The daily gazette., 1877-10-31
A Black Hills Hanging.
HOW THOMAS Y. SHOALS CAME TO A
PREMATURE END.

A correspondent VI suo -,
Enauirer, writing from Camp ohlo'
Black Hills, under date OF October o.
says. ,h-
er day. We'd been putting 1t OIL on
account of lack of time and a DIT oi
sentiment. till the morals of our small
town hal at last become as bad rs
those of Chicago.
Thomas Y. Shoals, who has friends
at Green Bay, Wis, and who has been
in Nevada himself for some years past
entered our town about ten days ago.
He was q whisky-drinking trouble
making rough, He brought several
gambling devices with him to "wax'
our hard working people out OF thelr
dust, and he hadn't been IN camp
more than Two days when most OF MS
bad points came out. At the end OF
five days he was ordered to leave, but
he boldly refused to obey the warn
ing. Thereupon, on the morning OF
the sixth day, he was waited upon by
ten reyolvers, backed by ten men, and
was notified that fifteen minutes, city
hall time, would given him to get pc
yend shooting distance. He got NO
one care what became OF him or whltn
or he went, and as he passed from
slght no one expected to see himagain.
According to rule, we conflscateu all
his personal property except a mule'
and mule and man went away togeth
er. Somewhere outside OF camp
Shoals fell in with some Texans
who were "on the Make" and as ugly
as himself, and the gang entered our
camp, armed TO the teeth two days
aster Shoals left it.
The four lambs came in on a gal
lop, whooping and yelling and as they
halted on the public squace, Shoals
sang out.
"Trot out my goods, you white
livered dust d'ggers or we'll cut every
throat in camp"
That meant us you see. Some were
digging, some washing, and some un-
der round, aud while We were wax
ing up to the situation, one OF the
Texans put in:
"Hurry up, now, for it is all we
kin do to hold on to the triggers OF
these shooters!"
And another yelled:
"Somebody hold me, for I'm the
worst catamount this side of Mexicol {
Our old boss didL't like their style
for one. He was fitling a new han
die to u pick, and was at the door Of
shanty No. 3 when they rode up.
Reaching into the house for his two
revolvers, he rose up and walked out
upon the gang just as the rest OF
us were making d rush for our shoot
ers.
"There's the old devil-k'll him, "
yelled Shoals, and the four at once
began firing. 1t was case of the
Lord being on the side of the upright
and innocent. They all had got a
shot in before the old man was ready
for business. He put his first bullet
between one of the Texans two eyes,
his second into another's shoulder,
and by that time we were all pegging
away. How on earth fifty OF sixty
bullets could be fired at close range,
and only one man killed and another
wounded, is a conundrum for mathe-
maticians. The dead man fell in a
heap, Shoals was dismOunted, and the
other two got out of camp under Gov
er of the smoke, one of them certainly
hit in the shoulder. We pursued
them on foot for half mile. aud the
| wounded oae had hard to keep hi.
! saddle. Not miner had been hurt,
but nearly dozen of them had bullel
holes through hats and ciothing, and
a camp kettle was struck no less thar
four times.
1 e.. "A In 4 her rnh a M
| Shoals was put on trial. IL had been Mt
cessary to bind him hand and foot,ant
when he was brought out and laid OF
the grass his fury rose TO the highes
pitch. He cursed everybody ant
everything, and uttered threats tina
made some of the men grow pale
When asked if he did not know th'
penalty attached to such conduct a
his, he cried out;
"Ill dare you to harm one hair @
my head! You are a set OF cowards-
pack of coyotes-a gang of whit'
faced bablesW
IL was our busy day, and We coulC
MT fool away any time. A AnOse
rope was thrown over limb, the ire
end manned, aud when tue moose Ia,
| De60 pdSsGu over Iub l. HOW uedu II
was asked if he wanted TO leave al
message for his friends.
81 want to tell yOH Ihis," he, hisse
as his snakish eyes looked from faC
To face, "If } GU hang me my frien,
viii dig the heart out Of every one
the cruwdW
He might have gone off decent
and perhaps added something Origin
to the literature of last words, but
refused the chauce. His feet were U
/, ted, and he was lifted up. The
wasn't minute between him al
eternity, but yet he kicked right u
: left like twin mule and was cursi
q God and man when pulled off his fe
s ana ERICAN FARMER IN JAP A
q An Am ,r,can norltcul urisL was enga
ed by tue j lpauese government year d,
-, to establish permanent model farm IN J
A. pan. He writes that he mas alreais 3
s. acres under cultivation, to be increased d
re eral ioid.
Here will be planted choice fruits, gr .lu
a- and vnJ,4tnhlrS frnm Ali Il 4