CHAPTER XLIII.
However, as I grew better acquainted with the business and learned the run of the sources of information I ceased to require the aid of fancy to any large extent, and became able to fill my columns without diverging noticeably from the domain of fact.
I struck up friendships with the reporters of the other journals, and we swapped "regulars" with each other and thus economized work.

"Regulars" are permanent sources of news, like courts, bullion returns, "clean-ups" at the quartz mills, and inquests.

Inasmuch as everybody went armed, we had an inquest about every day, and so this department was naturally set down among the "regulars." We had lively papers in those days.

My great competitor among the reporters was Boggs of the Union.

He was an excellent reporter.