The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
SANDY. BEND JUSTICE.
Judge HolSc stln Continues to Dis
F pense 1t In Hunks.

lence over, Il want to remark a Few
remarks to this multitood. His Hon.
or which is myself and no one else,
is the owner of the Red Dog Saloon.
/ He are also the owner of a fightin'
dog and a race boss. He also takes
a hand at Pokerswith the boys He's
comes along, and is known as a good
teller. Some Of you have taken adj.
vantage of this to be familiar with
him in this court room One of the
ferred to me as old boss
Familiarity here in this temple of
justice Is a thing 1 won't stand for,
and the sooner you find it out the bet
/ the wings of an angel, but the law
must and shall be respected.
The first case before us is that of
from keene VS.. Jim Harvey. OBJ
serve that each of them has a shyster
lawyer present to plead his case, but
! jest is soon is lone o. them shysters
puts in his CAB out he goes. l under
stand the case thoroughly, and l don't
want anybody mixin' in and tanglin'
things up Tom Keene sits yere on my
right with two guns strapped around
him and big knife in his shirt, and
Jim Harvey sits on my left with moth
| in but a grin ON his face.
| Tom is what might be called
yearlin' tenderfoot. Back home in the
east he diskfvers about year ago
| that he has consuTnptio asthma liver
complaint and about a dozen other
things, all brought on by studyin so
hard at college,. The doctor sends him
out we're to recuperate. While re-
lcuperatin' he Isl to save the life of a
rich young lady, become hero and
marry her. That's the programme
4 allus laid down by a tenderfoot from
| Yale or Harvard.
| cit strikes Tom when he gets out
4 here that he will be taken for a boy in
knickerbockers unless he wears few
weapons, and so he buys two guns and
a knife. Then he wears his hat on
| his ear, splits over his shoulder and
steps high. 1t amt on record that he
4 has eyer killed a Jack rabbit with his
4 guns, or used his big knife for any
thing more than to whittle a stick
4 with, but by rollin' his eyes and clark-
to understand that he is dangerous
and mustn't be, rubbed the wrong way.
Even this yere court, which is seldom
| mistaken, has looked Tom over at
| times and sot him down as a fighter.
tom has mimi claim over on Cat
creek, and when he hain't swellin'
around Sandy Bend and tryin' to skeer
! somebody into fits he does a little work
| for his consumption and liver. He
was sittin' in his shanty the other
| evenin', hummin' to himself and
| thinkin' what devil of Teller he was
and how many thrillin' yarns he would
have to spin when he got back to the
east and his cocktails. when Jim Har-
ney walks in on him.
| "'Deevening, says Joe.
'Deevening,' says Jim.
'Mought you be some galOot who
has lost his way? says Joe.
81 mought and then agin
moughtn't,' says Jim.
:" Nice. sort O. evenin'.
Powerful nice al
Nice evenin' for sayin' what
kin do to obleege ye.'
" Thanks Any objections to
turnin' out while I turn IMP 9s
What dye mean?'
jump this claim and you'll have to
move on 80
i That's the way. they talked to, each
lother-sweet and .oily and nice. Thar
sat Joe with his two guns and knife,
and there stood Jim with a grin on
his face and not SO much as a straw
] in his hands. You are thinkin' that
Tom bounded to his feet and pulled
| them shooters and drove Jim fur, fur
Wyoming L wish it was So But it
wasn't. Jim jest looks at him and
pints a finger and tells him to git, and
what does Joe do but make a sneak!
out firm shot or hourishin' that big
knife around, and Jim purceeds to
bunk down and make hisself comfort
able. An hour later, as / was holdin'
a full house in a game of poker in my
| gilded palace of sin, I hears some one
approachin' on gallop, and next
mint this yearlin' tenderfoot bust in.
He'd run every step of the three
miles. His eyes was rollin' and his
tongue hangin' out, and it took him
three ninits to get breath 'nuff to
say: ss
"'Jedge, 1 want jestice,'
| What sorter jestice?' says I.
tice.'
"'what's happened?'
Jim Harvey has jumped my
elaim!
:, :. How many guns did he have?'
60 None tall
".But why didn't ye ill him full o.
lead?'
q" I preferred to let the law take it's
course
gittin' up and yellin', the court has no
lobjections. 1t is huff to lift a dead
| kyote outer his grave. A critter with
two guns and a knife on him driven
off his claim by an unarmed man! No
wonder that the mountains of old
Wyoming are rockin' to their base as
| they feel the disgrace.
/ when a critter comes to me and
wants jestice must give it to him
as a court, no matter what / think
wouldn't go back and claim his own
at the muzzle of a gun sent con-
stable to arrest Jim and bring him in.
He finds Jim stretched out on Joe's
bed and sleepin' the sleep of the in
nercent. When he was woke up he
comes along without a word. He don't
deny what he did. He jest grins over
it and says it was a leetle experiment.
! "Yeres the complainant and yere's
| the defendant, and it hasn't troubled
this yere court to reach a decision. Jim
Harvey is fined 81 and costs for goin'
around scarin' tenderfoots and spilin'
my clubhouse hand in a poker game,
Ebut at the same time he will be given
one of the guns worn by the defendant
to pay him for his trouble.
las for Tom Keene, he will be taken
out OF this room and hooted across the
creek, and if he ever shows his face in
Sandy Bend agin he'll likely have some