Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-12
A FRESH PIONEER STORY.
How q Counterfeit Coin Served to
Scare a Man Nearly TO Death
in 1852.


Ban Francisco Bulletin.
~"Spesking of old BUNS" remarked
Charley Blackburn, of the registration
Office, taking out q penknife and ex.
tracing a plug, purchased at the re.
duced rate under the new tariff bill,
"did 1 ever tell you how we
ran Cocktail Jim out of Maryvsille in
1927"
The nuiterous listeners, gathered
about In anticipation of one of Char.
lies inimitable yarns, confessed utter
Ignorance of the circumstances under
which Cocktail Jim left Marysville In
1859.
"Don't mind if I tell you. Does
anybody objeot2 I'm not a man az
likes to bore anybody"
The listeners considered themselves
not only In no danger of being bored,
but were positively anxious to hear
the story.
We'll" continued Charley, throw.
Ing one leg over the other, with the
air of a man who 10 determined to
leave no detail unem bellished, Sock
tail Jim wal the hardest case [ ever
saw. During all the time l was In
Marysvllle 1 never knew him to eat a
meal or do q minutes work. He rust
losfed around Boston Harry's monte
saloon and drank and drank
and drank-always cocktails. He
never paid for a drink In his
life, but laid for the game, and when
the crowd was called up he was the
first to order. An ordinary cocktail
was an insult to him; he had to have
EN- with lemon peel In, a snifter of
syrup, and with loaf sugar rubbed
around the rim Of the glass. After
loafng around the town for a year he
got to be a great nuisance, and the
boys tried various ways to freeze him
out. But he never lost control OF
himself, no matter how much he drank,
and there appeared to be no method
of making him tired of Boston Harry
saloon.
well, n day i arrived In town,
having been down to Sacramento fol
a load of supplies, when l saw from
the distance a big crowd of men In
the middle of the street with Cocktail
Jim In charge. just q week before
that they had elected me justice Of
the peace. As l drove up, one Of
the boys says, "Ah, here m the
judge. Now, We can try him a
once
81 asked what was the trouble. i
didn't take more than two minutes tc
find out. 1t seems Cocktail jim hac
been fired out of Boston Harry's early
the night before, and slept In the oper
lot. Early In the morning he got up
furnishing for q drink; the frat hi
man he met was Pete Warner
Pete says he, Il hain't hac
q bite TO eat for three hull days
Let me have q dollar Pete
didn't like to do it. You'll spend /
for whisky, won't your NO, sir,
says Jim; "Pon my honor, not a cent
l will go straight up to the hotel anC
eat a meal. After talking some time
Pete took out a counterfeit Mexican
dollar and handed to Jim. There
ne says, get something to eat, but NJ
whisky Jim promised, thanked hin
and they parted. Pete at one
rushed up to Boston Hsrry's, know
Ing Jim would merely walk arounl
q little, and then stop In there TO get
cocktail, and told Harry about II
csutionlng him that when Jim at
tempted to pass the dollar to arrea
him for showing counterfeit coin.
SIN about ten minutes, sur
enough, Jime cam In, ordered a coch
tail and un~concerned like, clipped tn
, dollar up and let 1t fall on the ooun
/. ter. The cock tail was made In tn