The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-03-28
MET BY CHANCE.
Now in silverton, Nevada, we used to-
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Now in silverton, Nevada, we used to-
'Silverton?
Yes
Nevada?
Yes
Well you're the first man I've seen from Sill.
Verton in eoon's age left there six years ago;
left my wife there
went there nearly six years ago.
Such was the passage in a conversation going
on between two strangers taking meal in Utah
restaurant, which attracted the attention of my
self eating at different table,
The man latest from SllVerton was a short stout,
sandy'looking man. with beard closely cropped,
and scar beginning, as 1 supposed, somewhere
in the hair of his head, thence running down the
forehead along to the right Of the nose making
ncks in the lower part of the nose and in the
lips, then disappearing in the beard Of the chin.
Itlooked as If some one had started to skin him
and gave 1t up on the offer of better job. The
other man was tall, quick.spoken, nervous and
dirty.looklng, with beard stricken with gray and
he would have been cross eyed If he had had two
eyes, as it was his one eye was set crossing.
Well, how is Silverton now p continued the
darklooking man.
oh, petered'
Anybody there?'
Few old fellows sticking to claims that they
think there's something in. They'll stay till Ga
bries trump races them out
Did you know Tom SlemmonsY
Yes killed himself drinking whisky
What become of John Llttlefeld?
Nose Lawler killed him in fight over the
Sweetly Dreaming claim.
Reckon Sandy Jones amt there now?
Sold out of the Bet Your Boots for forty thou
sand went back to Pike, and is cultivating fam
ily'
Dick Branigan made money there%
Yes; but he's dead-whisky got him.
Did Harry Martin get rid of his money!
Yes; he went to the Black Hills got killed by
the Sioux
Did his brother Thad 60?
He went, made big fortune out Of the placers.
Is Ismember Of Congress from Nebraska now
Albert Sanders that kept the Dew of Heaven
saloon, has left, l supposeP proceeded the one
eyed man.
Left for good. Got loaded with stray bullet
while row was going on in his saloon one
night
Wonder what become of Pat Pyburn, that run
q saloon there-the Angelic
He's banker in San Francisco
Johh Blodgen had bank in Silverton where's
he banking now?'
He's herding sheep for Tommy Pugmire ON
Mud Lake
Tommy, the bostblackH
The same; he got feet in the Sweet By-and.By,
and sold for twenty thousand
Did you know the Sloper boys?'
Well Harry sloper is the Co. in Blasdale g. Co.,
a mercantile firm in Hong Kong, China. Luke
sloper killed Chinaman in stagtown and got
six months in the Carson Penitentiary. Long
sentence just for killing a Chinaman, He'll be
pardOned out though. Lige sloper got into a
shoOtin' scrimmage with Montana Jack and killed
him. Lige afterward went to the Arkansas Hot
Spring, he was not very we'll
Where did Charley Madden go?
Dead
Why, he was a stout, healthy looking man.
Whisky
Charleys wife and mine continued the tall
stranger, were great cronies. My wife, some
how, never liked my name heard she changed
her part of it soon as left, and in a few months
married without divorce under her new name;
married fellow named scraggs'
'sCraggs.'
Scraggs.
pose you know Charley's brother-inlaw, Dutch
Louis, that busted in the brewery business p said
the Gandy.looking man.
First rate where's he?
He's in silverbrockbury, Arizona. Got big
brewery there
Remember ALT sykesF said the stranger, with
one eye set crossing.
Got twenty years at Carson for robbing the
mail.
Heard Ward smithers had some trouble
Five years at Carson for robbing Wells, Fargo.
He did not play it fine like they say old Blivens
did believe that was his name-nickname,
guess
old Blivensp
old Blivens. You see he robbed Wells, Fargo
Just out of silverton; that was before I went
there, heard of it. The messenger was the only
witness against him, and on the morning of the
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. # was not
known for certain who did it, but the vlgilantes
suggested to Old Blivens that perhaps his health
would be benefited by change Of climate.
Said the dark stranger with an expression Of
countenance which showed that he thought he
was looking the shortman square in the face:
What might your name beT
Name-my name-is-is-Scraggs yoursT
old Blivens'
Passing out of the door just at this point, did
not learn how they reconciled their conflicting
locahons.-Neg York Nail.