Judge — October 20, 1923 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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down in Cochise County riding a mighty smart looking hoss, but the officers here ain't got no warrant from there y« so they're letting Jed alone until they find out if there's a reward, * * * Klondike Casper has almost recovered from the total eclipse that was caused when he called Jeff Coots a name that wasn't nice just because Jeff wouldn't strip the deck down to where there was only four known aces. * * ‘ Pots Duke, who cooks for the boys out on the Bar PDQ Ranch, ran wild and made quite a few changes with a butcher knife in the general appearance of S$ one of th brand jugglers on the place. Pots says Slats was saying some- thing about punk chow, but Slats allows he was only trying to teach Pots a new fangled game. Inkspot Weeds, the editor of the R ake Daily Rattle, in a long piece in his paper yesterday, writ after he investigated the trouble, says Slats was right. Inkspot says he knows all about chis punk chow game, ing learned about it when he was in ‘Frisco, and that it made up by an old Chinee lady named Ma Jong, who runs a society boarding house or something out in ’Frisco. * * * Herman Schumpf, who runs the store up at Horned Toad Gap, is digging a grave in back of his place. He says it's going to be partly filled up with dirt and the bottom part with the ¢; s of the next smart aleck cow puncher that asks him ain’t he got no bananas. He has already arranged for a verdict of accidental death with the coroner up there. * * + Cal Kutter, who just got back from Kansas Ci went with a trainload of fine yearlings from the yon Ranch, says there ain't nothing more dangerous than the , where he ‘oyote Ci “Little girl, I'm going to give you the cream of — moder city flapper unless it’s getting shaved by a barber everything.” that has fits. “Well, the milk man will be here soon.” * ia * It looked mighty like rain here yesterday, but the clouds Rattlesnake Flat Notes turned out to be nothing but empties going backs rer by Chet J 3 " ‘ ery y Chet Johnson “Did you tell the maid what you’expect her todo? Tie Pouce expect any minute to arrest the scoundrels “No. “Twas afraid it was less than she expects to do.” that put high-life on Missus Skinner's dog yesterday. They are believed to be the same crooks that tried to pry open the chewing gum machine at the depot last week. | . * * The matrimonial paper that Baldy Bowers got from Jacksonville, Fla., yesterday made such a hit around the Flats that six men last night announced they was going to run for justice of the peace here and the postmaster said the Rattlesnake Flats postoffice would soon be jumped from sixth to fifth class if business kept on picking up. * * 6 Some of the boys has about persuaded the red-headed waitress down at the Climax café to enter the next beauty rodeo at Atlantic City. She says she don’t know but what, sh wouldn't mind going back there ss Rattlesnake” pro- viding that she got her new false teeth by that time. + * + Raphael Silberbaum, our popular local sheik, has put two signs on his great big Ford touring car that is considered mighty humorous here. ‘The sign in front is pasted on the half of the wind breaker that's only cracked and says: “Skiddoo, 23” and when he goes ps can read the other one which s cuse My Dust.” * * * Young Jed Jones has got back from “Well, another mouth to feed!” y a: fami Pi Chie recel the « man unru had comicbooks.com