The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-04


Some how or other folks don't allul
hear, an don't want to hear o. tn,
hundreds that lose their all where ont
man strikes ifrich. It's nothingon the
Lords earth but a game O. chance
mimi amt.
.gs"Well, one day had woman pas
senger.s She was the first one I'd tool
up, and L hated to take her; for the
place hadn't a decent house in it, an
She didn't look like a woman thai
roughed it much. She was little
cherry-faced an 'cheery-voiced woman
all dressed in plain black an bout
forty-fve, near's could jedge. But
spite o. that CHEEKY voice an smilin'
face,I could see plain enough in the
woman s.eye that she'd had her cross
to bear, an that its burden was on heI
yit. - She'd a kind of culver bout her
lips, even when she laughed, an oncet
in while ketched on to little sigh OF
two that she'd give.
"She set by me all the way to the
- camp, an asked a good many ques-
= tions bout this an that an t'other, but
hadn word to say bout herself OF
her plans. managed to find out that
she was goin' up there a total stranger
to every man in the camp; as for beiri a
stranger to the wimmin-why, there
want livin' woman there yit.
"Well, the boys they give her room
in the best shanty there'was up, an l
come away an left her there. -slc
81 got my wrist real badly sprained
goin' back next day, an il was three
weeks fore drive up. to O-Be-Joyful
/ OF Il
mistress O. the biggest boardin' house
an hotel in the camp, an. the most
popler woman there Myra Claffitt's
house was the house. She was Myra
Claf1itt to everybody, but some o. the
boys was calm her Aunt Myra.'
"She did run stavin' good house.
They want any two ways bout that
There wasn't anything slow bout Myra
Claffitt or her table. Ev'rybody was
welcome whether they could pay or
not. But the boys seen to it that
everybody paid. 1t wouldn't o. been
healthy for any one tostry and sneak
out of it "
81 reckon that MyraD Claffitt was as
good woman as ever the Lord made
The boys in O-Be-Joyful got so they
swore by her fairly. She had kind of
way bout her that not one woman in
million has. A mancouldn do thing
she'd ask him not to do-anyhow |
couldn't. I'd feel 'shamed o. myself
all my life if l did. Many's the row
hat woman broke up. I've seen men
stripped fer fight an all ready to
buckle into each other with murder in {
heir hearts; n when Myra Clafiitt'd {
march through the crowd that'd give |
way fore her, that fight'd be indef' nifty c
That's what it would f
'But she never had the first word to
ay bout herself. No one knowed if d
he was a wilder or not, or if she had
hildren, or who or what she was. She g
Tas kind of woman that, somehow
+ other, you couldn't ask questions of, 9,
n couldn't have suspicious bout. :.
GU took her just like you'd take % %
ean, fresh, shinin' new dollar right h.
ON the mint. g. e.
"But now it alters seemed to me that n
lat woman was lookin' for somebody. e
ne day she rid up with me on the stage n,
lere want man or boy on the road 81
e dldn' t see-and see good, too. An :"
never took stage load o. passengers m
her house in my life that she wa mt be
1t an starin' sharp at ev'ry man of en-
m. Then she'd go round on the hills al
long the men at work there, an | tell ~
III she saw all of 'em. Sometimes r.
len all my passengers'd be out O. the 60,
lge I've seen that little CULVER come
pitiful-like to her lips, an there'd be 70
lrs in her eyes; but | never let on to W, w
+ or any one bout it. ~, H
SAftar. fro vol rrof co 1;r.l.+ A. | Pr
$ hardly ever any passengers Myra far
INIT got restless like an talked o.
n away. But the boys they jest mi
uldn t hear to it. So it happened na
It she was the last as well as the first , pa
man in O-Be-Joyful. he he
The camp it begin to wink out purity sor
Qhe mines never was no good) an
EN- l driv up there one Saturday, an liol
umpin' down. from my seat on the :.
re my foot kind O. turned in like. an
thing | knowed there l was on the
und with broken leo. r
Well, sir, that Myra Claffitt gave me
best bed in the house an took care nv
ne like as if I'd been baby. I'd .
there over month an in that time wv, W.
bottom had nigh bout dropped out t Hee'
'-Be-Joyful, an most o. the men was .uo
IN mighty blue an desp'rit-like, as S SiTl
will feel when they've been cheated e ,':
eceived or turribly disappointed. ms,
1t this time some claim-iumpers wv w,
IN to show up round the only t ~ :,
ms that showed any signs O. vi u
untin' to anything Now YOU S Mit,
W, sir, as well as me jest how claim e uG1'
PIN affects lot o. miners that's seh
1ed hard for what they've found. Ma as
Know decent miner hates claim oo,h
Der like he hates pizen. THEY'RE WIN
red like game an shown no more war
y when found. When it got out i lera
there was claim jumpers round TIC.
Joyful it set the me on fire. They oul
feelin' kind O. reckless anyhow, so quer
met an formed regular vigilance a. a. III
nittee an made vows an took ms "
that they ment to stand by. But ioyes
you they kept mum bout it fore ~
Claffitt pflde
me o. the bows Gonna 70 ma ono a.. perso
'hispered to me that they was on anu ~
'ack O. one o. the wust o the claim y. 70 'nt
ers an thew thouoht thev'd RIM i'm the o.