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1 story matching kangaroo
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- A Kangaroo Court on the Big Bend Road
A Spokane Falls correspondent sketches a makeshift courtroom in a back-room card den, where a nervous judge, two accused whiskey-sellers and a bewildered Indian witness try to settle the law over a can of 'wh—.'