Arizona republican., 1894-10-27

V3VV&VGS@BVSS@ was concerned. But he was used to these lonely rides, and when passen- ger preferred to be exclusive it simply exhibited to Bloomer the poor taste of the passenger. So he talked to his horses and sang to them and passed the lonely hours as comfortably as if he had been surrounded by a half ! dozen passengers, and soon forgot the fellow on the inside.
 Coming to bend in the road, where the ascent of the first steep mountain is begun, Bloomer fell into reflective mood and remarked to the nigh wheel CT that the fellow on the inside might possibly rise to an apprecia- tion O the society of a stage driver and his bosses if the muzzle of double-barreled shotgun should hap pen to appear at the window of the coach"
 Of course Bloomer was not really ex- pecting such surprise for his unso- ciable passenger; so when the shotgun appeared, with three others, and ac companied by an order to ''throw down them ribbons and throw up them hands," he was himself so completely surprised that he obeyed without word of protest.
 If he was surprised at this sudden appearance of road agents, he was really dumfounded at what followed. e shotguns as if miniature battle were being fought When it was all over, two stage robbers were fatally wounded and the other two surren- dered to Sheriff Barney-and the man of straw on the inside was literally shot to pieces. And this is the way it all happened, as Boomer himself was fond of telling it:
 '4ou see, they didn't put rfle on. Never seen a sheriff yet that thought a stage driver had nerve enough to play out his hand in a game like that; an don't know but feller would git little bit rattled a-wonderin' how he's a-goin' to come out at the end O the game. It's purity ticklish bizness to be a-sittin' on stage through the long, dark hours O the night n a-guessin' whether yer goin' ter drive back CT ride in a box But the way it all happened was like this:
 You see that kid what stole the handkerchief done that for a blind. His oP woman she put him on. She writes note ter France n tell the kid ter drop it in his pocket n steal his handkerchief, CT anythin' else he could git his hands on, n then kinder loiter 'roun' sos to git caught. We'll, sir, that oF Black Rosa was a corker. She gives the whole snap away in the note, n she tells France ter have the boy put in jail, 'n' that'd be a tip for her i that lie gets the note. Then she sets up howl 'n' throws the gang off, an havin' bin drinkin' considera ble an 1 feelin' a leetle bit skeered that her alay wouldn't win, she was knocked clean cut-excited-'n' tainted on the dead square.
 'So France, wen he gifts the ol' wom- ans note, he just quietly lets Barney in, n Barney he tells him his system, n they plays it to win.i W'n France he 1 goes up to his room, Barney he goes n | gifts his team n meets France at the back door n they goes out 'n' lays for the gang. $ only one place on the road I where job O stage robbin' could be done n the robbers git away, an Bar pey he knows the place, an that's where they camps n waits for the gang they gifts 'em dead to rights. That inside passenger $ wat knocked me cold. They puts the stage agent onto the play, n he fixes up straw man-w'atye calls dummy-'n' he loads him into the stage sos to fool me n the road agents both.
 q reckon Black Rosa didn't know how near she was a-callln' the turn wen she prescribed death for gringos. She didn't git the ones she was after in the fust place, but l reckon the death of her or man 'n' Pete Johnson suited her notions better, wen she come to size up the job, fer they was both gringos-one was American n t'other Swede.
 ''They say them Mexieans has al- { ways got grudge ag'in somebody, but never remembers a kindness; but the way that play was made it looks like or Black Rosa didn't fergit John Frances kind words to her wen the miners was a-joshln her
 ''Yes; perhaps the two silver dollars did have somethin' to do with it = sil- yer was great power n Colorado n them days, Lewis Eddy, in N. Y. | Advertiser.
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