Show 0 01 the passing of brackville Bric kville 0 by joseph N quail by st 1 to LO i tho des destito titi of wax as de tie aided when pike chimney caught file lite ami and in that alaine the hope of 0 a metto polls lu tit file heart of at tha had L bind linds went ent up in smoke it at the moment paradoxical paradox lia as it may the little ildza which destroyed uee des troed the town wi nis earll tot under con frol in lilt place pio grossed as u far us its a hit flit lei artmont and it would mould not riot have hell e 1 mattere matters if it it bud V tipsy colbo who mho had been sampling Ham pling s hard hardware mare vaulted to the back of a wolfish looking cayuse celled a few fem times thries in fit heart montana Nion tatia fashion ind then sunt lils hi at the achlin no nei AS the mow flie fair about the stack of brick tc I 1 e dug spurs into the bides s of lile tits mount and nude made a run upon the rope role the chhung caino dovin down ith iti 1 a crash the tire was t ut tit th the e fri file t e of mas as arit n ahat Is wh h the to town doe does not riot ap fear a upon any map hut tint if eyt r ou liae giddin over the northern Nor thein pa cine sou can call probably recall a long and narrow valley to the north as ion passed out of the bad landa lands of dalo ta into the lad linds I of montana that Is DrIck ville stood ahe I 1 ho soil all about IH Is haid laid and dr do and led red and there la Is no rt lure not any when in eight sight la Is a treo rite tide side hills me lite seamed nith black stra i ta tint and the rains inn into a carried stains from front these and streaked streak td til the valley nalley with th ni un or both eldea bides of the inured little stream which winds aa aw a to the south the black strata are deanis of bitu minous coal and it was aas in mining coil bat att the made their living thue 18 1 still iny illy in these but the eople ho 1 worked them haie bale drifted aa awai and on the bite of the town prairie dogs and coy otes and rattlesnakes hold anguil con mentions vent lons ions which ner neier adjourn it any place eer fulte justified its name that place waa as le at the height of ita its prosperity it had ex clashe of sheds and st ahles 87 one stor including the rall railroad road ut atlon the saloon and the tonsorial lal parlor and every one ot at them thein N was as of brick even the i heda there ft ere optimists who looked forward rard fo to a blick courthouse court house and a brick jail and but for the fire in pikey mcgines chimney these aspirations might haio halo been realized I 1 pierro sur botash played perhaps tho most prominent part in Bric brackville kville e destruction pierre ft as a a french ca aadlan whose roar rear name had come in to collision with alth Brick vIlles sense of pro propriety and some of its letters were mere dislocated by the shock he lie had been gold mining in colum coluin bla and no one had inquirer inquired very closely into the reason of 0 his coining coming from a gold to a coal camp it t would have established an in uncomfortable precedent dut he wint nosing about the ft A reck reek of at that chimney aa as he v went ent nosing into everything that happened la in town and pred fred ritchie RItch le who ruu rou ducted the tonsorial lal parlor which waa was across the street from mcginn 9 saw sw him sudden suddenly dart in and pick up a broken brick now noa fied fred and succotash had said some unpleasant things to each other once upon a time and ired bellev ing that pierre waa courting rouble trouble promptly ran in for hia his gun but when he came out succotash was no where to be seen next morning pikey found that gome some ona one had carried off ON nearly half hall of his chimney bricks and he be promptly declared it to be the work of slant eye NIc mccafferty Cafferty his hated rival in the hardware business busl nesa mac alao denied thia this in n vigorous language and a gunplay was as imminent when the whisky agent happened along and announced a reduction in rates by the barrel and thin they had a drink and ordered half a barrel each and the hatchet was nas burled buried hut war was on oil hotter than eer ever next day for the remainder of pikey a s loose bricks had disappeared in the night pike smote a that Sl antee wae was planning a cheap extension to hia ills gin mill and mac retorted hot tbt be he would mould be a fool indeed to go around i icking bicking up tip hoodoos that had fallen from front his rivals leik leak root roof then each rot a shotgun and stood out in front of his tits saloon waiting for the other to come along and the result ot of this was vas that trade fell off in both places for knew that shotguns scattered their charges and they refu renuad still to slake their thirst when there was a chance that a stra buckshot all maht ht next moment spring opting them aleak go it was that business interests induced the rival rivals for a see ond and time to declare a truce and then the town breathed td easier easler and drank oftener A week later succotash duct was a ps on a westbound express with a ticket to glendee in bis his hat band and the next eastbound east bound freight brought in ft a very scarce article some lumber and a heavy iron roll er et marked ath his hanif on his tits re to tun he the roller jn in the brick shack baere he slept and put a big padlock on the door 1 hat ho he did in that place wis wi the town ton astery but put he was as hush flush of money and me cne da dat he lie caused a sensation lie became tho the owner of a saloon having bought out pike taking bar stack stock goodwill and building then to the greater iter surprise of Urick mio he sol soil I 1 to pike e haid oval but the build ing nap smote it waa mas all a put up job and ifft h ft ton own in it succo tush said tt it aag a because he intended u tear Icardo dotin tho the old house ond and put up a better on and tear down domn the old pi lee he dl all I 1 and he ito carted the brick bricks awa to ills hi fialer ni aler lery shod shed to store thuu there until he tie was ready to build he sal sail I 1 but the ant thing hat pierro hulit at aral time was a wooden water trough leading from hia his well to the brick shed most lost ot of the lay and all of the night he lie locked himself in that beed anith ft ath his secret those who passed in tit the rear tear of the place declared that chiy y could hear him grind ing something and because bec ause of a pool of red water which had accumulated mar the sald the thought it must bi bo thu the bricke bricks now noa fred frid fri d lutchie was one of those who regarded pierre a conduct as most suspicious he lie gae gave a good doil dell of thought to the iiii stir of the plied and the he oaring par liiK down doli of mcgines a loon and finally he bc recal recalls ld having seen succotash grab thai that fitce of brick and make oft off with it then it occurred to him also th tint thit it it nab ft as PI pt orre who had find canard caused all the ho trouble between pikey and bl antry b bi teal ing tho ho and one day when succotash wa as down in town bueng provision fred sneaked out tho the back way of tit his shop with nith a bit find and stock and bored a hole in fit the mortar he be teen the bricks of pierres shed to discover hat flat hie big secret might be As eleira re worked th thit it night fred had hia ills ee glued to thie this hole and noted what lie m WIB 18 doing next morning hia his neighbors were surprised at finding that ritchie Hit chles 9 chimney had bad fallen during the night and the were astonished to see fred carrying the bricks into hie his barber shop and piling them up with ath great care lie ile wasa t going to have them stolen as were mere be he told them and as they I 1 assed by the ua later in the day and looked in the saw him pounding away amay at the bricks breaking them into bits and scanning each piece carefully one of his customers was mas let into tho the secret and another chimney fell the secret waa mas a it secret no longer succotash had found gold la in the piece of brick that ritchie had seen seln him dart forward to 0 o pick up and ho lie had found moo in the bricks he had etol atol en from pikey inith ith the proceeds he had set up an in the shed az mcginn him pick up a broken brick and in tilt this hd ho war grinding gold out of the bricka of pikes dismantled saloon and the others found scales and grains and specks of gold when the chimney bricks had been ground up the wall bricks followed and in a abort short space of time eirick bille ij as a town nt of tents again then it waa was announced suddenly that succotash and hid patched up their trouble and that 1 I 1 erre had sold hia his to fred thia this waa was followed b plenie departure dt from town toun ho lie haa has made hia tits pile the eald bald to one another the coal pita pits had been abandon pit for thia this new method of gold mining and there wain t a whole brick build ing in tho the place blun a freight brahe brake man one day brought a startling piece of news into the town succotash had bought a claybank in B bisin isan and a brickyard as well mell and he be had astonished the good people of that nook in the mountains munt aIns b con gerting this claybank nto into a gold mine and this brickyard into a mill in which to treat hia his rich cla for the gold I 1 I 1 not riot be freed by ordinary process of placer washing then BrIc brackville kville collectively kicked itself for not having thought to trace out this brickyard before the man inan from canada and the folded their tenta tents and went scurry scurrying 9 away to the mountains to search there for other that were mere studded with mulcts of gold cold |