The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-12-17

"Dariug bands Of horse tbisve,
were At this time playing the devil
eeuarally With horses aud cattle. and
no mans stock Vas safe. One par
ticular gang had but . few days b
fore captured . 6ns lot Of hores and
taken them down the Red river q
New Orleans. where they were sold.
The good citizens Of the different
counties organized vigilance commit
tees for the purpose Of hunting down
the rascals, an whenever . thief VA
caught he died with his boots on. al.
though rope Was scarce and trees wers
far apart in that beautiful prairie
country. One Of the thieves bore
the same ~ one Of the vigilsntes. and
q letter intended for the thief fell BY
accident into the hands Of his name
sake, and that is how their scheme VA
discovered. The latter was quickly
sealed up and put back into the post.
Office, where . few hours later the
thief called for it and got it 1t ran
thus:
GALVESTON. -, - JULIE
Everything o. X. Big divvy. You
and Ned meet Jim and and me on
Friday night at end Of road. Will
come on gravel tram. Ike,
"Well, the thieves had failed to
come, but this Fridsy night. We had
come on the gravel train, and my bill
posters name was Jim, and ! called
him BY name in The bar room. and now
perhaps you will understand Why
that long-legged young brute looked 90
strangely at us.
Unconscious Of danger, We slept
soundly until abou: 4 o'clock. when /
Was awakened by . strong hand grasp
ing me BY the throat. The room was
filed with masked men, my hair stood
on end, and | felt sure that my end
had come, and that had taken my
last circus on the road. The two
strange men we're pinioned. and two
of the masked men were trying to
wake Jim up. but he was too drunk.
and only muttered that it WAS too
early. to @ to work. and he would be
id il he would get up. Then one
Of them beat the soles Of his feet with
q club until he roared with pain. but
he was still too stupid to realize the
situation, and with half closed eyes
grunted out. Saying. old mau. quit
your id foolishness and let's take
suthin." l tried to explain. but they
would not hear a word. The process
sion vas formed with the two thieves
in advance. The silence Of death
reigned /; not a word was spoken. l
looked imploringly at our caPtors, l
shivered oil over. my teeth Chartered
and my knees beat the devils tattoo;
but Jim WAS brave, for Jim was
drunk.
They dragged him along. and -
We reached the head of the stairs. !
looked down and saw standing at the
foot man with . bullseye lantern
in his hand. whom l at once recog-
nized ~ an old acquaintance. In
agony called out to him.
There is some terrible mistake
here. For Gods sake explain it. You
know mel"
He Immediately turned the light
full on my face. NV heart beat wildly.
In q moment he said: Hold on.
gentlemen. There's q man you don't
want. l know him. The procession
was stopped. but Jim and l were
and sent hack to our room
with the polite caution that sudden
death awaited Us il We dared To leave
Il again that night. We didn't dare
worth q cent. Jim was too drunk to
understand what the fuss Was al
about, SD ] rolled him over in bed, and
in two seconds he was snoring again
IL .oundly as ever. There vas M
more sleep for me that night and
waited patiently for daylight. As
'oon as the FIRST rays of the sun came |
n through the windows ! made start |
or the Ia r-roOm that would have de- |
lighted John B. Cough or Francis
Murphy and called for Brandy
Braudyr After three or four doses
f it nv spirits revived little and l
Enlightened up a bit. The barkeeper.
rho had been quietly watching my
bake and apparently rather enjoying
t, said. lsuQhingly:
"Well, judge. you and your partner
nd a narrow escape last night, didn't
'ouy
Il said Yes. but what do you
NOW about it,
Opening the hack door he said
Look = did look, and saw my two
Of the previous night hang
~ peacefully from the limb of a
olitary aud very loneeome-looking
rec.
IAN hour or two later and Jim
sms crawling down stairs. Said he /:
Didn't somebody wake Us up last
ight." Yes said l come and take q
rink aud iii tell you all about As
e was standing ut the bar with a
umbler half full Of tangle-foot in his
and somebody opened the back door.
i'm looked out. saw the tree and its
ad and Immediately tainted. We {
rought him around after q while.
cough, and hi. first remark was. I'll
ever take another drink after today !"
Summer IN Sweden.
The Swedish summer is short, and Z
be year has hardly any spring or
,tumn. but the summer days are
Try long. and the sun after setting, q
nks only q few degrees under the {
'rizon. filling the whole space during ,
e night with a mystical luminous
- which makes even . pig stye TO
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