The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-02-18

that talk OF the evil eye you hear Is
tommyrot Well, anyhow, Sulkg Sam
cast gloom on the garrison, he did.
and the ofisIrs felt it. aud they wanted
him out OF It just as much as we did.
When offisirs want a thing very bad. all
together pulling for 1t at once. they
gen'rallT gets there. There was nothing
real bad against Sam-no insubordina-
ton. no upheaving DRINKS, no theft. no
knocking off a corporal's head, nothing
but them blessed lazy fits of his, which
had landed him In petty trouble score
OF times. So the offsirs wags their
heads about n general court martial tn-
BILE and says them lazy fits Is chronic.
and Sam was bcbtailed for incorripible
worthlessness. Everybody smiled hap
PLY and wished Sam the best of luck. III
Co:ea or whatever he might choose to
LOCATE far away from us. What dye
think? | guess that feller had really
been happS In the army, for he looked
sourer than ever. l amt lying. Every
one OF that general court-martial had
something happen TO him In. week.
One lost his best horse. one got knitted
arresting a party OF Indian cattle raid
CTS, oiIe uleu ailu 81 va.
Tell you, VIC feiiers tumbted over each
other 10 tell Sulkr Sam how sorry Te
was for him. S
But the, devil didn't go far. He'd
saved money, and he got more from
somewhere. He moved into the little
cowboy town three miles off and set up
a saloon. We-ell, rellers are queer
sometimes. First one and then anothe"
Teller on leave. after drink. or two,
thought he'd see what sort Of Il place
Sam was running. He'd good measure
OF beer. and cheap rotgut, and pretty
often there came 10 be some Of the boys
round Sans saloon. At first it was all
right The beast couldn't be anything
but sulky. but he seemed trying TO be
civil. Is there no sign of an ambulance
or doc? That felie:'s screaming
again. -. Ds' '-I1attTs'r 'Fl#F
"Fust trouble was when man joked
Sam in his saloon about his bobtail dis
charge. Man was shot by 4 cowboy
same night In another part OF the town.
still the feiferS went, cause the evil
eyes nonsense anyhow, and Sam gave
credit till pay days. Then he seemed to
feel secure. as II might be. and began
to De mean again In earnest. though
there was never a row in his saloon so
far as he was concerned. One bitter cold
night. however, a boy kicked against
his liquor bill. and he.swas drunk
enough. cure. 10 be nasty. Somehow he
was left alone IN Sans saloon. He said
arterwaru Sam cut down the, bill, grin
ned AID offered to See hin,.io his hotel.
Sam says the soldier left by himself
Anyhow. the man was found early In
the morning frozen near to death on
the road 10 the post, and lost the use OF
his feet. Another time some fellers was
in his place aud Sam showed them an
arrangement he'd got fixed behind the
bar-guabarrel Arrangement. With trig-
ger behind attached by springs, so that
four barrels would go OFF AZ once
through holes in the woodwork and
clean out the saloon. He said It was
because some tough cowboys had been
speaking ugly about him. Sam went on,
of the saloon. and the thing went off
mud filed two soldiers with buckshot.
lse was out OF the room.and 1t may have
been an accident. but such things made
us ones who We're ordinarily prudent
and not superstitious keep away ..om
Sans. Soon the place got almost de-
serted, but little things kept happening.
Fellers were never hardly hurt in there:
1t was after they'd left 10 50 home that
horse fell or they got Into . row. but
SulkY Sans place got such name that
the oflisirs We're going 10 appeal to the
town 10 drive him out, when the thing
happened which ended Sam,
The First Sergeant of Troop Z had
son about twelve Years old that had
been brought up with the boys and was
looking forward 10 enlistirS IN the
band He was Il INST not vaf SnSct,.