Show u = Will rHf corm + + There may be an eruption In the office of-fice of the general passenger agent of the Rio Grande Western almost any time Wadleigh is mortally jealous of Heintz I seems a pity that two such men should become estranged but such things happen every day mores the pity I happened this way Both made application ap-plication to join the Eagleeye Gun club Both had good records and passed the tests which are vigorous in the extreme if I you dont beleive it ask Heintz and were about to be admitted when the official of-ficial who serves as the clubs Nadsett makes the inquiries discovered some tnmg which forbade WadleighB initiation initia-tion Heintz was admitted all right while v > uleigft had to loaf around in the anteroom ante-room A I appears that Jn the halcyon days of long afo when Wadleigh was working In the office with old man Hooper he was I given a vacation This may seem strange j but some roads actually do give their employees em-ployees vacations Frank went bear hunting with a party and while roaming I out in the mountains shota pear Killed i I It dead the first shot Now an texplolt like this Is enouzh to admit a man to membership in the Lagle I eye Gun club of Itself It Is a great thing to say one has killed a bear Mama the 1 secretary of the club would give worlds to be able to say he had been the means I of ending the career of a bear Some of his enemes in the club say he has been seen hanging around Old Bens corral at the Western depot at unholy p seasons with 3 gun and would have taken a shot at him but for the fear that Tom Fit maurice would wake up and catch him before he could get away irn 4 Wadleigh killed this bear a stated He was a bouncer too A tremendous bear The rest of the party heard the shotand cnme up to find him there alone with his dead They marvelledat the size of the boar and wanted to know how much he weighed They couldnt weigh him with the scales thc had for a bar weishh more than six pounds and were at a los to know what to doo when WaHtelgmhira self proposed a scheme He got a pole or rather 3 small tree placed it across a t 1 j > = < t log got the bear o aa e end and then piled rocks on the othenfuntil it balanced and anounced that victory was in hls grasp 000 One of the party said he didnt see that they were any nearer to the weight of the bear than before when Wadleigh Interpolated In-terpolated a remark to the effect that now that their improvised scales balanced bal-anced the could guess at the weight of the rock and thus form a estimate of how much meat they had Now one of the rules of admission tote to-te Eagleeye Is that a member must be able to guess at the weight of his game or fish Of course a margin is allowed two pounds on a fish and 5 on a deer I This statement concerning Wadlclgh was made in open session and when the time I came for initiating candidates Heintz was taken In first Then when he was made a full fledged member he was asked if he knew about Wadleighs bear hunt George Is like hisillustrious namesake Gorge lke hislustrJous namesae he can lie but he wont So Wadleigh was forced t wait until Information can be obtained from Colorado as to extenuating extenu-ating circumstances But in the mean time Heintz and he do not speak a they pass by S 000 Everybody knows that little 14bore shotgun of Dicksons It Is a splendid lit tie weapon to shoot or rather it was I win do no more good work in the future Knowing the chicken season Is going to open soon Dickson got It out a few nights ago and loaded it for practice He shot It up hill and trained it so the bar Ce3i lutnod rels warped out or shape 0 0 There is a great deal of quiet talk among the officers of the national guard concerning the place of location for the next encampment The proposition to have the same close to the city meets with no favor at all As one of the boys said The camp would be full of girls in the daytime and full of emptiness at night The guards would stand in with the men and they would all go up town and make a nuisance of the camp Roll call at reveille would result in fillIng the guardhouse and every company would be a skeleton company The prevailing impression Im-pression seems to be that the brigadier general wants to go home to his meals is the reason why he selects adjacent localities lo-calities |