Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-14

the ranch, and found that an was going
on well. The ditch was completed, the
house and barn had been fenced, also
that the greater part Of the fence about
the one hundred and sixty acres had
been put up, and the old fence made a.
good as new.
/ bought ten cows, one hundred sheep,
caused a well 10 be dug, walled up and
housed in (before they had been using
water from ditch), hired another man,
and a stout girl 10 assist Mrs. Reed, left
orders for an addition 10 be built 10 the
house, and the whole 30 be well painted,
then returned 10 mine. ] say I did
these things, and 30 / did, but no one
knew IL, as all was done through Reed.
When winter came, and the mines
were buried in snow, / went down 10
my robbers ranch, and went 10 work
there with a will Mrs. Reed did not
think II strange, as she knew her hus-
band owed me large sum Of money,
which was 10 be made out at the ranch;
besides, / charged regular wages
which was but right. She could but
know that her husband was rather in
dolent, and doubtless suspected why /
desired 10 be on the ranch and see that
work was pushed.
We plowed and planted the whole
quarter section of land, besides doing a
vast deal Of other work, marketing and
the like. The ranch did not look like
the same place.
The next year all the ground was
fenced and brought under cultivation.
Fifty head Of cows had been purchased,
and two thousand head of sheep, with
many swine, and fowls Of all kinds
Chinese were put TO gardening, and two
herders hired, one to attend to the sheep
out in the hills and mountains, and the
other to look after the COWS and to milk
and make butter and cheese for the
market. When the Cinnamon we're not
busy at gardening they we're made TO
work about the house, orchard and
| grounds. Thus all was put in shape,
and my robber was made 10 become
very industrious man.
! frequently visited the ranch, and the
next year began to get back my money.
Mrs. Reed was a very happy woman.
1t was her nature to try to get along in
the world and make money, and all was
now going on to her satisfaction. Her
parents lived but five miles away. / fire.
quently visited them, and they were Of
ten at Reeds. began to have a good
opinion of my robber, as he was now in
dustrious, and was in many respects a
fair sort of man. Now that he had got
start in the right direction, he seemed
anxious to 90 ahead. He began TO feel
pride in his ranch and all its belong
ings, and took great interest in every
thing. | had not found 1t necessary
to keep Kempf over him after the first
year.
All was going on so well that in an
other year or two Reed would have been
able to pay me every cent he owed me,
when an accident happened TO him.
While going home from Nevada one day
his team ran away, throwing him out Of
his wagon against tree, crushing in his
skull and instantly killing him. was
in Fall Creek when l heard that my
robber was dead. l at once went down
to the ranch and married the widow
not right away, you must understand,
for she thought a great deal of Reed ]
comfOrted her and took care of things
on the place until a proper time had eX.
pred
Now you know how 1 met my robbel
and how got my revenge. To this day
Mrs. WaldOw does not know when anC
how l first became acquainted with hel
. first husband. She still thinks it was a
Cold Water, Michigan. Instead of thre,
; hundred acres in Nevada County, nov
have three thousand acres in Oregon.
Jacob is fine fellow, and think a
I much of him as though he were M
own son, almost, although believe
am somewhat fonder of my own boys
: Perhaps it is because think they havl
better father than the man that Jacol
called by that name. Jacob has sil
hundred and forty acres of as good lanC
as can be found in Oregon, and it i
well improved and stocked. hav,
done all for him that would have dom
had he been my own son, and in that
have again had my revenge and carriet
out the law according to my own no
tions.-Dan De guile.