Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-02-07

the pile Of mineral specimens on the
rude shelf beside the door sparkled in
the sunshine; the dog basked upon tho
chips; the burros rubbed their nccks to-
geiher at the watering place; the flre
was swapping in the rude forge, and
miner was heating and pounding his
drills and picks Other men were sit
ting on the shaftins timbers which were
piled around. smoking thGir pipes ard
talking OF the SICK bow who lay " thin
Little john had already made his vtay
TO these strangers hearts.
He was not delirious now. But he was
pale. and wore a hopeless look that was
pitiful No one of them thOaght he had
vet come out from the dark shadow.
and there was sadness in their faces
and hush in their voices.
After a few hours Bill came The
miners proposed TO go to the railroad
station for physician and such deli
cac;es as mining camps dc rot af-
ford Bill accepted the proposition in
regard 30 tho delicaeies, but insisted
that he himself would be nurse and
physician
Under his rough but gentle care the
bOv rapidly imnrOved, and at the end OF
the week Bill called the two Half-MoOn
men out for a little talk.
"Hev yer got aEy ! lans bout this
kldss
Both snsWsrea hat thsy had not
They lnft everything to him.
Well. then. hev; an I'm goin' to
say to you tw9 what I've never said to
any man for more n thirty year. When
they wuz all goin' to Csliforny, in '4s,
wanted to 60. too. Iwuz Kid. then,
Younger than this un. ! lived in York
State There wus On'y one o me
/ Mother wiz a widow. She didr' [ want
me TO skip out. but sf5le seeenty del-
lars-all thu uioney she had-an' liz
out wiz Soih' 10 go back in a year
NJ Two, with thousands o. dollars. an
make the old lady comfortable for the
balance o. her life. But somehow
didn't Gin back Bime5y word come she
died NV a broken hcIrt-
ssTher' amt been many nights since.
5ards. when I wuz sober. that ! ain
seen her; an hards % help me Cod
that night on Red Mountain. she went
with me IRON the cabin a. timber-line,
an all the while. back'ards and for
'Oris. she bcailcf beside Blc. an helped
me pack that ther' trail. until We came.
Then she went away. could never
done II alone, pards-neveti
well, his Kid wuz ciear-headed at
the cabin on tOther side. an him an
me talked an talked We've talked
here An, yOu see. he was q clerk OF
sOmethin' in bank. back in Ohio; an
there was money stolei They tOOk him
up for steaiin' Il; hut somehow they
couldn't prove it on him. an had 20
turn him loose. But mary people said
he stole il all the sane. an be- cOu.dn'i
bear the disgrace. an 50 como TO the
mountains. His mothers pcOf. What
he EUt in the durned hank wuz all both
on EN- had Since he come TO Peblc
he's fOun' ont who did steal that money.
But he hain't got a sinner 10 90 back
with an set himself right That how
he's here.
Now. pards, r~e got nineteen
Thousand odd in the Leadville Bank.
paid in on my Belden sale | hahn
got pesky relation in the world. an il
/ git nv hands on that money I'll likely
blow it in So I'm goin' TO send that
KID home, an give ten thousan' TO ms
mother. The baEance Is \ big enough
stake fur me; an then. We see. If do 4
good thing for his mother may be it'll
count agin the internal meanness diC
MINI So we Il take him down to Hay
den's. an one o you can stay with him
an t'other 90 up with me- 10 Leadvills
an get some money an a draft-fT,
got her name an whar she lives-Rn
then well come back an send hin
hOmr. an send the draft to his mother.
Dye see?''
Three days afterwards they put Sittl'
John in q sleeping-car, with a Gckc
and fifty dollars in his pocket. and OF
the same day a draft for ten Thousand
I dollars was mailed to his mother IN
letter of remittance signed: AK Us
, KNOWN FRIEND.
Two hours afterwards Bill Lewis in
| suited n respectable stranger and pro
voked a fight at the railroad station
! and before morning was arrested 70
Gu ting man in gambling house.
| H'fili,nH B. Parsons, iiI The CETrcn
: (cascago).