Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-22

cum heating shrough the azure; caveTns OF
misty gloom with thunderous CLEANS OF
transmitted light; arches Of pearl, butresses
OF opal and alabaster. heaps Of vefvety Gu.
muli, thin. faint streams and bsnds of
yapor, nuggets Of gold and SILVER gleaxaing
down the torn and twisted rayines
OF shadow, all playing, shifting, bursting
into light, falling into Obscurity, and final
ly closing in q magnificent delirium OF
color when the sun drops below the olive
brown verge OF plain: what delight aud
what an uplift Of thought and imagination
there is in watching these heavenly visions
-mirages OF the infinite. MANY ii not
most of the stations along the road, are
merely side tracks with q windmill whir-
ring, clankipg and filling spacious tank
for the locomotives. Scattered near are
sometimes few squalid dug outs" and
turf huts, the latter built Of sods turned
roots up and forming extremely undesirs.
BILE places for permanent residence. / should
think. Flowers generally grow upon the
roof, however, and
Nod, the Rusty Stove Pipe
that serves for chimney. The dugouts are
built of boards, stand three or four feet high
and merely cover a hole in the ground.
where men eat sleep and dream Of wealth
and stately mansions. Near Ogslalla We
pass the residence of the renowned scout,
hunter, actor and member of the Legisla.
ture, Buffalo Bill, or William L. Cody, as
he prefers not to be called; q neat, white
house, with flowers in the garden, fence
about the grounds and the proud distinc-
tion Of a flag pole in. the front yard. The
rough little towns that we pass generally
consist of but single street OF one-story
houses, most of them built Of unpainted
boards and well supplied with groggeries.
In one settlement in New Mexico | counted
sixteen ''gin mills" i'll a street OF twenty
one houses, and that street contained al
most the whole number Of habitations in
the town. The names Of these groggeries
are curious:
Rest for the Cowboy" Last Chance"
Little Church" Board OF Trade, Rooms
of Committee on Irrigation" "Societe
Anonyme ct Cie," 1.-THE Palace" generally
a mere shantyl, and the more common
Dew Drop Inn" How these saloons are
supported cannot imagine, unless the
proprictors 60 about and drink one an.
others whisky. Yet, freely as alcohol |
circulates through western veins the |
amount of drunkenness and roughness 10 |
very small man isnot a rutfian because |
he wears a blue shirt and big boots, is he' |
Well, that is all that makes an eastern man |
look upon his western neighbor as an un- |
civilized yahoo. I'll guarantee TO show you t
more pure cussedncss in New York in one
day than you will find in all Nebraska, COL
orado, Nevada or Arizona in a week. Here
there is
No Interference With the Law.
1t costs very little To run courts, fee law
yers and mollycoddle horse thieves aud
backlegs and murderers beyond the Ms
souri,. One man kills another. The news
spreads instantly. The whole country is
aroused. Men leave their mines and smeit.
ers and ranches and farms, mount horse.
scour the plains for hundreds of miles. and
eventually bring the skulking wretch 10
light. Witnesses who saw the shooting
make deposition and identify the criminal.
Nobody prays for him, or brings him Police
Gd-cttSs. rum, tobacco. ice cream, flowers
and gorgeous neck-ties; no lawyer moves
for bail, or habeas corpus, or quashed in
dictment, or stay Of proceedings; no sheriff
gives him carpeted cell, furnishes mate.
rial tor an altar and gets up espe-
cially good dinners for him. No. The crowd
takes him by the arms walks him to telc-
graph pole tosses rope over IT, puts one
end around his neck, mans the other and
pulls away with royal good will. And
No More Murders
occur in that town; hut they go on with
accustomed regularity in New York, with
its police force, its comfortable prisons. its
sherifls its constables and its horde uf
shots tired-onc in Denver md one in Lead.
no serious results were reported
from them. My own revolver used only
for trying echoes in the canyons and for
shooting snakes | was laughed at by
several westerncrs for carrying IL
and rany,fI,u nfr-sL~ r,o-hi-s --ri5ura riv
more think OF wearing a pistol than q
Calling gun. If tough miner is looking
for fight" said an old Leadvillian "a me,
E,,r ,,sitl Shn in
iron We're rough out here sometimes, but
we amt burned mean enough TO pull an
iron on man what's got no ironto pull IN
us. As reg'lar thing, men what get shot
in these parts get ust whats good for EN-.
A man may 90 from end to end OF the
great vest without excuse for drawing a
pistol, so far as human game IS concerned.
Even the Indians will respect him IL he
treats them rightly, unless they are mad.
dened by the frauds Of agents and scalp
him as a yicarious atonement for the nu.
mcrous iniIuities Of the white man.