The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-01-25

longin' to Joe Doyle and ride gayly
away. On that boss vas JOe's rifle and
camp outfit.
HE diskivers his loss in about half
an hour, but does he whoop and yell
and start OH in pursuit? He don't.
When three or four bosses and guns
are offered him and when this yere
court herself advises him to foller on
and plug six kinds of Sundays into Bill
Hogan's carcass, does he foller? He
don't. He jest turns about and de-
mands jestice-demands that l issue II
warrant and send a constable to serve
It.
ITS no use tryin' to describe our
feelin's, fur it can't be done. l ap-
pealed to Joe with tears in my eyes
not to bring disgrace upon the fair
name Of our commonwealth, but he
continued to screech fur ~jestice till l
issued the warrant.
bill Hogan was brung into court,
and Joe Doyle was thar to look him in
the face. This court didn't 20 ac-
cordin' to law and evidence, but ac-
cordin' to ~jestice. 1t turned Bill Ho-
gun loose with a warnin' to behave
his future conduct, and it sent Joe
Doyle to Jail fur three months fur be-
In u squaw man without any sand.
Joe would have took them three
months md said nuthin', but along
IN a shyster lawyer and appeals
the case, and Il higher court reverses
1t on me and orders Il new trial.
Thar won't be any. Bill is in
states prison in Utah. and Joe Is in
Jail in Iowa, but ar thar Il man In this
courtroom who don't feel degraded and
disgraced by this reversal? We might
as we'll put OF coats and p%etticonts
and throw Il guns away. 1t degrades
the American eagle into Il buzzard,
and 1t makes the sacred name Of Bun
ker Hill a byword.
"And thar's u second case" resumed
his honor as he got the better Of his
emotions. 1.-TWO months ago Tom Da-
Wis come down from the hills. He'd
bin havin' bad luck fur several weeks
that is, every time he held threes
some Of the other boys would hold
straights or dushes.
when he reached this enterprisin'
town Of Sandy Bend he had Jest 10
cents In his clothes, and he paid 1t to
me over the bar Of the Red Dog. Next
day it struck him that he'd better get
his shirt washed after three months
Of hard usage. He bOrrows un old
shirt Of somebody and takes his own
up to Sing Lees w%ashhouse and hands
1t In. There vas nutllin' In his ap-
pearance to lead n to doubt hio
financial ability. but that squirt eyed
heather looked from him to the shirt
and says cash In advance.
This court Amt sayin' that Tom
Davis has got the fine feelin's of II
Wldder woman. but it do contend that
he's got feelin's enough to know when
q blow Is struck through him ut the
bulwarks of American liberty. When
told that he must pay in advance to
get 4 shirt washed all the sentiment
n manhood in his soul riz up, and
he took the heather 10y the neck.
"Ihat was rs it should &c and as this
court would have advised. but. alas,
what spectacle presented itself to the
eyes of us patriots five minutes later.
Sing Lee not only refused to be choked,
but he insisted on doing IL little of the
cAokin himself. In other words, he
was too much fur Tom and within five
minutes was runnIn' him right through
the town and into the bushes.
THAT was the day of degradashun
for Sandy Bend. \. cry of indignashun
went up at sight of Il heather chasin'
q white man, and this yerc court was
II OF h first to offer Tom Davis q
gun to retrieve his reputation. 1t amt
In he statoots Of Wyoming that he
should haze taken Il gun and walked
back to that w%aShhousc aud made that
heather lick his boots and beg !, thou
sand pardonS. but we've got TO let law
slide now and then and go by custom.
Tom didn'ta accept Of Il gun. He didn't
60 back to the washhouse, even to
claim the shirt still lynn ut the door.
He comes skulkin' around to me, and
In q voice that was plaintive he yells
out fur ~jestice.
"Great snakes. but think Of it: Run
out Of town by a heather and then