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Show ONE MORE BOUCK STORY. "Strictly Confidential" Letter That Was Widely Read. "Hero is a story I onco henrd about Gnbo Bouck's handwriting," snld Henry Hen-ry M. Davis of Superior at the Hotel Pfistor: "During a session of tho legislature legis-lature In MadlBon a bill was presented present-ed which Bouck was very nnxlouB to have killed. So ho wroto a lottor to his mombcr from Oshkosh, and stated his objections to tho bill and asked him to have It klllod. Tho momber saw that tho letter was from Bouck, hut that was as far as ho could go. He sat up nearly nil night trying to inuko It out, mid in tho morning ho was In n 'stato ot mind.' Ho had been ablo to make out only two or threo words. "Ho tcok ono nfter anothor Into his ronfldenco until ho ihad consulted noarly every member of tho legislature. legisla-ture. After about n week, with tbo nld of ox-prlnters and natural exports, ex-ports, ho found out to his horror that Ilouck wanted tho bill klllod. It hud been passed without much opposition HJ a day or two heforo. Bouck camo Bj down from Oshkosh In a rage and BJ hunted up the member. He asked him of he had not rocolved his letter Bj nnd why he had paid no attention to BJ It. The momber explained the facts BJ nnd told him ho had found out what BJ ho wanted only nfter he had called BJ In the services of tho entlro leglsla- BJ "But even then ho said thero wcro HJ a couple of words nt tho end of the BJ letter which no ono could mako ont. BJ So ho took out tho letter and asked BJ what they wero? You fool! BJ roared Bouck, that is 'Strictly confl- BJ dcntial. "Milwaukee ScntlncL BJ |