Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-03-07
IRA EATON'S GUN.
How Down East Man Was Taken in
and Done For.

and Done For.
The other day l ran against Charles
Yeomans, an cid Californian, who is
keeping restaurant in Salt Lake City.
After listening to his stories of the carry
days Of San Francisco, | said
"Mr. Yeomans, do you ever remem-
ber of meeting man named John X.
Hackett in San Francisco ?"
"John X. Racket p repeated Mr.,
Yeomans. ooh, yes, / recollect Hack
EFT, and George Barnard, and Geor4e c
Wilkes, aud George Butler, and John
Scranton, of New Haven, and that
whole crowd. They were mighty lively
fellows, all of them. Lem-me-see ? TN
musng way. Lemme-see? why,
Hackett is a Judge, or something of
that kind, in New York now. | seen
fellow about six months ago, that told
me he made a tirstrate iudge-fifty per
cent, gold, forty per cent. silver, and
ten per cent. copper. Hackett was
wonderful shot-wonderful I've seen
him dive tacEs in door-post at thirty
and forty feet, and never miss tack,
All the boys took OFT their hats to linn.
10 llo oou," raot 1'iU oro,rd d hat crowd in Coii
was =" 8te'I nos ~" - - o'0"" - ''
ioIll.aiN T RI. .i'o29 Tooons w"sS' sbovod nm his
otilt net1 rToa"a. ra, anJ UY mipo5 cocktail for
Mr., Gordon and Capt Dinwiddie, OF
Camp Douglas. After the cocktails had
disappeared, he continued
III % Vnoao u"y ,, ,;Sto;lo ~ 80 20 Gom Erom,
keep Pi"o9 M ,'Sv Oouo0 oo'1iI'I I'o'no Wa T boJ
CISCO caiiJ4 H. sno 0oe"m ,rda BE Rorrord mot
partner. nI4 - "a naano lot T%9 no % Soo;t E mnst
VI Iun6U, ~ ~" VIZ" = nos in 1877 All
nave nave @ @ueen,uyss1t, .ss = ~ U;5o % ort ond soo no
the Doys useu W 9t ii"0 ouI os1' l"st "n noDnod @
anu tno Su5n6i 5i IS I'1Y oo;" ,'D T. % rsod 70 bo
out gooI ueai VI LII Iolh .,ro5 ~ T9V" snorts % ~ 20
great pluce t iol aoo,, ,ootGhns onJ
cotnt CO.. thoso UnI "[G h;g GaI;forSio shrimp and
eau 'llIso olS O"ii.. 5.;Ii. ru;"o nnJ sToS
pay u iiV'lo "i""' NiAHA "-'' '''''' ''''O
tmngs. ,, voo.,ono .horoa IN b;s
mere Mr, oi,J Leonaro r';ro5 'no'v a oocltaiI for
silliI,s'GTHps s9 WnaoTar Il,o dnJ 1' Tho Hon Sam
M"!yoitt M"!oi ar-do,ocata to congress from
MeTrltt' eG,ue ebavo .o;Io ~ Hon FL. G1' d;aoni
luauo; after 9 tno o9OA'''''' -'"''
peare1, ne S Sontlnueo nlpI o,,so rsod 70 bo .
Mell' the ocoun t tlou1o ~ 'iSo So - TLoU
great place Oh resort iot at;aaT 'ne ~ 10 ;okaa ~
were i, ai"nSs pi%J Gd,oi lug P" . oooJ time cen.
each i o'lior anu uon'on,bor m",S one 9ne morning
erally. i,t [eiileiiVSl naJ SoLon'i Wn tho aroaf
there was OoUh u5iI ~. Houon, M ~ 1sn sn Fatom
marketmen, Natu na'on t;ni "n - ia % t;wo
IN the saioon, Ha1inS nS5 tnI1;ro nS V stories
Laughing, Hrinn,ns 1 n,t os "IV ,hoea % hSro fancy
Ira E''4n aIo9 mnI 9ne sLot Un ms nnpS nrdor bis
ooupie,9"rrelGu ea bn0odl snU" nv, ahort ihe came
arm' ana was otaeB l,t nS eoU"S Ioforn ,n0 n;%ht %
ne was gong W Snooo o GuiohU ~, hU, Iobn
when VINO 1 s4oulI Iuhn ooWe Soranton IN ~"' ' You
Hackett ana oonn SSi"n'Un, Sontnn Gov m Ia
oughter nave r. AIomeI low fo,ioms ,j thot ovor
was one oi lhe OS'V io'io"' 'i'''' VIVA
scT4tcn'E T9 1 grave, ynon,or. sbovod mn his
hels MI MI 0rd % ,ni~n5 cocIto;Is for the
S1lrV'sIecse' , nSoo. n Tnu snmwor ] Mr sloan tbe
HON oscar ": o"wyeI, ~ w. coit .'it I oLC ,lC
hye-WlVed ed,TOf % oi u.o,, tno 0"IS os Gam, lam
Herald anu MAJOR ho"0ii' VI Yum
Douglas -rondnow hoov
49, ,,ot ~ It was % os Glossy as ebony. He
er nat ~ was as. as 8aOSSy Siiors Io sor Il go
had Just given niIg'h uG,,ho Iotbos iIn %sbed s
himself shaveu aua n'S 'loYroo n,,,o - rooster s
ana iookeG .i ns He%' hnaw aH Tr6 Eaton Stood
Inc nisG .hing ,l,o Ano"' normor 80 md went on
ms gun up NJ thot tllo 'p he would be back il
doors, saying en0' Af.or ile MoI %e Wos W. % cone
9 lew lew MINUTES; InuIni ot h tba nUn on and said
! oTneGon p Gno.u" iooGfS ~ 1ooded So Hackett
ny Teorge' ~ ~ . .ho,~ lo""O t%ov cot aroun,
0 ana the resi- o. ~, Cuem, ,n v and sgre s tnongI
ana lo1ke9 % ~ 'itT Tban ~ Ward @ Eaton s0id
II was loaucu t ,,, noId nlG decE G on Ira Will
Let pu' up T. u 0onn onn ~ 5raw Tho charge
hes gone, we S 1th thon "%I hot him a bosRe
from ms gun "nu a,n,t .%en l;t Gt' Jnhn % Scran
OF vine tnat ne, ne CAD rarSs NV the T ioke too
ton ma. ~ ioscy GcyLSSnoI, SncT',d drow the charge
+ immensely, ms ~ 0U"enrM mm ond I'll" thew all too
# ont Of ~. tne s gun nhmc%l;r~ nOI' ry and waitiU
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