The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-13
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Talk about conventions was chair
mat OF q catflsTa9ns Convention once n
Aasxgsn. Tex. ans. ali BE Aazae.s 1 have
ever heard o. weren't 4 pzteE Alongside
those COW -p1HcAers. III Just tell you a
ittk4c yarn IL taaI connecsgon ard the les,
o. * -. It's a true zsrn
James Z IA wings. tie mining man,
proceessec Or tnfz introduction To tell the
following story OF THE doinzs os q noted
Texan osSperzao named Es1 Tnomy .on:
After the convention had al 5ourrsec the
cattier.en gay. q banquet II Austin. q.
~aicn 30 Or 80 people were present. Just
after tie wine Tad besr opened IN. .ae
glasses filiea and all were awaiting TN.
hfSt Toast. & desperate named Zen
thompson came into the hall He had a
sis-shooter IN each hand and had evident
" seen drinking. dc said rot word. bat
walked around the tables and brushed 20
TIE noor every glass o. wine re could see
Then he left the hail. Fer moment no.
oooy SAID anything. then q little fellow a.
an end table exclaimed Why. you EEL
i3Es are the biggest lot .. towards / ever
saw why didn't you shoot him'
ne only reply was: Shoot aim; why
man, that was Ben Thompson II any
body had moved for gun he'd have
cleaned out the han'
Well, saSd the first speaker, 1t vas
coSardly trick for him 10 come in here
where there are only few men III he
wanted TO snow or, why didn't he come
INTO the convention. where there were
40 or more
That was Just Ben Thompson's way
continued Mr. Rawlings. ''ife had every
one inundated so that whatever he did
went. Way. he killed seventeen Mexicans
IN ore day and was looking for the eigh-
-eenfa when night came on. Shoot? he
was the greatest man with gun that ever
you heard Of. He killed a man once with
ricochetted ball. How WAS that? Well
II WAS this way:
There Was Il man named Jack Harris
VINO ran variety show In Austin He was
bad one. too. Harris ard Thomson had
some trouble and we're ready 10 shoot each
other on sight Ben Thompson went into
Harris place. and the latter took a posi-
ton On stairway In the rear of the sa-
loon. He had his Winchester ready. and
when Thompson came IN range he was
going 10 let her go. But Thompson saw a
reflection Of his arm in q mirror and shot
so as to hit the hard wall at a slant II
was regular billiard shot. and the bull
let carromed onto Harris. laying him out
Yes. indeed.
I've seen that man stop the issue of the
Austin daily paper Did IL twice The
first time he went In and smashed the
forms all TO pieces and the second time
he pied the type shot the editor in the
shoulder. and dared any man In the shop
to go to work. Was he ever tried? Oh,
yes. but they always let him GO They
were afraid OF him. OF course his de-
Tense In the Harris scrape was that he
shot in seif-defeDse. But he got il finally.
and that. too. in the very place where he
killed Harris
lie was elected marshal Of Austin. and
,x3.s ana. afs<
called King Fisher, TO hunt tough
character. These two went to Harris old
variety theater. They were treated to the
best TN the place. and were invited to seats
on the stage. They went up and took
chairs. the observed of all observers But
hardly had they been seated when there
was rattle OF shots. Ben Thompson had
forty-two bullets In his BODY and King
Fisher had seventeen. They were literal
~ riddled The men who shot them were
never known. They had been stationed
In the flies of the thsater, ard in the con-
fusion escaped unnoticed Everybody
seemed glad when Ben Thompson was out
OF the way"
A. ". KnowIton. secretary of the Blew
EFT Gold Mining Company has returned
from Blewett. In Kittitas county where
his eompany's twenty stamp mill Is MAX
ing run Of 725 tons OF ore from the
Culver group. One party of ieasers IL
mining an eighteen-inch ore chute and
another further down the mountain Ia
tunnelIng on the ledge and mining chute
OF good milling ore about eighteen inches
wide An extension OF this tunnel to a
length OF 1000 feet would give a depth OF
i.n0 feet on the ledge.
or the other mines. the Tiptop recently
milled ten tons in an arrastre and before
the cleanup was finished had taken out
$500 In bullion. There are several tons
remaining to be milled John Baumeister
has started a tunnel on ledge south OF
the Lucky Queen. which has walls Of
porphyry and serpentine. with good show
ings Of ore.
Renewed attention is being turned 10
placer mining, Mt which the most extern
siyo work Is being done by Bloom Bros,
Snyder IL Mason on a stretch Of high
and low bars extending up both sides OF