A Joke On Lockhart
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

now fail, and while Mr. Vingoe has saved himself from the teeth of the sharks he has also materially assisted the company. He expects to continue to ship ore to this city, and will have all of the indebtedness paid off by the first of the new year. i A Joke On Lockhart A convivial crowd of the boys met at the Timmer House on Wednesday evening, and during the conversation Sheriff Lockhart re- peated a little talk he had held with Sigmund Lindauer, the boss of Florida county. Some of the boys tried to induce the colonel to repeat the substance of the talk, but he was too smart for that, as he remarked that he didn’t want those' newspaper fellows to get hold of it. Our wily sheriff, however, was not aware that a stenographer stood by and jotted down the poetic effusion as the colonel related it. Here it is verbatim et literatim ; “Sigmund,” says I, all filled with grief, “What shall we do with our herd of beef?” And he replied in language raw, “Keep them away from Omaha.” “For dere I sold mine ‘O bar O’s’ At a price I never will disclose ; But I say again Vat I haf often said. It made me sieck und I vent to bed. So ven again I spegulate, I dink me vot der boet said, ‘Of all sad words I kum across, Der saddest vas dese, ‘It couldn’t was’.’” Court Notes PETIT JURY