D. P. Carr and Deputy Sheriff Muse learn-
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

D. P. Carr and Deputy Sheriff Muse learn- ing who the girls were, questioned them as to whether they had been married. They replied in the negative. Deputy Muse took Staples to task in the matter, when the latter in his bully- ing way said “that he would shoot the belly out of any d — d s — of a — b who dare say there was anything wrong.” This aroused the ire of the little deputy, who sets no special value on bullies. Muse struck him, and reading the riot act to him in a quiet but determined tone, brought the half-drunken beast to a peaceful standard in short order.