Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-01

The Two Men from S~iIverton and
Their COnfab.

lowin q characteristic conversation be-
tween two old-timers from a defunct
Nevada mining camp, who met by
chance in a Salt Lake restaurant:
Now. in Silverton, Nevada, we
used to"--
"Silverton !"
Eyes"
"Nevada ?"
"Yes.n
"Well! you're the first man I've
seen from Silverton in a coon's age.
| left there six years ago; left my wife
there"
Il went there nearly six years ago."
Such was the passage OF a converse
ton going on between two strangers
taking a meal in a Utah restaurant,
which attracted the attention of my
self eating at a different table.
The last man from Silverton was a
short, stout, sandy looking man, with
beard closely cropped, and a scar be.
ginning, as l 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.
It looked as If some one had started to
skin him and gave it up on the offer of
a better job. The other man was a tall,
q~uickspnken, nervous and dark look
ing, with beard sticking with gray; and
he would have been cross eyed if he
had had two eyes, as it was his n eye
was set crossing.
"Well, how is Silverton now ?" con-
tinued the dark looking man.
Nnh nafaroI
Anybody there ?"
Few old fellows sticking to claims
that they think there's something in.
They'll stay TIL Gabriel's trump traces
them out"
ibid you know Tom Slemmons 2"
"Yes; killed himself drinking
whisky"
What became of John Little
field ?"
"Mose Lawler killed him in a fight
over the Sweetly Dreaming claim"
RECKON Sandy Jones amt there
?"
"Sold out the Bet Your Boots for
forty thousand, went back to Pike, and
is c~ultivating a family"
t"Dick Branigan made money there?'
"Yes; but he's dead-whiskey got
him."
Ibid Harry Martin get rid of his
money!"
Yes; went to the Black Hills; got
killed by the Sioux"
IBID his brother Thad go?"
He went, made a big fortune out of
the placers. Is member of Congress
from Nebraska now"
alvin Sanders, who kept the Dew of
Heaven saloon, has left, | suppose ?"
proceeded the one-eyed man.
LEFT for good. Got loaded with a
stray bullet while a row was going on
in his saloon one night"
Wonder what became of Pat Ply
burn, that run a saloon there-the
Angelic?"
Hes a banker in San Francisco"
John Blogden had a bank in Silver.
ton; where's he banking o ?"
He's herding sheep for Thomas
P~nginire, on Mud Lake"
Tommy, the bootblack?"
1.-The same. He got feet in the Sweet
BY and By, and sold for twenty thou
sand"
Did you know the Sloper boys?"
"Well; Harry Sloper is the Co. in
Blasdale IL Co., a mercantile firm in
Hong Kong. China. Luke Sloper killed
a Chinaman in Slagtown, and got six
years in the Carson ~Penitentlary.
Long sentence just for killing a China
man. He'll be pardoned out, though.
Lige Sloper got into a shootin' scrim-
mage with Montana Jack and killed
him. Lige afterwards went to the
Arkansaw Hot Springs, he was not
very we'll"
Where did Charley Madden go?"
Dead"
"Why, he was a stout, healthy look
ing man."
Whisky"
"Charley's wife and mine," contin-
ued the tall stranger, were great GRO
MES. My wife, somehow, never liked
my name; she changed her part OF it
soon as l left, and in a few months
married without a divorce under her
new name, married a fellow named
Scraggs."
'Scraggs !"
"Scraggs."
"Ahem-ah-waiter. another cup OF
coffee. suppose you know Charley's
brother in law, Dutch Louis. hat bust
ed in the brewery business 2"
First rate; where's her"
"He's in Silverbrockbury. Arizona.
got a big brewery there"
"Remember All. Sykes ~ said the
stranger with one eye set crossing.
"Got twenty years at Carson for rob-
bling the mail"
Heard Ward Smithers had some
trouble ?"
Got five years at Carson for rob-
hing Wells, Fargo Il Co. He didn't
play it fine like they say old Blivens
did. l believe that was his name, nick
name. | guess"
"Old Blivens! !"
"Old Blivens. You see he robbed
Wells, Fargo just out of Silverton;
that was before | went there, heard of
it. The messenger was the only wit
ness against him, and or the morning
of the day of the trial, the messenger
was found shot dead at the door OF the
in which he slept, and which
opened on a narrow alley. 1t was not
known for a certain who did it, hut the
vigilantes suggested TO old Blivens
that perhaps his health would be bene-
fitted by a change of climate"
Said the dark stranger, with an ex-
preston of countenance which showed
that he thought he was looking the
short man square in the face :
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