Telegram-herald., 1890-04-01

srose snt be and his fr1en1s sttacke@
Dad, an& desperate fght enspe1
froE2 which keag4n emerged victorious.
sltloagh suffering fror1 > knife woanG.
dhat nls5Ag he married her. and the next
asy tAey boarded = steamer and ~ent ap
the river Dad 1dohEsS her and shS
worsAiped hin. On the "Trip down. how
ever, tie parting came They had q
quarrel. and Dad cast sspersions re-
gSrding her character before he made
her his vie. Brckon-aearted, she ran
70 the side of the beat and threw herself
into tie river Her body Was found
floating down the stream. or the fourth
hnger OF the Left hand wls plain gold
ring, and il Is this ring that Dad, as
be fingered between lie and death in
the hospital, tWiVled so constantly.
The biggest game Dad Was ever
In said old Bill Harding, was IN St
Loais IN 1869, when the old fellow
carried away SIS 900 in cash and checks
and so4ne $4,000 IN o Us and promis-
sory n9tes. don't know all about that
sitting nor how he struck il 50 rich, but
do know that IL was 90. A number OF
the m9St prominent Iaen in ST. Louis
were ih tho game ono OF them named
Greenb, believe, who was largely in
terest Ed in the Granite Mountain Mines
and very wealthy. One man, Smithers. l
think, was his name, had paid Dad a
check for 81. 900. and then had gone 70
the bank early IN tho morning. and
stopped payment on IL When DAD
came 70 cash it, OF course Ii was no
good. and Dad was mad. He went
around TO Smithers's ONCE, and con-
fronting him, tore the check into u
hundred pieces and threw then into his
face. Then reaching into his vest
pocket he extracted Eve 500 bills, and
tossing them on 70 Snithfrs' desk. ex-
claimed: Here, my POOR man, take
these and buy dinner and stalkod out
of tho once. Smithers sent the bills
back the next day, and Dad gave them
70 missionary society Ia ST. Louis"
Back IN the ffties Dad" made ST.
Joseph his headquarters. 1t was during
the gold fever in California. and OF
course the city was filled with adventur-
Gus spirits The one hotcl-that is, OF
any pretensions-was the Pacific House,
which is still standing. and this is per-
haps one Of the most famous hotels in
the land to-day. On tho second floor OF
the Pacific House Dad" and partner,
named Cummings-'D Deacon" Cummings
he was callcd-ran q gambling joint
Among Dads" patrons were two Of tho
most famous characters of early days
the Thompson brothers Colonel Broad
dus Thompson and "Old JEFF Thomp-
son, or the Fire-Eating Tarantula, as he
was often called. JEFF was tho man
who tor down tho stars and stripes
from tn courthouse there in '01, and
when hedged in with his regiment by
the Yankees wrote orders, li1o Ma
poleon, in blank verso and doggerol
Colonel Broaddus and Dad" were
warm friends. Broaddus would borrow
q few dollars from some one who didn't
know him well, buy drink for tho
crowd and then steer straight for
Dads" rooms, where the chances were
he would lose every cent in few min
utes. 1t was BFoaddus who first sprung
tho joke that has been attributed TO
Senator Vest, Senator Stewart and about
every living statesman, and will be at
tributed to future public characters
probably. Broaddus had been sitting
in a game, lost all he had, and went
down into the hotel Office. His long
beard was of delicate ecru color, being
saturated with tobacoo-juice. A friend
said to him:
Colonel, how did you get all that to-
bacco-jlice on your beard?'
"By expectoration, sir; by expectora-
ton"
And was it necessary to eIpectorate
in your whiskers?"
Eyes, sir, il was"
could you not have spit in the cuspa-
dores?"
mo. sir. I did not dare turn my
head long enough in that game, sir"
Dad" was very nervy man and
strong as Ion. In those days there
was notorious character called platte
Purchase Pete." He was born and
raised in this section Of Missouri,
and was typical Western terror. He
was terror simply because he had alb
normally well-developed vocal organs,
and no one dared to dispute his right to
the title of reigning terror Of St. Joe un-
til he ran up against Dad" A game
was in progress one night and platte
Purchase Pete" walked into the rooms
and began to create disturbance. The
players paid little attention TO him. and
this irritated Peto. Walking up to
dad" he reached down and, taking up
the pile OF chips that stood before the
veteran gambler, stepped back few
PAGES and hurled them at him. Dad
laid down the cards which he was deal
ing, and slowly walking up TO Pete,
grasped him by the back Of the neck
and ran him towards the window. Lift
ing the six-fOot terror. he opened the
window and dropped him out The fall
was probably sixteen feet, and broken
leg was tho result Pete was so rnorti-
fed by this disgrace that as soon a. no
recovered from tho effects of the fall DO
started West and never returned
Dad" visited Asia. leath Al rica
and Mexico. In 70 be came back St.
Joseph and proved himself 70 be worth
s95. 900. lie invested heavily in Kansas
and Nebraska lands. but his investments
proved disastrous. He tried TO found a
town in Kansas. but chose poor site
and lost money. In IS he left again.
but came back in so and opened big
saloon-the handsomcst in the South
west. He put every cent he had into
this place, but it was no 60 and be was
left almost beggar. Bad luck claimed
him then and never relin9uished It's
hold
Whom old Daddy died. about The last