The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-07

IA man who will skeer a squaw into
fits is a coward and a buffer. Give her
yer hand to help her up
Pug wants to holler and bluff, but
ne sees that his man means biziness
and he helps the squaw to her feet.
% Now take off yer hat to her, says
Bill.
to a female.
Now beg her pardon
I'm tellin' you, feller-citizens, that
It was a mighty hard pill to swaller,
but it was either sWaller that or a bull
let, and Pug mumbled out that he
was sorry and hoped to be forgiven.
Cross Eyed Jane, who has lived in
these diggin's all her life and seen as
many tough things as a man, could
only stand and stare. 1t was the first
and only time she had ever been rec
ognized as a woman, and it will prob
ably be the last. When she finally
walks away, wOnderin if folks had
gone crazy, the tenderfoot puts his
boot agin Pug and heads him up the
street, and the crowd who was lookin'
on was so amazed that it almost for
got to cheer.
Tered? Did Pug Wilkins, on reachin'
a safe distance, pull them two guns
of his and work up a roar in his
throat and come gallopin' back for re-
venge? Not by a burned sight! He
kept right on gOin', and he hid in the
bresh for half a day. and when night
comes he sneaks down to the Red Dog
and says to me with tears in his eyes:
Judge HOke, I'm yere to ask for
Sestice.'
% What sort o. jestice?' says I.
'Jestice agin Bill Scott for pintin
q deadly weapon at me and kickin
me three times besides
7 called him a kyOte and jackra b.
bit and other mean names, and 1 adj
Vised him to skip out and stay out
but he hung on fur jestice and I had
TO GRO mt 70
for Bill Scott, and had to make a
court case, and the prisoner and his
accuser are before us. There are two
shyster lawyers in court for Pug, but
they might as we'll hev stayed away.
This is trial court and everybody is
entitled to a fair show, but there are
cases where the statOots calculate that
the court will work things out in his
own head and this is one of EN-.
bill Scott, stand up. I'm not goin'
to ask your age, nativity, nor if yer
father or mother died of consumption.
m not gOin' to ask why We left yer
happy home in the effete east to come
out we're and freeze yer ears and toes,
but I'm gOin' to say this: In defendin'
Cross-Eyed Jane we've showed yerself
to be a man. She's only an old
sQuaw. but she belongs to the female
sex. and that was what was in yer
mind when We butted in. The man
who won't stand UP fur womankind,
no matter what her age or how lonely
she is, is a cur at heart When this
yere court dislSivers that it's agin the
statoots of this or any other com
monwealth for man to stand up for
a woman, he'll be ready to resign his
office and take to shootin' gophers.
The prisoner is discharged cum grano
soils. which is Latin for sayin' that
his character has improved SO per
cent, and if he desires to open A
weekly or monthly account at the Red
Dog saloon I shall be glad to put down
his name
1.-THE prisoner or defendant bein' dis
charged, it only remains for me to give
the plaintiff a few words of advice. He's
rather had the bulge on this town for
the last two or three months. That
roarin' voice of his, aided by the sight
of his two guns and his red eyes, has
brought about a good deal of crawfish-
in That is at an end now, and natter
ally such of US as hev crawled back
wards are thirstin' to git even. I kir
hold myself and the crowd about Ii
minits, reckon, but arter that wont
be responsible If Pug wilkins has got
sense he'll sit a move on him and gil
out of our sight within the time pre-