Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-03-11 | Page 11 | "Soapy" Knew That "John" Was Dead

trBw SOAPY" KNEW " THAT "JOHN" WAS DEAD. jBMiry tales are told nf fJonpy ih.' Mid a man who recently te- Lrt Hk'd from the Klondike. "You know AHu the gnmhler that a citizens' '-mlttM ordered to len e D iwson, ,1 vhen he refused and showed fight, R shot full of holes. Well, I knew tft 'n Ptmer and I want to'say that B.i .bout as tough a proiinsltlon ns kltlwie tvn known hut nt tho mono rKHt fc aa an exceedingly ngrecabln BiOrppnd an evening with. He was 'li'H?'! ot -imc culture, nnd witty, "'''Hnil'lslng a good song, l cello cIhb- ,,cBl poetry and t II a story well. Aside. BitMnhs wu liberal with the mon- H robbed the unsuspecting nf, and ofh irottei was 'A sucker has rtiht In hive money when good ilpHjm day I w i rlttlng In the foro-cylVioflire foro-cylVioflire v hen I tiw a ileputy tomo trt"h tnapv I liked him whnt l.e B doing tnere r.n.l he told me that n mJM' ad ommlued suicide, ami that Bvuurldrii lei but that somo ona that It w John Wllllnms. a. tin. p namWer tint once dtnlt falo for ad th.y winte 1 me to i nme down rlytH see the IH He Invlteil mo to (otiBvk ltr him to where thn body lyln;on a lib and on thn way MiK nm"k'A thai Williams would be ''lilt h n nllM ns ho was . Ja mM' "f h time nnd that ho 151 (htn hln a 1 1 of money uvcry m H rrt hri for a rm. lUVhen e r he I tho plnio whero iWBkelt th I 1 (ino of thn assist. tfcrtB t k thr het so that wo jjisB"? II" dnd inans face. M guess m John all n-ht poor devil.' snld r at le nk d tnlently nt tho face ., ,m ,?n1nd or i n hut Ihero Is a way "W" tell for a eitalnt.' Walking . K1!1 ,h" n'h,r "hie ot tho body, id IKH Id In a Inu oi. c luSfB,"' n -I in let h take u drink pplfiB, " m" k rlnusnesH he wutched iil'K'i'j""1 g"Uliig no lespnnse. ho Aok'-V, ijohBJ h ,u""-'1 ana. 'Yes, asll"Mhi jas el through the nfllro ho sH ,i J llin n the uniterlnker'H ...B,"11" h re,iirnt that Wllllnms nillB;t'1 ie tnt burl il ' Milwaukee