The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-05

was i1OtHlnS S6IlSdlIOAioA III IL
: makeup and he had no taste for frill
or feathers, save and except his com
piete alteration of his young and hand
some wife, to whom he had been re
S Gently married. He was very well t.
n DO financially, and she was INDUCED
S without stint or hindrance to her ever!
= wish so far as money could supply it.
He was fine specimen of manhood
and could easily have taken prOmi.
nent part in society, such as 1t was. as
: well as public events; but he had nc
desire to do so, and seldom appeared III
public. In other words, he 'SOrter run
: in crowd to himself studiously avoid
ed the sensational, and as for romance
OF that he had holy horror. Speak
ing from a strictly literary point OF
view, if a drove of several hundred
hoVellsts had CHANGED that way, with
guns, hunting for heroes to adorn their
tales, it is a 10 to l shot that not a
man of them would have snapped a
cap at Jerry.
was engaged in the publication of
the Washoe Times, which was the po-
hucal oracle of that portion of the
country, and located in the town of
Washoe. | had a partner, and for the
purposes of this story we will call him
Charley, whose uncle, Judge S, was
prosecuting attorney of that judicial
district, and both of us being quite
young, the old judge wrote our heavy
/ leaders. In those days no newspaper,
no matter how insignificant, would
venture to go to press without an edi-
torial full of historical lore, two or
three columns in length, and our young
and tender shoulders were too weak
to support the literary material neces-
sary to compose them.
some brunette and many years her hus-
bands junior With the finest home
in the town and ample means to enter
tain, she was the leader in society in
our own and the near towns of Vir-
ginfa City and Carson, the capital of
The state. Owing 10 her husbands dis
inclination to so with her, it frequently
became necessary for her to accept the
escort of other men, and it too fire.
Quently happened that this other man
was Charley. He was a dapper little
fellow, and in the ball room was the
envy of the men and the idol of the
ladies'
'Washoe was overshadowed by Vir-
ginia City, which was then in the ze-
NTH of its glory. OF al 1.-THE wide open
town its doors were the widest ajar
before or since, and the chroniclers who
G-N~N~SA liz llAOlIInlo III llldl pCltOO
found eager readers throughout the
Whole world. In killing it apparently
had exhausted the realm of tragedy;
the cold facts, of frequent occurrence,
put fiction to blush;and in nearly every
feature where eXtraYagant demeanor
could figure, it seemingly had exhaust
ed the ingenuity of man for the sensa-
tional
One fine summers day I was hastily
summoned home by Charley and found
him imprisoned in little cottage in
the rear of the printing office, with |
Jerry acting as sentinel Charley was
smooth shaver and dressed as if for a
ball.
"A hasty consultation disclosed the
fact that Mrs Jerry had that morning
told her husband (among other things, |
as the gossips shrewdly suspected) that |
she no longer loved him, and that her |
directions had been transferred to |
Charley. l tried to get Charley to flee
through the hack door and make his |
escape on horseback, and tried to get !
Jerry to consent to Charley's going
away for few months or altogether,
Or until the thing should blow over
but to no purpose; would not di-
Vulge his plans, and Charley was kept
N suspense as to whether it was to be
wedding or funeral
The two or three hours intervening
before o'clockoih the evening passed
slowly enough, with the whole town
lgog as to what was going to happen to
Charley.
Jerry has eaten nothing since the
Vening before and was not accus-
cmed to miss three meals at one in
ing, and something must be done very
quickly to relieve the strain
The judge of our judicial district
vas man who has since made his
anne famous as -one of the brightest
'rlters who ever accepted the position
I editor of leading western paper
nd whose strongest weakness is
nown to be his love for his fellowmen:
no has heart big enough for a do
en- men and whose honesty and in
egr1ty have never been impugned.
nat morning Jerry had laid his case
efore the judge and had told him he
ould stand guard over Charley until
divorce could be granted; and the
ldge had JUST granted it.
The same judge who had Just grant
d the divorce together with Judge S..
harley and myself, repaired to Jer-
IS residence, where we found his wife
ressed for the occasion. The decree
divorce was then read TO her and
he same judge who had granted it
lat day told her and Charley to stand
p, and performed the marriage cere-
ony over them. Jerry then laid aside
IS weapon, hastily packed a few
othes in a valise babe his mother-in-
w an aHectionate adieu; and after
lShlng the newly married couple 4
ng and prosperous life and presenting b
them the house and furniture. was s.
for a new Eldorado in something e
SIS than half an hour.
The news spread that something un- b
ual was happening, or had happened n
was about to happen. The seven D.
eat quartz mills, whose stamps never n
ased to pound and jar, except on the 81
'urth OF July, were closed down. The "a
looms OF the town were unable to hold ia
e crowds; bonfires were lighted in "a
mt of the court house; anvils were "a
bstituted for cannon. and belched 81
TN at intervals their cannonlike re- d
rts, amid great risk to the partici- y
hts, and the Fourth of July itself -
IS in danger of being made a back a.
mber
dr.. and Mrs. c. had retired in the q
ne room occupied the night before 81
Jerry and her. Judge S. had long 81
'med in Jerry's house, and had also 81
lred for the night. About 2 o'clock Il
m. the mob, using every device in
If power to make night hideous. 81
mt to Jerry's house, babe the newly "a
rried connie dreSe for y