| Show THIRTY BONES A MONTH ONCE LOOKED GOOD TO LIL ARTHUR ARTHURt ARTHURj j 1 Ek Gc OP OF JAcs LIFE is OH one OF oP s I I I Hi t- t t et t DO o AT 7 t A 10 A I Mo m A AI I 1 j. j I lW ANGOR Me Ic May 3 Bangor Bangor or BANGOR B lumbermen and employment ment agents I remember the time only on eight years i ago last fall when Jack Johnson now now accustomed to touring touring- cars travel and big hl money mone fees tees for a few tew hours of ot exertion was wn glad to travel In dingy smoking smoking- curs cars on tho the Bangor Aroostook northbound with a n. congress con con- gress ress of ot nfl all nations and a sprinkling of o f hoboes as companions companion to earn 30 a a. 5 month as a n. sled tender with baked bake beans 1 eans and anti corn d beef bee instead of oC chicken and instead of ot champagne ne lack black tea handed out in tin dippers car ear then was a n. tote lote tote team over Ver corduroy roads and the only din dia i monds mon s he saw were V re the icicles on the tho fir bushes as he went to work at day day- break reak V It was In the fall of ot 1006 that Johnson John John- son iOn came to Bangor Ban or with wl th thousands of ot f others from all aU corners of ot the earth looking for tot work wont In the woods ills size attracted the tho attention of at the em em- agents in Exchange street ot and he ho was quickly hired to tend sled for tor the th Great Northern Paper company at Ct hunk Lake camp Good- Good GoodS Goodno natured S no and und tractable and strong strong- as ns a n moose noose Johnson proved n. n good workman work work- man nan I and was wa well liked At that t time Johnson was not known outside of ot tho boxing fraternity of ot big bl hg towns lIe He finished his Job in the I woods and went away no one ono knew or 01 s cared whither In the later spring j of oC C f 1907 1307 ho lie suddenly reappeared in 1 I i Bangor on his hi way north but not to J I t tend nd oled One night he appeared in I the office of ot a local newspaper wearing wear wear- I ing ing- inga a sol solemn I mn look and a a long on checked ulster anti and announced himself b by name and profession Asked w he 10 he lie wa was boundS bound he said Alie join Ibm up north to a no town caller to bo box a a. few friendly friend friend- lam iani I ly rounds Dunning with a 1 named Will Will- It appeared that Johnson had horl be- be acquainted while in the woods o ds with a bl bier fellow named a lL logger mill hand and general Jack of ot the tho lumber trades who was something some some- thing thing- of or a n. boxer boxel a and d- d whose whoso two distinguishing dis- dis characteristics were his even temper and tho the fact that most moat of ot his loft lott hand had hall been boen sliced off ort h by a a. shingle SU saw only the Index finger and part of or the thumb remain remain- ing Billy Dunning Dunning- had taken up his abode nt a town that had grown u ui Un in a a. few tew years around tho the Great Northern Paper Paper- company's mills where I stream Joins the west branch of ot tho the and there ho became a n. favorite favorito with tho the thousand tho pr br more paper makers who were hungry 1 for tor sport A MAT U had been arranged of ot six or ei ht rounds between Dunning and the iho big coon coonS who wilo had tended that winter for the Great his Northern it t t hunk and besides bare baro expenses from Boston to MIJI- MIJI anft l return Johnson was as to receive el 5 50 which seemed scorned to satisfy f i |
