Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-01-30
ARKANSAS DIAMONDS.
Worthless Bits Of Quarts and tho
Duel They Caused

! OuC VI USSJ StuIlt5 Jl(Ib EuUIECu
that ever heard, Accountable for this
are two facts-the incident had oc-
currence many years ago and the scene
Of it was in a place that, even in this
day OF railroads. is not overly accessi-
Bile,
Twas waiting for stage in one of the
hack settlements in one NJ The NOM.
tain counties Of Arkansas one day last
summer, when one OF the old settlers Of
the community addressed me:
II see in a Leetle Rock paper thuther
day." he said. that there's bin some
di'mands found over in Africy.n
"Tb.re,s nothing now in thatp no.
nl;ed "Rut tho Seld has baer hroad.
ened in snecnlot;or at least nrti, tho
axc,tomert h.s orow, +ro,rordous,v y
"woll 7 don,, Iesr MONO y Tho old fel.
,ow remarLed IT ,in,t eoin,SI onlv
had an idec tibet It might he nil n hoax
like a di,mand find wa oncet he'd was n
hoax
"Did YOU think there were diamonds
in this mart NJ The mountainsp T in.
auired.
"rbink, We lnowed n for awhile
but after scientific TELLER come here
and after a dooel of some size we learned
difrunt."
Tho old man c,,mhed ~ n. tim ~ n
barrel in the one store of tbe town in
which the conversation was takinr
place and as he mentioned the duel
half a dozen Of the lounpers who were
more interested in me than they
were in the old man s talk, craned their
necks and almost in q chorus exclaimed:
"Tell erbout tibet dooel"
Then one of them said: eyer allus
talkin' about 1t, but 1t Amt often We say
much more'n It Jest happened"
The old man appeared to be tlattered
He looked at me with the mir Of one who
had MI undisputed position in the com-
munity and was proud Of 1t. took up
the cause of the native mountaineer
bows who were louneino about the
place.
go ahead with the story" 7 said
"We'll have a drop from the proprietor
to wet your whistle properly and then
we'll listen"
II never talk about tibet fooel" the
old man said. "These Young tcllers hev
all heered their daddies tall, about If
ANYHOW"
There WINS n ,oro s,,apc. n n.
meantime the lanlf slln.sbod hoc1.
woodsman who was runninr tho stora
Ind brought ont hottie - white liouor
better known as moonsbinc whisky
with n r,,stv lin am, o,,t ofrh,o,, a,a,,,,
one tool, n 1r;nl nno h.ors ,,,,al, toi,.
NJ had wb;sLv sofia ovor In nc i, ,a,oa
cities Int one never lnows vbot l;on;d
fro and h,i,rs+ono ana MI H. h. la1
n swallow If the whisky that il a. ha
had ar 4he baclswood,s st;lls ~ +ha
d;stricts - tb;s oonn+r,,
Reven,,e officials bave c,eored ont n,o,,n
I'm Illicit dist;llorv Int tbev sx;st oron
now In soma rorts -, tho sa,,th l.,
thriving wav
mrben +h,nrs loo1.o, ,;,.o 1,a.,.
anyways the old man romor,,oJ 40 l.,
smackcd his line and
nossed tba c,,n 70 tha nov+ ava f u1,,'a.
was in tbe ,4o,s reclon and tho fa,s
II us as was here didn,t Lnov ,n,,oh
,bout the country Our folks had coma
10 the unlauds after tbo sinl,ina ~ tha
land over NJ Now Modr;1 On ,ooua Lo
lore and here thew stucl, iust osI hor
,tuck seence tbet fine rbere ,ros no
1oosnaners md No roilroods onot m
,while there WINS steomboo+ and
bet's the only wnv wa oyer oot m,,oh
word from tho o,ts;1o wo,l nhn
oeorsol hove yvos tbo 1;ral;os+ fo,,an,
n tbe settlement md onct n veoronoot
hem womb po IN Mo- O,leans and sall
ome If tbe hides tb.+ wa oo+ tonothon
yben be ,vos down thoro hi nat ;doaa
( thin,rs tbet WE didn,t know nothin,
bout One of tho hove would 10 ono
ime and one onotbor and oao1 49,
het thew went there yos . hir t;n,o
.round I,u tell Won onot ;oyt oftar
)llie pearsoll bed coma haol, fror, No
orleans he cot to tellin, about seoino
man who had maid n fortuna for y
birt stud. Tint was tbe fust fine
most Of Ms had ever hoard about
|i'monds. OF pearsoll described tbe !
hings keerfullv an told ms thet tbcv
vas found only in n few norts of the
world. When he he'd rot done there
wasn't a Teller in the crowd that wosn,t !
8 worked I'M as eff he'd beerd n obost |
torv Whilc Ollie peorsoll WINS stoua- J.
ng at one side kinder restin' after his
playin' the hero-another
+ our fellers, Bill Sims by name !
Tipped around to him and took him 1
0 one side. hecrd afterward thet he
ook leetle stone outen his rocket mn, V
sked Ollie eff it looked like enny of