Support Your Local Sheriff! - Discontent Among Mine-Owners and Local Leadership
Tom Jeffreys:
All this may seem very amusing to the Mayor and the members of the Town Council, but we mine-owners haven't had a thing to laugh about since we started here!
Olly Perkins:
We don't think it's funny, Tom- we just don't know what to do about it.
Tom Jeffreys:
For that matter, what we need is a new Mayor and a Town Council that does know what to do about it!
Olly Perkins:
Now, what kinda talk is that?! We all know the only reason I'm Mayor and the other two are Councilmen, is because nobody else wanted the job. And don't forget, Tom, we're all mine-owners ourselves!
Tom Jeffreys:
Well, do you enjoy giving twenty percent of everything you take out of the mines to the Danby family?
Henry Johnson:
Why would we enjoy it?
Tom Jeffreys:
Well, alright then! Let's do something about it!
Olly Perkins: [gestures at a map]
What? You all know the situation! There's us, here in Calendar, and there's Galena where we've gotta ship our gold- and there's the Danby ranch, halfway in between! The road even runs through their property.
Tom Jeffreys:
Alright, fine, then we'll build the road around their property.
Olly Perkins:
HOW?! They own that whole valley!
Fred Jackson:
Besides, if they don't get their twenty percent, they just hold up every stage that comes through, and take all of it!
Tom Jeffreys:
Alright, but we've gotta do something! Even if it means bringing troops in here!
Olly Perkins, Henry Johnson, Fred Jackson:
Troops?!
Olly Perkins:
What troops? From where? The nearest troops are five hundred miles away!
Tom Jeffreys:
Alright, then we recruit our own.
Olly Perkins:
How? We can't even recruit enough dishwashers, so how are we gonna raise any troops?
Henry Johnson:
Nobody wants to stop prospecting long enough to take a bath, let alone join an army.
Olly Perkins:
It all happened so fast, we haven't had a chance to really get organized yet.
Fred Jackson: [nods]
And the Danbys are taking advantage of it.
Henry Johnson: [points out the window]
There goes one of em now.
Fred Johnson:
Which one's he?
Olly Perkins:
Joe. Out of the father and three brothers, he's about the second-toughest.
Henry Johnson:
They all act like they own the place.
Tom Jeffreys: [darkly]
The way things are set up right now, they do. And it's gonna stay that way, til we can find ourselves a sheriff that won't turn tail and run the minute someone takes a shot at him!
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