The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 23, 1893, Page 3

BITS OF WESTERN LIFE. The Early Days in Bodie and Virginia City. Fights With Blank Cartridges--R. M. Daggett’s Coal Mine on the Com- stock and How he Unloaded at a Handsome Profit. San Francisco Examiner, When Bodie was in the prime of its prosperity about ten years ago there was among its citizens a wild Irishman noted for his sharp tonge and howling disregard for money and position When partial ly primed with whisky he was foud of mounting a barrel or dry goods box and indulging in a style of rough and tumble oratory, which, while it was not as polished as the rounded periods of Bob Ingersoll, was nevertheless certain to draw an admiring audience. He was finally discharged from one of the mines for some exhibition of freshness that insulted the digni- ty of the superiutendent, and he got revenge by climbing on to a dry goods box that night in front of the superintendent's office and speaking to a large street gathering. “Och, boys, didn’t I know the blatherin’ upstart when he was packin’ his dinner basket in the Crown Point at Virginia City and his sister was doin’ the washiu’ spect the lay of the land and then! bad to pay out 1,500 shares of stock| WILL INVESTIGATE PENSIONS. | sent an emissary—a man he could to the hungry crowd and take his trust—to the jumpers. | $1,500 back to Virginia City. The matter soon arranged. The They also loaded a couple of hun- jumpers and Gillhooly’s forces were dred pounds of coal on the buck- to have a big sham battle and make | hoad to exhibit to the stockholders, an equal divy of whatever Gillhooly | as that would send the stock to S5a could get |share in a day He soon made terms with the The first thing Daggett did when company. He was to drive the |he got back was to try the coal. It jumpers off for $1,500, $500 down | appeared to be a No. 1 coal, but for and the balance after the fight if he ‘the life of him he couldu’t make it wasaliye. He also stipulated that burn. It was nothing more than a if he died the company was to bary | gort of black shale, with about the for the Beléher mine? The whole outfit came west on an emigrant ear and meself and some of the oth er miners helped schrape the gray backs off the famly before they could land in Silver City.” This sort of talk became some- what monotonous to the superinten- dent, who was in hearing, and a man who knew his temperament slipped into the office and offered to knock dhe orator off the box for $20 The money was forthcoming at once and inside a minute the man who was hired to squelch the talker jumped up on the box and by a well directed swing of his right knocked his man completely out. He fell senseless after being struck and way eirried into a drug store by his friends. When he recovered consciousness the man who had knocked him off the box was leaning over him aud holding his haud. “Bedad, who was the blackguard who hit me bebindt the ea?” “Pat, it was me.” “What for?” “For twenty dollars, and you're in for half. Here’s the money.” “Bill, you're the right man in the right place. No other man in Bodi- could lay me out like that, and no other would divy up so square. I'll ba at that same box to morrow night with two six shooters—loaded with blank cartridges of course—aud you can charge ‘em five hundred to tackle me. Lave the balls out of your gun and we'll have a devil of a circus.” The plan worked toa charm. It A was announced in the afternoon pa per that the orator would epeak again at $ o'clock, that he was heel ed, and detied any man who wore hair to stop him. His friend secured the contract of opening up a shooting match,got bis $500. and after the other had anounted the bor he plowed his way * through the crowd, and with hs harmless weapon began banging away. The man on the box return- ed the fire and the vicinity was rap- idly cleared. Then the orator start- ed down the street on the run cov- ering his retreat with a fusilade of m~biank cartridges, and amid the ' smoke of four barking revolvers the - two shd out of town, after which > they met in a conveuient ravine and divided the money. The dry goods = box orator kept ou his way heading > for Keeler, while the other, whose name was Bill Gillhooly, returned in an hour or so to be congratulated eonsent he became elevated to the position of the boss fighter of the town, und afew ‘days later he was offeréd'an engagement’ by a leadmg Mivivng company to drive some jump bers off some claims which the com pany wanted. This looked more like serious ork and Gilhooly begau to wonder ‘it might not be a good plan tosub- the contract and return to steady begged for alittle time to in- oo his plucky work. By common | him and send $1,000 to an eastern | same inflammable qualities as asbes- aunt. Gillhooly selected the trusted | ¢.,5, emissary to go with him aud a large crowd gathered to see the fight The betting ran high ou the cou test = Gill aud bie man wwooped |), ceedet to sprinkle the coal with down on the disputed claius and|th ou. their firearms began to crackle like/_ 4 buuches of Chinese crackers 0: the} t Mongolian New Year's diy. Theu | w camea red hot ausweriy fireand)y .. 2: gi. Being in an experi the excitement was at fever beat | mes al mood Dazzett put in the bal For awhile it seemed like the battic of Lexiugton. Gill and his trasty lieutenant kept right on, empting their hot six shooters and grab- bing fresh ones from their belts, facing at least a dozen revol vers, all belching streams of fire and smoke from carefully prepared | blank cartridges. When the jump- ers turned tail and started for the hills, apparently packing off two wounded men, Gill and his lieuten- ant were masters of the claim, and the work they did that day made them cocks of the walk iu Bodie. } bemoaning his bad luck. Well, Gill divied up with tle! miners, apd before the week was |he whined, “I’m left again. over the joke got out, us a Bodie | coal won't do; the public won’t have miner in liquor is not a close mouth | it. ed man. The Standard company pocketed | their loss and had to pretend they enjuyed the joke as well as the rest of the town. ‘They did not crack any wine over it however. Gillhooly, the holy terror of Bo die, is now a modest rancher in Southern Califorzia and one of the qu'etest men in the precinct. THE GREAT COAL DEAL. Rollin Daggett when he first reached the Comstock embarked in mining enterprises before he be- came an editor. - His first venture was a coal mine in the Como range. He invested his capital in running a tunnel into the hill, where he was positive an immense coal vein exist- ed Daggett gave a loug whistle and then went out and purchased a five-yailou can of kerosene oil. Then When the coal » ‘Yace, draft. building, ou the upside of the bill largest in town, running up to the gutter on the roof. He connected With everything in readiness Dag- gett built a fire in the stove, piled ed his usual When they got there they found the I thought fortune was in my grasp,” ruin all the stoves in town.” only drawback to the coal?” “Ain't that enough! Look at the — beat it gets on. grates is the drawback. lionaires can afford it. for the por.” Here Prof. Stewart the leading geological authority of the Comstock lifted a picce of coal to his nose and sniffed a time or two. | “It's got kerosene oi] in said “Yes, that’s it; that’s the | drawback,” said Daggett. “It's the oil that makes all the trouble. If you could only get the oil ovt and hill where he believed millions of | get just the plain coal, you'd have a dollars’ worth of coal was waiting to|fortune, but, you see, there's the send a new lease of life into the!cost of extraction: all these things Comstock with cheap fuel. lust be considered.” Only wil- I want. coal it,” he Month after month he sank his money pushing the tunnel into the Sometimes he was considerably! Most men would have lost their im arrears with the miners’ wages and frequently bad to depend oa} nerve completely when Stewart dis covered the kerosene in the coa!, but lucky stock speculation to raise the! not a man like Daggett. It tbr wind. One day he started for the lthe crowd completely off their mine on a buckboard and took along! guard, and then some of them ven- $1,500 to pay up three months’|tured to inquire if Daggett wanted wages to the men. This was not all|to sell any stock in that mme. he owed them, and he wondered} He said he'd sell every share aud how he would be received. Hej might find the place deserted for} did it with their eyes open. He did some more inviting camp, or they! not want avy man to purchase who might take the money he had and | didn’t know the facts, and in about then lynch him as a receipt in full) five minutes he had sold over 3,000 for the balance due. | shares. There was a great excitement) The boys thought Daggett, who when he arrived—that very day | Had been drinking a great deal was they had struck the ledge and they | !osing his wits. iat : bad several tons of the coal piled at! ott bai don’t sail in and nail the the mouth of the tunnel, around | thing, they argued, “somebody else which they were dancing and drink- | Will. Daggett’s a good fellow and ing in a lively state of hilarity. He means well, but the nervous excite thought to add to the genera! good | ment has unbalanced his brain and feeling by paying out his $1,500,but his friends might as well get the he mistook his crowd. “Money don’t go, Dag, we want | Stvangers. stock.” j “Stock be —; here's your money.” | 02 his neck and then on his shares “We've stood by you for months |and in 48 hours he was supplying without a bean, and now you the demand at $5 and still the boys mustn't go back onus. We want Were ae yo ay stock, and pretty quick.” | Wher the shares went out he Se Ge -..|Supplied the further demand by About thie time half a dozen six starting Steve Gillis at work kicking the old enterprise job press at $20 a day printing sheres. ighooters were placed in front of | Daggett’s nose. He always carried biank stock cer- jtificates about with him to sell [to his friends. and thes+ ficatea bad become a nuisaucs as 's byword on the Comstock. He had same ~ preeession _ness of the great coal discovery and Lcert beeu selling them for a doll was the end of it. to that s made a biuff at the crowd to work them off for two. + “It don: go. Dag, its bedrock to share, aud vow he that swept up the town in a day. ;After the ashes had cooled they ' “Can't you take half cash and jraked over a pile of queer black stuff} The proprietors have so much faith in| “ {that had successfuliy resisted the | its curative powers, that they otter One half stock?” “All'stock, no monkey busifess| terrible conflagration. It was a ton with us” of Day s coal that had never been There was no help for it, and he pelts Sax Davis. added that if anybody bought they | h ngged up a sprinkling pot aud| the only men on the democratic side | The porons stuff drank up| the war. , absorbed it almost instantly portant programme concerning pen- “to the stove it made a mag: | tention of the country. He said: auc of the might improving his | ends, to introduce a resolution au. He was alongside a tall thorizing the pension committees to ' | make a thorough investigation of al. that had a drainpipe, the longest and leged fraudulent his stovepipes with this and thereby | ¢o be reform iu this line it will have secured a draft like a blast furnace.| to be accomplished by the friends of on the oil-saturated coal and await-| have been open to the criticism that evening's visitors. |they are persecuted by enemies of stove almust white hot and Daggett] raise the cry of fraud and thus em- “Just 88 barrass the system itself. This| being other than friendly to the It will burn out the grates and|of the government to give liberal “Great heavens! man, is that the|ing disability from service in the You can’t reg-| gation will be to free the pension julate it- Hear it roar like an assay-|ro}] of fraudulent pensio-ers and’ to ing furnace. You'd have to mix balf| weed out the various abuses which a ton of rock with the stuff to keep| may have grown up with the system. it in check. The cost of buying new) Another important purpose will be great! not subject to the objection that it { | | | benefit of his great discovery as! So his friends proceeded to fall/ more than 5. millions. Gillis, by! i workicg 10 and 12 hours a day, and | a hy f A putting on a boy while he ate his|° to learn that there is at least one meals, waisged to keep up with the ae to cure in all its stages, Wien the true inward catarrh. Senator Palmer Says He Will Try and Preyent Abuse. | Washington, D. C., March 16 —| Senator Palmer's assignment as} chairman of the committee on pen-| sions fixes his particular field of ac-| tivity for the next two years. Con gress does its work almost entirely through committees, and while a! senator may participate in all public | busiress, he is the especial guardian of that particular line of business over which he is the committee chairman. Senator Palmer is the! quly major general in the senate. Moreover he and Senator Vilas are who commanded union troops during | He has outlined an im-| sions which will soon attract the at- “T intend before the present ex- traordinary session of the senate entries in the granting of pensions and the pension system generally. If there is ever the pensioners and not by their ene- mies. As a result the investigations the pension system who desire to T hardly think any one would accuse me of pensioners. I consider it the duty pensions to every man who is suffer- field. The main purpose of the investi- to free the pension service from pop- ular criticisms that are now urged against it. The pensioners have no desire to defend the abuses of the system and when these abuses can be lucated aud overcome it will put the pension bureau on a footing that it has not had in a long time. The resolution I propose to introduce 1s is ontside the legislative business for which the special session of the seunte was convened. It is not leg- islative business, but merely asks authority for a committee to pursue en investigation.” Mrs Leave at the Top. Topeka, March 15.—Mrs. Mary EY request of Governor Lewelling. She started on a tour of the institutions with the four male members of the board. Guaranteed Cure. We autbrize our advertised drug- gist to sell Dr. King’s New Discov ery for consumption, coughs and colds, upon this condition. If you are afflicted with a cough, cold or auy Jung, throat or chest trouble and will use this remedy as directed giving it a fair trial, and experience no benefit, you may return the bot tle and have your money refunded. We could -not make this offer did we not know that Dr. King’s New Discovery could be relied on. It never disappoints Trial bottle free at Tucker's drugstore Large size 50c and $1. |The Gold Sapply Washington, March 15 Lease was elected president of the) | state board of charities to-day at the = Steadily. | The free} Fought With a Maniac, DeSsto, Mo., March 16.—A. A. Carneau of this place had a desper- ate encounter with a crazy man named Rowden this morning. Row- den is employed by Carneau, and! has for the past few days shown symptoms ofinsanity. Carneau bas ‘or several months been confined to his bed dangerously ill. This morn ing Rowden entered Carneau’s room aud demanded some money, which he was refused and told to leave the room. He did so, but returned in a few minutes with a large butcher knife, exclaiming, “I am going to do you up.” Carneau got his revolver from uns d-r his pillow and fired one shot at Rowden. 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