The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30


$500, and Lop Ear is no man to stand
by and see a heathen accumulate Ac-
cordin' to his ideas and aceordin' to
the ideas OF heaps of others, it's con-
trary to the constitushun of the Unit
ed States and ag'in good manners
The wall eyed heather with the $500
was gittin' ready to return to Chiny
with his cash, and Lep Ear felt a pa
triotie desire that the plunks should
remain to build up home institutions
He was likely to hss an old shotgun
to defend hisself and to object to be-
in robbed. but them TRIES didn't
count
''Sich was the dramatic situation of
things when Lop Eared Pete started
out to do a cash down bfzness. When
be gifts within mile of that heathen's
shanty. he begins to chank his teeth
and glare. When it's half a mile. he
begins to whoop and yell. When he's
only twenty rods of, he's q terrible
object to gaze upon, but then a sud
den change takes place. That there
Chinyman, whose name IL Billy Lee,
is heeled with two guns and knows
with q roar and q yell to it, and he be-
gins to roar and shoot and YELL In
fifteen seconds he has Lop Ear won
derin' and guessin'; In thirty he has
him ratified and weak in the knees l
know it's a hard thing to swaller, but
the evidence is right yere in this
courts hands that then and thar the
bad man of these diggin's went right
down into his boots to stay fur the
rest Of his life. Billy Lee yelled SO
loud and shot so fast that Lop Ear
laid down and let his guns be taken
away. Thar was more to- foller. He
was stood up and -euffed- He was
headed fur Sandy Bend and kicked.
This yere court hisseK saw him as he
returned home. His head was down,
his shoulders bumped up, and thar
was tears in his eyes He was
busted man. s
sAnd now we come to suthin wuss,
suthin to make US pause and ask if the
manhood of this kentry is on the ooze
and will eventually be mingled with
the waters of Dog creek Lop Eared
Pete comes straight up to me as I
stands in the doorway OF my saloon
and calls out: s-
ledge, I'm a person as has been
wronged, and I'm appealin' to jestice 70
set me right
"swhat's wrongY says 1.
1--WE been done by a heathen.'
"'And what ar you askin' fur?
"sFur to hev him arrested and pun
ished aecordin' to law
"Feller citizens of Sandy Bend, ex-
cuse these feelin's,' said the judge as
he wiped q tear from his eye I'm
feeiin' like man who has been chased
three miles by q landslide. I'm won
derin' how it started and how it man
aged to git away 1t was seven minits
after Bill tackled me before could git
my breath. Bein' the representative or
the law and bein' appealed to as SIGH,
had to issue q warrant fur Billy Lee,
and thar the squint eyed heather sots
Over thar is Lop cared Pete, and the
case is properly before me- We wont
take nc recess to display our emotions.
but give expression to our feelin's as
we sot, and in doin' Of it nobody will
be fined fur contempt of court Lop
cared Pete, stand up. Am l krect in
believin' that you ak the law to step
in between you and ChinymanT
I'm askin' fur jestiee," replied Pete.
You hear. Teller citizens-you hear!'
groaned his honor ssThe man who has
run over town and swelied our grave
yard and held his own ag'in cyclones
| is akin, fur iestiee ag'in heather,
thought might live long nun to see .
| railroad in Sandy Bend, but l never
expected to see the day when white
man who had gone up the trail to re-
lieve . heather Of his $500 would come
hack with his knees a-shakin' to ask
fur jestiee. Jestieel Jestice ag'in .
Chinyman! Excuse my emotions some
more"
"But jestice shall be done" resumed
the court after painful pause. Thar
ar flies On lots Of things around we're.
but none on my jestice- Billy Lee, you
ar vigorously discharged from custo-
dy, and If you'n wait outside the door
fur about ten minfts IN pat you On the
| back and give you q free drink Lcp
Eared Pete, the verdict Of this yere
/ court is that yen be headed fur the
town Of Hambone, and that you be
kicked by Digger Indian to give you
noshun. and that Il you ever return
among rs the town il to riz up in ita
patriotic manhood and tow you up and
down Dog creek TN Hfe shall be no
nafe ana the blet on our eseuteheon i
wiped cut fsesver-"