Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-26
cot HIS WIFE AND CASH
OLONEL MARTIN HALEY's STORY OF
DIAMOND WITH 4 FLAW.
stolen In kansas Cit.-s;ets II back In
Cherokee strip. aud n Fight
With It-What Haley Thinks
of Ills Experience.

of His Experience.
From the Chicago Int, Ocean.
I've been very much Interested in read
ing about them former alcoholic diScner-
ates in the Sunday Inter Ocean" remarked
Colonel Martin Haley. of the Cherokee
Strip. at present visiting in Chicago. Not
that I'm an alcoholic degenerate meself,'
he continued. for. in the first place. |
never drink more than | can carry. and in
the second ! can't reconcile meself to
allyn such a word as degenerate with
good whisky. But l once found meself in
much the same position as some of them
~feilers, barrin' the jag. only much worse
off than any of them. What would you
say 10 a man with - cents in his pocket.
a broken head. and 1900 miles away from
a soul that knew him? Well. that's the
way / was fixed. but | won out. and at the
Present time 1 have money in the bank.
l.JaN acres of decent land. and God knows
how many head of cattle. Let any of
them former disenerates beat that if they
can.
The way it happened was this. I run
away from Dublin when l was 4 lad of
y. for the reason that me father was l.
hard man. and the fist of him was no softer
than the rest OF his makeup. l got Il Job
as cabin boy on an Australian trader and
settled down near sydney. where ! stayed
for for ten T., Years RS ard ID. saved up $50, Not = bad
good one in them days. Then ! pulled up
stakes and started for the United States:
My Idea was 10 invest my small bit of
money. in Il ranch somewhere and become
a landed gentleman. l heard about Kan
Sas bein' d decent spot and came to Kan
sas City.
sashouse was blown up. That night it
was darker than blazes. and We can imas-
inc that none but an Irishman would start
stances. Before I'd gone far | could see
more light than Il million sashouses could
make in a month. and then | saw nothing
the head with a stocking filed with sand.
so they told me at the hospital a week la
ter, and all led left me was y cents and
netted him 5000 in bills and IA diamond
stud with a funny, little flaw in it. told
the police l would know that stone any
fellow that soaked me. by that clew. They
never found him nor the diamond neither,
and meanwhile 1 got fired from my hotel.
miles from any one ! knew and without a
cent to my name. Don't that beat your
retired digenerates in a canter?
Mcguire, the Irish Indian.
81 started out to hoof it through Kansas.
lookin' for any old kind Of a job. The
place was full of tramps-I was no better
than that. mind ye-and the devil of u
permanent situation could 1 find anywhere.
Farmers was drivin' the whole bunch Of
hoboes along with guns, me with the rest.
Finally l got down TO a place called Cof-
feyville, There wasn't any tramps there.
m 1o%n at l'kf HAT 01 ,ime. c It wSy Sueh 1e a kn bgm
is down by the Indian Territory line. I
got a job there in Z: livery stable ut 81 II
week and my grub. and the boss was a de-
cent man. He says TO me enc day, Mar
tin,' says he. I've got a good place for We,
IL yen take it. down in the territory.
,han bs sel! h sWsa q e dninss t, sax get on R ee1ss5
work for an %1njun?' I says. for l knew
that lone but a Cherokee tribeSman could
Uncle Sam bought it and opened it UP for
settlement. What of it" says the boss.
It's s5 a month and yer keep, and it's
steady. which Is more than Yer job is
says ]: Mcguire says he. Mother of
saSIein, !, re dskf; '' 'nsuI Enl! Of . t 4 beast o,a f Of :
name. He's not so red as we think says
the boss, Hes as Irish as yerself. only
he married a sguaw. and SO became a
Well. this Irish lnjun come to tow the
mex; day. OF course. he hired me. bein'
s ts h0w G from 'an pnbiin. vi" los. the H Hhms. h Har
wife, l says on our way down to the
ranch. She's dead. heaven rest her SOUL
says he; Heavens no place for a pagan
1'J - AA''' ~ a. SpNh
Catholic. meself. She was only Il half
breed says he. Her father was a Pole
from Poland an ard as good q Christian as
The Diamond Ring Turns Up.
at was 4 fine big. place he had. 800
acres. with a barb wire fence around 1t.
and as fine a house as ye'd want on 1t.
After I'd helped unhitch we went to the
house. There was a fine slip OF Il girl
standin' III the door. She had big black
eyes and hair to match. That's my daugh-
never think she was IN injun. barrin. the
stratghtness of her hair and her backbone.
for in the first place she was clean. and
in the second place she WAS pretty, but
that's not TO be wondered at. seem that
She was half colleen and only Il quarter
sruaw. Wanting to be pleasant. l gave her
a neat compliment. but she only turns up
her nose and begins talkin' to her papa.
shown me that she considered me nothin'
more than what ] really was-a hired man.
MY pride was hurt. but | went to work
and made up my mind that some day 1
would make the ariStocratic Cherokee lady
take on her hat to me. so 10 speak. Be,
ride anything that wore hair. as the sayin'
Is. and one day l noticed that while l
was havin' a beautiful with Il
povita was watchin' me with the kind of
a lsht in her eyes that bode ne no bad.
SO after that, when ! went to Dustin brOn-
cf!os. ! managed 10 do il not so far away
could see the operation without any assist
ance from !: spyGlass. There's nothin'
an freshman will fight SO hard for as some
thin he thinks he can't get. and / WAS
workin overtime for a decent word from
the lady who needn't have been so don,
proud over the maternal end of her he
Einninss. don't We see?
ell. IN TWO or three months. or, maybe.
1t was four. down comes :: fine iookin'
Teller with elegant ways. who has Il let
ter 10 Mcguire. He WAS thiEkin' of ranch
In II, he says. and wanted Il chance 10
learn the business. Would Masuire take
him on as a hand he says. just for eXper-
fence? OF course. Mcguire takes HIM on.
gives him the big. spare room. and doesn',
boss him around. like he does me. hut
leaves him to 10 as he blame pIeases.
This Teller. Johnson was his name. took
10 the cattle business right smart. for all
he was a tenderfnot and a poor rider.
But after awhile ] Noticed that he spent
considerable more time in the house with
Miss DoVita than out on the range with
the cattle. Things went on like this for a
few weeks. when one day | noticed on
Dovitas finger i diamond ring. One look
AT it showed me that II was my own jewel.
with the funny little flaw in il. that I'D
had taken from me that night in Kansas
City.
An Interviews With Johnson.
What's the matter. Marfin?' says she,
nave We seen q ghost Not unless dia-
monds have immortal souls l says. hut
l have seen that stone before With that
she biushed. for she wasn't so dark bu,
ina n>ssl Gnilf GInu- in har .Inal--