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Show .MO MAN NEAR CENTURY MARK IS ROBBED l!l CHICASO CHICAGO. June I. A gray bearded man. carrying a hickory cane, applied at the municipal lodging house In North Union street laat night, and aaid to ths clerk: -Young sua, I wss directed here for a nlght-a lodging. Do I get It?" "Name" asked ths clerk aa he reached for a registry card. ."Water a. Morrison.' waa the visitor's reply. ' "Age?" waa the next question. . "Ninety-eight, the eleventh day of laat March." "What?" exclaimed the clerk In a doubtful tone. "Come. come, old man. give me your right ace." "Never lied In my life." was the patriarch pa-triarch a quick retort. "Tm f. and If you say I'm not I'll crack you across the head with this cans." Morrison, who says he Is a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, lives lo Big Horn basin. Wyo.. snd came east on a visit. He draws a pension snd had monffy enough to take him home, but on his wsy from Detroit to I'hlcejro he waa robbed. He has telegraphed to his son la Wyoming Wyo-ming for money. - - |