Dodge City times., 1877-09-08

never when there wasn't somethin'
worth takin'"
"'How do they stop yon?' Why, they
hail you in dark place on the road an
they never ask man to come down of
his box but once. did always Gomez
You bet. Sowould any man if he WASH t
fool. When man sits up there a
target for maybe fifteen or twenty men,
he can't fight much with four horses to
drive"
AN "AMUsING ROBBERY.
1.-The last time but one my stage was
robbed was amusin'. Their was two
Jews inside who was agoin' to Dead
wood to open jewelry store. These
last words with a peculiar JUNCTION, as
though he enjoyed the joke. They he'd
nice lot o. things with 'em, an one on
'em he'd bunch of diamonds as big rs
yer fist tied up in the corner of his shirt
tail. How the jew did beg for them dia-
monds! The thieves never stopped to
unite the knot in the shirt, but made
the Jew stand up, an cut the hind part
of his shirt-tail off while he cried an
wiped his nose on the front, an both of
'em begged like babies for the diamonds
an 'chewelry' But after they was safe,
how they did swear! Oh! my! 1t was
shockin'! But, really, never did see
the stock of a jewelry store gOin' off be-
low cost so lively beforei"
The enjoyment with which the man
from Deadwood reconnted this joke at
the expense of the Hebrews manifested,
l regret to say, a prejudice against that
worthy people akin to Judge HiltOn's.
'But how did you come to give up
stage-driving?" l now ventured to ask
again, finding the man from Deadwood
in good humor.
A THRILLING INCIDENT.
"Oh, yes; was forgettin' that. Well,
yer see, ther' was a revinoo agent come
out to collect the COMMENT taxes on
whisky, few weeks ago. He got a lot
o. money in DeadwoOd, where every
other house is s'loon, an he left town
late one night in my stage with $4,000
on him. He sat on the box next to me,
carried the money on his person, an
was as wide-awake an game a fellow as
| ever see. He was armed with a Win
chester repeatin' riff with 16 barrels)
and two eight-chambered revOlvers.
About midnight We was to go through
Dead Mans Canyon, several miles ont
o. DeadwOod, about the darkest, ornery-
est place as ever was, reckon. l knew
if we was to ba attacked it'd be there,
an | told him so, an that we was almost
certain to be stopped; but, Lord bless
you, he didn't show no more fear than
you do now, but there was kind of de-
termined look in his eye, an l could
tell he was layin' his plans, although he
never said word. Directly we come
to the canyon-a dark, rocky hell
hole, made by the devil for road
agents-we listened with all our
ears. Suddenly we heerd it, low
at first, then CROWN louder rapidly. 1t
was the clickety-clack of ponies hoofs
on the road behind us. didn't need to
tell him what it meant. We knew ther'
was good many; that they were gain
in on us fast, an l knew that they
would attack the coach just as it was
goin' slow up the rise out of the can
yon. told him this, when quick as
flash, he jumped off an called to me to
drive on an wait for him when got
out of the canyon. l saw his game in
a mint, and il was a bold one l reckon.
He hid behind a rock right in the road
an got his weapons ready. l drove on
an left him alone. The thieves fell in
to the trap. They rode on after the
stage, thinkin' him in it, an as they
passed close to where he was he opened
fire. What, with his sixteen-shooter an
his two revolvers an their rcturnin' the
fire, it sounded to me like whole reg
iment. / never knew whether he killed
any, but he wounded some sure, an they
scattered like - was after 'em, some |
of them as was hurt howlin' like devils. |