Bisbee daily review., 1915-12-19

From that time forward the actions
Of Jerry Clarity. Tommie Kawson ana
Stephen Guild was the subject of UNI
reserved comment on the Gulch II
was not restricted to the Gulch for
to those who lived on that thorough.
fare. It travelled to the mine and
passed the Lowell When either OF
the three came out of the change
room and met an acquaintance from
one Of the other departments he was
sure to be asked regarding the health
and happiness of the others.
It got to be a standing joke all over
the town. Wherever the three men
were known. and they had lived in
Bisbee several years each, their act.
ions were noted.
Even Jimmy Huddell the mule
skinner in the Lowell. upon getting
two new mules, named one of them
Jerry, and the other Tommie. In ex-
PLANTATION he declared that each of the
animals looked at the other as did
Jerry Clarity and Tommie Kawson,
when they were hooked up in the
morning.
Mary went her way undisturbed II
she saw how the comedy. or tragedy,
was going. she never appeared to
know of II. She was let severely a.
lone by most of the boarders at Pinet-
to's. In fact Mary's intuition must
have told her that she would precipi-
tate a riot If she favored either of the
three men, or any other man.
By this time the fall had come upon
the mining camp. Shirts, bare of any
coating, took upon themselves that
covering. The summers glare melted
away into the wonder atmosphere of
a Southern Arizona's fall. The flies,
which hummed and sung in Pinetto's
from daylight until dark and OCCASION
ally when the lights were on, started
on their winterward journey The
screens became rusty on the doors Of
business houses, but the love Of Jerry,
Tommy and Steve for Mary Jones did
not abate. The cool Of the evenings
seemed to urge them on to greater ef-
forts.
Mary had good influence upon the
three. Jerry, when the saloon was a
thing of actually and when you could
buy your scoop of beer over a bar,
was quite drinker. When he drank
his blood rose in his veins. Invariably
after one of his sprees, he visited the
city magistrate and explained-usual-
ly with the coin Of the realm-his part
in a scrap of the night before in the
Bluz.
When the drys succeeded in hang
ing the down-and-out sign on the bar
keeps, they failed in one thing-to put
the same sign on Jerry's thirst. SO
Jerry bought of the walking saloons
and paid therefor in the neighborhood
of two dollars per pint and greater a
mounts in proportion.
Shortly after he met Mary Jones,
Jerry had a siege with several bottles
of Bond and Lillard. He was in sorry
shape the next morning His head
felt like it extended to the fronts of
the stores along Distillery Gulch and
bumped on each brick wall He en-
tered the restaurant and Mary took
such u kindly interest in securing
something which would rest well on
turbulent stomach that Jerry swore
OFF drinking.
Tommie Kawson liked to play Pan
singue Mary broke him Of the habit,
|unknowingly by remarking to him
one day that you should save your
10
will want a home of your own and the
money you are now spending so fool
ishly will come in very handy"
! Knockers didn't appeal to him any
more.
AS for Guild, Mary didn't retrieve
him from any bad habits. She merely
made him think of a possible future
with a little wife and a nice home.
Guild saved his money and had consid
cradle in the postal savings bank.
The hatred of the three men for
each other, never showing while Mary
Jones was present, burst forth at 9th
er places. There was nothing too
mean or terrible to do to one Of the
others It got each Of the three in no
end Of trouble
Jerry and Tommie were working on
the same level of the Lowell. Jerry
was working in the top of a raise and
the shifter sent Tommie up with some
timber Jerry saw him coming and,
accidently of course, dropped a bar.
The falling iron hit Tommie on the
arm.
The latter continued on up the raise
and demanded of Clarity his reason
for dropping the bar. Jerry told him
ii was none of his business. Some
stronger words were used and it was
not until the shifter put in a hurried
and labored appearance that the men
were separated.
Jerry had a considerable bump on
his head while Tommie got a black
eye and transfer to another mine
Steve, in the meantime, said little
and gave neither Of the other aspir
ants an opportunity to make him any
trouble He avoided both at all times
When he entered the change room he
went to his locker without casting a
glance toward the big Irishman whose
nature could no more refrain from hat
ing Guild than it could from liking