Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-20

----~-OeA VI 3 u.s. especially upon
the iron plates where the tracks, upon
which the trol1eys had run, made their
turnings. Sailor told the men that if
they saw him tall, they were to leave
it is hardly credible that he imagined
they could be so cowardly.
Instead of Sailor succumbing, it was
one of the men four yards behind, who
grew dizzy, stumbled, and fell. With
out stopping, the other three miners
turned and ran, panic stricken, with
out offering the least assistance. Sal
tor went back, and half carrying, half
dragging the disabled man, started on
a painful and dangerous journey back
to the mouth of the mine. The three
miners made their way out, painting,
wild with fear, and told their story
that Sailor and miner were left in
the gas.
It was at this instant that Jack
Morrow rode up. He had never been
in the Silver Thread in his life, and
the puzzle of its miles of intricate
workings was wholly unknown to him
Is there no man here, he cried, who
knows this mine, and who knows Sal
tor, who will go in and bring him out?
There were some mutterings, but
not man responded. They would
face anything but that terrible death
by suffocation.
They're dead by this, one man said.
Morrow leaped from his horse into
the sullen group of a hundred and
fifty men.
Who knows this mine best?
Harris. Harris Lord Harris =
Lord, came the answers. Harris and
Lord were the timber boss and the
shift boss, men Morrow knew by
sight. They were standing together
almost at the mouth of the mine.
Quick as a flash Jack took his two
pistols from his belt, and put one at
the head of each.
Lead me to the spot Sailor was left,
or have your cowardly brains blown
out here. Go nowl
And they went.
That had been three years before,
and had kept mp in a general way
with all of Jacks Western affairs ever
since, although had long been out of
any active interest in mining. But it
is a fever that once in a mans moral
fiber stays there, and 1 was always in
terested in mining news, always look.
ing out for a venture. l had heard
was like to be trouble in the Monarch,
Jacks best mine. Another vein was
coming straight into his, and there
was going to be battle, either bloody
or legal, maybe both, to decide the
possession, but 1 did not know it was
so near.
Jack came in this morning to tell
me that his superintendent, the very
Saltar whom he had saved so dramati-
cal1y, had te1egraphed him to come at
once. He had been up town to say
good-by to his sweetheart, and, ours
ing at the necessity for the journey,
was off.
The papers were full of what follow
ed. Jack went out, and under the di-
rection of himself and Sailor, a barri-
cade was made against the miners
who would break through from the
other side. The men were armed on
both sides, and in the melee Jack shot
and killed Scott, the superintendent
Of the encroach1ng mine. 1t sent
thrill of horror through society. Out
in the West they thought little of it.
1t was one of the incidents of the life.
Jack was arrested and went through
the form of a trial, and was, of course,
acquitted; but expert mining authori-
ties proved that the proper lead came
from the other mine, and Jack found
that he had to repay all the money he
had taken from the Monerch, and was
a poor man.
1t took months, almost a year, for it
to happen. heard incidentally that
Mary Amory had gone to Europe, and
l hoped it was all off between her and
Jack.
fTo Be Continued