The Red Cloud chief., 1910-06-02

s-rssNk,te= slop chest charge had been deducted
>>=s7S5-s9 from his wages, they handed him
49, the balance, pitiful little pile of
ss@ small silver. and told him to get out.
- 1t against the law of course, but
he didn't know that.
lie was set adrift almost without
money, in land of strangers
hostile land too. for the gendarmcs
in front of the office eyed him with
disiavor. lie desperately lone
ieit the grip of circumstance keen upon him AS
ahderod about the strange streets he discovered,
In the lining Of his coat. envelope. until then
ICED It's contents four OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES bills
MS note:
Irvington. oct. L.
Ar oS sir @ Isrcs ] y"q dust We kept Your gun It would
n"r,airg masters You would get drunk and We needed
nsS% it az for haeE s gcTo}S turn you odTift dead
~ '7 anu Yours 'Iy, I!E%y, s,,nau,,
The friendly faces OF Uncle Sans greenbacks
gave him courage. He made plans and acted on
them then and there Meeting that English mato
In the street, he gave him most artistic beat.
ing paid a fine. and took the next boat for Lon.
don town Incidentally, he forgot all about his de-
sire to travel six seven thousand miles and kill
the sailortown kings. What spasm of virtue caused
them to give him back his money he never knew.
They were not noted for doing such things
That the kings so continually escaped punish
ment was small wonder. The men injured never
had chance TO tell their stories until they were
ashore in some foreign land Consus in foreign
ports could not libel ships or detain captains
their unsupported word The ships papers were
always straight at any rate the face of them.
The most that could be done was to report the
case and there IL ended. The Sherman boys on
the other side of the earth never heard even an
echo OF 1t. The witnesses against them were scat
tered over the seven seas and prosecution could
not touch them
The United States district attorney and his staff
did their best to keep the Shermans within the let.
ter at least, of the shipping laws, but they had
hpr cIn t., lii,
Charlie Marsden, the star witness for the prosecu-
tion. was locked up in Jail for safekeepng. Charlie
Marsden disappeared The jailer told story of
masked men. guns and general confusion but could
identify no one as having taken part in the Jail
delivery With the witness gone, prosecution halt.
ed. Long afterward Charlie Marsden came back
and told moving tale. He had been bound
gagged and carried aboard a ship just as she
sailed. When released at sea, he was told that
he had been regularly shipped and was led sorry
life aboard. In foreign ports he appealed in vain
to consuls, who showed him his name-forged, OF
course-on the ships articles and laughed at him.
When he finally worked his way back to Irvington
his story awakened interest and prosecutions
begun. The Sherman boys had welLpad
lawyers who dragged out the cases with adjourn.
ments and legal tahgles Irvington was too busy
to be long excited over the wrongs of few sail.
ors Prosecution faltered and paltered along its
usual dismal way, and what at last brought the
sailortown kings up with round turn was the
united public opinion Of Iryington directed against
them.
Irvington suddenly walked up to find itself blot
the map. Unexplained dead men are no good
advertisement for any town; neither are myster.
disappearances OF strangers within its gates to
be desired, IL their friends make fuss about them
Captains who refused to be held up for extrava
CANT blood money and to play villain at small
profit, avoided the port. Business was falling off
Upper Irvngton was hit where It lived and the
Sherman boys were notified to quit.
The kings of sailortown have abdicated Steam
vessels make voyages short that advance
notes" are no longer prizes. Seamen's unions
have given measure of protection even to deep
water sailors who seem to have fewer rights and
more hardshps than most men. The bullying cap
tain, the bucko mate and the boarding master have
all been singed by the feeble and tardy fire OF
United States maritime law. The railroads had
their share in the revolution But what really
caused the Sherman boys to become private cti
was the wrath OF upper Irvington. When II
hit In its pocket and its sefesteem--that up
set the kingdom of the saortown tyrants