The Kid Glove Miner; or, The Magic Doctor of Golden Gulch

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The Kid Glove Miner; or, The Magic Doctor of Golden Gulch, by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, is a Western romance serialized in this issue. The story follows a well-dressed Eastern gentleman traveling through mining country who encounters a wounded guide named Lucky Pete. The dying miner entrusts the stranger with papers, bank notes, and a request to deliver them to his mother. After the stranger departs to fetch a doctor, a band of miners arrives at a remote cabin where they discover three bodies: Lucky Pete's killer, Elegant Ed (a respected dandy miner), his beautiful young wife, and the stranger bound and captured. Accused of three murders—Pete shot, Ed shot, and his wife stabbed—the stranger protests his innocence while circumstantial evidence and recovered stolen items condemn him. Miner Brick Bender, moved by his own past near-execution for a crime he didn't commit, sentences the prisoner to labor rather than hanging, though the text cuts off before complete resolution.