Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — Bill Nye at a Military Banquet. [ARTICLE]

Bill Nye at a Military Banquet.

lam not much of a military man; I once undertook to hold a claim in the North Park, but a bitterness sprang up between myself and the Indians, and-1 lost my front hair. Cholera, chief of the Utes, came to the Boomerang mine one day and said be would give me two sleeps to get. away in. I didn’t want any difficulty with him, and I thought one sleep was rinough, and so I hurried right away. I said to him: “Noble warrior of the knock-kneed .Utes, take my mine, you can have it, it’s already salted; it will keep through the hot weather all right. Help yourself to anything you can find; take my grub, take my whisky; drink yourself into a premature grave at my expense, fire up with my nitro-glycerine and drop on yourself.” And then I got out.