The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 3, 1884, Page 2

; YARNS BY A HIGHWAYMAN. | m A Forty-Niner Who bid N California to Dig pe ee the Overland Coach ly Capwured by 2 -Surrender to an Empty It is the proud boast of that he bas passed thir s in the Calhiforni at San Quentin. haps, the only ’49er in State Pri SON, | was on two wheels half the time, but he is probably the only one who has beenin State Prison for some portion of every vear since ’49. | came west with the Argonauts. never for a moment, ance | driver—a hard man_ that I knew his long penal servitude, considers himself unworthy to rank with the He thinks they were best of them. the most remarkable century, and his modesty does not prevent him from declaring that he was with them. Jim Smith is the patriarch of the prison. guide, philosopher and inend of the He 1s a model So far as anybody been able to discover, he has but He can not leave stage Once put him in younger convicts. coaches alone. place where no_ stages tound and he is an exemplary Smith has not been a San Quentin steadily for thirty-three speedily, convicted on the same charge, that he has time missed a Ch stmas dinner * keep him in retirement consid longer than usual, tertains the thought that broken of coach runs. sometimes | he is permitted t will refer to some of his away which shows that | punishment 1 that the sto] dpi the robbery of ine passens i = thing to be ashamed of. Having a little Fourth otf and his callers ¢ to talk freely of his past life. had heard of some recent exploits of Ihehwaymen which filled In the course “It is enough biood boil to hear about the are now working these little country There ain’t one them that has the pinched members of ae ges of the Supreme Court, argonauts, generally, fellows dea t ee men of that quality—only Staging ain’t what it used to wwes were running it oe r ta ee them, > true Ameri | gun, and a minute later there c that sounded like a It puzzled me but I grabbed my horses and t ing. You don't see i ving hke at these days. | | | me and the dust Pied a little I could | He | | see the gun barrels a- sticking out of | her like quills on a hedge-hog. The mighty well—had the lines for his leaders in his teeth and those for the wheelers tied to his brake, and he had a pistol in each hand. I never saw a grander sight in my lite. I wanted to stop that outfit single- handed, just for the sake of seeing who was in it, but she had got up a tremendous momentum, and as she tairly shook the earth when she zip- ped past where I was hiding, I just ducked my head and let her go. I knew by the way she acted that there had been trouble on the road, and I didn’t care to make matters any worse just then. She was tull men, and they all had guns. When} the dust had settled a little I crept to | ked along slow- the roadway and wz ly for a mile and a halt, where I { y ‘ rd a/{ was just motio ame i keep still, when one ot yst his balan it shooting | ju It was the stage. I could have wasn’t eee while val =n ing us any much if he’¢ This httle | me another important lesson and when she got near enough to | twenty.” Cor. NOY. | business—that when you | thing trom a drunken man that | want to keep you must get out of this reach before was the case in og ‘*] came upon a stage big-boned, mates showed fight, shot or two from my party them quiet. all there was to an had, and had dered the driver to go ahead, the woman threw herself out of e had got just about vehicle, yelling: you seem’. of | 2!l about her: | she made me robber, wh« her hfe to go mto the high you make your solemn ma Jhy, ain’t you a preacher found ane of my partners with about | a pound of iead in him. A_ little} further on I came upon the other sn’t hurt, but he was} one. He scared within an inch ot He’d never been on that road be and as he said that called stoy 1 overland t had enough. He said there was no He hadn’t enlisted to | H stop to them figit a man-of-w with a double } to un- gun deck and he wanted trstand it. eC ty getting into trouble - particulariyy when we came along to Ww other tellow was, but I pacified him after lour who got away with good one ‘Just atter the wa tion to the effect tha the boys were States, and, as I knew they good deal of dust, I made up my t 1 would have to levy upon them. ‘The night before they ted they drank heavily, and when they came to get aboard they were all ina helpless condition. I Was the first man to discover this pe- | | any guns or cuharity of homeward—bound passen- er id it stoed m 2 good many | hours of its trip than at me. £ ade no mistake tweive am speaki it would start. I friends and went we 1 ead enende | and I were ae fore, | behind us ¢ 2 as is now a’ j better than pinned a piece ot pa and let her take | She fired att ren I loaded ilar size S100. | going MBER, j tune on her me ve been caught tac entific or ful location are ractions offe desiring an edu ed of myselt except ot into bad company, to have been tyne I had just |a good deal abou | i made “] have b: th used and sold PRICKLY ASR BITTERS for anumber of years, and think it bitters made for Biliousne laints and for toning up the system, W. H. Cole, Druggist, of Joplin, Mo. A single trial of this remedy will convince any person of the truth of the above. His Natural Error. ‘I suppose you ? asked the red nosed man the man with a long ta **No sir, I wouldn’t,”’ “Or smok ‘“*No, sir; certainly not.’’ “Or swear?’’ 2 “Sir, you insult me!’ | **You’re a daisy, ; you’re working it first know you, and maybe you aint what | She then went on to tell nd in half an hour | , you needn’t be you. away. ‘Sir, what do you mean? | utr Academy . n for its eleve i eo} horougl “or particulars, address Butler, B Francisco |! wouldn’t old | HARDWARE, Columbus, Ind. | GROCERIES, first sp | WOODWORK, HAISH & COS. jewelry an 3th, FRANZ BER ion. M, NAYLOR, tes county, Mo. | I tound one of them, and told him he ng to the tact ti of tier & Childs | . and that I tion to other bt ha concluded to wn as the EMPIR« MILLS, cowardly to use firearms when mora! suasion would do j had never thou betore, and, lenge to g&¢ FOR SALE. 10t requires Farmers buy this Plow it is the best in the marke, T. W. CHILDS, Butler, Mo, 1 PLE ERLE 1m FITNON EE FERIECS ROE A RENT TS SE RR, BENNETT, WHEELER & ( REEVES & C0., sn do this. ert i stock of cloc 1s this qnark for cash. of watches and clock satistactio for Infants and BINDERS, TABLE RAKES Self-Swinging “ND MOWERS WAGONS, STRAW STALKER For 1884, BUGGIES, Butler, Mo, Ex 2 (LENE TE PNT IPE IEEE SPOT BY AEA I ETS TW EO VS 2i:HARGT Butler, Mo Children. ut} Castoria cures Colic. Without injurious medication. Instantaneous