The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-05-10
MET BY CHANCE.
Now, in Silverton, Nevada, we used to

well you're the first man I've seen
from Silverton in a coOu's age. | left there
six years aco-left my wife there
Such was the passage of a conversation
going on between Two strangers taking a
meal in Utah restaurant, which a:traci ed
the attention of myself, eating at a differ
ent table. The man latest fIOm SilveTtOn
was a short, stout, sandy looking man,
with beard closely cropped, and a scar, be-
ginning-as | supPOse-sOmewhere In the
hair of his head, thence running down the
forehead along the right Of the nose, MAX
log nicks in the lower part of the nose and
in the lips, then disappearing in the beard
of the chin. 1t looked as if some one had
started to skin him, and given il up on the
offer of better job. The other man was
tall, ouick-spoken, nervous, and dark look
ing, with beard streaked with gray and
he would have been cross eyed if he had
two eyes as it was, his one eye was set
crossing.
We'll! how is Silverton now 90 contln-
ued the dark looking man.
oh, petered
ANYBODY there p
Few old fellows sticking to claims that
they think there's something in. They'll
stay till Gabriers trump races them out
Did you know Tom SlemmOns 2?
Yes killed himself drinking whisky
'What became of John L;uilefield 3
Nose Lawler killed him in a fight over
the Sweetly Dreaming claim
Reckon Sandy Jones amt there now?'
Sold out of the Bet Your Boots for
forty thousand, went back to Pike, and is
cultivating family
Dick BIanigan made money there?
yes but he's dead-whisky got him.
Did Harry Martin get rid of his money!
Yes; went to the Black Hills, aud
was killed by the Sioux
Did his brother Thad go?'
'Ye went, made big fortune out of the
| placers, and is member of Congress from
/ Nebraska now
Alvin Sanders, who kept the Dew-of-
! Heaven saloon, has left, 1 suppose? p pro-
| ceeded the one-eyed man.
Left for good. Got loaded with a stray
bullet while row was going on in his
/ saloon one night
Wonder, what became of Pat Pyburn,
who ran a saloon there-tbe Angelic p
He's banker in San Francisco
John BlOgden had a bank in SIlverton.
| Where's lie banking now"
He's herding sheep for Tommy Pug
mire, on Mud Lake
Tommy, the bootblack p
'The same ; he got feet in the Sweet By
! and-By, ana sold for twenty thousand
Did ou know the Sloper boys?'
| well. Harry Sloper is the Co. in Bias
/ dale & CO., a mercantile firm IN Hong
! Kong, China. Luke Sloper killed a China
man in Slagtown, and got six months IN
the Carson Pententiary. Long sentence
/ Just for killing Chinamani He'll be
/ pardoned out, though. LIge Sloper got
into shoOtin' scermmage with Montana
( Jack and killed him. Lige afterwaId went
to the Arkansas Hot Springs; he was not
very we'll
where did Charley Madden go?'
Dead
why, he was a stout, healthy looking
man.
'Whiskyr
'Charley's wife and mine continued the
I tall stranger, were great crOnies. My wife
somehow never liked my name Heard
she changed her part Of it soin as l left,
aud in a few months married without a
divorce under her new name-marIied d
fellow named Soraggs.'
J 'Scraggs?
/ 'ocraggs
sAhem-ah-waiter,a another cup Of cof,
fee. Suppose you know Charley's brother
/ in-Iaw, Louis, that busted IN the brewery
| business y said the sandy looking man.
First rate where's he p
He's in Silverbrickbury, Arizona. Got
big brewery there
Remember Alf Sykes? said the strang
er with one eye set crossing.
/ -GOJ IWeul1 years dI '-hiSOh AOA AOOOAhe
| the mail
Heard Ward Smithers had some troublr?
Five years at Carson for robbing Wells
/ Fargo s. Co. lie didn't play it tine, lk@
| they say old Blvens did 4; / believe tha
was his name-nickname, / guess
I old Blivens =
old Blivens You see he robbed Wells
! Fargo, Just out of Silverton that was be
fore vent there heard of it. The mes
senger was the only witness against him
and on lhe day of the trial the messenger
was found shot dead at the door of the
room in which he slept, and which opened
| on a narrow alley. 1t was not known fol
/ certain who did 1t, but the Nigilants sug
/ gesied to Old Bliveus that perhaps his
! health would be benefited by change oi
/ climate
Said the dark stranger, with an expires
| sion Of counteuance which showed that he
/ thought lie was looking the shoit man
1 square in the face:
What might your name be :"
'Name-my name-is -is-Scraggs :
! Yours .
odd Biivens
Passing out of the door just at ;hiS point,
/ | did not learn how they Iecuuciled ,Ieir
/ conflicting locations.
TrO VIII is ahout To deserve well of a II