The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1893-12-28
IN ARIZONA.
Ei y DOi LIE

,
"II air strange. il air" he was say
b. as | opened the door Of the room
here our little semi-litcrary society
het: but | could tell you queerer
hings than that 'er --almightv queer
blngs. You can't learn anything
ut OF books. sirs. nOhOw. You see,
amt the men as can string English
D.ether and as had good publications
finds themselves III the queer
blace> l've been in. They're mostly
plgh men, sirs. as can scarcely speak
right. far less tell with pen and ink
he things they've seen; tut il they
build, they'd make some OF 'vour
EUROPEANS ha,r riz with ast0nish-
bent. They would sirs-you bet"
His name was Jefferson Adams, |
believe: | know his initials were J.
A.. for YOU MA see them yet deeply
Entitled on the right hand upper
Bare Of our smOk ing. room dOO7. He
Iett Us this legacy, an also some
Rrtistic patterns done in tobacco
Juice upon our Turkey carpet; bu,
Ibeyond these "reminiscences, our
I&Amcrican stOry-tcller has vanished
}from our ken. He CLEANED across oug
quiet cOnviviality like some
brilliant meteor. and then wa lost
In the outer darkness. I. That night.
however. Our New Mexican friend
WAS in full swing.
Mind you" he continued. Il
|XDn . nine r,t M up,llUo nvaipo, rn,,r
'Nmen Of science. / likes and respects
y chap as can match every beast and
plant, from huckleberry to a grizzly.
With a jaw-breakin' name: hut il you
wants rca! intereStin' facts-some-
thing a bit Juicy--you go to your
RhalerS and your froItiersmen, and
Your scouts and Hudson Bay men.
their names.
NOW, which Of you gentlemen has
lever been in Arizona: None, I'll
warrant. I've been there, sirs-lived
there for years; and when | think
what I've seeu there, / can scarce
git myself to believe it now. | was
one Of Walkers filbusters and after
We buSG'N w anu UIlC tIllCi Wde
shot. some Of Us made tracks and To-
Gated down there. A regular English
AMI American colony We was. with
our wives and children and all com
plete.
ITO think OF such a land being
built for a few greaserS and half.
treeds. lisa misusin' Of the gifts OF
Providence. Grass as hung over a
chaps head as he rode through it and
trees so thick that you couldn't get a
glimpse Of blue sky for leagues and
leagues, and orchids like umbrellas
Maybe some on you has seen a plant
a. they calls the lily Gather" in some
parts Of the States"
"Dianoa muscipula," murmured
our scientific man Par excellence.
"Ah, die near a municipal, that's
him, You'll see a fly stand on that
ere plant, and then you'll see ohe
two sides of a leaf snap up together
and catch it between them, and
grind it up and mash it to bits: and
hours after, if you open the leaf,
you'll see the body ly ny half digested
and in bits. Well. I've seen these
iiytraps in Arizona with leaves eight
and ten feet long. and thorIs or
teeth a foot or more.
its about the death OF Joe Iiaw-
kin> | was going to tell .you-'bout as
queer a think, l reckon, as you ever
heard tell on. There wasn't no.
body in Arizona or New Mexico as
aidn't know of Joe HawKins-'Ala-
bama JO:' as he was called there. A
regular Out-and-0uter, he was: about
IS hard a ase as ever mar clapt eyes
on. RilA him, and he war worse nor
a blizzard. Eve seen him empty his
siX-shoOter in a crowd as CHANGED TO
jostIe him a-gOin' into simpsons bar
when there vas a dance on; and he
BOWED Tom Hooker cause he split
his liquor over his weskit by mistake.
Now, at the time l am tellin' We on,
when Joe Hawkins was swaggerin'
about the town and layin' down BY
laws with his sh0Otin' irons, there
was an Englishman there OF the
name OF Tom Scott. This chap Scott
wal a Britisher to his boot-heels and
yet he didn't freeze much to the Brit.
ish set there, or, rather, they didn't
freeze much to him. He was q quiet,
simple man, Scott ~was-rather toe
quiet for a tough set like that He
kept himself mostly apart. an didn't
interfere with nobody SO long as he
were left alone BAD luck or good,
That man kept a stiff lip on him.