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Show . r. c f 1 - C ' i f ' 1 1 ' : . : , t . ' 1 . : i ( ' i ; : , i. n a wci-j, i i ' s ; c;i t' ' i .. :v.o : I'e is ::. J. Ia :t. Lott 13 an "( " :-t: . r," i wiih i r::i" 0:1- Vtr 1.3 "cr.rvel h!s i irk." over that section of Dkoti that Iadwood holds to the map. "Deadwood ain't what it used to be," eald Lott this morning. "I guess there ain't nothln' left for me to do, but hit the trail for New York, like my friend, Marshal 'Bat Masterson. Why, son, do you know that rambling: has actually actual-ly been suppressed in that there town. Think what that means! Why, for t m--:-; ' .!-! f .? little hiU roll" 1 i..rr..y v..: ;t a.i ir.terru; tion. Now no lor r is r.. :ri the cllck-cliek of the i'" 'ette : 1. '.Jut t: t ain't r'.l. All faro layouts lay-outs are t p-i an J a man c.m't 'buck the tijr'-r' 1. o the old days. All the eports ere just standing around. It's all because the city has got 'good.' The laws have been on the statute books all ri.Tht for twenty years, but whoever thought of stopping a man's game "in Dead wood. . . , . 'Why, I've been in Deadwood " from the great rush of 1876, when in a single day the town tumbled up to the population popu-lation of 6000 souls. - Now all is billed in Deadwood Gulch, and the 'profesh' are what you Easterners call being 'on their uppers.' What a blow! "Deadwood ln'heT day has seen many a high play, There -was-'Wlld '1:111' I Hlckok, and 'Jack' McCall, who killed him;. 'Lank' and Charley Keys, broth-1 broth-1 ers, gamblers, stage robbers and other lines: 'Lame Johnny,' gambler and gentlemanly road agent; . 'Bill' Hale, 'Dick' Ranklns, 'Billy' Gay, 'Length Johnson and a host of other good boys. "Why, son, there were gamblers among the women in those days who could win or lose a fortune without winking a lash. Why, 'Calamity Jane,' who died last year, was one of us back 1 In the 'good old days.' She was a good un at that, and mark that up to me. i "As I recall, gold was discovered there on June 23, 1876, and according i to my recollection the edict to stop gambling went Into effect June 22 bf ! this year,' or Just twenty-nine years of i ceaseless day and night Joy. . t "But the 'Black Hills' will never be the same no more. I can't stand this reform. It's all right In any other city, but in Deadwood! It's desecrating public pub-lic rights; that's what it is. Why, you might as weH stop gambling at Monte Carlo or prevent sailors from drinking. "This Is the last blow for roe, . and Deadwood will know me no more unless un-less she repents and takes it all back,", and In his grief the- heart-broken miner and prospector shed a tear. . . |