The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-04-01
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Chicago Record; on TIE DAY before
my departure from Carson thought Il
would DO . graceful thing 70 ten Sam
Davia what an orderly and quiet sort
Of town Il was whNrein We had gath.
cred to witneis tie lighting. DAVIS
looked At me WIKI some dlSappolnt.
ment manifested IN mis- sunbutned
counteu8n1a, and said: :Do you reTnem-
Der that story Of Bruce W6iis?''
did, and. knew what he meant,
He had told mo the story himSalf,
ttt
''once.n he told me. u vas running
q paper Up IN Virginia, being q little
new to Nevada. There was o bad nlla
named Bruce Wells IA that country, q
man who WAS very Querulou8 and quar-
reIloEno, and q doadst0t WithaL He
had been IN q number OF shooting
sefapeS and resolved that / was going
10 BE- one editor who would not do any.
thing 70 annoy him. So, when there was
q little matinee at the Hot Temper -
lQo1lt E4tQgNly AlNsI my tlAsl Itlg " W 1874
two or three men wOra killed took
good care to see that Bruce WellR
name was not mentioned, The reporter
whom / had In my employ had written
q gorgeous story. II appeared that
WeilS killed two Of the men In cold
blood and then dared the people TO say
anything about It. The third man WA
Killed IN = kind Of promiscuouS and
general way, and nobody knew much
about bow he had come to get In the
way Of the bullet or who fired It. Hut
the association Of Wells name with the
slaughter o. the other two was direct,
/ trembled all the time read that
mans copy and. when l had concluded,
/ threw Il away and wrote three lines
% the eject that a few miscellaneous
men had been Killed at the Hot Tenn
per aud let It 80 at that
'The next morning about II o'clock
who should walk in but Bruce WeIls.
met him with q nervous smile, for did
NOT even care for him 20 call1nd give me
thanks t0F my thoughtful Efforts 70
shield hls, character. He was . little TOO
fatal.
Say he said, did you know there
was KILN last night? said did.
Did you know my name was mixed
IN in lt3'
'ssol In ms paper. 80, sir was
very careful
Careful? Do you mean to say Il was
not an accident that my name wasn't
printed this morning. Didn't your prsss
break down. Of something. Didn't your
printers strike, maxim II impossible for
you to print the story OF the eyent?'
No. air, said, glad 70 assure MIN
tina. had been very yigilant IN his be-
hAlG ! kept that out myHelL tho9ght
you wOUldn't ike 10 have anything
written about you.
he looked at ms in Q kind Of raging
scoFn and wonder.
q Not IKE to have anything in the
paper about q klllnp2 he reared. Why,
man, 90 you realize there was three
men killed an that all authorities unite
~ 6aYln' killed at least two and EleO-
dc ali OF 'em? What do you mean by
gt1ch a thing Is that? Amt t1R9 en-
titled to no credit for particular skill
an execution? Why, for two pins
II knew exactly what he would do for
two pins, however, and begged him 10
calm down, while ] explained that oe-
ing q stranger, didn't know his de-
slres. and had been only intent on 40.
ing him q service, cheerGullY promised
the next time he killed man 70 give
him three columns.
THAT seemed to niosllfy him. Three
columns. huh q he repeated, reilectively.
In big type?'
Any size you want promised.
"'An' you'll call me a murder0us an
iood-thirsty wretch7'
eyes, II you deslre?'
ANA pirate an buccaneer an a
villain an Cut-throat, an call on the
people to gft out an hang NOR
"'Um.m-ye-e-es, II you are EuTe you
wouldn't be angry
amer Not me. You don't know me.
1 cau zee that. Why. II wasn't put UP
for lynchih about every 80 often BY the
papers I'd feel lonesome an solemn an
lake medicine, Call me all the long
names you can think Of. What's the use
Of klilin' and gettln' three lines an no
mention Of the name? Man might az
wen be q Chlnaman an wash shirts
/ knew then. when he spoke Of Bruce
Wells, that Davis felt 4 little piqued
because / had considered the state OF
Nevada quiet, tried to ease tha RhFo9t
down, and after awhile he said that II i
thought Nevada was such Il dull COM
mouwealth he would take me over to
the state house and show me some-
thing He did and the something was
hlStorV az tha state IN which the MUIR
ders we're scheduled like the bargain
lists Of q department store, occupying
three or four pages,
Caused Commsnt.
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