The daily Alaskan., 1905-05-15
Old Comrades Meet
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 "Prlsoncr at the bar have you any thing to say why the sentence Of death should not be passed upon youy'
 well. judge, secln' that these hon. able twelve gentlemen has brought me In guilty, it would be highly disrespec' tul for me Co say anything ag'in their yerdic'. Howsoever, mebbe they wouldn't mind my sayin' that when inc crime was committed here in Ari- zona was iightin the dagOs in Cuba" "Why did you not bring forward evil aence of that during the uialT
 Well, judge, the regiment l fOu't with wasn't recruited from these parts, and most O my comrades left their carcasscs on San Juan hill. No, there wouldn't be no use tryin' to prove alibi. I've had a fair uial. You, iudre, have made the perSccutin' at torncy treat me right, and the jury has convicted me on the best kind O cir cumstlntial evidence"
 There was something so honest ap- bearing in the old soldiers manner that judge. jury and spectators were visibly affected. One of the spectators edged around to where the judge sat and whispered something in his ear.
 This gentleman" said the judge to the prisoner, says that he was in Cuba during the SpaniSh-American war, and perhaps you might prove your case by him"
 Don't remember ever Co have seen the gentleman" remarked the prisoner, scrutinizing the person referred to sus- piciously.
 "You say" said the man, that you were at San Juan hllly'
 "I was"
 "what reglmenty"
 ''The tn New York"
 Its plain you're fyin', since no such regiment went up the hill"
 Reckon there wasn't but there was a man as got separated from that regi- ment and fell in with the tn Illinois, the company on the right end O the line and the feller that fell fin was myself"
 ''Why, you cussed liar, I commanded the company on the extreme right of the tn Illinois myself"
 "You didn't-no sich thing. You're playin' some game on me. Got some grudge to send an innocent man to the hangman."
 "I ought to know" said the other in. dignantly.
 'I tell you" roared the condemned man, "Cap'n Josh Bingham command ed that company"
 And l tell you" retorted the other angrily, I'm Cap'u Josh Bingham"
 At this the captain lifted his over shadowing sombrero 10 mop his brow, and the prisoner scrUtinized him.
 Great Scott, cap'n, how you have changed!' he said at last I'd never ha' knowcd ye."
 But the other would not admit tho acquaintance.
 Judge" he said. this man has un doubtedly got hold Of my army record and is endeavoring to make something out of it. I never saw him before tn my life"
 You set there, Cap'n Josh Bingham and say you never saw me before ir your life, Do you forget how wher we got to the top O the hill a dirty dago started to club you with the but of his rifle and how a man stepped ir ! and. after receivin' the blow on hi' shouIder"-hcre the veteran tore oper his shirt and exposed a healed wound run his bayonet through the dago Do you mean to say you don't remem Der thaty"
 "Yes, I do remember that but vol wasn't the man that saved my life That man carried me of the field few moments later when was wounded and he got a Spanish bayOnet in hh forehead that left wound Ike Turk ish sclmiter I'd know that woul' anywhere"
 What was his uameg" the prisone demanded, growing angrier and shout ing louder with every word.
 "Jim Hicks"
 The spectators started. The prisone | had been tried under that name.
 "Jim Hicks; yes, that war him-Jiu Hicks, and that war me, You'd recog nize the scar anywhere would v cap'n? Well, what dye think O thisy
 He pushed aside lock of shock, hair and displayed scar the eNac counterpart of a scimiter The captai' started.
 Why, Jim! Can 1t bel Moves How you have changed, Jim! Ina campaign has told on us both. You hand, old comrade."
 While he was speaking he was eds Ing around to where the prisoner stooC and first crashing his hand, he aftSl