken by a gale, which presently an hour or so it brought rain, poured in torrents, and then, just at dusk, they felt something solid striking them occasionally. At length the colonel, who was sitting on tile back seat, says a writer in the New York Sun, rem. bed down into the wagon box and pulb-- out a water dog about six inches long. This convinced the tourists that an extraordinary storm was in progress, and to some extent prepared them for what followed. Little by little, said the judge, the bombardment increased, until lizards and toads were thicker'n flies. We turned up our coat collars and pulled down our hats, but it did no good. Theyd strike us in the face, in the lap, on the back and all over, and the horses became wild with terror. We lost onr way, and the major got out to look at the ground, but jumped back into the wagon again a yell, saying it was knee deep with lizards. By this time it had stopped raining and we came to the conclusion, after mature reflection, that the area of the storm could not be large, and that if we moved straight ahead in almost any direction we would soon be out of it. Acting on this determination we started up again, and in the course of half an hour we struck hard ground. We camped near there, and when daylight came we went back a ways and examined the lizards. There were millions of them, the great majority of them being dead as the result of their fall; but there were plenty of live ones, and the way they were crawling was a caution. , Some one having asked what theory they had to advance in explanation of this visitation, the major said that there was a lake on the summit of the mountain off toward Banning that was full of lizards, and he had no doubt that the wind, which was very high, had scooped out that body of water with all its contents and dumped them on the Laramie plains. lie knew of a similar case in Kansas. A tornado had followed the line of a river and scooped it out so clean for a distance of nineteen miles that farmers living thirty miles from the stream found fish, turtles and frogs in their front dooryards, and believed they had rained down. The colonel said lie had brought a few of the lizards in to show the folks, and ho would get them, but, after searching the u.igou .os m vain, he was force to apologize by saying that they had probably com. ,o liie und crawled away. (apt. Nol. on, the saloonkeeper, who had bo mi a patient listener, shook his head and said: Old Hank Moore wastin' only man I ever knew who could get em and bo kind of pleasant and sociable with em. lie never made no never got excited, and never got scared. Hed be walking along on tli sidewalk, and all of a sudden he would see a little baby elephant ahead of him, and would run along and try to climb on his back. Then, when hed fall, hed swear that somebody tripped him up, and hed get all over it. An hour later lie would get you off in the corner and tell you confidentially that he wanted a drink, but that lie epuldii't swallow it unless you took that alligator, off the bar. I've seen Hank go out in the street lots of times to avoid stepping on a toau that he thought, he saw. lint ho was always happy and good natured about it. lie eould see more elephants in a minute than any man you ever knew, and sometimes wh n they were particularly thick he won: get up a dance with them. lie was a pleasant man to have around. When lie g t the tremens, lie would always get them right, and nobody was the worse for it. On day he came in from the Dodge City pLri , wit h a long story about seeing a drove t f elephants out there. I didn't know him so well then as I did afteru and he was so ipiict about it that I belieied him, and just for the fun iff the thing I drove out there with him. After we had gone a few miles he made mo stop and then start up slow because lie didnt want to hurt them. Hurt what? says I. The little elephants, said he. Then 1 looked at him, and he jumped out of the buggy and began to chase one of them. Irctty soon I got tired, and I began to chase liim. lie and I had it there for about two hours, but I ran li im down and got him into the wagon. Then he wanted me to take one of them liome with me, and jir t to please him I pretended to put one ii,o the wagon. lie patted tin- imuoh.arv eVphjnt, and was very e rilenta 1 v it h it until we got most to L iramie, an tli.m it vanished. After nil hands had partaken of the landlord's cheer, lie added: Now, thmi, judge, major and colonel, I don't nrd icilirg y u Ib.at Hank luoore a drove oi elephants was been in the same place that the lizards were, but thi'ri' was sot's th'"' entertaining about tile ...y im kd era. Im afraid youre mixing a little too much.' ' DEfJTIST. Col. Bixby, Makes a Specialty of Gold Crown and Teeth withoet plates. Bridge work. Wool Growers , 1 d, -sr M. Fed II. GOLDSBROUGII, Proprietor. LIQUOR $150.00 everymonth given away to any one who applies through us for the most meritorious patent during the month preceding. 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