The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-07-11
ROMANCE Of a TEXAS SCHOOL.
What Befc!I fhe Pretty Indy TeacLer nut
the Trustees san.


What Befo!I the Pretty Lnay Teacher ant
the Trustees san.
well, after Mr.. Robinson, the wealthy
sheep man | spoke OF, had completed his
school house ha locked about him for a
teacher. These latter We're very nearly as
novel as lumber but the salary was good
one, and he finally secured the services OF
an old fellow--an ex-stage driver, who could
barely read and write. This country was
full of Indians then aud the teacher and
larger pupils went armed He took his
meals at Robinson's house, hut slept here
on the mud floor. He had weakness for
post whisky and got drunk on the slightest
provocation. One Sunday, while he was
lying there before the school-room fire in
drunken stupor, wandering Apache hap
pened in and carried away the schoolmas.
ter's scalp as au educational trophy This
catastrophe caused the school to close and il
renamed without teacher about six months.
Other ranchmeu, with their families, began
to settle hereabouts and school was need.
ed more than ever. The trustees received
but when the applicants learned of the fate
OF the last teacher there We're none of them
daring enough to run the risk. In the
meantime gang of rustlers established
camp about ten miles from here, in the can
yon OF the Lone Cottonwood, and began to
prey on the stock and sheepman's iloeks
and herds They were a bold, cunning lot
and were led by Billy the Kids old part.
ners, Jesse Evans and Mysterious Daven
Rodebaush. The rustlers made one or two
raids aud succeeded in running of several
horses and few hundred head of stock.
The ranchmen combined together and es-
tabshed patrol. Tais latter kept the
rustlers at bay and it WAS thought that lack
OF profitable employment would soon force
them to break up camp and vamose to Other
parts.
One day very pretty and lady-lse
young woman rode up to Rebinsou's ranch
aud asked for that gentleman. He invited
her in and she made known her business.
She was school teacher aud anxious to
take charge of the Rustlers Guloh school.
Robinson was pleased with her appearance
she answered the few simple questions put
to her; he consulted the other two trustees
and engaged her She gave her name as
Miss Emma Graham and entered upon her
duties the next day after her engagement.
She boarded at Rohinson's house and became
very popular with MI classes of people in
tho Gulch. She was good teacher, pos.
sessod of an alum lance of magnetism. mud
undo. her tuition the pupils progressed fine.
ly Miss Graham was about eighteen years
of age. Robinson Ind son a year older.
There were Indians in the country still, and
it fell to young Jack Robinsons lot to escort
the pretty schoalmurm to and from the
school house. lie rather liked it, and be.
ing good-looking fellow and triae more
polished than ranchmen's sons usually are
Miss Graham rather liked it also. They be.
came great friends, and this friendship
developed into very tender and romantic
passion. The rustlers still remained in
camp in the canyon of the Lone Cottonwood
aud the ranehman still kent m tla..= ;-~a-sil
| One night, about three months after the
arrival of Miss Graham, terrific storm
swept dewn the gulch and the patrol did not
ride. The rustlers did, however, aud when
the ranchnen awoke the next morning they
found that about two hundred head of good
horses aud ponies had been stampeded of
the range and were by this time safely on
the road to Mexico. Jack Robinson was
missing, also, and he was trailed from his
fathers ranch to the camp of the rustlers.
He had always been considered an honest,
upright fellow, but now the furious indignn-
ton of the whole gulch was showered upon
his head He had been traitor to his
friends. The schoolmarm cried and pited
him She was so sorry for tho poor boy.
His father felt the disgrace keenly, but
he acted Ike Spartan. lie called n meet
ing of his neighbors, made speech and
offered five hundred dollars reward for the
arrest of the culprits and five hundred dol
lars in addition for the capture Of One Jack
Robinson, who WIS once my son. There
was company OF Rangers stationed in the
neighborhood, and oue of their men Ind
been Watching the rustlers' camp for some
time. The Ranger captain was notified of
the robbery and he detailed u sqngd of pick.
ed men to follow up the trail On the
banks of tho Rio Grande they overhauled
the outfit, and, after sharp fight. XII d
two of the rustlers, wounaed several To.
covered tho stolen stock aud male jack
Robinson prisoner. He wns brought back
in chains and confined in the county jail
His father refused to have anything to dc
with him and promptly paid over to the
Rangers the reward he had offered for the
capture of his SON. The schoolmarm nj.
tempted to intercede for the boy, but the
sheep man would not listen to her. The
next day she resigned her position MS teach
err and was conveyed to the codnty seat.
She sought and obtained an interview With
She prisoner and two nights afterwards he
escaped. Tho schoolmarm disappeared
allo They were both seen afterwards in
chihuahua, Mexico, living together MS mar
and wife. Jack was running saloon and
the sometime schoolmarm was dealing