The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1883-10-27
Doubling Dixon.

ing OF DenVef IN %
Emigrant BIakely and | were
seated ono pleasant summer eve.
nng, after . comfortable supper, in
front of the Paxon House, Omaha.
Mr. BIakely had been tabled aEmi.
grant" because of his intimate rela-
tions with the land department oil
the Union Pacific Railway, and his
interchangeable excrtions in providing
Eastern colonies with new homes
on railroad land in the fresh and
adoescent West.
mo, believe not" ! replied.
"You told some very interesting an.
eedotes OF early days on the iron.
tier, but | don't think you referred
to Doubling Dixon"
"No, blieyo not, Wal, Doubt
ing Dixon come on from Mussachu-
sets IN 1852, | think, an all he had
In the world was about one hundr, d
an fifty dollars In cash an four.
year-o!d kid, He thought every.
thing of that boy, an Dixon could.
at very well go back on him, nei.
Their fur the lad was a perfect i'm
age of hlmself--a regular cpilome
OF Doubling Dixon, only he war Il
dummed sight livilier. Dixon was
silent, tacltum sort OF bean.oat.
ing Yankee; didn't have much to
say when folks was around, and
eontrlvcd to keep hisself to hisself
in tho best kind of shape. lie got
the name OF Doubling Dixon be.
cause he never seemed to believe in
nothing nor nobody, and when any.
thing little ont of the ordinary
rut was told to him, he always kin.
der threw cold water upon the ac-
count an talked an acted as if he
didn't take no kind of stock in il.
OF course such monkey business as
this rather conveyed the idea to
peoplc who was telling him any
thing that Dixon considered thcm
cool, calm and unregenate liars.
"Dixon staked claim fifteen
miles out from Denver, put up a
shanty, and lived thore alono with
his kid. He didn't come INTO town
oftener than once a week after
some small stores, an mighty small
stores they was, too, I tell yer
The boys used to wonder what him
and the kid lived on. . He general
~ como III Saturday nights, an
after hanging aroun' the saloons
stores an postofiice q while, he,
pile on to his mule an pike fer hi
claim. There was another ljttI,
popularity about Dixon, he never
would drink anything at the bar
an he didn't ever carry home any.
thing in a jug. In consequence Of
this little excentricity, Doubling
Dixon was unpopular with the
boys, an Dixon, himself, didn't ap-
pear to have any great an over.
powering affection for them. |
SAID that he was unpopular, an
didn't seem to have many friends.
There was one exception. That
was vicious looking York State
Teller gambler, and the boys al
sand skin gambler at that. lie
an Dixon were socn together oc.
casionally, convcrsing in low tones
an everybody wondered why Pts
fol Grip, as this York State char
was called, an Dou biting DlXor
should be so thick when Dixor
didn't gamble nor drink either
One day this doubling Dixon strucl
1t rich in his cla,m, an he sold on
Tor one hundred and forty thousaul
dollars, an he an the kid left tn,
shanty an come into town an com
menccd boardin' at the hotel. On,
Saturday afternoon Doubling Dix
on sat tchng game of billiard
in the Senate saloon, an Mont,
Bill come in, an be says;
"Dixon, there's a lady outside il
kerridge as wants ter see yer
al don't know no ladies in Den
yer, said Doubling Dixon, a rid
uneasy, AN | don't believe as an,
ladies wants to see me.
"'h obbe you think I'm liar
said Monte Bill, carefully rubbing
the nickle plato on his revolyc
with his thumb.
"'No, l wont say you're a liar
Bill, SAID Dixon, meek as lamb
but | don't hardly reckon any la