The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-08-21
Terror Number One.

These fresh fish rush for hotels, Doaru-
inr-nouses and saloons, get meal or
lunch, and are presently seen walking up
and down the streets of the frontier city
or collecting on the corners to hear the
latest news from the diggings and the
prospects Of striking job.
The other day, when wagon load OF
bull-heads was dumped out in Custer
City. as wagon loads had been dumped
ont every day before since grass started,
the first man to welcome them TO the in
fant city was chap five feet high, and
weighing accordingly. There was
blood stain on his left check, scar on
his right, and he had fierce eyes, Q voice
like roaring hon, and bad hmpin one
of his legs He was whiting ont ten
pin with big bowie-knife as the wagon
drove up, and pushing the knife down
the back Of his neck he lifted up Henry
rifle, ran his eye over the crowd, and
called ont in an awful voice:
SIS there anybody in that crowd look
ing for Terror No. /? Kase if there is,
here / am; and I'm Just aching 10 be shot
full Of bullets Weighing about . ponnd
apiecer'
No one was looking for him. Some
looked at him, and some looked across
the street on purpose not to see him,
while there was q uniform movement
toward hip pockets.
"I didn't know but that some OF you
might have come out here from New
York or Boston 10 plant me under the
sweet iessamine or the climbing morn
ing glory" chuckled the terror, as he
rested the butt of his rifle on the ground
and fisFed up six-shooter from his boot
leg.
There we're men from New York and
Boston in the party, but they didn't
want TO bury anybody just then.
'sI don't own this town" continued
the Terror, as he laid his infant armory
across the head of barrel. II don't
own a foot of ground or q share in any
Of the public buildings erected at the ex
pense Of taxpayers, but when I stand on
Washington square and utter one yell
this whole town quakes. I'm Terror
No. /. There's one or two other Terrors
around here, but I'm the boss-I'm the
reg'lar deaths head and cross bones of
the Black Hills regionr'
I. Before he had ceased speaking most of
the new comers had disappeared, some
looking pale and anxious, and others
feeling shiyers race up and down their
backs.
An hour later, when party of five
strangers from New England were MAX
ing the acquaintance of the internal bev-
erages on sale in one of the shanty
saloons, and at the same time pumping
the proprietor about prospects, in
walked the Terror. He looked as fierce
as q catamount cheated ont of her des-
sert, and there was an awful growl in his
voice as he called out:
Give o'clock by Omaha time, and /
ss.aEen't killed or been killed this whole
day longi Turn loose your pet grizzlies,
unhitch your whirlwinds, and let dozen
wild lions come for me ut once"
'srake something TO drink, my good
friend" mildly replied the saloonist.
''You are always welcome here, but you
don't drop in half often enough. Don't
be afraid TO pour out all you want"
"To tell the honest truth, Steve" said
the Terror, as he poured out nearly half
pint Of the meanest whisky ever made,
81 came in here to kill some one; but
you are white man clear down to your
toe nails, and II won't raise no row.
That's good whisky, that is, and if you
want any one in Custer City put under
ground, just give me his name. Can you
think of any one ?"
The saloon keeper reflected for mo-
ment, as he slowly wiped off his bar
2 with an old calico apron, and finally he
replied:
,sEo; don't think OF any one just now,
.1av ~ Two Anv time Won feel thirsty
come in and help yourself"
One Of the five men had formerly been
ha hsd Laan clos..iy watcb;n0 The Teyror
All ~ a sudden ba held out his hand for
a shave chearfuIlv observing:
aI,n bet one hundred TO one that we
used "a work board and room together. u
The Terror reached ont his hand.
olosely scanned the moulder's face. and
after a moment he said To the whole five:
nGentlemen. come ont doors and take
Heats ON the bench. / begin to know
thia man and 7 don't want to answer
anv ouest;ops in here"
HWelI INIT T am surnrised to find
Won ont here and rirged up in this
stvia y remarked the moulder as the
men fo,ind seafa
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rns ~ tha L;g1ast ,,,a..ty cowards east of Chi
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s VS. suc, = oy;,sr 81 make an honest living
a,,d rye cot the fhinp right down fine.
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