Newport daily independent., 1911-03-04

HIS torious marauder. Ills
 1ska personality secured nln the title of 'Black Eagle, the Terror Vf the Border" Many fearsome tales Ire of record concerning the doings Of him and his followers. Suddenly In the space of single minute. Black Eagle vanished from earth. He was never heard of again. His own band never even guessed the mystery ol his disappearance. The border ranches and settlements feared he would come again to ride and ravage the mesquite flats He never will 1t fig to disclose the fate of Black Eagle that this narrative is published
 The initial movement of the story fs furnished by the foot of a bar tender in St. Louis His discerning eye fell upon the form of Chicken Ruggles as he pecked with avidity at the free lunch Chicken was hobo. He had a long nose like the bill of q fowl an inordinate appetite for poultry, and a habit of gratifying it without expense, which accounts for the name given him by his fellow vagrants.
 Physicians agree that the partaking of liquids at meal times Is not a healthy practice. The hygiene of the saloon promulgates the opposite, Chicken had neglected to purchase drink to accompany the meal. The bartender rounded the counter, caught the injudicious diner by the ear with . lemon squeezer, led him to the door and kicked him into the street.
 Thus the mind of Chicken was brought to realize the signs of coming winter. The night was cold; the stars -shone with unkindly brilliance; people were hurrying along the streets in two egotistic, jostling streams. Men had donned their overcoats, and Chicken knew to an exact percentage the increased difficulty of coaxing dimes from those buttoned-in vest pockets. The time had come for his annual exodus to the south.
 A little boy, five or six years old, stood looking with covetous eyes in a confectioner's window. In one small hand he held an empty two-ounce vial; in the other he grasped something flat and round with shining milled edge The scene presented a field of operations commensurate to Chickens talents and daring After sweeping the horizon to make sure that no of ficial tug was cruising by, he insid- iously accosted his prey. The boy, having been early taught by his house hold to regard altruistic advances with extreme suspicion. received the ,overtures coldly.
 Then Chicken knew that he must make one of those desperate. nerve shattering plunges into speculation that fortune sometimes requires of those who would win her favor Five cents was his capital, and this he must risk against the chance of win ming what lay within the close grasp of the youngsters chubby hand. It was a fearful lottery, Chicken knew But he must accomplish his end by strategy, since he had a wholesome terror of plundering infants by force. Once. in park, driven by hunger. he had committed an onslaught upon bottle of peptonized infants food in the possession of an occupant of baby carriage. The outraged infant had so promptly opened it's mouth and pressed the button that communi- rived, and Chicken did his thirty days and" in snug coop. Wherefore he was, as he said, 'leary of kids" Beginning artfully to question the boy concerning his choice of sweets, he gradually drew out the informa- tion he wanted. Mamma said he was to ask the drug store for ten cents worth of paregoric in the bottle; he was to keep his hand shut tight over the dollar; he must not stop to talk to anyone in the street; he must ask the drug store man to wrap up the change and put in the pocket of his trousers, Indeed, they had pockets two of them And he liked chocolate creams best.
 Chicken went into the store and turned plunger. He invested his en- tire capital in c. A. N. D. Y. stocks, simply to pave the way to the greater risk following.
 He gave the sweets to the young ster, and had the satisfaction of per ceiying that confidence was estab- lished. After that it was easy to ob- tain leadership of the expedition; to take the investment by the hand and lead it to nice drug store he knew of in the same block There Chicken. with parental air. passed over the dollar and called for the medicine, while the boy crunched his candy. glad to be relieved of the responsi- bility of the purchase And then the successful investor, searching his pockets, found an overcoat button the extent of his winter trousseau- and. wrapping it carefully, placed the ostensible change in the pocket of confding juvenility. Setting the youngsters face homeward and pat h<,,