The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-03-19
THEY MET By CHANCE.
The Two Men From 0ilvOrton and
Their Conlab.
"Now, in Silverton, Nevada, We

Tho11 Conan.
"Now. in Silverton, Nevada, We
used to-
''Silverton
"Yes."
''Nevada !"
"Yes."
swell! you are the frs. man have
seen from Silverton for . coons age.
l left there six years ago; . left my
wife there"
Il went there nearly six years ago"
Such was the passage in q conversa-
ton going On between two strangers
taking a meal in a Utah restaurant,
which attracted the attention of my
self. eating at q different table.
The man latest from Silverton was
q short, stout. sandy looking man.
with beard closely cropped, and a scar,
beginning. as supposed. somewhere
in the hair OF his head thence running
down the forehead along to the right
of the nose. making hicks in the
lower part of the nose and in the lips.
then disappearing in the beard Of the
chin. 1t looked rs If some one had
started to skin him and gave it up OH
the offer Of a better job. The other
man was tall. quick-spoken. nervous
and dark looking, with beard stricken
with gray; and he would have been
cross-eyed If he had had two eyes. as
it was his one eye vas set crossing.
"Well, how is Silverton now" con-
tinue.l the dark lookin. man.
"Oh, petered."
"Anybody there!"
"Few old fellows sticking to claims
that they think there's something in.
They'll stay till Gabriel's trump races
them out"
ibid you know Tom Slemmons
"ies; he killed himself drinking
whisky"
"What became of John Little6eld ?"
"Mose Lawler killed him in a fight
over the Sweetly Dreaming claim"
"Reckon Sandy Jones amt there
nowr
"Sold out the Bet Your Boots for
forty thousand. went back to Pike.
and is cultivating a family"
"Dick Branigan made money
there?"
eyes; but he is dead-whisky got
him."
ibid Harry Martin get rid of his
money
Eyes; went to the Black Hills; got
killed BY the Sioux"
ibid his brother rhad go?"
HE went; made a big fortune out
Of the placers. Is member Of congress
from Nebraska now"
calvin Sanders, that kept the Dew
of Heaven saloon. has left suppose ?"
proceeded 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 become of Pat
Pyburn, that run a saloon there-the
Angelic"
''He's q banker in San Francisco"
"John Blogden had . bank in
Silverton where is he banking now ?"
HE Is herding sheep for Tommy
Pigmire, on mud lake"
Tommy. the bootblack p
"The same; no got feet in the
Sweet By-and-By. and sold for twenty
thousand"
ibid you know the Sloper boys?
"Well, Harry Sloper is the Co. in
Blasdale 4 Co., q mercantile firm in
Hong Kong. China. Luke Sloper
killed q Chinaman in Shutdown and
got six months in the Carson peniten-
tiary. Long sentence just for killing
. Chinaman. He'll be pardoned out,
though. Lige Sloper got into shoot
ing scrimmage with Montana Jack
and killed him. Lige afterward went
to the Arkansas Hot Springs; he was
not very we'll"
"Where did Charley Madden GOT"
Dead"
"Why. he was . stout, healthy look
ing man."
"Whisky."
"Charley's wife and mine," con-
tinued the tall stranger, "were great
cronies. My wife, somehow, never
liked my name; heard she changed
her part Of it soon a. I left, and in .
few months married without . divorce
under her new name; married q
fellow named Scraggs."
"Scraggs
"Scraggs."
"Ahem-ah-waiter, another cup
# coffee. Suppose you know Charleys
,rother.in.law, Dutch Louis, that
busted in the brewery business :" said
he sandy looking man.
"First rate; where u he :"
"Hss in Silverbrockbury, Arizona. |
Tot q big brewery there"
Remember Alf Sykes" said the !
tranger, with the one eye set crossing. |
''Got twenty years at Carson for
obbing the mail"
"Heard Ward Smithers had some |
rouble p
Give years at Carson for robhing |
Wells. Fargo. He didn't play It fine
Ike they say old Blivins did; I believe
hat WAS his name-nick.name, /
,uess."
''OA Blivins 7"
"Old Blivins. You see he robbed
Wells. Fargo. Just out Of Silve.ton !;
hat was before I went there heard Of
/ The messenger Was the only
FITNESS against him, and on the morn
,g Of the day Of the trial the messen-
er Was found shot dead at the door Of
be room in which be slept; and which
nened on n narrow alleV. lt WA not