Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-18

IISut, tIylu 10 SApldlu To you WHdt .
up. Your weak Asiatic intellect couldn't
get the drop on to it nohow. You've been
brought to showdown again a woman,
an you're outheld. You've got to quit.
Savey? Don't let US find you here to-
morrow. Ry fust drinktime we'll be
scoutin for you with somethin besides
an op'ry glass, an if you're noticed as
part of tho landscape you're goin to
have heap of bad luck. I'd advise you
to pint for Red Dog as be;l home camp
for dirty shirts, but as to that you plays
your hand yourself. Now, git'
"Next day the old drunkard, Monte,
comes swingin in with the stage, the
six hosses ON the jump, same as he
alters did, with woman along Over
at the postohice, where he stops, lady
gifts out, an of course we all bows p lite
an hopes she's we'll an frisky. She
allows she is an heads for the O. K.
House.
cit floats over pretty soon that her
name is Anna, an as none of us wants
to call her jist Anna-the same bein too
free play-an hearin she lives year
or two at Benson we concloodes to call
her Benson Anna an let it go at that.
The same bein musical an express
i've, says Doc Peets as we all lines up
agin the Red Light bar, Il suggests we
baptize this lady Benson Anna, an yere's
to her success.
$50 we all turns up our glasses, an
Benson Anna she is.
''The next day the fetid Lung is a
thing of the past, an Benson Anna has
the game to herself. Two days after she
raises the tariff to 80 cents ON shirts,
instead of %, as previous with the
Chink. But no one cares.
A man, says Doc Peets, as
thinks Caucasian woman is goin to
wash shirt for the miserable stipend
Of a slave of the orient must be plumb
locoed. Wolfville pays so cents for
shirts an is proud thereof.
''Things gees along for mighty like a
month, an then this yere Benson Anna
allows she'll have visitor
I'm plumb, clean sick, she says,
'of seein nuthin but lot of drunken,
good for nuthin sots a-pesterin round,
an done reckon I'll have my friend
Sue come over from Tombstone an see
me whole lot = It'll be some relaxa-
tion.
"Mebby four days after this yere Sue
hops outen the stage, an for the next
week there ain t no washin done what
ever, while Benson Anna and Sue works
the wire aige offen their visit.
A man as would begretch two
pore, hardworkin- girls a lay off for a
week. says Eliright, ain t clean strain,
an don't want to know eech a horse
thief nohow,' and we all felt likewise
''But slap on the heels OF all this yere
gregar BUSINESS On the part of Benson
Anna an Sue the deal begins to come
queer. At the end Of the week the two
girls has row, an il the tuln Sue goes
to t'other end of camp an opens a laun-
dry. That does settle it. Benson Anna
gives Sue fits, an Sue shorely sends 'em
back. Then they quit speakin, an when
they meet on the street they makes
snoots at each other. This scares En-
right He tries to keep the boys from
takin sides.
'' In delicate play like this yere,
he says, this camp don't take no cards.
For the first time Wolfville passes out
an offers to make it jack.
''But as one day an the next trails by
the boys sorter gets lined up one side an
t'other, some for Benson Anna an some
for Sue, an things is shorely gettin hot
Hamilton, over at the dance hall, up an
names his place the Sue saloon, an Bax-
ter takes down the sign ON the Red
Light an calls it the Benson Anna
House Finally things sorter cul-
inmates.
"Dan Boggs, who's a open, violent
Anna man, comes a-prancin into the
Red Light one night, an after stampin
an rappin his horns round whole lot
allows his shirt is cleaner than Dave
TUFTS. Tut says he don't care nothin
for himself ar none whatever for his
shirt, an while he an Dams alters been
friends an crossed the plains together
still he don't allow he'll stand round
none an see pore ondefended female
like Sue maligned. So Tut out with
his gun an gets Boggs in the laig.
"This yere brings things down to
cases. Enright is worried sick at it.
But he's been thinkin mighty arduous
for quite a spell, an when Boggs gets
creased he sees somethin must be done
an begins to square himself for a play
for out
It's the next day after Boggs gets
agin Tutt, an Dec Peets has plugged up
the hole, an it's all right, when Enright
rounds up the whole passel of rs in the
Red Light He looks dignified an what
you call impressive, so the barkeep,
yieldin to the gravity of the situation,
allows the drinks is on the house. We
all get our 40 drops, an sorter stands
pat thereon in silence, waitin for En-
right to unfold his game. We shore
knowed if thar was a trail out he'd
find it.
"'Gents,' he says at last, an he
seems like he's pensive an hurt, 'I'll not
drift into the harrowin details of them
which has ripped what was
wonst the peacefulest camp in Arizona
up the back. wants you, however, to
take note of my remarks, cause what I
say is shorely goin to CO.
''Here Enright pauses to take small
drink by himself. while we all tarries,
some oneasy an anxious about what card
falls next. At last Enright p'ints out
Oh the trail Of his remarks agin.
&" TT is with pain an modification,
he says-an here he fixes his eyes some
hard an deliberate on a young tender
foot named French, who's been away
from the States something like SIX
months-'it is with pain an mortifica-
tion, says, that notes for week past
our young friend an townsman, William
French, payin marked an indiscreet at
tention to Benson Anna, q female per
son whom we all respects. AT all times,
day an night, when he could escape his
dooties as corral boss for the stage com
pany, he has pitched camp i'll her So
ciety. Wolfyilie has been shocked an a
pure lady compromised. Standin as We
all do in the light of a parent to this
pore young female, we have determined
the wrong must be made right, an Mr..
EraDrL r,,rct yr,orrv thn ojr1 7 have