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Show ; Gamblers Helped the Rev. Endicott Build His 'Churchyard. Fence ! Tombstone was unique among the, i frontier towns that have achieved lurid distinction m the history of the ! American West. It had. according to us legend. Its man for breakfast every morning, but it was touched - with the refinements of old at;d ordered or-dered communities. It was isolated -ia-aiiHmLaptwt, hut ri vili7.itii,n wag just over the horizon ,'-,.. A mining Jowb id the heart of -a cattle; country, iv had the pfcturesqueness of a boom silver camp and the col- I our of a trail:end,, cowDoyi capital. It was a town of lawlessness and Iaw,k saloons and schools, gambling halls and churches', lurid inlodrma'and business routine, Ve'dTtghts :'aiid al-tar al-tar candles ;. . .,tj(, 1 -The:-IU't- Endicott Peabody. educated edu-cated at Cheltenham and Cambridge -university in Fnglarid 'and now fec-tor fec-tor of the Tombstone'' Episcopal, church,' ' Is 'aniious trj,! have the churchyard feixedVnef takes up a collection for the purpose. His con- 1 gregation ? gives fneageriy. Gamblers Gam-blers playing poker In the Crystal 1 Palace Hearn of the good pstop's disappointment and, with their com-plimeiits, com-plimeiits, sentHhe-Revr-Pea body-the--kitty from. the.oiKht's play, the. kijty i comprising chips taken out for all, hands above two pair. The Rev. j Peabody teturrt a notj of ffcl(tej thanks and the ghurqh ferlceis-bult. j -Walter ! Noble; i'BjrnS h Tomb- itone: Arj Uiad,bf the, SokitbWst' j Doubleday, Page St Co.. Publishers i ' . . ' i |