The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-07-13
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Washington Star: I've just been
Ssn1lng q dispatch In The Star. with
- Trinidad. Colo. date line. ANNOUNCE
- SAAs Bob McNanus. the last sur
vevang member Of Black Jack Ketch-
~rb notorious band OF train roboers.
Snns tsrrorised Colorado and New Mex.
- ~ many years. had been captured
. sSss place" said caspar Marks. n
vdn-known travelling salesman for a
~ York diamond Arm. who often
49, washington. That obscure little
- Of news carried me hack fourteen
yuass 70 the summer I had the dis
onnetson--to put q In that light and
eyoeuy way--of being one OF biack
SAnf would never have told upon my
~ for years after IL happened. for
~ memory Of Il ranked with me. see
- that 81 involved lot OF fool vanity
on1 unnecessary gorrulousness on my
OwD pert. But I've reached the stage
~ where can Get m much fun out
- enc on myself IN upon some other
"A happened In the summer OF 81.
vnaa I was q good deal gayer and
DwU addicted to talkativeness than
60 a1IOrd TO be nowadays. The begin
- oe Il was n trip I took on the
Ouuea Re east-bound train. returning
1Um my regular annual tour OF the
VUa and southwest. was In the habit
q ehat time Of wearing a good many of
- samples. no TO speak. In one shape
~ another; for II hadn't then become
= oeetled maxim that a diamond man
Gunnr help his business little bit
~ parading around with enough gems
= Nm Co make him look like the
ygnn1m Of Hyderabad on n feast day.
~ eutft Of visible white stones con-
un1eea Of three big studs. three rings.
avD collar buttons-only one OF those
v1nGhss, by the way-and n pair OF
Gnuuve links-worth, In all. about $4,000.
Uu0uge started for the east from Al
nuuoerQue had a talk with a Jeweler
g hat town that got me to thinking.
sPerhaps you are not aware. young
n: said this Albuquerque 1eweier.
rAnt Black Jack Ketchum and his
hnch are working the Santa Fe just
~ Sor all 10 10 worth. II you don't
nmgw q, I'm telling you now. II you
- know IL. you ought to be under
eguatment. It's an even-money bet that
- yUu're imbecile enough to carry all
thass gew-gaws on you on your trip
-. you'll never take them to Den
A Great Idea.
BADLY az hated to own up at that
enme. even TO myself, that didn't know
& N was compelled to admit that
vUusd be making myself an easy mark
r aldn't take his advice. But was
yuwng enough and vain enough to hate
. Surrender my diamond front even
1w NE couple OF days that my round
uAout trip TO Denver would take. Med
na~na~~~~ .ss~zr shia ssshtare n auadaplv
hocnme seixed with an idea that struck
- n being exceedingly humorous.
"A few months before n travelling
- who sold paste stun on the road
- lad all OF the things I wore on me
ouUncated In the paste junk and gave
oham TO me az sort or sardonic gift.
tdDlng me that might m well save the
wsns and tear on the genuine stun by
WEARING the phony goods. which. being
. Ssnaiic on the subject OF his bogus
DDe1A he declared looked just az good
- The real stun. anyway. I had put
~ paste bunch OF duplicates away In
~ bottom OF my trunk. After having
0hnA talk with the Albuquerque jeweler
J sU6denly thought Of my paste rep
- q whopping funny thing 10 wear
ehnA stun on my trip to Denver, 50
nhn1, n Black Jack ketchum should
- the train and me up. would be
omAh1ed to perpetrate q gigantic sell
upen him. just chuckled and Choir
ia ever that idea, and the more I
Shsnght about Il the more screechingiy
1anmy u seemed to me.
80 ] sent my genuine stones. to-
g9khcr with the rest OF my samples and
DaDt Of my money. on to Denver by
aRpress. Then l stuck all OF the paste
0A1np IN my apparel or around my
Dsssen where ! had been habitually
wearing the genuine stun. and took the
To While the Time Away.
when we got TO a point about nifty
nnlles south OF Trinidad. where I was
- take the Rio Grande for Denver.
hagan TO really fear that wasn't going
- hare q chance. after all. 20 hand out
~ glass goods TO n bad man with a
0anxk and q wicked looking pair OF
gums. ] was a little grieved over this.
~ wanted 20 have the experience OF
he1ng held up. especially under such
anaightfui. dead easy conditions.
three Of us had put I'm most OF the
time from the start In playing califor-
ma Jack for n dollar n corner. IL was
. compartment train, and every car
was Allcd.
The train slowed up at a little sta
aiou about forty miles below Trinidad
~ the neighborhood OF IL o'clock. and
a lad picked up, on signal. appeared
n the doorway OF our compartment
ard IDLY watched our game for a while
-lae was a tall. gaunt. commonplace
uocting man. except that he had a pair
Of peculiarly black. deep-set and shifty
eyes. He wore new and very badly
Aating suit Of store clothes. bius
1annel shirt with n black string tie
and q black SLOUGH hat. I didn't talks
in MI Of these details OF his make up al
nrst. for none OF us paid any particular
attention To him AZ he stood leaning
against the jamb OF the door.
AFTER awhile. however. one OF tn
fellows asked him IL he cared to sit II
Co make IL n party OF four. and III
smiled IN "A slow kind OF a way anS
TeekOned that he didn't mind. Then
had q chance 10 size him up. and fig
ured Il out that he was OF about the
make up OF cook OF rounding M
out1t. or a bull whacker going HON,
90 see his folks. observed. too, tina
every time looked up from my cards
caught him coming my array OF paste
with his shifty eyes: but I had for.
gstten all about the hold up business
~ this time. and was only amused I,
think that I had hypnotixed the new
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