The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-28

not be beneficial to the hard-drinkn
 l symptoms of the patient
 5 We hopes for the best" says Wil , liam Fanshaw, better known as Ol
 Three X, on account of the brand c
 the flour sack he used when patcllin his trousers. But we cannot allow tn liberty of commoonity of free-bor
 gents to be sacrificed to the benefit o
 the individidooal. Therefore" say
 Old Three X, I move you, fellermen O Hermosa, than if this Detroit spor
 calls for drink and has the necessar,
 legal-tender, he gifts it as precedent
 doc or no doc, until relieved by death.
 Meanwhile, in the midst of our re
 neWed spirits, this eastern gent is a lit
 tie dazed, and even refuses to accep
 the popularity and liquor which is hi
 due. He chooses rather to c1lm witt
 the doctor and with the doctor
 charge, who, as is known, refuses
 drink Now, these are the event
 rightly set forth that have won for th
 eastern gent the admiration of thu
 large-hearted citizens of Hermosa:
 Three weeks ago the eastern gen
 rode into camp all alone in Manue
 Torres ore wagon, on it's return trl
 from the 'smelter at Silver City. Her | mosa has stage of which it boasts l and which runs to the railroad nearly | every week, and the eastern gent would | have made winning play to have | waited for it, an ore wagon being nc | landau, and the eastern gent not hold | ing high when it came to a showdown
 on physique. Denver James, the stage
 driver, was terribly galled with Manu- | el, because the stage had lost the only
 chance of six month to bring stran-
 ger into camp in style, Denver was in
 favor of making the stranger back-trail
 and be brought into camp properly
 staged, but the little tenderfoot was | plenty impatient when Denver men | tioned it to him.
 T suppose because I am little and from the east and wear glasses and store clothes you think I'm d-d fool, but I aint," said he. Why don't you run your broncho express on schedule time if you want passenger business. I'm out here for fun and If my fun demands ore wagons, it gets ore wagons and don't you forget it." wall, pardner, if you puts it that way. I'll cave" said Denver, aston
 ished at his pertness. But to get real action on, you ought to ride sure enough bronch."
 q want to buy pony" admitted the eastern gent. But I don't want pitching broncho. I want a good, gen. tie horse, and I don't care if I pay ten dollars for a good one" With that he went away to pick him out a house, and sort of riled the boys farther by select ing French Johnny's old house way up on Bullion Peak above the town.
 "There are three hundred empty cabins right in the heart of our city" said Red O'Connor, discussing things that night at the Six Shooter. Ever since the bottom dropped out of silver there's been plenty room for gent to be sociable and residential right here in our midst without this new sharp with drawing himself half way up to Bull lion. He's either scart of too plentiful exclusive to be popular among white men. My opinion is he's a chicken hearted tenderfoot, what needs to be shook up a heap"
 "Wel, he'll be shook up all right" ob- served Denver. T lows to sell him a broncho some time tomorrow"
 Texas Dan rode into. town the next morning just after the eastern gent had been trying to ride the bald-faced pinto Denver had sold him. Texas Dan was only big boy, anyway, eigh- | teen years old but the best roper and | rider on the range and almost as quick | on a gun play as Stampede Maxwell | himself. The eastern gent was lying in a heap where the broncho had pitched | him. looking little and white and too dizzy to get angry at the roars of | laughter the boys were tearing out of themselves.
 This is a pleasant, innocent amuse- ment, like h-,' said Dan, good and hearty. This fooling a tenderfoot, that's little, into riding broncho what's a man-killer from way back. You boys make me plumb peevish."
 He swung off his pony and brought the eastern gent around after awhile. q hereby give notice," said Dan, posi- lively that I does the hoss-trading for this eastern gent, he being adopted right and proper. So if you has any more gentle bronchos you want to sell him, I rides them first and expresses my opinion emphatic
 It did not take those two half day to get thicker than theives, they natu- rally talking to ecch other. Texas Dan was broke" having been given his time by the Circle Bar outfit on &C., count of a quarrel with the roundup cook. The foreman hated to let Dan go, but he was reasonably sure that Dan would get the cook in the gum play that was brewing, and there was not another man in the outfit who 1new enough about cooking to boil wa .er without burning it. He gave Dan lis time, and Dams check evaporated in wo glorious days at Fairview. So Dan had drifted to Hermosa, "stone )roke," but the eastern gent had plenty If money and they settled down in French Johnny's old place on the side If Bullion, well pleased with each oth- er. Dan was big and loud and consid- ,rable young in his talk at the Six Shooter, and the eastern gent was snap-' )y and curt, so Hermosa did not like hem very well. But when the small 1oX broke out among the greasers in he lower gulch stampeding the camp IS smallpox alone could do, they ap- ,ealed to the eastern gent to stake a |