Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-11

again. The docs a long time coming. I
guess he won't last. He was hit in the
stomach. Say. l wonder if he's got any
tobac. Tvs asked everybody else near,
but it seems rough to bother him."
wait" said the man with the broken
arm, grooming. 'Talking's better thar
lying still. What became, Of Sulky
SAM"
"We-ell, he was sulkier and s~neeringer
thar ever when he joined the troop, and
there's no discipline for the likes of him.
They takes their punishment, and they're
sulkier and sneeringFr and measlier than
ever. San wasn't three months in bar
racks before every man in the garrison
vOide him. and what's more, was afraid
of him just like them rockies. Sam never
got drunk. didn't chew, didn't gamble.
The only thing that was human about
him was he was lazy, which was 1 bless
irg for us, for he shirka1 himself into
trouble at last. The aVil-eye business
worked as successful in garrison as on the
march. !.
'"Tfere is a man in the Book what had
his hand against every one an every
ones hand against him. he was own
brother to Sam. But Tn durn6d IL We
weren't sort O. scared to be rude to him,
| either. Something would happen to US
it always did, though OF course
ALL THAT TALK OF EVTL-EYE
you hear is tommyrot. Well, anyhow,
Sul!zy Sam cast a gloon on the garrison,
he did, and the offsirsj felt it, and they
wanted him out of it just as much as we
did. When offsirs want a thing very
bad, all together pulling for it at once,
thew generally gets there. There was
nothing real bad against sam, no insub-
ordination, no upheaving DRINKS, 10
theft. no knocking off a corporals head,
nothing but them blessed lazy fits of his,
which had landed him in petty rouhlo a
score Of times. 50 the offsirs was thei1
heads about q general court martha
table and says them lazy fits is chronic
and Sam was bobtailed for incorrisiblt
w0rthlessncss. Everybody smiled hap
PLY and wished sam the best luck IL
Korea or wherever he might choose t.
locate far away from US. what dEt
Think I guess that teller had reall,
been happy in the army, for he LOOKED
sourer than ever. | amt lying. Ever,
one Of that general cOurt-martial ha'
something happen to him in a week. On
lost his best horse, one got knitted ar
resting a party Of Indian cattle raiders
ore died of pneumonia, and so on. TIE
YOU, we fellers tumbled over each othe
to tell Sulky Sam how sorry we was 10
but the devil didn't go far. He
saved money, and he got more troI
somewhere. He moved into the littl
cowboy town three miles off and set up
4 SdiOJI. WIEN, lCliSiS "ie ieSoA '"N'~
times. First one and then another felle
on leave. after a drink or two, though
he'd see what sort Of a place Sam wa
running. He'd good measure Of bee
and cheap rotgut, n pretty often thel
came to be some of the boys roun
Sans saloon. At first it was all RICH
The beast couldn't be anything bl
sulky, and he seemed trying to be civil
Is there no sign of an ambulance or
doc? That feller's screaming again.
'Fust trouble was when a man poke
Sam in his saloon about his bobtail di:
charge. Man was shot by a cowboy san
night in another part of the town. Sti
the fellers went, 'caus the evil eyes non
sense anyhow, and Sam gave credit Il
pay days. Then he seemed to feel secur
as it might be, and began to be mea
again in earnest, though there never WI
a row in his saloon so far as he was col
cerned. One bitter cold night, howeve
a boy kicked against his liquor bill, ar
he was drunk enough, sure, to be mast
Somehow he was left alone in Sans s,
loon. He said afterward that Sam CT
down the bill, grinned, and offered to 81
him to his hotel. sam says the soidl
left by himself. Anyhow, the man WI
found early in the morning frozen ne;
to death on the road to the post, ar
lost the use of his feet. Another tin
some fellers was in his place and Sa
showed them an he'd g
fixed behind the bar-gunbarrel arrang
ment, with trigger behind attached /
springs, so that four barrels would go c
at once through holes in the woodwor
and clean out the saloon. He said it w
because some tough cowboys had be,
speaking ugly to him. Sam went out
the saloon, and the thing went off al
filled two soldiers with buckshot. I
was out Of the room, and it may ha'
been an accident, but such things ma
us ones who We're ordinarily prudent al
not superstitious keep away from San
saloon. Soon the place got almost d
serted, but little things kept happenin