The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1932, Page 8

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Comic Section THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ooniesecion = et THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1982 \T ISN'T FREE AN’ OPEN LIKE IT WAS, SKEEZIX, YOU ME SOME | CAN'T GO HARDLY ANYWHERE MORE NOW BUT WHAT I5 OR 20 MILES 4B0UT OFF IN SOME DIRECTION YOULL THE FIND SOMEBODY. WEST, SQUINT. WELL FOR ONE INSTANCE {T CAUSED THE DEMISE O' OL’ CAP. BRIGG. THE CAP. WAS A PROSPECTOR AN' WAS ALWANS POKIN AROUND WITH HIS BURRO INTO OUT O' THE WAY PLACES LOOKIN’ FOR METAL. GOOD NATORED OL CUSS— NEVER HAD TROUBLE WITH NOBODY. HE DID. ANNWAN HE FOOND ONE THAT ANSWERED ALL DESCRIPTIONS. SO HE MADE CAMP “THERE. DANS HE'D DIG AN' NIGHTS HE'D STODY HIS CHART. WELL OL CAR BRIGG HAPPENED TO BE CROSSIN’ THE SAME MOUNTAINS AN’ COME TO THE TOP OF A LONG RISE AN LOOKED OVER INTO THE SAME VALLEN ONE EVENIN’ LONG ABOUT SONSET. CAN!) YOU BEAT NOT SO IN THE EARLY DAYS. THEN IF SOMEBODY CAMPED 150 OR 200 MILES AWAY THEY WAS NEAR NEIGHBORS. | SUPPOSE THE CLEAR AIR IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY HAS SOMETHIN’ TO DO WITH FEELIN’ NEIGHBORLY SO FAR AWAY. \ LUKE THE CLEAR AIR. ‘THEN THERE WAS OL’ JAKE SKILLET— HE'S THE FELLA THAT INVENTED THE PROSPECTORS FRYIN' PAN. WELL JAKE WANDERED AROUND HE MOUNTAINS Too, BUT HE'D DUG UP AN OL’ SECRET MAP SOMEWHERE THAT “TOLD WHERE ONE O' THE OL SPANIARDS HAD CACHED A LOT O' GOLD. HOW DO NOU MEAN CASHED? AS IT HAPPENED JAKE SKILLET WAS SQUATTED BESIDE HIS FIRE WAITIN’ FOR THE COFFEE POT TO BOIL AN’ PORIN' OVER HIS MAP. HE HAPPENED TO LOOK AROUND AN’ HERE FOUR MILES AWAY AN’ 3000 FEET UP WAS A STRANGER. JAKE STUFFED THE MAP QUICK INSIDE HIS SHIRT ~ POLLED HIS SIX-SHOOTER AN’ SHOT POOR OL’ CAP. BRIGG FOR READIN OVER HIS SHOULDER BEFORE HE COULO MOVE A MOSCLE. AHA! 1 ! SOMEBODY HAS POT IN A NICKEL AND JACK= POT— EIGHT OF eM. PUTTING A PHONEY SereTie 4 NICKEL IN THAT MACHINE. NES IT'S NICE. 'VE BEEN WHERE YOU CAN STAND ON A RISE OC’ GROUND, WAVE YOUR ARMS AN’ SCARE A JACKRABBIT 10 MILES AWAN. BOT THIS CLEAR AIR HAS BEEN FATAL IN SOME CASES. CACHED MEANS TOCKED AWAY, HID. THE MAP SHOWED A VALLEY WITH A CERTAIN ROCK AN’ FIVE OL’ COTTONWOOD TREES AN’ A CROSS RIGHT WHERE THE GOLD WAS BORIED. SO ALL JAKE HAD TO DO WAS FIND THE: RIGHT VALLEY. AN’ O' COURSE HE WAS KIND. O' TOOCHY ABOUT THAT MAP, DID HE FIND THE ONCLE WALT, TAKE THIS NEWSPAPER FOUR MILES AWAY AN SEE IF | CAN READ OTs Yo o p Reet Fibsonces tees eS VLL WAIT TILL GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE SOMEBODY FILLS | ACORNS GROW—AND GREAT UP THE JACKPOT STAMP COLLECTIONS FROM AND TRY THE ONCE-A- WEEK CLIPPING OF PHONEN ON IT. / GASOLINE ALLEY STAMPS, THE UKE OF WHICH THE UNIVERSE HAS NEVER SEEN. DONT BREAK THE CHAIN HD yy rat Gusto MARKET PEACE & ‘stn it Pays to Use The Bismarck TribuneWant Ads or Sell, Trade or Rent — Find a Job — Hire Help — Pr pmaganne re Articles e Owners of ee ieee as plemarch "Tribune Want — Find t F Ads will do and at very low cost. «

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