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Show SHERIFF GETS DETECTIVE JOB old Soldiers hosp & Home Salt lake city- Sept 11 33 mr. Sherif. Duchesne. Utah, dear misteA- we had a feller frum down your country-he called his self Allan, p. p. the first p was fur paul, but heck knows what the other p was fur. well anyway this paul Allan wuz up here a lot while he had something orfull the matter with his self when he landed here and frum all I ken here they kind of luked for him to kick in, but you kno how tis with some of these old tuf guys, he fulled em all and kept eating more and more till yesterday and they kicked him out as that there feller duglass the one that holds the buget for the democrats says they cant ford to feed guys like this feller allAn all summer, and anyway I reckon he wanted to go fishin anyway. heres what i want to tell you about this guy. he wuz some kard player and sometimes I play- ed kerds with him, he got so he knowed a lot about games and we got him playin that game 31 with to holes, you kno the game i mean we played for handed and sometimes some-times he wuz my partner and 1 day he got all het up, the games was pretty close and he got to bettin. he goes clean and he was-nt was-nt so dirty to start and then he ups and brags about him owin the finest drug sore in that whole country well the guy that was playin on tother side he was prety good hiself and a big boot leger from over in nevada where they is real boot legers and all that I they has some words ana this bootleger guy from nev. makes this here allan a bet of his big bootleggin joint thats duly protceted over in nev. agains this here allAns drug store down where he claims to live, by you and the kerds is delt and plaid honest as fellers like them can play and this alien he loses, ever sinse then this nev. guy has been wantin to col-leck col-leck his bet but this allAn wasnt so good on payin as he was on kollectin and he just staLLs off and goes away frum here I ask you I was that wright.' I knowed both these fellerg and to. keep this nev. feller frum harp-in harp-in al the time, I ups and buys his claim and pay3 him the price we agreed on and that lets him out) & now i gets to'thinkin and i asks meself wher am i gettin off. so i made up to rite to you & see if you can make this feller . allAni turn over that drug store, if he; haint lost it before to some one else I to me. wish you would see if you kin kollect it fur me and ill do the rite thing buy you for your xpense & time, wont you see him and see just what you ken do fur me I wont you let me kno & mabe we kan, komorimize & get some, thin out-pf him, .& of course if you can get the 1 drug, store If rumihim i think ill trade it to the nevada guy for his bootleg joint, if he will as i dont kno nothin about runln drug stores and if i make the deal ill give you half intrest in the bootleg joint as I wuz just think-in, think-in, a sherif who owned half the joint wouldnt be so bad idea, let me know if you think the deal ken be put thru at onct and oblige. most Resp. h. Skewes. Ps forgot to tell you that i traded this nev guy a sack of b. dur for the drug store, and the way times is i cant afford to loose a sx of bull. |