The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-09-27

;scf ~ merriment only IN that "high
rId ,own.~ He was allowed 10 sway
asr and boast TO his hearts content;
IA even when he drew his "nobby
xb,stler = and shot the lights out Of all
,be lamps in kyan's saloon. the action
only evoked grin and the doubtful
compliment that il was "purty fair
sbootin', and nigh as stiddy narye as
irish Tom showed when he popped
sxay at that bad man. from Dead
wood
One day last summer Pete walked into
S,robridge's saloon with the remark
,hst he had . heerd the Last Chance
was goin' to be sold, and they've sent
M an expert TO look into it,"
The expert, pale, small man,
dressed in dusty gray, was standing at
me bar and looked around as the tall,
would-be ruilian uttered these words.
.Thet's so, Pete" said one Of the
men present, san thet's the expert"
poin,ing to the small man.
"You are an expert, eh!" shouted
Pete, cycling the man menacingly.
.sYou're one Of them fellers as allows
he knows payin' mines, are you?"
Then, after d pause, during which he
surveyed the stranger from head to foot,
.Wall, you're the wust l ever saw.
Experts Is bad enough, but you're the
slinkiest, meanest, wust coot TO set
Yourself up to report on mine ever
laid eyes on"
IL don't want to quarrel with you,
sir,r answered the expert.
"Ye'd better not, young Teller; ye'd
better not. I'm whirlwind Of the
desert in fight, and don't you forget
it,
I'm man Of peace; carry no
weapons, and, Of course, could not
hope 10 stand before even zephyr Of
The desert, let alone a wild, untamcd
whirlwiri."
These deprecatory words only in
censed the = bad man. still more, and,
feeling tina, he had "soft thing pro-
posed in his own mind to "play il for
al il was WORTH and gain g record"
By whipping his man.
"Look heyer, stranger, don't want
no insinuations. DO l look like a
zephyr Sayl- Here Washoe Pete
shook his fist in the experts face.
"What dye mean BY talkin' about
zephyrs? I'm tornado. l tear when
turn loose. Zephyr [sneezingl. Why,
I've good mind To-"
"Please, mighty whirlwind, resist
less tornado, don't hit me. You
wouldn't strike consumptive man,
would you?"
Wouldn't ~" yelled the fighter"
in terrible voice; . wouldn't 1? I'D
strike the side OF mountain"
"But sick MANI pleaded the ex-
pert, "a man dying Of consumption, an
orphan, a stranger, and a man Of
peace.-
"What're We giving me? DO you
know who amp" tiercely demanded
the whirwind.
"lou're a gentleman known in Bodie
As Washoe Pete lat least l have heard
you designated by that familiar appella-
ton during my sojourn here, answered
the expert, moving off.
"What else am I?'' shrieked the
rough, striding toward the covering ex
pert
"A gentleman, suppose. Honestly,
ldon't know your other name"
"Well, Ill tell you who ann and
the tall man stood over the shrinking
stranger as ii about to topple upon him
and annihilate him. "I'm bad; I'm
chief in this yer camp, and I ken lick
the mans says ain'l. I'm a raging
lion Of the plains, an every time hit l
Kill. I've got an arm like quartz
stamp, an crush when 20 fur man.
weigh ton, an earthquakes amt no.
where when drop
"But I've only just been discharged
from hospital, = replied the expert.
I'll send We back again. (" aud the stall
wart .blufferr caught the little man
BY the collar and hurled him upon the
floor.
Its unkind to use poor, weak, suf-
fering invalid that way expostulated
the expert, as he slowly arose from the
door. .Please don't joke 50 roughly.
Let's take drink and call it square.
I'm very sorry that l have offended
you.n
"le think I'm joking, do we've tske
me fur josh, ehP Ill show ye what I
am afore ! git through with ye. We
don't play me for no tender-foot. I'm a
native, am, an I've stood this yer
foolin' long enough" Saying which he
dashed the stranger against table and
drew long knife.
As soon as the expert saw this he
screwed his face into the most piteous
shape, and, throwing his hands up,
cried: I'm unarmed; havn't got as
much as pen-knife on me. Please
don't carve me; kick me TO death If you
must have my life, but, for heavens
sake, don't stick that terrible thing into
mes
Now, as Washoe Pete had no inten-
uon Of using the knife-and thereby
nsking his necK--he was well pleased
With the opportunity thus afforded him
q displaying the deadly weapon. and.