Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-12-31
AN ODD ELECTION.

\'.~,lil 'u Oll Nllt ONNdSlOu III oue O1
Nr calls, between you an me, 1
3u't none shore about the merits of
Wh5t You all calls law an order
No", painstakin an discreet vigi-
.anvr committee is my notion of u
hliNark ag'in the criminal classes.
1T EN- take bale of rope an a
week off. an if the camp ain t weed
eel down to right principles an a
quiet life ut the end tharof. then I've
passed my days ~ vain rs any prai-
RE dog which over yClps
"'l on can gamble, if anybody is
plumb aware of these yerC trooths,
its me, says Texas Thompson.
when l was down in the South Pa
lojuro country this is years back
ON tnC trail-wOri>in passed. of Bar
*, cattle aids in IN effort to 'lect
Il jV0~H an inStitOOt reg lar shore
enough law, AN the same comes
mighty near lCavin the entire ham
let on both sides of the trail. Itdeci-
inmates Il heap of our best citizens.
"'ThiS ycre misguided bluff
NOiilN'' w lJ'NNN l'NNAlllstl, ttll al" uN -
allows if it wasn't for the unfOre-
seen way wherein things stacks up
an the muddlC we all gets into try
in to find a trail, the Plaza PalOdu-
TO would have been a scene of
hlcatin peace that day instead of n
strictly corpse an cartridge occa-
sion. The death rate rises to that
degree, i'll fact, that the next round
up Is shy on men, an thar ain t
enough cartridges in the camp when
the smoke blows away to be seed
for a second crop. On the squar',
gents, that lection day on the South
Paloduro was what you all might
term hOlycaust an get it right ev-
cry time.
It's this way. No, thar's no fe-
male i'll ii. This grows from a bust
ness transaction, an the effort thar
from to improve on present condi-
tons, institoot n reign of law an
'lect n jedge.
"'Which the comm of miscreant
named Cimmaron Pete from some
'er' S over near the DOLBY walls is the
beginnin of the deal. This Cimma-
ron Pete comes trailin in one day,
an shorthOrn called Glidden, who
runs q store at the ford, comes rOpin
at Cimmaron Pcto to race ponies.
What for stakes do you all
want to race for2" demands this
Cimmaron Pete.
"'"I'll run you for boss an sad
die" says Glidden
"'"Say boss ag'in hoss," says
Cimmaron Pete, ian I'm liable to
go you. Saddles is hard to get, an
Iwon't risk mine. Ponies, however,
is easy. can get 'em every moon
light night"
"'When these sports is racin-
which the run is to be quarter of
a mile, only they never finishes
jest as Cimmaron begins to pull
ahead, his pony bein a shade sud
dener than Glidden's, whatever does
the latter do but rope this Cimma-
ron Pete's pony by the feet an
down him.
1t was shore fine work with a
lariat, but it comes high for Gid
den, for as he stampedes by this
Cimmaron turns loose his six shoot
er from where he's tangled up with
his broncho on the ground, an as
the first bullet gets Glidden in the
back of his head his light goes out
like a candle.
when the committee looks into
the play, they jestifies this Cimma-
ron, while on the surface they says
the deal seems a little fiorid. When
a gent armed with nothin but a cold
sense of jestice comes to pirootin
plumb through the affair with a
lantern, he's due to emerge with
the conviction that Glidden' 8 wrong
So Cimmaron is free in a minute.
but thar's Glidden's store.
Thar's nobody to claim it, thar be-
in no fam 'ly to Glidden nohow, not
even a Mexican.
""Which was it seems to be a
case of open doubt" observes this
yere Cimmaron. nacherally takes
'hiS NiiuuSh P'tl y . SIoIc ah uSdlS
his game myself"
1T amt much of Il store, an, be-
in as the rest of us has havin all we
can ride herd on for ourselves. no
gent makes objection, an Gmmaron
turns himself loose in Glidden' 8
store an begins to sell things a
whole lot. He's shorely doin we'll,
l reckon, when mebby it's a week
later he comes Chargin over to a
passed. of us an allows he wants the
committee to settle some trouble
which has cut his trail
"'"It's about the debts of this
yere Glidden, deceased" says CHM
maron II succeeds to the business,
Of course, which it's little enough
for departed rOpin my pony that
time. But you all can gamble ain t
goin way back on this yere dead
persons trail an settle all his gray
be right, gents puts it to you all on
the squar'. Do immense myself, I'd
like for to be told, in deceased 8 liza
bilities merely for reSentin of his
wrongs ag' in me with my gum If
a gent can go blindly shootin him
se'f into bankruptcy that away, the
American gov'ment is a rank fail
ure an the state of Texas is plumb
played out. ,"
When we proceeds to ferret in