The Durham daily globe., 1894-09-11

Ing funny, he opened fire on the fleeing
Jim, but wasted his lead. He felt the
disgrace of the affair SO keenly that he
rendered his resignation next day, but OF
course 1t was not accepted. We under
stand that Jim Whoop has gone to Utah,
but he will sooner or later return and give
the marshal another show.
Captain Moss, the genial and popular
proprietor of the White Eagle saloon, paid
a visit to St. Louis two or three weeks
ago, and among other things he brought
home some stained glass and had it placed
in the fanlight oyer his front door 1t
was shown off for the first time last Fri
day evening. We don't know who begun
the shooting as the crowd assembled, but
after about 100 shots had been fired there
was nothing further left to plug away at.
There may be a stained glass era in the
history of this town, but it hasn't come
yet. 1t will probably arrive with tooth
Dick shoes, buttonhole bouquets and cut
.oaf sugar The captain has stretched q
wolfskin over the fanlight, hair out, and
peace reigns supreme in that tneighborhood.
Alderman Thompson met with a serious
accident last Saturday, which has deprived
him of the index finger Of his left hand.
He was standing in front of the postoffice
as several freight trains were passing and
in the driver of one Of them he recognized
his wife's first husband. How many hus-
bands Mrs. Thompson has had we don't t
know, but for some reason the alderman
was down on No. l and pulled his gun to
open fire. In some manner not to be ac-
counted for he got his finger over the mug
Zle of his gun and shot it off, and while
the doctor was fixing it up the man es.
capped. The alderman has our personal
sympathies in his misfortune, and if it
will make Mrs. Thompson feel any hap
pier she can consider herself included. If
Nos. 2, and are out in this country, they
will do well to keep clear of this town.
Some one told old Jim Huston. who
lives in cave on Bill Williams noun
tain, that we had a cuckoo clock iE THE
KICKER Office and at intervals Of every
half hour a cuckoo came out from the in
terror and warbled his little song. The
old bar hunter thought it over for awhile
and then came down from his retreat to
shoot the stutfing out of that cuckoo bird.
He walked in on US day before yesterday.
He had a rifle with barrel about feet
long and two revOlvers of ancient pattern,
and without saying word he sat down
on chair and held his rifle ready for the
bird to come out. We have no cuckoo
clock. We should as soon think of intro
ducing dOOrbells into this town as to set up
cuckoo timepiece. We let old Jim watch
and wait for an hour and half and then
explained matters to him. We couldn't
help but feel sorry for his disappointment,
and that his trip of so miles shOuldn be
entirely barren of results we let him shoot
cur toothbrush off the shelf and carry
away our coarse comb.
Among the visitors at THE KICKER office
last week was Mr.. J. NJ. Brown of Ohio,
who had been travelling over the ter
ritory for several weeks in hopes to secure
information of his brother Charles, who
came west for his health year ago. We
were able to inform Mr.. Brown that a
person bearing his brothers description
was killed and eaten by grizzly bear
over on the Little Colorado river last fall,
and he has gone over to see if any further
information can be obtained If that
shouldn't { prove to have been Charles, we
have four cases looked up for him where
unknown persons have been found dead
and buried by the coroner. Surviving
relatives should always stop of here for
at least day