The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-01
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Gene 70 the kionaire.
WASHINGTON, July 31.-"There was q young
doctor chop from our camp went up to the
Klondiko country a little over n year ago" said
| Sceley Quitman, n Creole mining man, to a
Rocky Mountain party Of other miners here the
other night, land although mono OF us has
heard anything from or Of him since he struck
st. Michael, 1 guess hos taking care OF himself
all right. That's what he did in Creole, any
how; and a young tenderfoot who could make
himself felt and respected in Creole. when
Creedo was bad for a fact. four days after he ar.
rived there, end not Only do that, but hold his
grip and mako about all tho money that was
made In his profession In the camp. Ia not liable
TO go very much up against It In the Klondike
country or anywhere else.
This young doctor man struck Creede from
ono OF the New Jersey towns-I think 1t was
Trenton-abou three months after the ind and
the rush, with hardly moro than $50 TO his
name, as he sftcrward told me. He had had a
single tackled to the front door Of q boarding
house in his Jersey town for q year or so, barely
scraping UP a living. and so he packed his duds
and started for Croede at a venture. He wasn't
more than 81 Mt the most, but no had one OF
those long.pointed boards and a quiet way Of
talking, and so seemed u good deal older. More
over. he was very nent and we'll dressed whom
he got In. which excited prejudice against him.
Tho first day he arrived he secured around and
got a room at Carney Medwin's boarding house,
and nobody knew but what he was o tin-horn or
n shortcard player until he tackled out his sign
on one OF the weather boards OF Cnrncy's shack.
He put In his first three days strolling
around with his hands In his pockets, wonder
ing, I suppose, how he was going to paw his
board when II fell due. On the night Of his
fourth day in camp-a Saturday night 1t was
he was standing at the entrance to Ned Roloff's
dance tent watching the girls do the fling for tho
end.of-ihc-weck spcnders. when he saw a big
man heavily armed, and with bully stuck ont
all over him, stride over TO one of the girls who
had been dancing and deliberately smash her in
the face with all his might, knocking her fiat to
the floor Of the tent. The other men there were
either too busy or loo drunk to notice this play;
but this young doctor man was neither busy nor
drunk. and he was as game as the devil in the
bargain. II he hadn't been game he would not.
an unarmcd man, have jumped with two bounds
at Pete Moxie, the woinan-hitter, and one OF the
worst men in the camp; and IL there had been
any yellow In him, he wouldn't have thrown his
l.ft arm around Moyie's bull neck. thrown
neck. grabbed one Of Moxie's big guns from his
belt with his right hand, and basted Moxic one
hard knock just uhove the ear with il TIA; laid
him fiat not three feet from the unconscious
womnn;, 0,,,. ..,.
the %nerNiest. and the most successful play ever
amazed, and then filed with admiration, every
young chap do was to bend over the woman and
o~rder-ordcr. mind you-Frdnk Dillingham;. the
water for the unconscious girl. Frank looked
at tho doctor man for a minute. Then he turned
WHO Is he = he inquired.
"A pill.Guy. new in the camp one Of them
.".Wcli. by God. whoever he u.s. soys Frank.
he's going to win here and he walked up to
the bar, got the water. and handed 1t to the
Dillingham; had done anything any man had
ordered him 10 10 since he was a hoy.
right tin in t a minnte. s %oS. she F cyan sh' &c, o'T Wb aToHer f alI
fear OF her life at MoXie's hands. JUST then
him with a scowi, and. seeing the Young doctor
man tcnting over the girl. he scrambled TO his
started TO unhitch his knife.
Yours. then. Pete said Dillingham's voice,
and Pete wheeled around To see himself doubly
covere' by AS unerr!nz a shot as ever maGo
trouble, or preserved pc, &c. MoXies hands went
up. for he was yellow all through at sight of the
But I'll have his damned life yet he
Not in this camp. you won't said Dilling-
ham: for you're going to take the night coach,
and I'm going 10 stay right along with you to
And Moxie did get out OF the camp that
n Eht; too: you can gamble, well, ,sirs, there
young doctor man from that time on. There
was only one other medical man in the camp
thenLthough slews OF them came along later
more OF the gin mills than he did OF his office,
and the young fellow got all the work. There
and later, when the camp became crowded.
CUTS and bullet wounds more than enough to
keep the tenderfoot doctor busy. He made
some corking big fees, too. and sent the most
OF 1t to some girl he knew back here in the
East to keep for him until the proper day ar
rived; When things began to slump a little in
Creede last y.ar. and the tip got to the camp
were doing there, the young physician "ecid.d
10 go to the new field To do a little prospecting,
instead OF man.patching, and Ill bet he comes
back with one Of tho heaviest sacks of the lot
in a year or So"