The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-02-21
I'm A VERY TIGHT PLACE.
Tuck Lambert Narrates a Thrilling
Experience in q Nevada Min
| ing Camp.
He HAD 4 VERY CLOSE SHAVE.
Surprised by u Party OF Vigilantes
Who We're in Search Of
Horse Thieves.
The Vigilantes Succeeded in Finding
Six in the Room in Which he
Was Sleeping.
He HAD A VERY CLOSE SHAVE.

"Talk Of being frightened, shivering in
your boots, thinking your time had come,
etc., reminds me of a close call l once
had in a Nevada mining camp" said
Tuck Lambert to a group of %bystanders
ia the Office of the Milwaukee house.
~ never experienced anything like 1t
before or since, and if you fellows want
to hear a stirring yarn just keep still a
few minutes. 1t was back in 80 when
the mining fever vas at its height in that
state, and "stampedes" to newly discov-
cred districts were common occurrences.
Hard characters were quite numerous
and shooting ARRAYS frequently made
things interesting. OF course, everybody
packed Il "gun" and was always ready to
shoot Ga short notice. | was on the way
to White Pine and stopped off at a little
town called Humboldt, to spend the
night. Every thing in the shape
of "a hotel OF a lodging house was
jammed full,and l began to think l;,would
have to sit up all night. when l struck a
place where the landlord said l could
spread my bed or the office floor. Every
body carried his blankets in those days,
few hotels furnished transients with any
thing but grub and a floor to spread on.
The office floor was pretty we'll covered
with sleeping men when l turned in
there must have been thirty Of US in all.
About midnight we were suddenly
awakened by a terrible knocking on the
door leading outside. 1t was a quick
yet loud knock,a regular panel splinterer,
the kind a man makes when he has
blood in his eye and goes q cunning.
The but end of a six shooter humping
a door makes a similar sound and l
guess we all concluded that's what it was
for none of US responded. The door was
nearly shivered to pieces when the land
lord came out of his bedroom and stumb-
ling over three or four of his "guests"
got to the dor and asked, "who's there?"
none your - - business, open up
quick you - -" was the reply. 1t
. AoAuiy ASSOocoAy w soy NO WAIllukly |
complied, and about a dozen masked aud
dark lantern entered. THROW up your
said the leader, to the badly
frightened landlord, "and If you move
you're a goner," and you bet he did.
While one attended mine host
The rest of the invaders made a.
canvass of the sleepers, holding a
lark lantern In the face of each to make
of his features. "Get up you -"
Or "Lay still you -" they greeted each
one of us till six scared men stood up
in response to the fearful sum-
mons. When they came to me the cold
chllls crept NJ and down my spine and |
mentally prepared myself for the worst.
| have faced death in several different |
ways but never felt the terrible weak |
ness that %overspread me at that moment. |
they had asked me my name | don't
.hink | could have told, owing to my
After a hurried scrunity of my features
| was told in language not the most polite
20 lay still wasn't wanted and these were
The sweetest words ever addressed to me.
suffice it to say the six men selected
we're taken out and hanged to the near
est tree in true v~igilante style for steal
ing horses a few days previous. We all
came near attending a necktie party
that night, and you bet we felt very thank
full the next day. There were enough of
US to have stood of those fellows if they
hadn't got the drop on Us, but after 1t was
al over We compared notes and agreed
hat discretion Is the better part of vaIor.
Now, boys. l have been giving yol
goods. Don't look skeptical.
Here Quail broke In with. "Lets play a
zame of razzle DAZZLE" and the audience
Adjourned.