Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-05-13
RETIRING FaGm BvsliEss.

What the Colonel's business was no- body knew, nor did anybody care par ticularly. He purchased for cash only, and never grumbled at the price of any thing he wanted. Who could ask more than that?
 Curious people occasionally wondered how, when it had been fully two years 3ince the Colonel, with every one else, abandoned Dutch Creek to the Chinese, he managed to spend money freely and to lose considerably at cards and horse races. In fact, the keeper of that one of the Challenge Hill saloons which the Colonel did not patronize was once heard to wonder, absent-mindedly, whether the Colonel hadn't money mill some where where he turned sout eagles and 'slugs" Ghe coast name for $50 gold pi&es).
 When so important parsonage as a bar keeper induIged publicly in the idea, the inhabitants of Challenge Hill, like all good Californians everywhere, con- 5idered themselves in duty bound to give 1t grave consideration so, for a Jew days, certain industrious professional gentlemen, who won money of the Colonel. care 'uiy weighed some of the brightest pieces, and tested them with acids, and sawed them in two, and re- tired them, and melted them up, and had the humps assayed.
 The result was complete vindication of the Colonel and loss of considerable cu> >tom to the indiscrcet bar-keeper.
 The Colonel was as good-natured man as had ever been known on Chal- l-,f Il lT Colonel had his occasional times of despondeucy, and one of them occurred after a series of races in which he had slaked his all on his bay mare Tipsie i and lost.
 Locking rerroachfully at his beloved animal, he failed to heed the aching void of his pockets, and drinking deeply, swearing elo4uentiY and glaring defi- antiy at all mankind were equally un- productive of coin.
 The boys Tt the saloon sympathized most feelingly with the Colonel. They were unceasing in their invitations to | driuk, and they exhibited considerable | Christian forbearance when the Colonel savagely dissented with every one who advanced any proposition, no matter how incontroyertible. But unappreciated sympathy grows decidedly tiresome to the giver, and it was with a feeling of relief that the boys saw the Colonel stride out of the saloon, mount Tipsie and gallop furiously away.
 Riding on horseback has always been considered an excellent sort of exercise, and riding is universally admitted to be one of the most healthful means of ex- hilaration in the world; but when a maj Is so absorbed in his exercise that h will not stop to speak to his friend, an, when his exhilarationssis so complete tha he turns his eyes from well-meaninI thumbs pointing significantly int doorways through which a man has oft en passed while seeking bracing infu ences, 1t is only natural that peopl should express some wonder.
 The Colonel was well known at Todd Flat, Come Hand, Blazer's, Murderer Bar and several other villages throug which he passed. As no one had bee seen to precede him, betting men wer soon offering odds that the Colonel wa running away from somebody.
 Strictly speaking they were wrong but they won all the money that ha been staked against them, for withi half au hour there passed over the sam road an anxious-lookiug individual, wh reined up in front of the principal saloo of each place and inquired if the Colont had passed.
 Had the gallant Colonel known ths he was followed, and by whom, ther certainly wonld have been an extra elet
 tion held at the latter place very shortl after, for the pursuer was the constable
 and for all officers of the law the Colont possessed hatred.
 On galloped the Colonel, following th
 stage road, which threaded the ol mining camps on Dutch creek, but sue denly he turned out of the road an urged his horse through the young pint and bushes which grew thickly by th
 road, while the constable gailoped on
 the next camp.
 There seemed to be no. path throug
 the thicket into which the Colont
 had turned, but Tipsie walked betwee the trees and shrubs as if they wei . familiar objects of his stable-yard.
 Suddenly voice from the bush, n shouted:
 2 "What's up?'
 z "Business-that's what. 5 cts time," replied the voice, and i 2 owner-a bearded six-footer-emerge Q from the bushes and stroked Iipsie ! nose with the freedom of an old ae :7lain