Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-07-27
Under the Shade
OfAbe Browns
Old Rubber Tree

There stands outside the Tonopah
club in the Main street of TonopaA
a green tree. 1t stretches its btdnches
of green to the sky, and no one has
vet been able to classify it. Some
declare that it is a cottonwood, some
a n apple, some a species of eucalyp-
tus. in onsequenc of its powers of
ABSORPTION. 1t serves as the only
bit of shade on the west side OF
Main street in the glare of high
noon. and there men and animals
love to loiter. The tree absorbs not
only moisture, but all the stories that
are told beneath it's green leaves,
and drops them at the mystic hour
of midnight, so it is said; and Abe
Brown, who claims the shade OF the
tree, has declared from its qualities
of absorption that it must be a rub
ber'' tree. Around its leafy anade
centers much of the gossip of Tono-
pah, and from time to time The
Bonanza will be in a position to set
forth some of the stories that are
rustled from the leaves, independent
" of the s%tory-teller. Come, lei us
rubber in the shade of Abe Browns
old rubber tree.
Once upon a time there was a
great fightin in the old days of San
Francisco, where there were as
many suckers as the sands that run
down to the sea. Yea, it was said,
a sucker was born every minute. A
gladiator named Sharkey, who was a
son of the sea, and a son of a gun
with the mitts, was mated to meet
in the arena, a SOL of Vulcan, named
Fitzsimmons, who vas mighty at
the forge and the bellows, not the
bellows which emits the hot air of
the desert, but the bellows of the
blast. And the umpire, who was
known in the language of the arena
as the referee, was a son of a gun,
and no mistake. He was Wyatt
carp, and he was from Arizona.
Enough said.
The night of the meeting the arena
was packed from the ringside to the
roofside. The suckers" arose tier
upon tier, to say nothing of the po-
licemen, who mad the best seats in
the house. Fitzsimmons, the sor
of Vulcan, had a great reputation
He was the champion of the ring
and all the wise ones bet their none!
on the blacksmith. Well, 1t was
fake, and the wise ones lost heav
ilyl, and those in the know, reapet
a harvest of foul" gotten money.
There was a great oar made b
some of the papers, and a docto
was found to make the foul o
Sharkey good. Fitzsimmons hire,
a lawyer, who was great with tn
hot air, and the papers teemed wit,
interviews, which made the copie
sizzle as they slid off the press, an
they sold while they were still hoi
This lawyer was called Kowalsk
Colonel Kowalski-not that he wa
= a fierce warrior, but that he ha
: once rode a horse, and was on
i, governors staff. The colonel wa
! afflicted with an ailment called tn
sleep disease. 1t was the strangei
/. thing in the world. He would &
sound asleep while at the show, {
in church, or while he was CONVEX
ing with one. He had been known
go to sleep at the bar while takir
:. a drink.
But when he was awake, he mat
. up for lost time, for he was a wo
der at the bar, and he could what
out the queen S English in wonde
y full shape, Wyatt carp had nev
p been talked about as this disciple
e. Blackstone cracked it. to him in 4
Is newspapers. The referee felt tn
y his gun was getting rusty, and tn
al he must shoot some one to keep
N his reputation. Looking owe t
e. list of his v%illifers, it occurred
I'd him that Kowalski was the easit
re mark, and then, besides, the color
ne weighed 300 pounds, and as he lv
s. in the same hotel, he would not ha
ne far to go. Accordingly, one mig
It. when the earth was peaceful, a
ig the moon was smiling on land a
sea, he entered the elevator of I
Baldwin hotel, and going to Kow
skis door softly knocked, and v
hidden to enter. The colonel
sic alone. Ha!
to Colonel" began Mr.. carp, .,
n ly, making sure that his gun was
ed the right place. You have u
saying some hard things about N
on The colonel yawned, and eSca
~ himself. One of the sleeping Fp'
was stealing upon him. "Yes?'
said.
"You h%avelbeen a very brave Il
in the newspapers without rails