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Show Big Horn Basin Patriarch Patri-arch Had to Ask For N.ght's -LodgMg , Chicago, June 3. A gray-bearded man, carrying a hickory cane, applied at the Municipal lodging house in North "Union street, last night, and said to the clerk: "Young man, I was directed here for a night's lodging. Do I -Et It?" "Name??" asked the clerk as he reached for a registry rard. "Petr S. Morrison," was the visitor's visi-tor's reply. ' "Age""' war the next quostlon. "Ninety eight the eleventh day of last "arch." "What!" exclaimed the clerk in a doubtful tone "Come, come, old man. glvo me your right age." "Never lied in my life." was the patriarch's quick retort. "I'm 98, and if you say P.m not, I'll crnck you ncroas thp head with this cane." Morrison, who says ho is a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, lives In Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, and came cast on a visit. Ho draws a pension, and had money enough to take him home, but on his way from Detroit to Chicago, ho was robbed. He has telegraphed to his son in Wyoming for money. (VI . |