Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-03-23

Es-abashing the Fact That Truth
Beats Fiction.
rhs Career Of a S,lorAio Ds<psrzda---fts
l-9La4aas walsh Koaades Ost @21
BS.stlnsa A. Other~sss
Disgrseefsi story.

Referrias T. "a article ca Mormon pei-
dlegs ~1l~a aPt-sased in q previous issue, =
Col3ra33 pl9ueer s1ll - TIE Reporter.
.-Thas article broa be - ny recollection
a yoaas isllo~ Na9 ~as character IA
Iisehs. Thae = - town shas sprang ap
ia the soa.h .4stera part u the state, Daut
~ GA the discover of "a Kay n9nd a hly
mias. II as Ike az tue resi- 0r tie Nesa-
IA camps, only exceeding the ~olst "
them Ia deviltry and wlcSeiness. Tor L
gathered O. itself ths scum ot hel-'tvs-
psradoes highSsy robbers, thieves, gam
Dlers and prostitutes AM they made it
list one II the hyeliest towns that ever ex-
lsted. bat that has nothing 20 DO y i'm nay
story. This particular lnan that con-
uenced e. talk aU0ut ~as q nice, quiet,
gentieniAuly young fellow, evidently Well
educated aud college bred tie had 40 as
soeiates nor friends except one, the Dis
trict judge, and the two ussd 10 pass
good deal Of time together discussing the
merits and beauties OF the OLD Greek aud
Latin philosophers aud kindred subjects,
for which both had passion The young
'un followed no pursuit, did no work, nor
had any known source OF income. lie lived
up on the hillside by himself IN little cab
Ia. and when ne was not with the Judge Il
Was n sure thing that be was TO be found at
a faro table. lie was an invcterate player,
but not an even or a lucky one, some days
tuylng stack OF reds and setting 'ein In
deep, and hen piking along on white chips
Tor a week until he'd 20 broke. Tut that
wouldn't last long, and ali OF IA sud len he'd
turn up again with plenty OF CON and re-
peat the same programmes. This thing r. a.
along for a year, ami nobody paid any
particular attention 70 him nor asked any
lnquisitivs questions-it wasn't "a healthy
place 10 pry into other peoples business,
anyhow; and that brings me % the Nor
aion peddler part OF Il. That sort OF ver-
min used q be plenty about Pioche-it was
,nly a couple Il hundred miles over INTO
Utah,-and they brought ia wagon-loads
Df produce and sold il at biz prices, si1O to
500 "a load and ON their way back It was
lcommon thing for them 10 be held up and
-obbed. OF course they would complain,
out ths Sheriff was too busy looking after
1ig mining shis 10 bother with them, and,
besides, nobOd, had any sympathy for
buck Mormon. Tney all, however, gave
she same description o. the highwayman,
An old fellow with long gray hair and
oeard, wearing blue overails and a woolen
shirt. I'm the winter of 'I3 the snow fell
ieep and closed the road between 81. George
the Mormon settlement-and PIOche and
.l1sed out the peddlers, and II was remem-
oered afterward that the young fellow
iidn't play much faro for awhile. Along
n March, as the Eureka stage was coming
II about twenty miles north of the town,
.he same old gray-heaied fellow popped
lp out OF the sage-brush, levelel d gun at
he driver and ord red a halt. Eugene
Blair, the bravest messenger that Wells,
Fargo & Co. ever had on the road, swung
A sawed-off shotgun around and let both
barrels 20 before the highwaynan could
oul a trigger. and he fell deader than
lit, "A dozen buckshot putting as many
lOles in him as a sieve, and his own z un
went oil in the air as he tumbied. Eugene
Jumped down. turned him over and pulled
)ff his hat, and bless my soul If whiskers
and hair didn't come of with it, and there
ay, without a kick in ham, the gentleman
Y faro player. They tumbled the body
nto the stage and brought ii into town,
and OF course the thing made a stir. don't
shink | ever saw man as badly broken up
As the Judge. lie had cot to liking tue boy
she same as if he was his own sOn, AID no
ried over the corpse like a baby. OF
course all the mystery was explained. The
Toungster used to disguise himself as an
Did man, 90 out and rob peddier and
come back and play faro with the spoils.
When the snow shut this of he tried a
shack at higher game and struck the
Nrong customer"
'W ell, that is pretty good fairy tale"
,aid the reporter. supposiag that the story
lad come 70 an end.
a'That is where you get OF wrong" con-
anued the relator, "lor every word OF it IS
gospel truth, and the strangest part is to
sonIe. The Judge saw to it that the boy
,ad a decent burial, and took charge of
xhat few effects he had Among
hem ne found bundle of letters from
ais mother, who was a widow living in
comfortable circumstances in Buffalo. and
9e vas her only boy. Every letter was
lnD of entreaties, begging him to come
loms and live with her, AMI Offering
% send him money If be needed it. The
Judge sat down aud wrote her letter,
lelling her a. sympatheticllly AL kindly
a. he could. OF the death of her boy.
,f course not say ing word abous Iow be
lied. and forwarding g her such things
cit in the cabin as he thought she would
dse 70 have as mementOes. About SIX
Nesks afterwari the sta e drove Bp to
be hotel and lady dressed IN deep
mourning got out and inquired for the
I1ige. it was the boys mother; and do
Tou know she rode al the way from
81 esa. two hundred mJes, ia the same
,oach that had carried the dead body OF
Ter boy into town. and with the man
hat bad killed him. but her grief bad kept
ler from doing any talking. aud luckily
nothing had been sail on the trip
ly which she could drop on the facts.
The Judge vas soon found. an1 he
rof on 81 how the case stood. and q
iii not take him long 20 warn every
sodr that she vas likely 20 meet 90 keep
hair mouths shut You see he was haBiy
sfh pistol and pretty foachy himself
snd he boys Kept still tongue. Sle was
suice- iooking laiy. ahopt forty years o q.
gentle AMI vali-hrei. snd sne had come
lear ou. nt1 tbat wHi c1antrv % take
~ 80 ,e of her dear hov tack bone and
ov nfn aiolrasifa bis father The