Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-11
Pistols for Four.

| An Incident occurred % the Union Pacific
express train from the West yesterday, on il,
passage between Ogden and Omaha, tina
created a good deal of consternation aut
some very excited and lively scranbliDl
around 10 one of the Pullman sleeping cars
About iwo o clock yesterday mor0lng when TIT
train was at Ogallala, passenger got aboarc
and took berth IN the sleeper. He did mo-
get aboard in The full light OF the station lamp
| but jumped on 10 the darkness, after the trail
had passed the platform, and Immediately go
into bis berth without removing any Of hi
! clothing. except his boots, and otherwise acteC
| as if he feared that something would catch him.
| And something did catch him, sure enough, al
| tue ucXt station. The fellow was a gambler
| who had been carrying 90 operations at OgalIals
| 10 q way that would not square with even the
gamblers code OF mOFa!S. OgaIlaIa is the
great shipping point for cattle on the line OIL
| the Union Pacific, aud at times q great many
cattle dealers are there. The chap in question
had got to playing wlth the fellows, aud bca
| them uut o! $4,000 or $4,000 aud refused tt
Iisgorgc. He had succeeded in sncakiug GU,
and getting aboard the train 10 the manner re-
lated, and was sDeaking off with his big stake.
The enraged cattle men did not proposeto sub
nit to the circumstances and lose their money
10 that way; so they tolegraphed the particu
lars TO some friends 10 AK il the next station,
who were likewise Of the same resolute stamp
of cattle men. When the train arrived they
had possession of it, AID were to riog through
it to 6od the man who got on at OgallaIa.
They found him inDocently pretending to sleep
10 his berth about the middle Of the Pullman,
ADD the trouble commenced. The fellow re
fused to leave the car. bur the cattle men as.
sured him if be would ut 90 they had the tools
to take him, and directed his attention to a
mule standiog quietly in the moonlight, with a
long rope coiIed 90 the saddle. The bell rang
to start, and matters we're preclpitated by ali
parties drawing rcvolvers aud beginning to
shoot Dromscuousy. Curtains we're torn down,
aud frightened passengers tumbIed out to es
cape the whistling bullets, and the utmost con
fusion reigned, women screaming and every
body vas rushing out of the car by means Of
windows as we'll as doors, and soop the prairie
vas covered with white robed form, fl Ing ike
ghosts in the moonlight. The cattle men finally
dragged out their victim, tied him on the mule
aud started away With him, and the passengers
return, to the coach, whence cries and Streams
and groans were still is,u'g. Doe yJung lady
whose PAL eats were on board, was screaming
and declaring hat she was shot 10 the leg
and medical attendance was summoned from
the station. The train was held 10 await the
arriva of the man Of knives and probes
and wh,n he came professional examination
revealed the fact that a pin 10 the lady stock
ing was cruelty sticking her. There we're some
bullet holes thr, ugh the coach and several oar
row escapes, but not single passenger was hit
by the reckless firing. The fate of the gambler