The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-08-29
bool or too ,oopv round him. ,r PICK.

baCb or TOO many rOunu MIN, of Blok
couldn't git his hoss' step, or somethiA
fer he didn't throw 1t, but jest kept yellin'
an rldin louder an faster every minute.
About this time Stockton came out from
his barroom.
"'Look here, Pickles, he says, I've Jest
told three Of my men to shoot you up a
whole lot II you go to pitch that rope Jest
once, an they're goin to do It. Bein as the
news concerned you personal, allowed 1t
wasn't nuthin more than friendly to tell
you. Then, agin, don't like to lose a
good customer like you till has to no.
how
$50 old Ike he goes back to his barroom,
an Pickles gifts down an leaves his hoss
standin an comes back up on the porch.
"'Do you know, Jack, he says, 4 don't
like the onrespeckful way you talks of In
juns. I'm 1njun part myself, and don't
like it.
"'NoY says Jack. Il s'pose that's fact
too. An yet, Pickles, not intendin nuthin
personal at all, fer wouldn't be personal
with q horned toad, I'm not only onre-
speckful of an Injun an thinks the gov
ment oughter pay bounty fer the skelps,
but states belief that a mean ornery,
mud blooded, sneakin, hoss stealth mon.
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he amt even people-ain't nuthin, In fact.
But, to change the subject as well an open
up avenue fer anuther round Of drinks, I'll
bet you, Pickles, you stole that hoss down
thar an that the OK" brand on his
shoulder amt no brand at all, but jest
picked on with the point Of knife
"when Jack puts 1t all over Pickles this
away, we looked fer some shootin shore.
But Pickles couldn't steady himself on the
pinch He was jest like lots of ponies I've
seed. He'd ride right at thing as though
he was goin clean through or over, an jest
the last second he'd shy an finch an weak.
en-. The fact is son, 1t wasn't Pickles
fault. There amt any breed Of man on
earth but the pure white as will play des-
perate deal clean through an call the turn
fer life or death at the close, an of course
Pickles was only half white. So he laugh
ed sorter ugly at Jacks bluff an allowed
he'd order drinks without no bettin.
AN then, Jack, he says, i want you
to take dinner with me- I'll haSo Ike git
up somethin right
"'I'll go you, says Jack, II 1t amt
puthin but sowbelly.'
"'Ill fix you people up feed, says old
Ike but you can't do your feedin in nc
dinin room of mine. I'll fix It over in the
camphouse tother side the corral, an you
kin be Jest as sociable as you please. There
won't be nuthin nor nobody fer you to
hurt or disturb over there
after a little their grub was got ready
in the caphouse, an Jack an Pickles walks
over side an side. They goes in an shuts
the door, an in about five minutes bang
banRl goes the two six shooters, an we all
oanters over an finds Jack eatin away all
right an Pickles over the other side with
bis head In his tin plate an his brains run
min out over his left eye.
" 1t don't look like Pickles was hun
cry much, after all, says Jack.
They'd both pulled their guns as they
sat down an put em In their laps, but, jest
as say, Pickles couldn't stan the pres
sure, an gittin nervous he grabbed fer his
gun, an as he went TO git 1t up the muz
zle caught under the table top an there his
bullet was, oil safe in the wood. Jack,
bein clean strain, had better luck. After
dinner we impaneled jury an tried Jack
fer the KILN. OF course we know'd he'd
got to be acquitted an the KILN was right,
but 1t bothered us a heap to find ground
to put it on.
You see, says Dan Boggs, this kill
In was bound to be all right from the
jump, no matter who'd got salted. Each
was sigin the other on, an they jest went
to this shootin hand in hand like brothers.
Neither was to blame, an that's what gifts
me.
Finally Cherokee Hall gifts up an says,
This here KILN was all right, but there
bein some present difficulty of givin the
reasons why it's all right, an OWN as we
do dooty to the public, / moves you that
our verdict be Justified homicide, based
on the ground that Pickles commits sui.
eide
"This was good enough. OF course Pic.
kles didn't commit suicide none, but that
didn't hurt it fer reason jest the same. u
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