As I walked up the main street I noticed…
source date: 1891
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es,” answered the doctor, “I got qui- nine, but it will cost you $3 for six powders, and I want the money before I get off this bunk.” I handed him the three dollars and then he put up the powders which he handed me with the necessary instructions in regard to their use. As I walked up the main street I noticed the tent of the old German of whom we bought the outfit the day before was a perfect wreck, and also one or two other tents were more or less damaged. The poor old fellow and his wife were about half murdered and the $275 we had paid them, together with what they had on hand before, was all stolen, their little stock of goods was also about all gone or destroyed. We hitched up our team after an early breakfast and started for the Burros. As we were leaving, two or three of the desperadoes came to the side of the wagon and told us they would follow us to our camping place and take us in the next night. With fear and trembling we made camp that night about eight miles from Cow Spring but we were not mo- lested. I returned to Doming about three months afterwards. What a change I found, a deputy sheriff had been appointed, his name was Dan Tucker and he was certainly the right man, for if he wanted to arrest a desperado he was sure to either arrest him or kill him.