, 1889-10-27
MARINE NEWS.

BB-C. H. hcnlODlni q uasnlnR young
%rustler, who has recently been made gem
| eral purchasing agent and eating house
superintendent for the Union Pacific, is
said on excellent authority to be the iden-
teal man who cut the darkey's ears at
West Point several years ago. When
GU the witness stand he became terribly
confused and by a slip of the tongue adj
mitted his guilt.
nara great big duffer fuller than a
watermelon and combatiYe enough to
fight an alligator, collided with Idelman's
cigar sign Indian about l o'clock this
morning. He stepped back from
the image, gazed at it an instant and
managed to sputter this def: Lay
down hat club. you son of a gun, and
I'll fight you till daylight"
p6s-Joe Stratton. formerly a saloon
keeper here. is helpless with paralysis in
the Douglas hospital. The first time the
writer met Joe. who Is a typical Texan,
he was armed with two six-shooters. each
five feet in length and heavy as a
light ton OF coal. He wanted TO
kill Joe Rodgers, another peaceful
cowboy from the gentle South. Rodgers,
with his inevitable artillery, was also
hunting for Stratton, but friends kept
them apart. Stratton was a hot sport in
bis way. He thought nothing of betting
his last cent on the turn ola monte card
and would take off his shoes to bet on a
~favorite horse.
sa-A Wyoming sheriff who will some
time be the hero of a stirring Western
novel founded on fact is Arthur Spara-
hawk, of Fremont county. Arthur has
half a dozen stunning saddle horses, is a
superb rider, can shoot well. fast or feast
and combines wonderful courage with re-
markable powers of endurance. When a
horse is stolen or someone shot or cut in a
fight forty or fifty miles from Lander. Ar
thur is on the trail of the offender at once
and has the first time yet to come home
empty handed. he knows half the In
dams on the reservation up there and re-
freshes himself at their wickiups or en-
lists a young buck in his service. With
an Arapahoe consort he trailed a thief
from the Sweetwater into Rawlins last
spring. He and the Indian were on their
hands and knees half of the seventy miles
traversed.
RaS The Marine man became well ac-
quainted with a pair of educated Indians
on the Shoshone reservation last summer.
One was VIM. Shakespeare, who grad
uated from the Genoa, Neb., school. He
was urged to accept a remunerative posi-
ton at one of the schools, the agency or
fort, but steadfastly declined to labor and
spent all his time hunting horses for set
tiers, earning about $40 a month. He
owned several good mounts, dressed
gaudily, noted brands in a neat memoran-
dunn book and was quite clearly. The
other educated savage was a girl who had
been named at the Hampton school
Madge Singleton. She was an excellent
English scholar. fully equal in book learn
ing to a graduate of the Cheyenne high
school and skilled in the feminine arts.
At Hampton she was a belle. Her father
owned many horses and she was a'fine
dresser. Race prejudice removed. hat
girl would have been received in the best
society almost anywhere, but what do you
think She became the wife of one of
the greasiest bucks and greatest thieves
on the reservation. She seemed to adore
the athletic pauper and prided herself on
but one civilized accomplishment-that of
designing ard making exceedingly pretty
bead work. Shakespeare was an Arapa-
hoe, Miss Singleton a Shoshone. Those
eastern buffers don't understand the In
dian. Father Kuppens, who is laboring
with them at St. Mary's mission has ex-
cellent ideas and may do something with
his charges.
Ras-The writer has a friend who can
hit a heap harder than John L. Sullivan,
We we're on the street late the other night
when a tipsy soldier ran deliberately into
US with some remark about dudes. My
friend landed his right on the fellows
jaw and seemed to throw his weight with
the blow. The man who had made a
mistake landed a good ten feet away on
his back and didn't bat an eye for fully
FIVE minutes.