Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-17
AN UKRAINE MAN

various rumOrs as to Hicks former avocation before he reached Sandy Cove and opened drugstore. It was said that be had been a blacksmith at Turkey Bend, a stage driver on the Pine Hill route and a shyster lawyer over at Lame Mans Valley, but it was against custom to question a man per sonally.
 It was with our best wishes that MT Hicks bought out the two drugstores and made consolidation and opened business. For a few days the three after discovering that he knew DO more about drugs than they did about medi- cine they naturally "cottoned" up and made strong quartet Luck must have been with these doctors for the preceding six months, as no patients had died on their hands, but things were different soon after MT. Hicks opened up. A miner named John Shine wanted some quiniDe, and three hours after taking a dose he was dead. Thr news was borne to the druggist, and there was a cloud of sorrow on his brow and a lump of patbOs in his throat as he said:
 Really, gentlemen, but l am grtevel to hear it, much grieVed. It may be possible that i gave him arsenic or strychnine, as l was busy at the time To If so l hope the public will excuse me. Poor man! I hope he did not go out of the world blaming me"
 A few days later one of the doctors sent in q prescription for fever which nearly killed the patient, and some of the sick mans friends were pigbeade'l enough to want to raise row about if. The doctor laid it on the druggist, and the druggist met the kickers with:
 Really, now, but Pm sorry such q thing should have occurred, very sorry. The prescription called for only two ingredients, but as the patient has been my friend l threw in two or three more to prove my appreciation. Con vey to him my sincere regards and as sure him that my object was in evcry sense a worthy one"
 IL was an open question with the pub lie at Rocky Bend as to whether tbc doctors or the druggist knew mos; about drugs, but it was not an opet: question with MT. Hicks. He knew that he could give the three pointers all day long and far into the night, and hC soon displayed his willingness to do it. A Chinaman was taken ill, and o8e of the doctors prescribed calOmel Death followed the dose in fu~ hours, and certain people who were down on the doctor began to talk. H. cleared his skirts, and when they camC to Mir. Hicks that urbaDe and sympa- thetic druggist rubbed his right hand over his left and mownfully exclaimed
 "Ah, another soul has ascended tc heaven from Rocky Bend. Gentlemen grieve. Yes, ] really grieve. No it is not Dr. Whites fault His prescrip- ton called for calOmel; but knowing that his practice among the heatbcD had been very limited, l took the libeT- ty of changing it to morphine. MOr.
  any sort of sickness. and how this fel, low came to die is a puzzle. Gentle, men, please bear my coDdolence to his friends and assure them that l felt was acting for the best"
 We didn't exactly know what to dc with Mir Hicks. In three months he made about twenty bluDders, half Of them fatal, and the only offset was that he neither lied nor sought to eX. cuse himself. He finally got morphine and quinine mixed up again and caused the death of Sam Barlow, and the mayor of the camp felt It his duty tC go over to the store and say:
 Look here, Hicks! You've killed an. other man"
 But with the best of intentions. as sure you" replied the urbane Hicks.
 "Darn your intentions! Didn't San Barlow send for quinineF'
 He surely did.'
 And you must have sent hin nor phine in place of it."
 "Very likely, as the two bottles stand side by side and are not labeled. Yes : l must have sent him morphine, and, af he was a good customer, I gave dowI weight. Please bear to his surviving friends my assurance that
 But this has got to stopr' yelled the mayor.
 "Yes; it ought to stop"
 You evidently know nothing about drugs"
 Next to nothing, but in case of any death through my ignorance I shall al - ways stand ready to tender my heart I felt sympathies."
 , We gave him one more chance. Foi ! three or four weeks all went well. Ther 3 he mixed things on the boss again, anC he was taken out and suspended to 6 g limb and his estate parceled out for tn, :, benefit of the ailinS community. T "Gentlemen," he said as he stood with the moose around his neck, '': thank you for having selected such 2 | beautiful day. In some way CT other l have cauSed the death of ahnrlt a dozpr