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Show 50 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. Phil. Sheridan, and directed to go into camp until a proper number had collected to come within the order of the Department Commander. Dick suggested that as we had a pass, pointing to the scalp floating. over his wagon, we ought to be permitted to proceed. The officer directed us to move on, which we did with our colors flying, and fortunately had no further molestation on the trip." " Were there any duels in those days ?" I asked. CHAPTER X. A BLOODY DUEL. " Yes, there was a bloody duel among the old-time romances. I remember it as though it was yesterday," said Judge Bennett. " It was the 7th, not the ides of March, A. D. 1860, when there-occurred a most sanguinary encounter or affair of 'honah,' between two citizens of the Territory. Dr. Stone, Judge of the miners' court in the Mountain City District, had been a member of the Legislative Assembly. Hon. L. W. Bliss was Secretary, and at the time acting Governor of the Territory. " There was no woman in this case, but money, the ' root of all evil,' according to respectable authority, did have something to do in the primeval cause of the quarrel, and wine warmed up the blood and caused the latent heat to escape. " The affair grew out of some personal language used by the former against the latter. As I remember it, Dr. Stone had drawn his pay as a member of the Legislature during the first and only session of that body that ever |