The Red Cloud chief., 1878-03-28
A hkr~,sfss Rescsssr-.
Nov, In ~silverton, Nevada. ws sssd

IL went th~re nearly six years ago."
Such was the passage in q converse
ton going IN between two strangrD
taking q meal In q Utah restaurant
which attracted the attention Ut myself.
eating at q different table.
The man latest from Silverton WA
short. stout. sandy.lookiag man. Wyh 4
beard closely cropped. and u seal No.
ginning, ~ | supposed. sOme~h here In q
the hair 81 his head. thence running y
down the forehead along to the right 81
the hcsc, making hicks la the lower
part of the nose and in the lips. then
disappearing In the heard Of the Chin
II looked a. IL some one had stare To
skin him and gave II up on the chef IL
a better job. The other man wAs tall.
quick spoken. nervous and dark.look-
my. with beard stricken with gray. and
he would have been cross-eyed IL he hal
had two eyes; rs IL was. his one eve WAS
Get cr,ssing.
well. how j. Silverton nov - ctn-
,inucd the dark looking man.
''Oh, petered.'
"Anybodv therpy' y
Pew old fellows sticking Ia claims
that they think there's something ia.
them out"
did YOU know Tom Slemmonsr'
Yes; KILLED himself drinking wkk-
ky" o,ss
What bccame of John I.i,tlefeldp'
Moses LAWYER killed him in u fight
over the Swectly Dreaming claim"
Reckon SANDY Jones amt there
now"
.Sold out Of the Bet Your Boots for
forty thousand. went back " Pike, and
10 cultivating . family"
''Dick Branigau made money thcreR''
Yes; bu, he's dead whisky goa ?
him" '
Did Harry Martin e, rid of his
money!
Yes. went to the Black Hills; goa
killed by the Sioux"
ibid his brother Thad go?"
He went, made n big fortune out Of
the placer; Is member Of Congrcss
from Nebraska now
calvin Sanders. that kept the I,cw IL
Heaven saloon. has left, ] suppo>ei"
proceeded the eue-eyed man.
Left for good; got loaded with u
stray bullet while a low vas going TN
In his saloon Ons night"
"ohuet ~Hht oecHine OI fnt ~
burn, that run u saloon there-the An
gelicP'
Hes a banker In San Trsncisco.N
John Blogdcn had a bank in silver
ton; where's he banking now"
Hes herding sheep for Tommy Pug
mire. on Mud Lake" Oh.
Tommy, the bOOtblack!
The same; he got feet in the Sweet
By-and-By. and sold for twenty thou
sand"
did you know the Sloper boysr'
We'll, Harry Sloper Is the COain
blasdale Il Co., u mercantile firm i'm
Hong Kong. China. Luke Sloper killed
a Chinaman in Slagtown and got six
months In the Carson P~enitentiHrv.
Long sentence just FOR killing u China
msn He'll be pardoned out though.
'Age Sloper got into . sh0otin' scrim-
mage with Montana Jack and killed
him. Lige afterward went to the Ar
kansas Hot Springs; he was not very
we'll"
Where did Charley Madden gor'
why. he was a stout. healthy look
ing man"
"Whisky."
many vie anu mine, cOntln-
ucd the tall stranger. ''were great cro-
MES. My WIFE, somehow, never liked
my name; heard she changed her part
ot II soon as l left. and ia u few months
married without divorce under her ns0
name; married u fellow by the name IL :
Scraggs."
''~Scraggsv
"Scraggs."
"Ahem --ah-waiter, another Gu fod
co"ee' suppose you know Charley's
brother-in-law, Dutch Louis. that busted
Ia the brewery ~business?" said the a n
First rate: where's hey'r
Hes in Silverbrockbury, Arizona
Tot q big brewery there"
"Remember ALI sykee." said the one
bling the MALI
trouble?" ~
Five years at Carson for Hmm
wells; Fargo. Ae didn't play il hne
nhe tney say old Blivens did: I be-
guess" r -
'Old Blivensr"
w D"'o"s' lou see ne robbed
Wei's-r argo. just out Of Silverton; that
T TM oeiore went ~there-heard Of IL
y messenger was the only witness
ssnins. nm. and on the morning, of the
day OF the trial the Recommendations
shot dead at the door Of the r1om in
winch he slept, and which opened on
narrow alley. Ii was not known Ter
certain who did it, but the V.pilantes
suggested to Old Blivens that perhaps
Of climate" ~AsS
Sala the dark stranger, with an ex-
pIesston OF countenance which showed
Una. ne thought he was looking the Rort
man square in the face: ~
.What might your name bey,
foursY" = |G' SIS ScraSgS-
.1Old Blivens.w
fNSSlnD S.ns "a