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Show 240 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. ish homoeopathically injected, he rather liked them. Steck, in a grand outburst of expletives, manifested his disgust, and the balance partook of the odorous repast in silence. " This was our only supper, except what we obtained from Taylor's jug. " Next morning the party was about as sickly and disgusted an outfit as the world ever saw. We reached Canon in due time, and literally filled the court with the aroma of bur presence, so to speak. " During the next year a murderer named Van Horn was tried at Central City, before Judge Chas. Le Armour. Henry M. Teller defended, and during the trial the Judge conceived it to be his duty to leave the bench and be sworn as a witness in the case. Teller objected, but without avail. Armour took the oath, and on the first question being put to him, Teller again interposed an objection addressed to the bench, then empty. The Judge was equal to the occasion. He promptly took the bench and overruled the objection, then descended to the witness stand and proceeded to give his testimony. So the farce went on. Van Horn was convicted, sentenced to death, and was finally hanged with great eclat by A. C. Hunt, United States Marshal. "After Judge Hall left the bench he was succeeded by a man named Gale, from Pennsylvania, who, in one respect, was like necessity-he knew no law. Among other of his peculiarities, he had a certain system of disposing of demurrers. "He would hear them one day and decide them the next morning, invariably sustaining the first and overruling the. second, and so on, to the end of the list. " One day Bright Smith argued a demurrer to one of |