Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-26
a SINGLE-HANDED GAME.
Why Travelling Minister Was Stunned By
the Passengers.
[CheYenne Leader.

Judge Bean, who is now special Deputy
Sheriff at the depot, is even smarter than he
looks, as many of his friends will testify.
Recently he had no little trou BILE with a
sanctimonious- looking cuss, as Artemus
Ward would say, but how he chuckles
over the revenge he achieved.
The emigrants from the South and those
travelling over the main line are here as
signed to cars and sections in the emigrant
coaches. Judge Bean has charge of the
allotment of tho travellers and endeavors
to arrange them so that their comfort may
be assured. Occasionally he encounters
human hog, who, for very meanness, re-
fuses to change his seat when the arrival
of the passengers from the South makes
some changes necessary. The other day
young minister or missionary occupied
middle section In one of the emigrant cars.
There were vacant sections at each end of
the car, and Bean asked the minister to
take one of these in order to allow large
family party to occupy adjacent sections.
But the minister would not move. Subse-
ouently man across the aisle vacated a
section and Bean asked the ministe r to
take that section. Again he declined to
move, and when asked why he refused to
accommodate the women and children he
shrugged his shoulders and said he "didn't
feel like it,"
Now Bean noticed that the minister had
struck up a travelling acquaintance with
two men in the car, and he at once planned
a deadly revenge When the two men
alighted from the car Bean was not far
away, and soon talked with them for
few moments. Subsequently he went
through the car and quietly talked with
each passenger. One man was heard to
say: "Why don't you arrest him?" But
Bean replied: HE has done nothing
wrong here, but I warn you for your own
good"
The brakemen Oh the train say that not
a passenger would speak to the minister
after the train left this city, and the man
was utterly at a loss to account for the
evident aversion shown toward him by his
fellow travellers. At Laramie City he
learned the reason of the GOODNESS and
snubs he had received.
a gambler boarded the train, and one of
the brakemen told him how matters stood.
A moment later the three-card thrower
slapped the minister a resounding blow on
the back and exclaimed:
"How are you, old pard1 Don't know as
I'm dead onto you. but the wheel -twister
has tipped your hand. How does she stack
up?" looking around the car.
'I-I-I Northumberland you, SIR" an
swered the minister. amazed at the man
ner and tone of the stranger.
"Oh, let up on that, Give US pointer.
,L% a,,l
might turn a trick myself"
"My friend, utterly fail to compreh end
you"
"Well. you're a daisy. Say, you should
be a RAINING mate for Doc Baggs. If
you're making a single handed play on
the strict q. t. won't copper you. Kinder
strikes me man should play you open TO
win, anyway. If you happen to drop into
Salt Lake I wish you'd tell Three One
Pete YOU saw me here. I'd like TO be in
with YOUR play, but when fellow declar
a pard dead out reckon he might as well
change in at some other game. SO long"
And then the gambler walked away.
while the minister fell back on the seat
almost paralyze When he partially re-
covered he asked the brakeman, who was
conveniently near, for an explanation.
'He didn't mean nuthin'." answered the
brakeman. ''The officers at Cheyenne said
YOU was a confidence man, told the pas
sengers to look out for you and he thought
you belonged 70 the gang. that's ALL"
There is no official data warranting a
statement that the minister actually
swore, but it is alleged he looked whole
volumes Of diluted profanity.
Bla-eed Hopes.
She weighsI @55 pounds, net, as she
stood, that bri ght spring morning, just on
the outside of the sapctum door and cheer.