Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-10-09
Meeting Ey Chance.

Mt Meeting Ey Chance.
of
d. Now, in Silver'on. Nevada; We used
yip to"
N "Silverton:"
,r- ."Yes."
,e Nevada p
Yes"
1t "Well you're the first man have seer
II from Silverton in coon's $ age. left there
IF six years ago lett my wife there
=. Il went there nearly six Years ago"
&c S'sc'! was the passage in a eonysrsatior'
going on between two strangers taxing
meal in a Utah restaurant, which attracted
the attention OF myself while eating at y
different table.
The man latest fiom Siiyertti was ?
short. stout. sandy-look;ng man. with Il
scar beginning, l suppose. somewhere in
the hair of his head. thence running down
the forehead along to the right OF his nose
: making hicks in the lower part cf RS nose
and in the hips. then disappearing in the
beard CT the chin. 1t looked as if some
one had started to skin him. and gave it
up or the offer of Il better job. The other
man WAS tall. quick spoken, kervous and
sslrk-iSokihg. with beard Streakcd with
gray; he would have been cross-eyed if he
had had two eyes; as it was, his one eye
was set crossing.
"Wc!l. how is Silverton now:' contin-
ued the dalk-looking man.
"Oh, pctered"
"Anybo,es theses"
! Few Old fellows sticking to clamis thas
they think theirs something in THEY'LL
stay til Gabriel's trump races them out.''
''Do you know Tom Semmons ?''
eyes: killed himself drinking whisley.|
"What become of John Littleiield:"
"Mose Lawlcr kilel him over the Sweet
Dreaming ck,im.''
Reckon Sandy Jones amt there now ~
''SOk, ont the Bet Your Boots for forty
thousand dollars-went back to Pike. and
is c'lltvating Il family"
'Dick Brannigan made money there
YES; but he's dead : whiskey cot
him.
did Martin get rid OF his money!
''les; went to the Black Hills; got
killed by the Sioux"
Did his brother 'rhad go?'
''Ile went; rfI.,dc biz fortune out n
the pEacers. Is member of Congress from
Nebraska now"
"ANin Sanders. that Kept the Dew of
Heaven saloon, has left. >uppose:" pro
cceded the onc-eyed nan.
left for good. Got beaded with a STAY
buffet while row wac eons OR in his sa-
tocn one night"
Wonder wI,as bersmc of Pat Pyburn..
who ran saloon tlere-the Angelic: -
''fle's a banker in Frisco"
''John Blodeen had bank in Siverton:
where is lie bankin" now:'
'He's herling sheep tor Tommy Pug
nire, on Mud Lake
Tommy. the bootblacl:s''
''Yhe same. He g5t feet in the Sweet
's-a:1d-By," and sold on. for twenty thou
and
''Did you know the Stopper bnysa''
"Well. Harry is the CO. il! BAStalc &
% a mercantile firm III Hong Kong. Chi
IA sstke Stopper killed u Chinaman in
layton, and got six months in the Carson
enitentiary-long sentence just for killing
Ch5nan1an: he'll be pardoned out, tho.
ige stopper got into shootin' scrimmaeu
18th Montana Jack and killed him. fige
fterward went to Arkansas IIo1 Springs.
e wasn't very well.''
Where did Charley Madden go?''
Dead"
"Why, he was stout, hcallhy-lookinu.
all.'i
''Whiskey.'
"Charley's wife ard mine" continued
C tall stranger, ''werc great cronies. Ny
lfe. somehow never liked my name:
ard she changed her part of il as SOON
| left, and in a few months married
thout divorce nhtler her new Maine
arried a fellow ramed Scraggs.''
''ScraggsT'
''Scraggs.''
afrrher cup Of cof--
:. Suppose you know Charley's BROTH
n-law. Dutch Lewis, that busted in the
every business - said the sandy-look--
2 man.
"First-ratc. Where is hep
lies in Silverbrockbury, Arizona. Got
,ig brewery there"
iNCiHCui' VI All sdlu Tue StFdN-
+. with one eye set crossing.
Got twenty years ut Carson for robbing
; mail.'
Heard Ward Smithers had some trou-
-
'Fh'e years at Carson for robbing Wells,
rgo. He didn't play it fine like they say
Blivens did; believe that was his
guess
OH Bivens.'
Old Blivens. YOn sec lie robbed Wells,
rgo just out OF Silverton-that was be-
C went there; heard Of it, The mes
ser Was the only witness against him,
on the mornin. of the day of the ,ria,
messenger was found shot dead at the
" q the room in which he had slept,
which os:nei on a narrow alley. lt
, nct Known fo.' certain who did il. but
yigilantes suggested TO old Blisens that
haps his health would be benefited BY
iarlge of climate
aid the dark stranger, with an express
! CT eonntena1ce which showed that he
ug1,f ne was booking the short man
are in the iac1:;
What tTiight your rahc be-"
Name-my name-is-SciagSs. lours:'
Old Blivens."
assing ont OF The door jus; at this mo-
II. did not hear how they reccncilel
r conflicting locations.
The Secretary Of War has issued ger.
orklea for tll.. Inflammation of III urrny