The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-08-05
THE WAY THEX DO 1T DOWN AT
Ell DORADO CANYON.
Ell DORADO CANYoS,
Iulv % 1890

How history repeats itself as one thing
leads suggestively to another, and just
how far the "Hi-Biddy Martin" hiptation
went toward spicing the gossip OF the
camp for the past week, the women prob
ably know best. Trouble is to be dreaded,
come in whatever form it may, but family
troubles, unlike others, are seldom for
gotten, and although husband and wife
are generally alike to blame, they are
nevertheless entitled to our fullest SYM
pathy. As rule, the population here
| don't steal, but when q man gets away
with whole family, it looks as though
| he might be tainted with the "whole-hog-
or none" doctrine. OF course, when a
wife swaps one husband for another here,
she has an eye to biz. 1t is no trick at
all to get married here; that is, if you
can git anybody to have you. The old
"River Law" is still in vogue, and &C.
cording to that, all you have to do is to
steal your gal and keep her hid for three
days, which gives you bang-up title.
The law is the same when there is a
family, and you steal the whole business.
The honeymoon lasts Just three days,
and if the husband succeeds in finding
and identifying the outfit as his property
within that time, you are, according to
the law of the land here, busted up in
the family business, unless you can man.
age to steal back the march on him, who,
like yourself, is divorced man and has
to be married over again, by what the
boys call 1.-THE three.day racket When
you have married three times, after this
fashion, you are solid. No one pretends
to question your title and the green-eyed
monster quits your household for good.
The hide-and-seek game is over with you
and you are a happy man at last.
One side of last weeks wedding was
very happy affair, while the other side
was very cruel one indeed. The hus-
band had spent nearly three days in
search of his missing wife and family, and
having found them sojourning somewhat
inditferently at the house of certain
"hiko:" drove them home before the very
eyes OF the traducer; beat the wife over
the head with mosquito club, and then,
with one grand flourish, threw the whole
family over the bank into the river. The
white mans heart broke three or four
times in five or six places, and he is said
to have wept when he heard the screams
and groans of the wounded. The next
evening he was observed to slip along
under the bank of the river, crawl
around the tailing-pit under the bushes,
where he found the mother and children,
who were delighted to see their new
father. The mother took the youngest
child ON her back, and the overjoyed STEP
father pappoose under each arm, and
was followed by the other four on foot,
and all took up the march toward their
new home, which they soon reached in
safety. The next morning new scene
broke upon the neighborhood. The door
of 9xl0 foot cabin opened. A tall man
with smiling countenance and pleasant
voice stepped out humming cradle song,
with his arms full of youngsters, and
three or four at his heels, and petite
little brunette close by his side. The
| new bride wore new dress every day,
the new father was as happy as a big
sunhower, and the children were solid
scab of candy The relatives hockd from
far and near. A sack of -four day and
lemonade and whisky free. Those that
didn't flatter him with the name brother.
in-law, spoke of him as the big 'Hiko
Captain" and the honeymoon would
have been daisy had it not happened
that some person took a shot at the In
dian husband, whom he caught in the act
of stealing another white mans better.
half, just to get even. The party that
did the shooting is supposed to belong tG
the order of "Shaved Heads" Jealous
class of our community, who conceived the
idea of shaving of their hair in order tt
save it, in the hope that they might some
day rival the 'Hiko Captain" and make
a mash themselves. The evening of the
third day being the close of the honey
moon the house grew festive with love
music, dancing, and the best of refresh
ments that money could buy. The fourtl
day was to the father an eventful one
no -four in the house; the lemonade to
bacco and cigars all gone, and what wa
worse than all, the demijohn was gone, be
sides the bride had tapped the old man
as she called him, for gambling stake
and as he was little slow in putting up
at last accounts, she was playing swee
on one Of the Shaved Heads, with fsi
showing of success.
This is the way We avenge things whe