Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-14
THE CHEETAII-TIGER.

to know that you have something to
base your hopes on, and last, to get
into a lawsuit and eventually the SUI
preme Court by litigating with your
neighb0r in underground adventure.
This, L believe. is the Aspen method.
Without entering upon a discussion
scientific and chemistic as to apex
and side lines, l can tell you of an
Aspen exception. 1t had, at the out
set, all the elements of a good case
on both sides, from lawyers point
of view, and might now be enjoying
its musty run in the Circuit Cham
berS with others of its class. 1t al
most seems a pity that 1t isn't, if you
look at it from what the newspapers
call legal aspect"
The case in point is that of Boulder
Trampenning, prospector. One Of
his claims was in the Woody district;
no matter where; it is enough that it
was and is. Boulder usually spent
the month of September at this par
ticular claim, and frequently did more
of his assessment than the law re-
quired. 1t was an isolated place,
half way up hill, and Trampenning
seemed to tit in with it, being rather
of the rocks and burnt Stumps than
apart from them. He was very like
middle aged tree anyway, he was as
silent. There were four reasons for
this; the first was that he was dumb;
no matter about the others; if there
were four hundred it would be, under
the circumstances, useless to tell
them.
The claim adjoining belonged to
one Asechga. 1t was said that he
was Mexican, but Boulder and he
got along very well considering every
thing that was likely to cause trouble,
from windlass to bedrock. They met
during two Septembers. When the
third came Boulder reached the
ground first. Asechiga's cabin was
closed when he got there 1t was
closed for two days. When Boulder
woke up on the morning of the third
he looked across the little rayine and
saw the door open.
A woman came out.
There is no questioning Boulder's
surprise. He was not much for wo-
men. He had seen them during the
winter at the restaurants and in the
yaudeyilles, at Aspen, but he never
had to do with them. And in the
summer he was too far away. His
ideas of them were unsubstantiaL
Perhaps somehow he could never dis
connect them with We've ham'n
eggs an Graham buns an coffee err
tea," or else attired in truthfully con-
else dresses and singing,
Iwandered in a shady woodland,
Where the pretty bluebells grow:
Twas there l met a charming little lad
And took him for my only beau.
All Of which was because he had seen
the wrong side of womanhood.
This woman was not much for
looks, so far as he could Judge. Her
hair was WHISKY and like streaked
tale. Her complexion was patchy,
like rifle blocks and in carriage she
was not graceful. At this time she
was fetching water from the spring.
and the sleeves Of her dress were
rolled uD, showing bigred arms, with
firm muscles. Seeing Boulder, she
stopped an instant and regarded him
with speculative stare. Boulder
bowed, principally because he could
think of nothing else just then to do.
She did not return the salutatiOn. but
walked on into the cabin. A little
whlle later she came out again. this
time with pick and shovel and her
feet lncased In boots. She wore a
red shirt of some thick material and
miners cap. The effect was wholly !
sanguinary. One would guess that
she either intended TO rob an ex-
press train or to lead IA frenzied
mob Of reyOlutionists against the Bas- |
assuming there were express
trains and Bastles in the Woody dis .
trict, which there are not
She walked over toward Asechlga's .
little shaft and paused on the dump
20 again contemplate Boulder IL Is .
10 be mentioned that this mine which
has been named the Cheetah-uot .
that there were cheetahs whereabouts
but because the Mexican had once
seen such an animal In lndia-was
but thirty feet above liouldeFs own
modest prospect, the elevation being
abrupt
Boulder FESTIVE under this dcllher
ate observation of the person. iu skirtA
Bowed once mnre with results equally
rs unsatisfactory The woman turned
toward Che wludlass lowered tha
nHchet anl shortly lffrwlnl dsat
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