The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-05-09
AN ODD PAIR OF PARTNERS
The strGngel and Amusing Expert
ence Of a Doctor and Lawyer
in Search Of Practice AM
ong the Western Min
ing Camps.

FORK Sun, says
The far west is a great place for
Young doctors. as we'll as for old
ones who have never had much
success in the East. Almost every
Western town has an overpius of
physicians and lawyers. The
former find the most to do, and
the latter get the most money,
The sickness and wounds which
have to be attended to are num-
erous, but tibet capacity Of tie
patients to pay is not usually very
great, and frequently amounts to
nothing at all. For this reason
the doctors always make their bills
high, and when they collect one
they have received pay for several
which they meyer hope to get di.
rect. Ten or fifteen dollars visit
is a moderate charge for many of
these inexperienced physicians,
and i'll every serious case some one
must be called II for consultation,
and he will put in a bill tor $25 or
$50 for half AZ hours time. The
lawyers arc not called so often,
but they have to deal with men
who have money or who can get it,
and they make money when they
IA find anything to do. An old
lawyer and a young doctor, the
former with a very frey nose, and
the latter with only a suspicion of
a mustache, were here last week
prospecting for a location. They
had been hunting together for
about two years, and had been un-
able to find a place where the
chances of success seemed good.
The LAWYER called the young man
Doc, and Doc called the old man
Judge. In the hotel the other
evening they got.to telling some
of their experiences, and before
they had gone far they were sur
rounded by a large appreciative
crowd. They had taken in their
travels about half OF theprominent
mining camps, and when they left
here they announced that they in
tended to try their luck the coming
summer up in Idaho and Montana.
1.-The first town we struck was
Lead City up in the Black Hills,
and as there were only three or
four lawyers and doctors there we
thought we had hit it right the
first time. We got a couple OF
rooms and fitted one up for sleeping
and the other for an office, while
We took our meals IN a sa-
loon beneath us. A week after we
had located and got our signs out
we SIT n evening talking mat
tiers over and wondering if we
hadn't made a mistake after all,
when our conversation was inter
upted by two pistol shots that
sounded almost as if they were
fired in our own rooms. There
was a general hubbub, and as we
rushed down stairs there was a
cry of
GA Doctor! A doctor? call a
doctor!'
'"Here's one,' | said elbowing
my way through the crowd and
making room for the Doc 'here's
one right here
"The Dec and | saw at a glance
what the trouble was. One man
had shot another in the saloon.
The wounded man lay on the
ground and two or three men were
holding his assailant. l perceived
at once lhat here was a case for
both Of us. So | whispered to the
Doc to pitch IN and save the man
if he could, and | would see to the
legal defense of the guilty party.
Oh, you see Tine older'n he is,
and | think all these various as
poets of a case come tu an elderly
person quicker than they do to a
youger fellow. lie pitched in and
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