Mukden, Feb. 25.
A cross-section of a mining town, California, 1849, was apparently the inspiration for a recent Red Dog Night in the Mukden Club. Bar, restaurant dance hall, gambling layouts, court and gaol were all provided under the expert supervision of the master bill-poster Mr. R. J. Weatherhead and his scene-shifters. Whether an historical! member of, "The Sons and Daughters of the Golden West," could recognize the scene as early Californian is open to question. That should cause little worry.
The entertainers were an "eyeful" of varied types of Baggage, old daguerrotypes predominating. "Mommer" TE. O'Neill by her firm, cash-in-advance policy achieved a well stuffed cash-box through her expert exploitation of her "dear girls." The sheriff and deputies quaintly described as "Commissioner" C. D. Hobson, and "Constables" R. P. Ludden and T. C. O'Neill saw their duty and did it by arresting all those who were properly dressed. They also followed the recent trend of moral mobilization by pinching the performers for indecent dancing.
was hotly resented by the who, stimulated by the purveyed as "Red Eye" by the barkeepers, Messrs, O'Grady.; Pontius, Davis, Gregor, Delaney. Baker, attempted to rescue the sire Ola Judge Parkinson's outrageous decisions delighted everyone, with the possible, but entirely immaterial, exception of those who were sentenced to be hanged. Those celebrated "mouthpieces" Sharp, Also and Webb, were on hand to increase the unfortunate defendants' costs even though their oily efforts failed to stem the steady flow of Hizzonner's (carefully prepared) impromptu remarks,
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