Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-17
RED DAVE GETS HIS REVENGE
A Trip to Chicago With a Sequel at
Rawlns.

HaWIlnS.
Pack yonder in the summer of 49,"
said a Goldfeld mining man who used
to he q Wyoming cattleman, II de-
cided to send Red Dave Mason, my
assistant foreman--I owned the Bar
G. outfit. half day ont from RaWlinS
at that time-dOwn To Chicago for
canned stuff, gear for the hands, and
some furniture and fiXings that my
wife wanted. I picked out Red Dave
for the trip because / knew that l
could figure on his staying sober un-
til he had bought the goods and at
tended to the shipping anyhow. The
boys called him Red Dave because the
ine-grained hide of his face was pref
ty nigh the color of an auction flag.
AS for the rest of him, he was foot
8, and if he'd wanted to he could
have taken a rambunctious steer by
the horns and have broken his neck
with a couple of twists of his arms.
He had a long, gallery moustache and
pair of angel child blue eyes, and
he could clip off the lobe of one of
your ears at a hundred yards with a
hard pulling As.
Il gave him my list and my wife's
list of things he was to buy in Chica-
go. and he went. He had discarded
his chaps and wore a pair of new
store pants neatly tucked in his boots,
with some other articles of raiment.
He had his gun belt and pair of guns
on when he started. and l mentioned
that to him.
"'Better keep your guns under COW
er while you're in Chicago, l said to
him. They're a heap on law and or
der down there, or think they are,
and you don't want to get mixed up
with any of the jumpers. When you
get there just stuff your belt into
your grip and stick your guns into
your hind pockets, and then you won't
be taking any chances. There are
some features of tenderfoot law that
we've all got to duck
Red Dave looked a little surprised
at this-he hadn't been east since
leaving there in his early boyhood-
but he nodded his acQuiescence, and
off he started.
"Now, when he got back, Dave new
er said a word to me about it. But
the next time I went to Chicago-it
was only a few months after Dawes
7 oh VIZ
guns had got him into that time.
HE had followed my instructions,
at that, with regard to the way he'd
better pack his guns around Chicago.
grip and stuffed his guns in his rear
pockets where they were covered up
by his sack coat. On the day before
he was to return to the ranch he was
strolling around Chicago taking a
look at the sights and with only a
drink or so in him, when team of
horses hitched to a wagon fell down
on the street, and Dave jumped in and
did most of the work of eXtricating
the horses from their harness. In do
ing this of course he had to lean over,
and a couple of Smart Aleck Chicago
cops got their eyes on Dawes guns,
which were thereby exposed. They
slipped up behind him as he bent over
the fallen horses and each of them
grabbed one of his guns. Dave, l
heard, was standing up straight and
facing them in about an eighth of a
second. But they had him covered
with his own guns.
What fur kind of a bean bag
game is this yere?' Dave asked the
two cops, looking from one to the 9TH
er of them. I reckon you might as
we'll put them tools down. l haint
maxim no war medicine. But what
kind of monte air you people a-deal-
in, anyhow"
The two cops told Dave that he
was under arrest for carrying conceal
ed weapons, against the city ordinance
in such cases made and provided.
This line of talk was dead new to
Dave but when they told him that
he'd have 10 go along with them he
fell into step agreeably enough.
How long he asked them,
scratching his head over the problem,
do you ali reckon I'm plumb due to
g.t hobbled f'r this yere-what dye
call it-totin' weepons?'
The cops replied that the end of
it would be up to the magistrate, but
that the regularly assessed figure for
the offence was 500 a weapon, or
six months in Jail. Which caused him
to scratch his head some more.
1.-The police justice before whom
they took Dave was a fiery little
Scotch-Irishman noted in Chicago al
that time as a terror even to minor
offenders and just a plain scourge to
people who had committed any Of
fence worth while. He started Ia
burn Dave up as soon as he heard the
charge against him.
Now, what have you got TO say
for yourself, you unconscionable ruff
FAM he demanded of the astonished
Dave.
"'Well,' replied Dave, after he'd got
chance to pull himself together, !
am a maverick proper down this yere
way, but 1 hain't been doin' no rust
lin, stampedin' or cuttin' out, and
this yere game has got me so plumb
loco that 1 can't remember the name
of my outfit. This yere pair O. dough
boys nodding in the direction of the
two cops, cut my trail this mOrnin
and they gifts t ridin' herd Il hull lot
on me because they says
THAT you had these two border
ruffian's pistols exposed in plain view
on your person, you murderous, ma
rauding COW whacker!' interrupted
the peppery little magistrate in a
shout. I tell you what all of you
bowling, Billy be damned desperadoes
from the ranges want to understand
that when you get into civilization
you've got to act civilized. Chicago
| isn't any Dead Mans Gulch or PiZen