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FLECTION YJINNEh
ricturrmiue (hadrnn Man On North-
western inr
Escape Defeat.
BiHv the Bear of Chadron, north
west ' Nebraska' most picturesque
character, was th only democrat In
.11 -4t. .n,i -strn Nebraska to es-
,.r .uuffhler last week. Billy the
Bear has neither hands nor feet but
v. mBnarii to escape every-
thin In the way of evil that comes
Ion. Billy has been clerk in the
court in Chadron for .ye". Last
k i. ... re elected although aU
the other democratic candidates were
i v...;wt under an avalanche of
republican votes, says the State Jour
nal. ,
d:H handled DaWCS COUBt?
for the Associated Press on election
night, giving the returns ny long -tance
telephone to Lloyd C. Thomas,
the district manager at Alliance.
TvAtaAv mornlne when
' . . .. . I ..-..l-U M
in nia irhi. inu wuipi?
. turns, he shouted over the wire, l m
elected sure, safe by over iov nud
ity. Guess I'm the only democrat in
4V. t.J world that's safe, though.
Billy the Bear has another name but
no one ever calls mm oy u
- i. vi- i j F. laerer. That was
the name that appeared on the ballots
lart week. Many wrote in ine
"Titllv the Bear" on the ballot,
' m t. on mentioned twice
' year. "Billy the Bear" is heard right
Billy RO nl8 nam w ln Wyoming
v.. wa a vAunv fellow.- H had
. wifk Kr. His only weapon
'was a knife. The beaT hugged' Billy
n;u Viinrd the bear. When the
Ar ih nnrtv arrived on the
ecene Billy was sitting on . the. dead
bear. He was pretty wen ciawea i
t.ices but he was alive. WI was Just
. M.k nf hoar an that fellow.' he
told his friends, pointing to the dead
r uni his name Billy the
A- I MISS w
Bear.
iiaa Neither Feet Nor Hands.
When he had his big fight, Billy had
tu.o feet and two hands. . Now he has
neither feet nor hands. He went up
against a Wyoming blizzard one time
and rot them frozen off. Bill's fight
for his life at that time was akin to
his fight with the bear. For five days
h vm out in the snow without a
bite to eat except an uncooked bird he
killed with his quirt. Billy had start
ed from the ranch UDon which he was
working to the railroad, twenty miles
away. The buzzard overtook him. At
niirht he burrowed into snow drifts.
In the day he floundered along thro
the storm. He reached a deserted
em-rat and findinsr a Diece of charcoal
where some cowboy had once built a
fire he wrote his will in his noteoooic
Mm still has the notebook and the will.
On the fifth day the storm cleared and
Billy saw a ranch house but was too
weak to get to it So he pulled out
his big pistol and began Bhooting at
the house. The rancher came out, saw
him into the house. Six
months later Billv was around again.
minus two feet, eight fingers and one
thumb. He still has one tnumo leic
With that thumb and the stumn of a
hand Billy can do ju,st about anything
anv nnm can do even own 10
shooting a pistol.
Winn Wife by a Fight.
- In hi maimed condition Billy drift
d into Chadron. had a fight and won
a wife. The "winning of his wife was
just as spectacular as his ngm wun
h hnr or the hlizzard.
In an early day it was the custom
in England to send "younger sons"
vhn uri in the wav. over to America.
A bunch of these younger sons were
sent out to Chadron. There were a
dozen or more. They were placed on
ounir fellows didn't work oh, no.
hey employed others to do the work,
'hey themselves hunted and fished
oafed. They "dressed' lor dinner
!ust like they did back in England.
4 he dinner was the event oi tne tiay.
Jvening clothes were essential.
There was a girl in Chadron. limy
he Bear was in love with the gtri.
o was one of the young Englishmen.
t was a neck-and-neck race.
One day Billy had been out in the
ountry and came in with his buggy
ind team covered with mud. He pass-
id the girl's house just as his young
English rival drove up. The bngiisn-
nan had a spienuia ouim, amj
''Arses, shiny harness, shiny buggy.
The Englishman himself was dressed
until he was shiny.
Billy was anything but shiny, with
his grimy outfit. But at his side was
'he 45-gun. And it was wen Known
that he knew how to handle it, even if
he didn't have anything in the way of
l hand but one thumb.
The Englishman stopped at the
girl's front gate just as Billy drove
past The girl came out or the house.
Billy cut in right behind the English
man.
Mr. Englishman stepped out of his
buggy, tipped his hat and said: -
"I believe we have an engagement
for a drive," or something of that
kind.
Billy took off his cowboy hat, "I
know we haven't an engagement," he
said to the girl, "but I want to make
one that will last through life. You
get in that fellow's buggy and III
never bother you again. You get in
my buggy and I'll see to it that he
don't bother you again."
The girl hesitated just one second.
Then she walked over and climbed tnto
Billy's buggy. - .
"You git," laconically said Billy,
dropping his hand on his gun. The
Englishman "got . He never came
back. - -Two or three days later Billy
and the girl were married.
Billy the Bear has more friends in
northern Nebraska than anybody.
That's why he was elected last week
when all other democrats went down
in defeat.
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