Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-01-25

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THE FIRST DAY OF THE TERM.
men. Gawze Tunnycliff's gweat wace-
boss had ben stole. un sole to Bogus
Luthuhwood. He was he'll at fifty
thousan' dollahs. SO you kin see why
Tunnycliff put so much money an so
many men ento the wecapchah. Now
go avn. Judge"
"They were aware of the fact"
continued, glancing from the old Judge
TO Major Griggs. and then to young
Starr Go-uns and SO on to the Clerk
10 Ellet, Jr.. and on to Old Doc Daily.
who always attended these informal
sessions of the beginnings of the court
terms. They were fully aware of the
fact that the Sandtown people held
well together in those days and looked
after the interests and rights of each
other to degree that is painful to
contemplate in the light of our mod
ern. scramble for self against-the-
the"
"Agin the field, youth honah."
amended the old judge. while chorus
of laughter told the keen appreciation
of the native Hoosier. for even the
slightest bits Of humor.
YES" l say, smiling with the rest,
against the field. So they brought a
hundred armed men from Calamus
County. The sheriff was keen, grit
ty fellow who, singly. overlook Mar
tin, the horse-thief, down at Ellet's
Ferry, below here; and actually rode
up here into Sandtown in the buggy
behind Tunnycliff's stolen team"
He was the best fiddler that ever
struck the town, gentlemen" put in
the major, enthusiastically. There
never was the like of the way he could
play Lea ther Brooches and the Mis-
sissippi Sawyerr'
Eyes. You danced all night to his
fiddlin', Majah." cried the Judge. mer-
rily.
I'D like to know if you wasn't my
partner in that stag dancer" And
then the major laughed his heartiest,
showing one or two long. yellow, to-
bacco-stained front teeth. in the per-
formance
81 own up" said the Judge. II was
a bettah dance-uh then than 1 am
now"
"But how did Buck Leatherwood get
killed, Judge?" asked young Starr
Go-uns. addressing the court.
II heard afterwards from reliable
sources that when he and 1 got back
to the point near where the steamer
had landed, and where he left me to
pursue my way to town. he found that
his father was rapidly removing all his
most valuable possessions to the boat.
And when the fight began at the tav-
ern it was Buck that took his sister
and mother to the steamer. The sher-
III suspected that the most valuable
booty was about to slip out of his
hands and TO lowed with half-dozen
men. arriving only little after Buck.
and just as the big box of gold coin
was being hoisted into the vessel.
There was short, sharp. bloody fight.
The sheriff and Buck were both
killed"
''They killed one anothuh. gentle
men," interrupted the old Judge. "An
the fighting men Of both pahties
wuh wounded. But Buck and that
plucky fellah, Huntuh Smith, as he
called hisseff. shot each othuh full q
dead. sub! Plum full lead. H-yuh's
my little memento NV the skuhmish,"
and, the Judge pulled up his sleeves
and showed a deep scar below his left
elbow.
20 then you were in it too. Judgep"
exclaimed all the younger members Of
the bar. in admiring delight.
Judge" said Old Doc Daily, with .
rery broad. rudy grin, and talking 90
slowly a. to put everybody in suspense.
al wush you'd rippeat nos0 whut you
said to than city fellcrs at was h-yur
last summer huntun up thengs fur .
history nv Santown, you reckle-leckp"
The doctor. abating nothing of his
rubicund grin. the Judge only paused
while few lazy old citizens struggled
in to see what was going ON and to
hear old stories and new anecdotea
Among these noticed some of tho
Dikeses. the Sparkses. the Shipleys
and the Ellets.
20 yes" said the judge. laughing.
You see. one of them slick little high
school fellahs come down fwom the
city to git up picto-yal histwy of San
town pm Feel County. In the cose NV
continuation he med tho wcmahk that
it couldn't be twue that the fohmah
citizens of this country. had como
fwom lawless sct NV despewadoes.
He said they-uh pwesent social status
wepelled such an idea. said:
'Suhr and here the Judge stood up
to be the more impressive. You. in
youth day can fawm no idea of these
people. l have no doubt, sub. that the
man Bogus Luthuhwood, as he was
and Is called. was no othuh than Jean
Lafitte, the buccanpeeah of the Gulf.
And have no doubt that the men who
came up h-yuh and staid round about
him and suhved him and lived with
and about him wuh the identical men
who had suhved unduh him befoah
and unduh noah pehl-is circumstances,
sub. Men that had fiah'd the cannon
and dwawn the buccanneeah's swode
unduh the black flag, sub.
"'But who can measuah the wefawm-
ing influences of quiet inland COM
munity and the daily westwaint of we
ligion and law! Men may fight against
weligion and law. But nevvah agin
Mah-uh os0s weligion and law. Itonly
goes to show that this Nommun-Saxon
people h-yuh, sub. have in themselves
the elements of wefswm an wegene-
walton. sub! that enable them to lay
aside life Of bold and weckless un-
lawful dah-wing. and take upon them.
selves all the habiliments of . law
abiding, God-feah-wing civilization.
suh."'
Arapturous round of applause greets
the conclusion Of the judges eloquent
defense of the progenitors Of Sand
town, and out Of this somebody is call.
ing the new judges name at the door.
20 that's it, is itp" Judge Barks
says. with twinkle in his merry old |
eves. Then, gentlemen. ef You'll |