The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-29
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Judge Hoke of Sandy Bend.

and now open fur bzness, - said judge
Hoke of Sandy Bend as he looked
around on the crowd, 81 will purceed
to cut matters short and save the coun-
ty OF DEVILS Elbow $50 in cash by stat.
in the case. Over thar on my right sits
that blamed kyote known as Sam White.
He's the complainant in this case, and
he's tryin his durndest to look like an
abused man. Over thar on my left side
is One Legged Pete, who's half greaser
and half American and one of the
meanest critters to be found fur hun
dred miles around Neither one of 'em
is with plantin over six inches deep,
and arter the trial this court hopes to
see the pair run outer town on gineral
principles.
"This yere court, as is known to
most OF ye, owns the Red Dog saloon
across the creek. 1t ar needless to add
that drinks, poker and other things
ar dispensed over thar fur cash, and
the reputashun Of Red Dog ar second
to none in this woolsey west. Last
night was busy time at the Red Dog.
This court had to help wait on the bar,
chuck three men out of doors and non
another, and when midnight came he
went to bed tired out. He had Just cot
to sleep when a critter gallops up on q
broncho and pounds on the door and
yells that he wants jestice.
who is it?' seq |.
Sam White, seq he.
What's the hullabaloo?'
One Legged Pete has stole nv
wifer
'Waal, go'n steal some other crit
ter's wife'
But wants jestice'
"Yes, durn his hide, he wanted les.
tice, and he wouldn't be satisfied till I
got up and agreed to hev One Legged
Pete arrested. He was arrested this
mornin, and thar he is. I've talked
with him, and I've talked with the
woman, and I've also had my nose in
the statoots fur an hour or more. Now,
then, Justly, as the woman went away
wlllin 'ly with the prisoner he didn't
steal her; secondly, under the statoots
OF this territory a woman amt property
and can't be stole; thirdly, any critter
hevin SIGH u humbly wife as she ar
orter be willin to pay 500 to hev her
stole; fourthly, Sam White was right
thar when his wife jumped on the boss
behind Pete and rid away He had a
rifle beside him, and he's good shot.
He could hev plunked the both of em
and the boss to boot, but did he do it: /
No, stree! He sot right thar and seen
'em go, and then he mounts his knock ,
kneed ole broncho and rides 'leven miles !
to pound Oh the back door of the Red ,
Dog saloon and yell fur jestice!'
Your honor, said Sans lawyer,
"my client ar peaceful, law abidin''-
''Shet upn' Numbered the Judge.
eve know Sam White from top to toe,
and the court don't want any of yer CAB
in this case! Has the prisoners lawyer /
got any words to shoot off?''
eve hev nothin to say replied the
counsel
(Which ar jest as we'll fur We, Tom
Thatchern' growled his honor. eff .
ye'd said ten words in favor of the
prisoner, I'd hev sentenced him to be
hung! Pete, ye blamed ole reptile, what
made We steal that woman?''
"She wanted to be STOLE" replied
Pete
"Waal, ye've got her, and now keep
her, but don't never do it agin. Sam
White, why didn't We shoot the smoke
'olored cuss when he come fur yer
Vife?'
Il left him to the law.
'Oh, ye did! Well, mebbe it's jest as
we'll as the law is big huff and broad
huff to take keer Of both of ye. When I
was elected jeStice of the peace in and
FUR the county of DEVILS Elbow, it was
understood that everybody
could hev law and jestice by the shovel
sul. Ye had the right to pop at Pete,
out no right to wake this court up. Ye
are tharfore fined $25 and costs, which
will be about as much more Ye hol-
ered fur jestice and hev got it, and if
The boys wasn't goin to- run you outer
town I'd double the fine. Pete, how
much money ye got?''
"About $50"
''Then I'll gin ye dose of jestice at
the same time. The vardict is that ye
pay fine of $15 fur being the cause of
this yere row, and as court adjourns
we'll go over to my saloon and ye kin
spend $40 or $15 more treating the
crowd. Somebody hit that Chinaman
asleep agin the wall fur contempt of
court in not keepin awake, and court
will then adjourn and rush bizness
across the creek. -