The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-14
THE ELKo DRIVERS STORY.
A Girl Who Would Run From a Co w,
But Stand by In a Pinch.
rr.o,, ~ Ma, York EIsxoJJ

E~om the Ne,c York Herald.
Up here in the hills it's queer about gals,
amt itP' said the stage driver as we left
Elko with a party OF six young women in
side who were doing" the west in GRO wd
al excursion rates.
How do you meanf'
"Why, how'u they run from a cow, and
yet show more nerve in pinch than most
any man."
"is that the casen
''I found it so about four years ago" he
| replied as he turned to face me- ''Guess
you amt looked at me very clus or you'd be
| aslKin' what had happened"
had not given him 8 second look bus
now that had got fair sight Of bis face
held up my hands in horror. The right
eve was gone, one corner Of the mouth cut
down to the chin and his cheeks were a
mass Of scars The flesh lay up in ridges,
and there was a horrible scar across the
forehead.
"Why, man, you must have got tangled
! I'D In a buzz saw p l said as he opened the
front of his shirt and exhibited even worse
than scars.
"a leetle wuss nor that, stranger" he re-
| piled with shake OF the head. II got
tangled up with a grizzly bar I'm scars
pull through, but the Lord was on my side
fur once"
Tell me about It."
I'm THE FEELIN'."
Char ain't much to tell Its mostly In
| the feelln' instead OF in the happenin' You
see was drivin' fur she hotel back thar
that summer-takin' excursion parties up
to the mountains and springs and trout
streams-and about every week thsr'd be
| women or gals along I'm rough old chap,
without kith or kin, and don't mind say
In, was allus down on 'tother sex till this
| we're calamity happened. Sorter seemed to
me that gals didn't know nuthtn' except
how to giggle, and they wus the sort Of
| critters you'd have to treat like 80 much
| wax. | used to run a wheel over a rock on
purpose to skeer 'em half to death, and If
they aXed me questions, or wanted to be
friendly, bluffed 'em off. Now and then
what they calls a bridal couple would come
along, and felt mighty sorry fur the hus-
band, fur Gittin' SIGH baggage tied to him.
Mebpe you've felt that wayP
"Weil. hardly"
That's because you wqsn't a fool, while
wa,l II anybody had told me that one o.
| them gals knowed fir tree from a cotton
wood or had the nerve to face kyote. I'd
have called him liar. One day the Lord
opened my eyes. In gittin' 'em open l got
one shet forever. l took a party of five
gals-all from the east-who were in charge
of one of EMS father, up TO the mountains
to fish fur trout AFTER awhile they got scat
tered, and 1 was lynn in the shade and
| tAinkin' how much better it would be II
| thar was more jack rabbits an fewer gals
when. sumthin' growled in my ear. |
knowed what it was afore | jumped up to
face one of the ugliest or zzlies you ever sot
eyes on. He'd been wounded by some
hunter and thar was great patch Of blood
on his side. He'd boon lynn clus in the
bushes and rocks along the creek. and the
shouts and gigglss of them gals had routed
him out and got his dander up"
IN THE CLUTCHES.
"Were you armedg' | asked as he paused
for a minute.
"Sartin'. had gun and q knife
allus 90 heeled for a scrimmage, but never
had one afore or since yelled out when
saw what it was and went fur my revolver.
| Old Ephriam hauled off and broke my RICH
arm with one cuff. Then started to run,
and heard the gals screamin'. and tho
next thing l knowed 1 was down and the
| Bar on top of me. Ii was while l was lynn
on the ground that got out my knife with
my left hand. the man with the gals was
from Boston, or arouad thar some Tbar', l
guess he had gum bat he did jest as most
| any other man would-tried to run off the
gals while tue bar was busy with me.
Leastwise, never blamed him fur doin' az
be did,"
"And they left you alonel"
| 81 thought they had, and Old Ephriam
| thought so, too, fur he quit lookin' their
way and began too feed on my carcass.
swiped him with the knife across the nose,
aud as he Dire off l jumped up and made a
| run for it. Nogo. He was arter meat and
he overlook aud downed me agin. l did the
best could with knife In my left hand,
| but was only rag in his clutches DE
was usin' teeth and CLAWS on me when some
body who was purity clus by called out:
"'rm here, and I've got your gun! Hold
up and let me get a shot
| TELLING SHOTS.
~ heerd four shots afore tainted away
and l knowed the bar was dead, fur be
wilted right down on my legs. 1t was hall
an hour arter that afore / cum to and found
one gal holdin' my head in her lap and the
! other splashin' water over me and bindin
up my hurts. The man was no good. He
was skeered silly, but the gals was doin' tbs
right thing"
"And what had happenedp
| "Wall, Justly, my gun got out OF The
| holster in the sorimmage. Nextly, thai
Boston gal had the pluck to come out Of tue
crowd and pick 1t up. Lastly, while Ole
| Ephrlam was 80 tarnal busy with me that
he didn't know thar was any one else in
the territory. She cum up and showed the
muzzle agin his head and fred the hull six
| bullets into his brain. I've got 'em right
here in an old terbacker box, jest as they
war dug out, and / kin show ye his head
and claws ia a barroom, at Elko. That ga
wasn't bat IS years old, aud she wore
| glasses and had gold in her teeth. and when
we started out that day | wouldn't hev
traded rabbit pelt fur swo gals like her.
| "Wellp
| "Wall. thar wasn't any tom-foolery ro-
NANCE" he replied after long sigh, "The
| party went away the next day. and pvt
| never seen one of 'em since. l tried to thanh
the gal fur what she did but was so BIZ
and clawed and cha wed and broke up thai
| | couldn't git the words out straight. She
rad she was sorry fur the accident, and
sorry that she didn't git to me sooner, and
that was all. except that it took me yeaI
! TO get we'll"
THE CONTINUANCE.
"And have you never heard from bel
HnceP
"Wall, you know" he replied, as be
wriggled around in an uneasy way. "wher
got up kinder thought she'd be glad to
! git few relics of the kentry hereabouts
and 80 got together lot Of fancy stone,
and minerals aud petrified things and In
! jun curlosties and sent 'em on TO Boston
She writ back TO say as how she was pleased
and to ask how got aiong, and-and-'
HCnna hat alza1