Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-04-01
happen. SuSt report tn"m.


York if can.
"What'll you givc2"
"a hundred II week"
For how lungT"
It'll March"
"I'll 20 YOU"
They traded. The secretary paid
ono weeks wages on the snot and
promised a check every Moudnv rn.
three months. Hnggcrtv came barl,
with the water and found Wallace
radiant They went out that ui"ht
and tried their luck al Il farewell
throw in Brindlrv Ram : place. But
Brindlcy knew ne ,yns yoinp to omit
Deep Gulch in day or two, 80 they
lost.
One by one the houses some of
lumber. some of canvas. some of
both materials combined folded
their wings and Withdrew bodily.
Tho street became more and more
an empty hillside every day :,
looms. groceries gamblinr rooms
and dry goods omDorilms were Inad-
cd ON frcightrrS' WAGONS Foods
walls, roofs and windows and
hauled away from Deep Gulch.
Nothing was left but the bir dom.
BILE house that had been hotel and
gambling room and hardware store
all i'll one and the little pine print
ing office of all the BUILDINGS that
Deep Gulch had hoast"d six months
before. Yet TIL" Courier never con-
fesScd it. Reading the columns of
that Vcracl0uS sheet, one WAS a~-
founded at tn" buStllng, not to say
serthlng, condlTlOn of municipal af-
fairs.
| wish | had space to COPY the
items. There was Il quarrel in the
city council over opening new
street; letter from NoX Populi
conforming the Councilmrn for fa-
voritism in letting the contract for
the sewer; tn" arrival of Pipcr's
"CnClc Tom = Cabin company
with four mules and four MHrlisCS ;
half Il column of births and we'd
/
dlnES and another half of an acct
dent IN the Strawboard mlnc--an
industry which had no earthly eN-
istence.
Good story, that gun fight you
described, grinned Haggcrty, as he
ratified the untruthful types into his
stick.
Wallace thanked him.
Might report lawsuit. "
Good thing" exclaimed the cd
itor and wrote half Il column about
the crowds at the courtroom and the
cheers when the accused woman
was acquitted. Then he grew boast
full i'll the declaration that the Ma
sonic temple. 'now nearing compile
ton, laid over anything in jim
town or any other city of twice the
size i'll Idaho.
Big finds i'll the Rabbit mine, big.
ger still i'll the Empire. good reports
from the Snowbank diEgings, better
still from the Eclipse, these We're
Vagrant items scattered through the
pages.
Wallace made up and put the
forms on tho press. Haggerty roll.
cd for him. and they printed foun
copies two for tn" secretary of the
Empire Mining company in New
York, one for foreign advertiser
and one for the files.
That was the extent of the issue
and when they had "worlrd il off,
Haggcrty washed the type with
concentrated I've and threw il in
again.
There WAS no nostof(ico in Deen
Gulch. II had vanished with the
vanishing businass There was not
n single resident beside thcsc two
men and II half breed who SILENT in
the double house NEXT door and
hunted for q living. Every week
Wallace walked the ten miles &c
Jimtown. mailed the three comics Of
his paper, paving full rates to kcer
the secret. received his check at the
postoffice, cashcd it. bought supplies
for himself and Happerty and then
walked home again. He used to saw
grimlv il was an excellent time &c
gather items.
And every week the secretary O,
that Empire Mining companv omen.
ed the papers in his Office mt New
York, destroyed the wrappers anu