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The talk drifted back to the early days, and "Aunt" Martha mentioned Balderson. To identify him she went to her scrapbook, and as she was turning the pages she said: "In those days of the early seventies, before the railroad came, when the town awoke in the morning and found a newly arrived covered waggon near a neighbour's house, it always meant that kin had come.
The remarkable part of the fight is that which Balderson took in it. After two of his men had been killed and the owner of the Jingle-bob ranch had fallen, Balderson and his two remaining men came forward with hands up, waving handkerchiefs. The Jingle-bob people recognised the flag of truce, and Balderson led his men across the creek to the cow-camp.
After the evidence was all in and the attorneys were about to make their arguments, Balderson and one of the lawyers for the strikers were alone. "They told me to take the part about you, Balderson; you were in the Union Army, weren't you?" Balderson looked at the floor and said: "Yes; but don't say anything about it." The lawyer, who knew Balderson's record, was astonished.
Colonel Morrison says that Balderson became familiarly known in State politics as Little Baldy, and was in demand at soldiers' meetings and posed as the soldier's friend. Wilder's "Annals" records the fact that Balderson failed to go to Congress, but went to the State Senate. He waxed fat.
Balderson that twenty foot bamboo; I want to sound the river as we come back." As soon as the boat was again turned, Dick took the pole, and, standing up, thrust it down into the water. "Only about seven feet, sir," he whispered. "That is bad. It is evident that the ship cannot get up here; still we may as well go on sounding."
"Aunt" Martha added: "He went to Topeka in his blue soldier clothes, his campaign hat, and brass buttons; but he came back, at the first recess, in diamonds and fine linen, and the town sniffed a little." Having learned this much of Balderson our office became interested in him, and a reporter was set to work to look up Balderson.
"Having participated in the late War of the Rebellion, as captain in Company G of Colonel Jennison's famous and invincible army of the border, Colonel Balderson will give special attention to pension matters.
Harry Parkhurst was third lieutenant, Dick Balderson, to the regret of both, having left the ship on his promotion, and having been transferred as third lieutenant to Captain Ferguson's craft.
Sailors like anything for a change, and all were impatient at the long delay that had occurred. The gunboat was a large one, and carried two midshipmen besides Parkhurst and Balderson, who were, however, their seniors. The mess consisted of the four lads, a master's mate, the doctor's assistant, and the paymaster's clerk.
From "Aunt" Martha we learned that before Judge Balderson had been in town a week he had dyed his whiskers and had taken command of our forces in the county-seat war then brewing.
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