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Show ANECDOTES OF THE BAR. 241 my declarations, which, among others, was taken under advisement. "That evening the Judge spent at my house. The next morning I leaned over the bar ostensibly to inquire after the Judge's health, but in fact to see the status of my demurrer. I found it on top and sure to be sustained if allowed to remain there. Soon the Judge's attention was attracted in another direction. I quietly slipped it under the next one in order and took my seat. Thereupon Judge Gale proceeded to decide his demurrers. As usual, the first was sustained and the second overruled. Mine was of course overruled, and I triumphed. Smith, who had seen the operation, whispered to me, 'you old fraud, you shuffled the deck on me.' " But the Gale soon blew over-back to its native clime, and we were happy once more. "While listening to these incidents I have thought of an experience of mine," said Judge V. D. Markham. " In the spring of 1879 I received a telegram from parties living in Kansas to meet them on a certain day at West Las Animas, the county seat of Bent county, in the extreme southeastern part of Colorado. I arrived at West Las Animas the evening before the day appointed for the meeting. Early the next morning I received a dispatch from the Kansas parties saying, that, owing to some accident to the train, they would not arrive until the next day. It so happened that Judge Henry, Judge of the district of which Bent county was a part, had just that morning opened a special term of the District Court for that county. This special term was held at the request of the County Commissioners of Bent county, for 16 |