Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-09-25
GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE.
THE PARs0N OF EAGLE PASS.

tItbit "tlt wv AiiiiIItS 1dliIiS ~ lekt-A.
creek. Montana, but -four miles apart, and
The jealousy between them at times threat
ned open warfare. 1t first began over
lie election of a recorder Of claims for the
two camps, and after the premature dcmi-e
II several leading citizens, a split was eff
fected, each town choosing q recorder of
its own, and the inhabitants Of each resoiv-
my to crush the life and enterprise ont Of
the other before the year Waned. The
spirit of rivalry thus inaaguratcI wake
warmer and Warm,r IS each camp eli
deavored to distance the other in the race
Of progress. Men worked harder to show
\ biz production Of "du>t;' every imagin-
able inducement to newcomers was sent
out; the latest improved gambling devices
we're brought out from the States ana
the news Of their arrival, together with
descriptions Of them, was borne rapidly
between the two camps by the trusted
spies employed by each faction. One new
importation followed another until the
Jealousy was a mine which d single spark
would explode.
The news, eine up from Aoycasin Dar
sae day that q religious eShorter had struck
tie camp, and actually induced three Of
the boys TO abandon their claims Oh the
lode of sin. The startling news shook
l.sGle Pass, the rival town, from center ~
circumference. and Col. Bob 4 veteran III
tie golden days of Is, was detailed as q
committee Of n to go down and ~investi-
rate. When he returned a meeting was
called in Stacy's gambling room, and the
colonel arose to his feet and reported Us
follows:
Boys, your committee has the august
honor to report that it went down TO Moe
casin with all haste, hating only for one
minute at Duncan's Gulch to take a drink.
found things just about as represented.
The Gospel duck war thar swin1min' with
his head up, am the boys CROWN over him
like enthusiastic roosters. He looms up
like six-bits, the keards seem to be runnin'
right into his hand, for in addition to the
three hereinbefore reported, seven more
o~nregenerated sinners have joined the mob
an TUX a religious bath. | heered i'm talk
am he kin wag a risky jaw; but, boys, he's
the darnedest lier that ever crowded the
truth out of the game. Fur instance, he
told Of a foreign feller named Samson.
back East somewar', wipin' out three
thousand physicians with the jaw-hone of
an ordinary lightweight jackass. Did
anybody ever hear SIGH a whopper? No!
Then, agin', he said as how at one time
three fellers war chucked intoa furnace
heated ten times hotter than the internal
fires, an that they sung an danced COW
%tlllions, an seemed to enjoy 'emselves an
the fire didn't even start a sweat on en-.
Iow's that: An them Moccasin fellers
tux it all in as Gospel truth, an nodded
their heads at your committee, as much as
fur TO say: We've got the royal bulge on
you fellers at last.'' Your committee has
nothin' further % report 'cePt that Jack
Moor has received new barI o whisky.
which they say fur both strength an long
range lays away over anything the Pass
ever saw. Ali Of which | most respectful
~ submit"
Idaho Jerry thought some crank was
quilting the people down there. and that
the Pass should take no notice Of the mat
ter. Some day, when the fraud was ey-
posed, they would laugh at the Moccasin
crowd. AS for the whisky yarn, it was 4
lie, for he was now drinking a brand at The
Casino that would make the eyes of a Moe
~casinite bulge out like door-knobs.
Ruder Clongh, a gambler, thought it
possible that some fellow was PLAYING the
crowd down at the bar, but that wasn't
the question.
"We kin down their best an fiyes sharps
at any game they kin set in" said he:"we
kin beat EN- at Washin' oHt dust; we dare
EN- to come up here an tackle any Of our
faro banks; we've got a man as kin knock
out their best fighter in two minutes. an
it seems ter me we hadn't ought to let EN-
ring in a new game 'thout turnin' to an
downin' 'em on that also likewise. Let's
elect a souser an all get baptized in a
lump; not that advercate religion, but
darn EN-, lets down 'em! 4 little water
amt goin' to hurt us, an the satisfaction O.
playin' winners II be supremely ezillerat-
ing an hilarious.
The matter was discussed at length, and
finally a committee of three was appointed
with full power to take any action +bax-