The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-05-30


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rl -Chan.oer.s Journal
ATERRIBLEsCAl.P RAISER.
what RufTal0 BEN Told some Dry
Goods Clerks about Indians and
zoology. 81
From the Chicago Tribune.
1t was up in saloon on West Van
Buren, street. He was quaint young man
whose face hadn't been washed for two
months, and who wore his hair long be-
hind. He was attired in SLOUGH hat,
buckskin brooches, red flannel shirt
open at the neck, and rough coat. he
had four revolvers and big knife stick
ing in his belt. When four dry goods
clerks came IN in . group and ordered
some beer, the first dry goods clerk said
to the barkeeper: 2s7 eT1
"Say, John, who's that cuss over yon-
der2" eF
"That," said the saloon keeper, droop-
ing his voice to an awe.strack whisper,
"Tha. is BUTLER Ben, the Wild Trapper
of the Great Plains. Ask him to drink.
Perhaps he will"
The first dry goods clerk did SO and
the Wild Trapper replied:
wall, stranger, seein' as its you, l
will Just take some fire water. As l
heerd old he'd Tail say to Spotted Cloud,
it's mighty long time between drinks"
weres to US" and he engulfed dose OF
whiskey. o..
"You are" said the first dry goods
clerk, connected with trapper businessf'
"ln the scalp and grizzly line, SAID the
second dry goods clerk. =
"Your reminences is ola personal char
acter, l doubt not, would be exciting and
interesting" said the third dry goods
clerk. r...
"Truth Is stranger than fiction. Take
something said the fourth dry goods
clerk.
avail, no." said the trapper:..I never
drink when I'm off the war-trail. 1t
kinder makes me ugly, yer see, and I'm
apt to dror my cutlery. l killed seven
men up to st 10, Mezzouri, onst-mout
be to you, but sorter got riled; wall,
gimme some more whiskey.
"Your hand" said one of the dry
goods clerks, "hss otter been stained with
human bloodf" In.
Stranger, she hav. The fust time you
come up and see me at my wicklup in
Montana-second lodge on the right be-
yond the Yellowstone river, and be sure
YOU turn 10 the left up by the
big boulders 300 miles this side-ask any
Injun, and tell brH yer want to see Buff {.
Ter Ben, and Of he don't scalp yer he'll
show yer the road plum straight. HI
show yer Old Bulls Eye, my rife She's
old Kentuck stock likewise the barreD
and is sixteen feet long, and whenever l
wipe out white man l make q notch on
the barrel, and there's notches all the
vay down ON one side aRd nine feet down
the other. went up to see yer grave
wards at Cavalry and Greeceland'
THEY'RE q good deal like my private
grayeyards, more posies and statutes, add
50 on, though they amt SO spacious
Now lust about three months ago L
turned looes in bsrroom down to La
tsvetts. Arkapsa,w, and the Coroner was
kent busy for three days after attending
TO seven inquests. And this was because
n durn skunk stood up at the bar and
improyed his mind with my conversation
and never asked me if l would take"
Here one of the dry-goods clerks
caught BUTLER ben's eye and he STAN
mered out an invitation to HI her up
AGAIN. Mr.. BUTLER Ben irrigated him.
self and in reply to aquestion concern
no b;s solution of the Indian question,
said]: 1880 ,.,,
copnt of the re6s wipe out. l used to
when l was young and sort OF vain, but
I grew out'n il 1t looked 70 much Ike
vanity. / suppose i've mot taken the
,ronbIe 10 lift the har Of the last $50 or
no Indians I've killed. Before that l
WAS kinder particular that way, and took
60 MANY scslps that / bust the Frisco
ch;ynon market, and seventeen dealers
in false hair went into bankruptcy. In
inns Is poor trash. Gimme q whole tribe
of ,em and I'll wipe e,u ont as fast as
can load my revolver and pat it. to my
shoulder" .a1-cl
GHere he paused again :and was
promptly refreshed. Then be conun-
: II tell you, boys if you wan. to see
the choicest country on the iootstool,
lest Won 20 to them are Black Hills. The
only thing syin the country is the bufis-
loe.. They hatch thsre, and when they
t.ke 10 flight RS awful to see them 50
thick that YOU can't see the sun. and when
thew light they craw up garden Sass. and
sou. apple trees, and corn and railroad
ties and potatoes, and telegraph poles
Rnt ther's gold IN the Black Hills Eve
sesn il myself. When you gel down =
The bed rock you ssr,ke $50 and ~
piecea and you wash out eagles and dol.
- In the streamA and up in the roots Of
the grass you end small scrip and nick
sh. No nuggets = l know on, though
I did hear at Shyan ofone worth $ioo'-
CO.," l.,.
Rnffler Ben whiled aw.y the time
When the four dry goods elsrks hso ses'
,lad fo~ the drinka their bill amounting
to $6,76, he bade them e sneeuon.a
fsrsweli and nade them spsomlse % ca
n il teeose e evafs they wese 5ue e
No,t.an When they ha1 gone out -
h.r.teeuer paid him hh ~ pr -
.onm ;ssIon on the drinks I'D through ma
,nstrumsntality. and told pan 70 recot
.ect next time ahat Il ~ grassao
dat aew NOT bnfaloes- slis >
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