Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-04
SEMINOLE SAM"
An Incident Of the Snake River Mines.
ny WYOMING KIT.

"wont ye come in an SEE Sam,
s,ranger!"
This question WAS addressed to
me, MS | slowly strolled through the
Snake River Mining camp, in Wye
ming Territory, one beautiful Sab.
bath evening in May last. The
speaker stood in the door Of II
rough log cabin, near the bank oi
the stream. He was one of those
rough. "uncut diamonds" which
can ever be found in mining
camps, whose every expression de.
noted soul teeming with genuine
Western hospitality, aud love for
his fellow mau. Dressed in buck.
sin from head to foot, he presented
a truly picturesque appearance,
smacking strongly Of the romantic.
"Who is SAM" | asked.
"Why Seminole Sam-him as air
curled up in bed in var, buckin'
agin death, with all the keerds a
runnin' agin him strong, too
| had rode into the camp but an
hour before, and had learned moth
ing of the man referred to. In an
swer to question regarding him
! the man said:
"Sam cum over var from the
Seminole range about a. year ago,
au' sQuatted down in this var house.
He's gambler, paid, but he does
his work in an honest, Christianlike
manner, an We h'ar me.a singin' a
level an squar' song when tell We
tibet a whittier man never showed up
in the diggins! Sam never took
advantage o a greeny, or slung a
crooked keeId in his life, an a
galoot never yit went broke on his
game sQuealiu' foul;' but the poor
old boys a settin' in hard game
now, stranger. an if war agOin'
ter try an call the turn, Id say
that Sam II git worsted an pass in
his checks afore midnight!'
"Has he been i'll longi7 | asked,
feeling a strange interest il, the man
"No, pard; faint any nat'ral
ailin'. Ye see Sam sat down in q
game with a poker sharp from over
on the railroad, a few days ago, an
during the play little misnnder
standin' ariz atween 'em about
three aces tibet he'd mysteriously
evacuated from the pack, nm which
Sam diskivered a locatin' 'emselve,
in the strangers sleeve. Durin
the argument Sam got an ugly dig
from a knife that war engineered
by the stranger, an now he,
stretched out in var hevin' cusset
hard time, an its bout all the DO!
can do to corral breath enough fol
actooal use. We've bin adris,n
him to do little chinnin' with
, gospel sharp, SOS ter Ak matter
up 40 tibet when he passes in hi
checks the Boss up above II ALLOW
him all fur them tibet the natur
the game II allow. One o the boy
has gone ont now TO rustic up
preacher, an'-ihar' he comes now
: pard; les 60 in
i The minister was venerab'
e locking man. with n kind, SINGER
face, which was ,0y overcast wit
y an EXPRESSION If genuine symp;
h thy. Az he entered the cabin W
i followed, and never shall | forge
. the scene within. Stretched uIn
a rough pallet lay n man OF powe'
r full frame, upon whom death In
placed its seal, The partially glaze
eyss and CHASTITY pale face i,-tokeI
ing the near approach OF the grl'
/. monster. Grouped about the be'
= with heads bowed in reverenti'
awe, stood q score OF persons, rel
resenting every phase of lite in
|, frontier settlement. from the blu
y shirted miner to the flashily dresse
gambler. The look of pain an
}. sympathy upon each face espresso
In language palmer than words no
great a favorite Sam was with al
The minister approached the be
and with fervent words of symp
thy took the dying man by Il
l. hand. Sam looked into his IA
with an iBquiring look for Q %
ment, aud then raid:
~ al hope you won't pat it up
BIZ chnokv paraon fur me- a DQttl