Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-02

ly down the well-knOWn path to the
quartermaster's depot, tumult of
suspicion and conjecture whirling in
his brain. AS he walked he recalled
the many hints and stories that had
come to his ears of Burleigh's ante
cedents elsewhere and his associa-
tons here. With all his reputation
for enterprise and wealth. there were
shady" tales of gambling transac-
tions and sailed mines and watered
stocks that attached perhaps more
directly to the men with whom he
foregathered than to him. "a man
is known by the company he keeps"
said Folsom, and Burleigh's cronies,
City, had been almost exclusively
among the "sharps," gamblers and
their kindred, the projectors and pros
pectors ever preying on the unwary
on the outer wave of progress. With
in the past six months he had seen
much of him, for Burleigh was full of
business enterprises, had investments
everywhere, was lavish in invitation
and suggestion, was profuse in offers
of aid of any kind if aid were want
ed. He had gone so far as to say that
he knew from experience how with his
wealth tied up in real estate and
mines man often found himself in
need of few thousand in spot cash,
and as Folsom was buying and build
ing, if at any time he found himself
little short and needed ten or TWEEN
ty thousand, say, why, Burleigh's
bank account was at his service, etc.
1t all sounded large and liberal, and
Folsom, whose lot for years had been
cast with somewhat threadbare ar
ray of people, content with little,
lmpecunious but honest, wondered
what manner of martial man this
was. Burleigh did not loudly boast
OF his wealth and influence, but inn
pressed in some ponderous way his
hearers with sense of both. Yet,
ever since that run to Warriors Gap.
q change had come over Burleigh. He
talked more of mines and money and
showed less, and now, only yesterday,
when the old mans heart had mel
lowed to him because he had first held
him wholly to blame for Deans ar
rest and later found him pleading for
the young fellows release, a strange
thing had happened Burleigh con
fided to him that he had a simply fab
ulous opportunity chance to buy
out a mine that experts secretly told
him was what years later he would
have called a bonanza" but that in
the late sixties was locally known
as Shanghai Twenty-Five thou
sand dollars would do the trick, but
his money was tied up. Would Fol-
som go in with him, put up twelve
thousand five hundred, and Burleigh
would do the rest? Folsom had been
bitten by two mines that yielded only
rattlesnakes, and he couldn't be
lured. Then. said Burleigh, wouldn't
Folsom go on his note, so that he
could borrow at the bank? Folsom
seldom went on anybody's note 1t
was as bad as mining. He begged off,
and left Burleigh disappointed, but
not disconnected. 81 can raise it
without trouble" said he, "but it may
take forty-eight hours to get the
cash here, and l thought you would
be glad to be let in on the ground
floor"
Give been let in to too many
floors, major" said he. you'll have
to excuse me- And so Burleigh.
with his Louisiana captain, had driven
Off to the fort, where Newhall asked
for Griggs and was importunate, nor
did Griggs' whisky. freely rendered to
all Corners of the commissioned class,
tend to assuage his desire. Back had
they gone to town, and then came the
cataclysm of noon.
In broad daylight, at his official
desk, in the presence and hearing of
officers, civilians and enlisted men, as
the soldier lawyers would have it,
staff official of high rank had been
cowhided by cavalry subaltern, and
that subaltern, of all others, the only
brother of Folsom's fair guest, Jessie
Dean-the boy who had saved the
lives of Folsom's son and his sons i'm
periled household, and had thereby en-
deared himself to him as had no other
young soldier in the service. And now,
what fate was staring him in the
face? Released from arrest but day
or so before upon appeal of the Off
Ger whom he had so soon thereafter
violently assaulted, Marshall Dean
had committed one of the grayest
crimes against the provisions of the
mutiny act. Without warrant or ex-
cuse he, had struck, threatened, as
saulted, etc, a superior officer, who
was in the discharge of his duty at
the time. NO matter what the prov
ocation-and in this case it would be
held grossly inadequate-there could
be only one sentence--summary dis
nissal from the army. Just as sure
as shooting. if Burleigh preferred
charges that boy was ruined.
And four mortal hours thatafternoon
it looked as though nothing could hold