Random Notes

It occurs to me that in my reports to the London Times, there are many incidents which I have omitted, things seen and heard during my past three months in the American West. Here then, some random notes.

Frontier, gentlemen, herewith an Englishman's account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his colorful and unusual stories. And as a man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part of the violent years in the new territories.

Now starring John Dana, this is the story of J.B. Kendall, frontier gentleman. These random notes are being written as I journey from Deadwood to Cheyenne, on the Cheyenne and Black Hills stage line.

I recall an incident in the Montana territory town of Helena, a tall gentleman in high hat, black, broad cloth, frock coat, a dirty shirt with a torn paper collar and a most singularly un-pressed pair of Nanking trousers. He stood outside a saloon with a small case of bottles set before him. A lot of dozen men and women were crowded around in a small, yellow door

and slime. Of magic, Pollock's original Mamalook liniment, a stubborn remedy for man and beast. It is confidently recommended to the afflicted as an infallible remedy for the following diseases to it. Burns cramps, pains in the joint, sauce through, frosted feet, rheumatism spinal complaints, lumbago all sauce cuts, bruises swelling, sprains pains in the back or side, headache,

cutaneous affections, egg you, cake, bites of insects or reptiles, sauce, room, mange, Crack hands, tata, dysentery, cholera, morbid, and cholera. What about the heaves, mister? Ha ha! The heaves, you ass! Ha! And in this battle, the answer to your question, sir.