Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-03-27

different table.
The man latest from Silverton was
short, stout, sandy looking man, with
beard closely cropped, and a scar begin
ming, 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 disappear
iag in the beard of the chin. 1t looked
as if some one had started TO skin him
and gave it up on the offer of better
Job. The other man was tall, quick
spoken, nervous and dark-looking,
with beard streaked 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" con-
tinued the dark-looking man.
"0h, petered."
anybody there!"
Sew old fellows sticking to claims
that they think there's something in.
They'll stay till Gabriel's trump races
them out"
"Did you know Tom slemmons?"
"Yes; killed himself drinking whis-
key"
"what became of John Littlefield?"
e'Mose 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 thousand, went back to Pike, and
is cultivating family"
"Dick Branigan made money there?"
"Yes; but he's dead whiskey got
him."
Did Harry Martin get rid of his
money ?''
eyes; went to the Black Hills; got
killed blythe Sioux"
'.Did his brother Thad go?"
"He went, made 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
stray bullet while row was going On in
his saloon one night"
"Wo onder what became of Pat Pyburn
that ran a saloon there-the ADgelic?"
"He's banker in San Francisco"
"John Biogden had bank in Silver
ton; where's he banking now?"
Hes herding sheep for Tommy Pug
mire, On Mud Lake"
Tommy, the bootblack:"
The same; he got feet in the Sweet
By-and-By, and sold for twenty thou
sand"
"Did you know the Sloper boys?"
"Wel, Harry Sloper is the Co.. in
Blasdale d Co., a mercantile firm in
Hong Kong, China. Luke Sloper killed
Chinaman in Slagtown and got six
months in the Carson Penitentiary.
Long sentence just for killing China
man. He'll be pardoned out though.
Lige Sloper got into shootin' serim-
mage with Montana Jack and killed
him. Lige afterward went TO the Ar
kansas Hot Springs, he was not very
well.'' .-
"where did Charley Madden go?"
"Dead." ~.
"why, he was stout, healthy-look-
ing man."
"Whiskey."
"Charley's wife and mine," eontin-
ued the tall stranger, "were great
cronies. My wife, somehow, never
liked my name, heard she changed her
part of it soon as / left, and in 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
brotherin-law, Dutch Louis, that busted
in the brewery business?" said the
sandy-looking man.
''First rate; where's hep"
''He's in Silverbrockbury, Arizona.
UoI Dig brewery tnere.
Remember AIf Sykes?" said the
stranger, with the one eye set crossing.
''GOt twenty years at Carson for rob-
bing the mail"
''Heard Ward Smithers had some
treuble?''
Five years at Carson for robbing
Wells, Fargo. He didn't play it fine
like they say cid Blivens did; 1 believe
that was his name-nick- name, II
guess"
sold BliveHsi''
sold Blivens. You see he robbed
Wells, Fargo, just out of Silverton;
that was before | went there, heard of
it. The messenger was the only witness
against him, and on 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.
1t was not known for certain who did
it, but the vigilantes suggested to Old
Bliyens that perhaps his health would
be benefited 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:
"What might your name be?"
"Name-my name-is-is Scraggs:
yours?"
"0ld Blivens."
Passing out of the door Just at this
point, did not learn how they recon-
ciled their conflicting locations.
Tea chests made in Massachusetts,
are to be exported to China.