The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-03-16
BUDGET OF FUN.
The two Men from Silverton and their Confab
MNaI. Il, Sil..urtal, Nnuall we used ~
MET BY CHANCE.

The two Men from Silyerton and their Confab.
Now in Silveron Nevada, we used to-
"SilvertOn!"
Yes"
Nevada
YES"
well, you're the first man I've seen from
Silverton in II coon'sage eitthere SIX years
ago. left my wife there.
II went there nearly six years ago"
Such was the passage i'll conversation 20
ing on between two strangers taking Il meal in
a Utah restaurant, which attracted the atten-
ton of myself, eating at a different table.
The man latest from Slverton was a short,
stout sandy looking man, with beard closely
cropped, and a scar beginning, as supposed
somewhere in the hair OF his head thence run
ming down the forehead along to the light of
the nose, making hicks in :hc lower part of the
nose and in the lips, then disappearing 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 Il better job. The other man was tall,
quickspoken, nervous and dark-looking, with
beard stricken with gray and we would have
been cross-cyed if he had had two eyes, as 1t
was his one eye was set crossing
well, how is Silverton now" continued
the dark looking man.
"Oh, petered"
Anybody therc?"
L eW Olu lcllONS SllChlllS w Ii"iiii', INV Wy
think there's something in They'll stay till
Gabriel's trump races them out"
did you know Tom Slemmons"
Eyes killed himself drinking whiskcy.'
"What became of John Littletield:"
Nose Lawler killed him IN ii fight over the
Swcety 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
Il family"
Dick Brangan made money there"
Yes; but he's dcad-whskey got him."
Did Harry Martin get rid of his money!
Yes went to the Black Hills; got killed
by the Sioux"
did his brother Thad Coz
He went, made big fortune out Of the
players. Is member Of Congress from Ne
braska now"
. "Alvln Sanders, that kept the Dew Of IIcav-
en- saloon has left, | suppose" proceeded the
one-eyed man.
Left for good Got loaded with stray
bullet while Il row was going on i'll his saloon
one night
Wonder what became Of Pat Ryburn, that
run saloon therc-the Angelica"
Hes Il banker in San Francisco"
'John Blogden had a bank in Slverton;
where's he banking now"
Hes herding sheep for Tommy Pugmire,
on Mud Lake"
Tommy the bootblaCk ~
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., mercantile
firm in Hong Kong, China. Luke Sloper kill
cd Chinaman in Slagtown and got six months
in the Carson penieniary. Long sentence Just
for killing a Chlnaman. He'll be pardoned
out though. Lige Sloper got into a shootn'
scrimmage with Montana Jack and killed him.
Llge afterward went to the Arkansas Hot
Springs, he was not very we'll"
Where did Charley Madden go:"
Dead"
why, he was stout, hcartyloOking man
"Whiskcy."
"Charleys wife and mine" continued the
tall stranger, were great crOnies. My wife,
somehow, never liked my Nance heard she
changed her part of it soon as | left, and in a
few months married without Il divorce under
hernew name, married a fellow named Scraggs.'
"ScraggS."
"Scraggs"
acknowledgements another cup of coffee.
Suppose you know Charley's Drothcr-in.law.
Dutch Louis, that busted in the brewery bust
ness said the sandy-lOoking man.
First rate; where's hc?'
He's in Silverbrockbury, Arizona. Got Il
big brewery there"
Remember ALT Sykes?" asked the stranger
with the one eye set crossing
Got twenty years at Carson for robbing the
mail"
Heard Ward Smithers had some trouble?"
Five years at Carson for rObbng Wells,
Fargo He didn't play it fine like they say
old Blivens did; | believe that was his name
nickname, | guess"
"Old BlIvins. 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 morn
ing 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. 1t was not known for certain who did
it, but the vigilantcs suggested to old Blivens
that perhaps his health would be benefited bya
change of climate"
Said the dark stranger with an expression
Of countenancc which showed that he thought
he was looking the short man square IN the
face:
What might your name bc?'
"Name-my namc-is-is Scraggs yours -
"Old Blivins"
Passing out of the door just at this point,
did not learn how they reconcilcd their con
flicting lOcatiOns.-N \. Mail
The Methodist Ahead.