The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-26
Miscellaneous.

broke a faro bank and then went over to
her house the knowing ones declared
there would be trouble. There was. In
less than an hour Billy came back with
a bullet hole through his forearm and
profund respect for the mistress of the
boarding house.
But, then, to supplement this side of
her character was another line of con-
duct that made her as many friends as
her fighting qualities had earned her
enemies. One night in the winter-and
winter at Reno is none of the penitent
Things you OF the eastern states kl ~
an etnigrant family were put off the train
here in the night because they could NOT
show their tickets. They claimed the
tickets had been stolen by a sharper, and,
no doubt, told the truth. But the con-
ductor would not listen to them. Belle
heard the poor people were over in the
depot, hungry and destitute, and she
woman almost starved TO death and three
children that had not eaten for day.
Il know what it is to be hungry said
Belle, and she took. them TO her house
and gave them such a breakfast as thew
had never seen in all their lives.
HolIoway's Fate.
In 1870 Jimmy Holloway. a gambler.
came to Reno and secured quarters for
his layout in the Crescent hotel. He was
handsome, talented man, who had read
a good deal, and who could recite poetry
as well as he could deal faro. People
said that he had been a preacher in his
day. 1t was just at this time when Ne
Yada politics needed a man like that at
Reno, and Jimmy became a power. He
had friends all over the state, and all of
them were high in authority. He had
money, and when it came to fixing the
end of the division for the railroad he
did more than any other one to secure
this for Reno. After that he was the
chief mover in getting the railroad from
this city to Virginia, by way of the capt.
tai No man in the country was better
liked or more highly valued than he was.
But he had his weak points. He would
drink, and when in his cups he was the
most quarrelSome man ever known in
this region. He was a shooting man, as a
gembler in those days had to be, but he
had none of the generous qualities of the
western man in general He became ac-
quainted with Belle, and after that she
had no other close friends. One night in
1872 there was a company Of soldiers here
been drinking with the officers till he was
drunk and ugly. He left his bank to
take care of itself and devoted himself to
troubling the town. The soldiers were
here four DAYS. and about the end of the
second day Belle refused to allow Hollo-
way to come into the house. With the
customary license of the time Belle got
up a little supper and invited the army
officers and some of the prominent men of
the town to come down for an hour in
the evening. One of them, young lieu
tenant, was SO agreea bic to the woman of
the house that she invited him to remain
after the other guests had departed, and
he complied. He sat there at the window
in plain sight of the hotel where Hollo-
way had his bank, and nothing but the
care of the officers kept Holloway from
shooting at the hero who had supplanted
him. 1t was not at all likely that Belle
thought any more of the young lieutenant
than to use him as a means to bring her
lover back to his senses, and there is no
reason to think ne had anything like a
regard for her. Certainly he had never
seen her before. He has never seen her
since, and he is now well up in the army,
with a good position in the department of
Arizona.
When Reno Was wild.
About 10 o'clock at night, when the old
Reno was always al it's widest, the young
lieutenant came up town for a supply of
wine, and invited a captain of his OWE