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Show BOLD AND BAD BURGLARIANS Visit Several Places On Wednesday Night And Proceed To Alarm Sleeping Ipmates. Somi person unknown entered the Lincoln Hotel late Wendnesday night anil helped himself to all the cooUcd s A and uncooked edibles ho could find. jJiftJ-jHc secured an aim load of this, that ' and the other and walked out past some young ladles not jet having sought the arms of Morpheus, but it did not occur to them for several minutes after that his heavily loaded lordship was a bold, bad burglar When It finally dawned upon them that this fellow- was no minister of the Kospcl out after lost souls, there came before their mind's eye visions of being stricken down In the dead of night with a great long butcher knife and they became so excited that they dashed up' stairs and between gulps managed to tell some of the hotel peoplcof their narrow escape from death. While they rushed for their rooms and smothered beneath the fl -bed clothing for an hour, the searchers l Investigated, found various things Sj missing, and likePinkcrton detectives h trailed the miscreant to the side aj walks by a red line made by the Juice H .from a Jar of beet pickles which ,1 the careless pirate had probably car- 9 rlcd upside down. It was feared for a jl time that this was blood and that the 1 hotel cat had been killed and carried 1 away. That the blood soaked ground 9 was In disguise proved a relief. I Second Struggle. l ti Aoout tni3 time, Mr. D. H Thomas, ftftMMr kasoball enthusiast and manager of , tho Thatcher mills, one of the best I establishments in this state or Kala- ruazoo, was aroused from his pcacc- m ul rest by feeling a greater draft jS? on the uncovered portion of his fl -anotomy than has been usual. In- pi vestlgatlon revealed that the wire J screen had been surreptitiously rc- 9 moved by some unkown villian, hence 1 the surplus of atmospheric pressure, ti Although cool before, Dave got as hot i as It has been at Salt Lake recently l and in righteous Indignation grabbed J his trusty broomstick and tired three fl shots out of the west window. Mr. m Thomas got his scars in the Crimean jfl war, was beside Roosevelt when he I charged up San Juan and the meat bill g and he bravely mastered the name of every Japanese and Russian general f, and city mentioned In the war dls- ; patches. That some crosseyed, hair I lipped, bowleggcd son-of-a-gun should attempt to beard him In his den while he was asleep was too much for Dave k to stand -and he went back and slept I soundlv till morning. Iimra ana Last. All during the terrible time at the Lincoln and the disturbance at tho Thomas residence, Mr. Jacob West lay swearing gently 'neath his breath at an amputated toe which refuses to get well under three dajs. As he lay thoro In the awful stl'lness and gloom, he heard that tiny little scratch, (ratch, on the window screen by KMkflilch the gentlemanly burglar usually announces his coming to those who may be awake and without sulllclent covering to be presentable. Mr. West forgot his toe and laid there In quietude quiet-ude waiting to see which tho burglar would take first, the piano, the new wall paper he had Just had put on, or tho kitchen stove. Thinking to save tho visitor somo trouble Mr. West got up and turned on an electric light, but Instead ot coming In, the burglar departed, much to the disappointment of Mr. West who hoped to at least read tho nocturnal visitor :i chapter . from his new "Historian's History of tho World." Just what finally became of this disturber dis-turber of the peace, and who's clso screen he scratched or removed wo do not know at present. |