The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1886-11-19

And amt payin' ye five hundred dollars
and the divel Of ring ye have, at Gil, at all
Twhot am payin' yc fur, eh!'
"That q iudicious expenditure of money"
began Mr.. Wood, ''outsidc OF actual disburse-
ments, may not bc of infinite service to you
am no: prepared to deny-but-'
"Loo.: yc, Mr.. Sappy Wood, it's the 'appale'
I want, and the grant I'll have, rlq;c heto.cn
as tho old vonlan's har-r,lt and ITO own is got
ON it cntoircly. Get me the land and I'll give
ye tho half Of it-and it's u Ia-Ccail!" |
"But, my dear sir, there arc :o:ilc rules Il,
our profcssion-tcchnical though they may
be"
"Thc tlivel fly away wild yer profession.
Su,v is it better nor INC own? II I've ria..scd
mo provisions and ITO whisky, thct cost l.,c
solid gool<l in Frisco, ON that thace G;slri.'s
claim, bctad tho loikcs of yo cen risk yer
law"
SWELL" said Wood, with an awkward
smile, Il suppose that decd for ono hall, ca
the consideration OF friendship, my dear s.,,
and dollar II hand paid by mo, might DO
rcconcilable"
"Now it's tallxin' ye are. But whose the
felly wc'ro foighten, that's got tho ringz'
"Ah, my dear sir, it's the United States"
said the lawyer with gravity.
"The states! the government is til Aud
is't that yere afearcd OFF, Sure it's tho gov
crnnent that fought in mo own counthrce,
it was the government that tlruv mo to Amer
ky, and is it now that Tn goin' back on me
principles"
'Your political sentiments do you great
credit" began Mr.. Wood.
"But fwhot's the government to do wild the
appalcs"
1.-THE government" said Mr.. Wood signid-
cantly, twill be represented by the district
attorney"
"And who's the spalpccns'
ut is rumorcd," said Mr.. Wood slowly,
'that a now ono is to DO appointed. !, my.
sell, havo had SOTO ambition tsat way"
His client bent C pair CT cunning but not
ovcrwise gray eyes on his American lawyer.
But he only said, I'VE have, eh.'
eyes, said Wood, answering tho look boldly,
land if had the support of number Of your
with all parties-men like you, my dear sir
why, think you might in time become q
conservative, at least more resigned to the
government"
! Then tho lesser and the greater scamp
looked at each other, and for moment or
two felt q warm, sympathetic, friendly emo
ton for each other, and quietly shook hands.
Depend upon it there is a great deal moro
kindly Auman sympathy between two openly
confessed scamps than there is in that calm,
respectable recognition that you and /, dear
reader, exhibit when VIC happen to oppose
each other with our respective virtues.
Sand yen get the appale"
II will"
And he did! And by singular coincidence
got the district attorneyship also. And
with deed for one-half Of tho "Red
Rock rancho in his pocket sent brother
lawyer in court to appear for his client, the
United States, as against himself, Roscon,.
mon, Garcia, ct al. Wild horses could moi
have torn him from this noble resolution.
There is an INDISPENSABLE delicacy in the legal
4 profession which we literary folk ought to
initiate.
Tho United States lost! Which meant ruin
and destruction to the "Blue Mass Company
who had bought from q paternal and bened
cent government lands which didn't belong te
1t. The Mexican grant, Of course, ante-dated
the occupation Of the mine by Concho, Wiles
Pedro, ct al., cs we'll as by tho "Bluo Mass
Company" and the solitary partners, Biggs
and Thatcher. Moro than that, it swallowed
up their improvements. It made Biggs and
Thatcher responsible to Garcia for all the
money tho grand master of avarico had made
out of it. Mr.. District Attorney was up
, parently distressed, but resigned. Messrs
Biggs and Thatcher woro really distressed and
combativo.
And then, to advance a few years in this
chroni IL, began real litigation with earnest
ness, vigor, courage, zeal and belief ON the
, part of Diggs and Thatcher, and technicali
: ties, delay, equivocation and q genera
J. Fabian-liko policy Oh the part of Garcia
Rosconllno:,, ct al. Of oil these tedious pro
D cesscs note hut one, which for originality
Il and audacity of conception appears to mo t.
Indicate more clearly tho ta,nper and civiliza
4 ton of tho epoch. A subordinate officer o.
Il, the district court refused to obey tho man
u date ordering q transcript Of tho record to b.
}. sent up to the United States supreme court
II 1t Is to he regretted that tho namo Of thi
!, Epl.esian youth, who thus Cred tho domo O
d our constitutional liberties, should hav,
/. been otherwise 20 unimportant os b
e bc confined to the dusty records O