Show THE deputy flan fr a picnic spoiled the aty of loaded IOTO blick found in the treasurers Treasur ers office on monday has been explained about three yeara ago a man living on the divide found bia wood pile decreasing more rapidly than ho thought was consistent with the capacity of bia stove accordingly be loaded borne sticks and scatter ec them around in tho pile two nights after that one of bis neighbors was greatly surprised by be explosion of his stove fortunately no person was ia the room at the time and the only damage done was the wrecking of the stove and the of a quarter section out of the roof the man whose stove was spoiled aia naturally indignant and having a good clue to the party who had been guilty of serving scurvy trick swore out a warrant for the owner of tho woodpile wood pile next day he found another loaded stick among the wood ho bad clandestinely borrowed and took it to the district attorney to be used ati mony for the prosecution the giant power fiend wa brought into court but threatened to have his neighbor arrested for a wood thief unions the charge hm was dismissed the consequence wa that the man with the elove failed to appear nt tho time of the trial and the caad was dropped district attorney drake who was in office at that timoor one of his deputies laid tho stick away in the safe and it remained there until monday morning A short time before turning over the office of district attorney to mr bilea mr harris took the stick to tiie sheriff and asked what disposition b made of it a its presence was a continual menace mr mccal chan tho double jointed deputy who has been carrying tho court house and all its en bis shoulders for several months begged the stick of mr hairris Hf irris saying that be would have rome fun by taking it out on the grade and firing it off the heavy ducios which he has been performing no doubt made mr cutchan feel that be needed a pyrotechnic picnic of this hind of carrying th stick out on the grade however mr mccutchan McCu tchao took it into the treasur eis offelo where be left it and the new treasurer mr otey not liking the looks ol 01 the machine gave it away to the airet man who cannain car nain it was of courso to the newspapers and that is the way it became public the stick was split open and jound to be tilled almost entirely with glint power en ough to have knocked tho entire court boue into a cocked bat if it bad ever exploded chronicle |