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BAD SEN SAW THE FIGHT
Battle with Bart Knuckles in Nevada
Boom Day.
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t'oatteet Between Jarlt ikf, (er
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In
Ike . Bmh Tklrty
Odd Years Ao.
I was thinking," said old 8jort, "how
seldom now days you meet a man who has
ever seen a battle with bare knuckles on
ths grass under London prise ring rulea.
1 itw one once. Tt was all that waa com
ing to me. and a little more. If I had a
chance to aee another I'd pass It up to
some one at big a tool aa I was then
: "It waa In 1875, anyway not more t.an a
ear before or after, when I stopped off
the overland train at Reno. Ner., and took
a crooked little railway to Virginia City,
where a friend of mine waa dealing faro
for Ormfcdorff and McGee. I ll not mention
hla rame, for he-a now raining potatoea and
a family not far from Carson City and
hasn't turned a card these twenty years.
"Well call him Tom. He was glad to
sec men and have a chat about the old
Houston street days.
"Well, Tom waa a popular dealer at a
popular game and naturally knew all the
people worth knowing on the Comstock.
And some others. I was keeping cases for
blm one night so'a we could gossip when
the plar was light, when he got a tip that
the fight the whole town had been talking
about for a month was to be pulled oft the
next day.
"Tom said we'd go, for I'd see something
I d never see if I lived In New York till
fifth and Blith avenues met. It seems that
there was high feeling In camp-aa they
called the town between the Cornlshmen
nd the Irish. There was a Cornishman
there named Jack Askew, and he'd gone
Ipto the fighting game.
"He'd given a licking to every Irishman
they could find to go against him and the
Irish were sullen. Well from somewhero
a bare knuckle fighter called Dublin Pete
as picked up, brought to Vlrfglnla City
and a meeting arranged.
. "But the sheriff couldn't be, squared. He
waa a miner out to make a record and he
would do no business. He needn't have
Jone another'day's work If he would, but
e wouldn't. " .
'"You wouldn't believe me If I told you
:he money that waa up on that fight. It
Was a rich town, turning out a million a
day In bullion. Tom was telling me. and
every cent that could be begged, borrowed
or robbed waa up ort that fight.
. "Ths tip waa the closest I ever heard of.
It was framed up to hurry the mill off
early In the morning and beat the sheriff.
I'd say not many more than a hundred
men rode or drove quietly , out of town
before daylight the next morning.
r "Tom' and I had good saddle horses and
It was a fine gallop down the Gelger grade
to a little house that was a stage station
In the early days. The aun was just com
ing up over the Humboldt range to the
east making mighty pretty patches of gold
and purple on the snow on top of the
range. I've seen pictures painted like tt. -"We
wre tq get coffee at the little house,
and then when the air waa warmed up
the ring waa to be pitched. But aa we
rod up to the house out stepped the sheriff.
He'd been put wise and had slept there
all night.
"I never saw a finer figure of a man. He
had been a gold miner In California. From
Siskiyou' county, California, he came, I
was told; and that's the place thla here
Bret Hart wrote the pieces about.
"He could have spared two Inches and
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then Wn six feet tall. He waa as straight
as one of the pines that grow In hts
county, with clear, cheerful blue eyes
you'd not like to have looking at you over
the sight of a gun. He was little more
than a lad. 15 or so, but he had a man's
heart In (hlm.
"He looked ovpr the crowd and smiled a
little. I looked over the crowd and I never
felt less like nmlling In my life. Mind you.
tt wss Just then dnyllght. and I'd not had a
peek at the gentjemnn we'd gone out with.
"Take my word for It, son, a big ma
jority of those men should have been In
prison, and a fair lot of the others should
have been hanged. There were atage
coach robbers, train robbers, claim Jumpers
well, as Tom explained It to me, tho bad
dest bad men of California, Utah and
Nevada had gathered for that fight. '
"Now, I'm going to make a guesa why
that young sheriff smiled. I may be wrong.
He smiled when he figured out the chance
he'd have If It came to actual gun play
with that party of gentlemen.
"One of the party passed him a cheer
ful good morning and said he was glad
the sheriff had come out to see the fight. -"
'I'm sorry to give you trouble, boys,'
he says, 'but you can't pull off this fight
In Stonv county."
"They only laughed at him and drank
their coffee. Then one said he'd get the
stakes and rope for the ring out of tho
wagon. The sheriff stopped smiling, b'ut
he- didn't lose any color, when he pulls
his hand out of hla overcoat pockets, with
a six shooter In each hand, and says:
" "on't take that ring tackle out of the
wagon. I won't allow It.'
"He didn't raise his voice. He didn't
say, like the storlea. that he'd shoot the
first man. He used tjhat soft little word
allow, and the man who had started for the
things stopped.
"I see the sheriff give Tom a quick look,
and Tom nudged me and we walks over to
the side of the sheriff. Others did; per
haps a dozen of us In all. Not more. There
were nearly a hundred of the worst men I
ever saw In my life facing us. '
" I waa feeling uncomfortable, gripping
my gun hard and clearing the hammer
from the pocket lining. They talked to
gether a little and then one asked how far
to the county line.
" 'About three miles,' says the sheriff.
'You can make it across the sage brush.
There's no road.'
"It was the cool nerve of that man saved
us, I gu.'ss. The crowd began to Jolly
him, told him he was a good hearted lad
and begged him to come along with them
and see the fight.
" 'Much obliged, boys,' said the sheriff.
'but I never could a-bear the sight of j
blood.' f
"He rode with us, though, to show the
county line, and when he'd seen the ring t
pitched In the next county he waved hs '
hand and rode off. A brave man, (hat. '
"There were two side seat wagons In
the lot that trundled over the Sage brush.
In one were fete, hla seconds and principal j
backer; in the other Jack and hla party, j
"The fighters had. been so muffled up
in horse blankets I didn't have a fair look
at them until they were stripped for the
ring. Pete was like these old fashioned
pictures you see of bare bnuckle fighters
of Heenan's 'days. A bullet headed, low
browed, muscle knotted brute.
"Jack Askew looked more like the glove
fighters of today. Not that he waa a
beauty, but the looked more like a man
thait bulldog.:- ' 1 '
''The wagons, buggies and other traps
tho people had gone out In were wheeled
in close to the ring and 'the saddle horses
were fastened to them on the outside, you
understand. There was a fringe of men
around the ropes and tho others were on
the vehicles, so we all had a good view.
"Under Lendon prlie ring rules a round
ends when one fighter goes to grass, aa
they say one knee of one man to grass. '
There was no boxing, no dodging, rucking.
sidestepping us In these days. At the call
of time the two brutes sprang at each
other, there Was the dull chug of bony
knuckles on flesh; one or both would
fall, the seconds would rush In. carry off
their men, sponge off the blood, and then
at It again.
"You'd have to look up some of the old
papers to learn how many rounds they
fought. I never knew. The spectators,
most of them, were madder, uglier than the
fighters. There was a gun in nearly every
man's hand; knives In some.
Pete began to go to grass without being
struck. He'd lost much blood and was v.
Ing himself. Once when he did that Jack
stamped on him with Ills spiked shoe. But
Fete would usually get In one blow before
he fell, and was wearing the Cornishman
out.
'I'll not give you particulars. They're
not pretty, but finally Jack could no longer
kee, no longer stagger from his second's
knees. It was all over.
"It was loo much for me. I'd been In a
duae. anyhow, and when the action stopped
something In me stopped. Anyway, when
somebody pulled me off 'the buggy seat
where I was sprawled out, most of the
people had left. Before I got my wits
moving all hud left but the wagon with
Jack and his party.
" 'What you lookin' for?' asks the man by
the driver of Jack's wagon.
" 'My horse,' 1 said. 'Somebody has
stolen 1 1 1 i ii .
" "I've lost the. worth of a dossn horses,'
shvb he. 'You're the stranger who stood
oy me sheriff. That was good nerve of
you. You can ride hi with us unless you'd
rather walk.
1 wished soon that I'd walked. I eat
rext to poor Jack. A cauliflower would
nave made a better looking aar than the
one toward me. Ills eyes were two closed
bumps of red and purple and his nose and
mouth But 1 11 not tell you. The mother
who loved him wouldn't have known him.
"He died a day or two later down In the
hospital blow the camp. I disremember
what It was culled, but It was kept by some
Slstera of Charity. I saw them when Tom
and I went down to see did he have what
ho needed.
"But I must tell yuu about the horse.
Tom didn't see me where I'd sprawled out
In the buggy, and rode In, thlnkln' I was
litad of him.
" 'But.' I said, 'lrt me find the villain
who stole my horse. I would wish to have
some argument with him.'
"Tom took me that night to a restaurant,
where he Introduced me to a fine younj
fellow named Sam Davis. He was eail-ig
fried bread with maple syrup. I well re
member It.
"Well, this Sain Davis was one of the
moat entertaining chaps I ever met. He
was full of hla stories and Jokes and
husky chunk of a lad, too. J was much
plt-aaed with him. He was In great aplnts.
" 'I'm feeling all to the good tonight,'
; be said, 'because I got my story of the fight
I Into tho Chronicle an hour before the Gold
Hill News got it. And I beat the out-of-town
men out of their boots. I filed proofs
ut my story for six out-of-town papers
long beforo the correspondents of other
papers limped Into -town. It was a fine
beai. I ll have some more fried bread and
mupln syrup.'
" 'You were lucky to gel back to town
so hasty. Mr. Davis." I said. 'How did you
""ii H?'
" '1 rode out in the wagon with Jack
! Askew." he said, but I borrowed a horse to
" umv a
"'"You borrowed It?" 1 said.
" 'Yes.' he said, 'and It was a fine animal.
Whin I tuid the man I borrowed It from
! I'm going to open a buttle for him.'
fUr tiia bolUo, Mr. Davis,' I sU.'
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TRYING OUT THE HARRIERS
Beagle Fanciers to Hold Their Meet
This Month.
LITTLE BOGS IN BABBIT CHASE
Rich Men and Poor United In Lorn
of tae Mlnlatar i'oikoasrit
Points of the Dos; that
Count.
NEW YORK, Oct. U.-Beagles have been
hunted In England as long as packs of fox
hounds, and there have been harriers in '
this country for 11 years, but founded on ;
imported dogs. The National Beagle club
of America Is only of yesterday In com
parison, 51 1 the eighteenth annual field
trials are to be hold this month at 8ha 1
well, Albermarle county, Virginia, about
five miles from Charlottesville.
Rich men and poor are united In the love
of the miniature foxhounds, for the beagles
are copies of their big cousins In conforma
tion, color and hunting attributes,' and at
each field trial enthusiasts gather from all
parts of the east and the south. The beagle
cult as to field trials does not seem to be
strong in the west, although many dogs of
champion stock are owned there.
The wtnners of the New England, Penn
sylvania, southern and other local trials
meet at the national trials eaqh year In the
crowning tests of superiority. A peculiarity
of the triala it that while a hundred men
may take purt In the sport not one of them
will carry a gun.
A rabbit Is not killed unless run down In
the open by the dogs, and while untiring
ou the scent the beagle Is slow footed, so
that Br'er Rabbit Is more often chased
than caught. The running Is to reveal the
sagacity of the dogs and not to fill the pot.
The classes at the trials are In accordance
with the height of the beagles, exactly as
at the bench shows. They are for those
over thirteen and not exceeding fifteen
Inches, and for those of thirteen Inches and
under. 1
There Is an annual derby for J-year-oMa
of fifteen Inches and under. There are also !
trials for packs of four and of eight. j
A great event Is the competition for the i
national challenge cup. the gift of W. O. j
Rockefeller, president of the club, for packs
of four. Performances and ahow qualities .
count an equal number of points ror the
cup. The packs are first hunted to bring
out. their working skill and then lined up
for a Judgment on their good looks.
Hunting ability Is all that Is regarded In
the other classes, except that there are
usually special prises for dogs placed In a
trial to be awarded only on bench show
and working types of beagle are not greatly
divergent. One of the alms of the club Is
to prevent the creation of a show beale
on an exaggerated sort, only good to look
at.
The classes are run In heats, dog against
dog, but each pack works alone. The derby
Is to brim out tlx- merit of the you:ig
dogs, the class stakes to reveal the beagles
that are beat educated for their llfework
with a ph k.
Fanciers of the breed will make entries
for the class or pack competitions from
placea far apart., They 'will Include J. V.
Appleton. . Ipswich, Muss.; Dr. II. D.
Brunes, New Orleans,- A. J. Purlngtun.
Palmer, Mass.; (".Ill and - Cronmlller,
Covanstown. Md.; George li. Post, Somer
set Beaglea, New Jersey; W. Q. Rockefeller,
Rock Ridge Kennels, Greenwich. Cnnn.f 11.
O. Walton, Hempfleld Beagles. Oreenahurg.
Pa.; C. F. Brook. Blsndlnj Springs. Md.;
Chetwood Smith, president of the New
England Field Trials; Chandler Barnard.
Bryn Mawr, Pa.; (J. F. Reed, Barton. Vt.;
John Caswell, dean of the brotherhood.
Pride's Crossing. Mass.: T. D. Griffith, Mld
jland, Md.; Rockcllffe Beagles; Hcmstead,
I N. Y.; Samuel , Frothlngham of Inos,
' Msss.; Willis Sharpe. Kilmer Binghamton,
jN.Y.; Charles R. Stevenson, secretary of
me ciud, 1 a mum, i. j.; nameay lurnuun,
Bernardsvllle, N. J ; Henry W. Warner.
Manhattan; O. Staley Doub. Frederick,
Ind . and T. Dudley Riggs, one of the
seven brothers of Baltimore, famous In
Princeton foot bail, now of Hartford, Conn.
Harry T. Peters of Isllp, who owns the
Wlndholun beagles and wins many prizes
at the be.'F.h shows, no longer attends the
field triala, but h.f formerly ran his dogs at
Westbury.
The national trials were In" Maryland
last year, and they have not been at West
bury iiace 1M, whn II P. WUtusy fol
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gave the club the use of the grounds. The
trials were held on "a bushy knoll between
the windmill and the paddocks on the
Whitney estate.
W. C. Whitney had broad paths cleared
through the woods, like the runways In an
English covert, ' to help the sport of the
beagle fanciers. Thanks to the ubiquitous
pothunter, rabbits were not plentiful at the
last trials In Westbury, and when the dogs
ran one from the bushes to the grassland
they were checked to save the cottontail
for another hunt.
Whether the owner hunts hts beagle
pack on foot or horseback he may take
the title of master of harriers. They hunt
hares with them In England, hence the
term. ,
Packs of the larger beagles are followed
by riders, although many pedestrians
join In the hunts, but the packs of thlrteen
Inch beagles are too slow for horsemen.
Some of the English schoolboys keep packs
of foot beagles.
Until a season or two ago the Delancey
Kanes, Isellns, Rey rials, Potters and other
Westchester county residents hunted a
pack of Imported beagles two or three
times a week In the enclosed country sur
rounding the ater works at New Rochelle.
English hares and western Jack rabbits
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Dr. Willis P. King, of Kansas City, formerly President of the Missouri State Medical
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women and men, had many nne meets.
Green Is the color for harriers, as pink
Is tor fox hunters. But the masters of
harriers only sport their colors at a club
meet or when they bring a draft from
their pack into the ring for a dog how
special class In , which appointments are
specified. A green coat Is even more rare
at a field trial than a red Jacket In these
days on the golf links. . .
Instead, shooting suits, usually redolent
of tobacco and the worse for wear, of
brown canvass, khaki, corduroy or tweeds,
are worn, with laps and high boots oir
yellow leggings. Some of the handlers
have circling horns, on their belts, similar
to those seen In old hunting prints, but
they are seldom sounded.
The two Judges, who fellow the beagles
as closely as they can, and some of the
onlookers bear long canes to stir up a
rabbit, crouching on its fours, but the
bunny Is seldom slow enough to need such
a hint. The beagles, work without any as
sistance, except that when time presses
the handlers may be ordered to lift them
over a hedge or from a cold scent to a
place where a rabbit Is known to be.
Some beagle men are opposed to any
lifting. They maintain that beagle works
on a chain of scent as close reasoners do
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to another In a sure sequence and to lift
the dogs confuses them.
Plenty of rabbits and for scent to He
good axe the conditions needed for an
exciting series of field trials. On some
days, as In bird shooting,' 'the scent comes
snd goes as mysteriously as a will o' the
.wisp, but when the atmosphere conditions
are right the sport will be good If there
are any cottontails about.
Some of the small beagles are no bigger
than rabbits. In England some are so
small that a couple of brace may be car
ried to the cover In the pockets of a great
coat. While the pedigrees of the Ameri
can beagles may always be traced to
English stock, the direct Importations, are
usually too sensitive In coat to work, in
the thorny shrubbery here as fast as the
homebreds.
"Stand In your tracks, let no one move,
except the Judges." will be the order from
the marshal,Nthe field representative of the
trial committee, when the baying of the
beagles shows that they are bringing out
a rabbit on a hot scent. They are mute
on a cold or baffling scent, but the music
when In full cry rings out' clearly and
strong through the wood's.
A beagle that gives . tongue after over
running the scent Is branded "a liar," and
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points. The climax of excitement to the
followers Is when a rabbit dashes Into the
open, followed closely by a brace of beagles
giving tongue aa they run with noses to
the ground their coats pricked with blood
from the brambles and the tails waving
like flag. Then the whole crowd pelts
along at a racing clip, the J'idges in the
van, to watch the work of the dogs and
the outcome of the chase.
Whiskey from Tnrnlpa.
."Try this, mon," said the Scotch host,
pouring an inch or two of whisky from a
UThe guest tried it, reddened, coughed,
choked.
"Gee!" he said as the other pounded hla
back.
'Aweel, mon, ten s wnai je inma 01.
"It warms me," said the guest. "It -rms
and thrills me. But is It not a little lCVin.
a little hot? It went down, I confess, a a
torchlight procession or a string of chetftnut
burrs."
The Scotchman laughed contemptuously.
"Ye've got no throat,'" he said. "Ye'll"
ne'er make a whuskey drinker. Dosh, mon,
that Is the purest an' most potent spirit
ever passed yer lip an' ye choked on It.
It Is pure turnip spirit made on ma brlther's
farm at Cralgenputtock."
"Made out of turnips, hey?"
"To he sure. All over bonny Scotia they
niak' whUBkey out o' turnips. They're
hrlfty there. Nought goes to waste. Here's
to ye, mon!" Minneapolis Journal.
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