The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-08-28
THE BR|GANDS OF THE WEST,
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WOLF THE PRAIRIES.

The
WOLF OF THE PRAIRIES!
In the dense wilds OF forest, not far from
Rock Island, lonely log cabin sent up its curl
NJ smoke towards the heavens. 1t was the
deep hour OF midnight, and the cabin was fuii
OF men. whose features bespoke the concen'
tration of yillainy and the desperation OF crime.
Shack Phipps with his thin sinister countenance
Hiram Long with Lis fair, handsome features,
Fox with his keen, shrewd eye, and Tom the
self -conceited son OF old Birch were there
Pistols and bowie knives were spread in impos-
ing array on the table, fanked and garnished
with the whiskey jug and its attendant glasses.
Here's health to the great confederacy OF
the West, and ruin and death to Bonney," said
Fox, "and let it be bumper, and he tossed
off to the very dregs his glass as he spoke.
His example was followed by all present, and
the CRY Of ruin and death to Bonney" rung
through the apartment, and hoated out on the
air of night through the chinks and solitary
window OF the cabin.
.'Brothers, said tall dark featured man,
rising from his seat, and holding his glass in
his hand ''the hour has come. John and
Aaron Long, and Granville Young are doomed
to death, and there IS no redemption. As for
Baxter. Redden and his son. and Birch, the
technicalities Of the law may save them, at
least for the present. But blow must be
struck at Bonney. / have prepared it. \ few
nights ago, under the shadow of the Mormon
Temple. which you all well know, arranged
it, and Bonney must fall. Even at the foot of
the gallows of the Longs and Young, we will
brand HIM before the world as a felon.
A prolonged cheer, which seemed strong
enough to have rent the roof Of the cabin from
it's fastenings, rose up from the whole gang at
this address, and then there followed scene
OF debauchery, which the pen is unable to de-
scribe and which the ear OF decency would
shrink to hear. Alone under the shadows OF
the vast forest of primeval nature, we leave
them, cursing and railing-abject subjects OF
the awful demon Of inebriation, revenge and
crime.
Our scene again changes to the cell OF the
prison at Rock Island. where John and Aaron
Long and Granville Young, doomed to death
are confined. The last rays of the setting sur
were streaming through the small grated win
dow, and the trio of mmderers, with theil
heads bowed upon their breasts. were silent il
that hush OF the soul which bespeaks despair
Slowly the door turned on Its hinges, and tht
same gentlemanly-lookin and dark-featuret
man, wnom at the close of our last chapter W.
left galoping off from conference under tn,
shadow of the Mormon Temple. and whom, a
the beginning of this, we have seen addressing
the gang at the cabin i'll the forest, stood be
fore the murderers.
"Ha!" exclaimed Long, raising his head
Are you here at last, ole boy? Well hav
You anything to say, Is there any hope? spea
man, for the gallows stares me IN the face.
'Pooh Long, never give up. here's my han
to show you, your brother and Young, that
will not desert you. have been to Nauvoc
have seen the boys there, and all is right.
have also seen Hickman and Williams, and otl
ers you know, and wen manufacture such
bombshell, that when it bursts. Bonney will
ments against hun for counterfeiting, and II
the murder of Miller and Leicy, for which I'll
Hodges were executed. II Bonney is arreste
under this latter charge, he cannot get ball. al
Will have to go to prison On all these indie
ments. will obtain requisition from Cover
or Chambers Of iowa on Governor Ford of III
nois, to have Bonney arrested on the very di
5 set for your execution. In the meantime,
will make such representations to Govern
Ford as will induce him to order your repre'
and to grant you hopes OF a new trial. or an o
portunity to effect your escape through the q
, sIstance OF your friends"
"Bravo, old boy, you are trump in t
black hour of need" exclaimed John Lon
shaking, as if he would rend it from its sho
der the outstreched hand Of the speaker. I
: countenances Of Aaron Long and Young, al
lighted up at the cheering tones which had Z
len on their ears, and they too grasped {
hand OF the dark-featured man.
'Hold," said their visitor lone thing mo
II the worst comes to the worst, and you sta
on the scaffold, protest your innocence, a
eXclte tne puOlc dSAiust Quincy ny Chai ~
him with the most heinous crimes you can /
y agine. Then the officers bearing'the writ VIII
= / think shall obtain from Governor Ford, v
present themselves and arrest Bonney.
tremendous excitement will follow against BC
ney and in your favor, and if the gang cam
then make successful attempt to rescue y
3. and enable you to escape, then am no prof.
ct, and human ingenuity is humbug."
n With this parting consolation, their frie
and counselor passed out of the cell Of
murderers and the gloom Of their prison seen
". bright with hope as the spiked and iron-bou
door closed on his departure, and the PRISON
bent their manacled forms to listen to his
treating footsteps
In short time after this visit to the cell
the Longs and Young man 10y the name
Sas Height. of keokuk, Iowa Territory,
peared at Fort Madison, and accomplished p
! Of that which had been promised to the Lor
and Young, by the dark-featured man.
He procured indictments against Bonney
Oy counterfeiting and murder 10y the aid OF
, oath of Hickman and Williams. two villains
himself and others whom he had promised