Show TOMBSTONE BROWNS ORGAN one of 0 t tho he mot most unique products Prod of the wot west one ot of the most fin de products of tar far western wild and woolly ism Is tombstone brown drown brown had been alternately hobo or tramp printer according as climate and opportunity port unity dictated but he be finally drifted to california and arch anchored ored in mendocino d and lake counties where lie he began to take notice in matters social and political says the N new orleans times democrat brown managed to scrape together a little money and one day he came over the grade from san francisco with a brand new see sec ond hand wagon on which were loaded a press a few fonts of type ink rollers and bundles of paper drown brown gave it out cold that he was going to start a paper but said that the whole of society was so blank rotten that hn he mingle with it he drove or oc through town and off down into the bottom of a picturesque canyon where he ie staked out his horses and began writing the first issue of his paper ht e was tho the whole staff in when it came to setting the matter up tip in type brown discovered that he bought any imposing stone and with something of old ben frank franklins lins savo lre dalre the editor made a quiet sneak into a graveyard and selecting a not gravestone he carried it oft off to the perambulating printing office tho the stone episode got on out on him and henc his name of tombstone brown but brown was not in the least worried and turning the title to account named his journal tombstone drowns browns organ and he soon made the eusty howl low browns organ had a front seat reat in every issue that showed above the grass and when one canyon got too warm he would hitch up and print tile the next issue a little farther on the title of the paper pe r drawn and engraved by brown hirn himself self showed a gigantic tombstone crushing to earth the emblems of opposition the paper soon had a great vogue but tombstone could not stand success and when last seen was moving north with a row of citizens marching up the grade behind him |