Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-06-27
SACRAMENTO.
Hescucd From LynchIng by the Act
ofa Trusting Young Girl

stopped down DcSlue spring dJ LIlC
foot Of a cottonwood tree and lazlly
dropped her pail into the water.
al ought TO have been given to a
boy, if it was fit name to give any
body" she said quite aloud. But L
am more boy than girl, anyway"
This fact was added rather bitterly,
Us she looked at her brown, rough
hands and her bare ankle, and thought
of the boys work" she had to do.
And it was hard To believe Chat this
was the best kind of a life for any
girl like Sacramento. Here she lived
alone. for her father was down at the
mouth of the canon all day. The
Garden work she was obliged to do,
and the care of the cattle fell upon
her. IL was not often that she saw
any person but her father, although
now and then, in spite oil herself, she
came in contact with the rude men of
The mining camp up above.
Yet Sacramento had her dream, one
that she scarcely dared to own, but
it came To her often a5she went about
her work.
She knew that down at Santa Bar
bara and in the towns along the coast,
and far, far away across wide stretches
of continent to the great east, there
were girls who lived very different
from her life, and she dreamed of such
II life for herself.
''Oh, if | could only go away from
hercp she cried out, almost as one
cries out for help eff | could only
70 down to San Francisco and go to
school for single year. All, If | had
$500"
Suddenly there was II step
man. but Of u horsc-on the bank be-
hind her, aud then some one spoke.
She knew the voice without looking
up. 1t was Pete Larrabee, a fellow
who ived down on llenn9mann's
plantation, two miles along the trail.
He sometimes rode by. lie had not
heard her last words at all; yet,
strangely enough, his own were Il
repetition Of them.
Five hundred dollars, Sac, said
he; 300 in gold! Dye want ter earn
it! Theirs yer chance, AID he threw
down TO hor bit of paper crumbled
INTO "A ball.
She picked it up, and, slowly UNI
folding it, ran her CSC over It's con
tents.
$500 REWARD.
The above amount will be paid for
information leading to the arrest,
dead or alive, of Walter Somers, who
has worked for some time past on
Max wells ranch. SAID Somers is
about Is years old and five and half
feet high, rather good looking, with
light, curlcy hair, blue eyes and a
light mustache. When last seen he
had on black sIouch hat, gray bust
ness suit, with blue flannel shirt and
boots with red tops marked with ma
kCr'S name.
The name Of the county sheriff was
signed at the bottom of the bill Sac
ramcnto, having glanced it through,
looked up.
Hes been y stealth horses ex-
claimed Pete Got oil last night
with four OF MaXwell'S best, some
where's. That reward won't do much
good, though The regulars III lasso
INN and string him up long fore the
law II got started. They're havIn' a
meetlu now up the GuIch. | tell We
they are mad. They'll make quick
work if they ketch him. Yer fathers
there. Ne needn't look for him home
aforc night much.
Then after word of two more, the
man rode ON, and presently Sacra
mcnto took up her pail and with the
shcritr's bill still IN her hand went
slowly up the bank and across the
trail toward the house, thinking very
seriously about $500 all the while.
Ii was some hours after this, and
tho afternoon sun was going down
behind the tops of the mountains, that
Sacramento, having finished her
huuScW0rk, WAS preparing to sit down
ON the porch to do sewing, when she
was met in the doorway by a young
man shc had never saeu before And
yet he was no stranger. Tho girl
knew him instantly, although the
siouch hat was pulled down over the
ilaNen hair and blue eyes, ana gray
pants, torn and muddy. had been
drawn oIt of the boot legs so as to no
longer allow the red tops of the boots
with the makers name to be seen II
was the horse thief.
sac did no., however, express any
surprise as Sue saw him. She was
accustomed to the sight OF rough,
evil men; and at the first Glance she
had felt that TINS one could not be
either very wicked nor very danger
ouS. lie was not much more than a
lad, sud had an az III gentleneSs aud
good breeding about him that six
months of Western life and the
miserable plight he was IN at that
moment. had by no means destroyed.
lie seemed TO be short for breath, too.
and was trembling as if he had been
running.
Iustlnctivoiy he raised his hand to-
ward his head, and then, bethunking
himself, dropped it again,
Gould you give me something to
eat and driuki" he asked, in heSita-
ing voice. Anything Will do, am
very hungry. IL have had nothing
10 eat since last night"
Come in. y said Sacramento, grave
ly. In her voice there was neither
kindness nor unkindneSs, she trying
To realize the situation she was in.
Goose in and sit down"
Then she went into 4 closet near by,
and begun taking down milk and
bread and meat, rs she slowly did so
turning the matter over in her mind.
Here was the man who had been
stealing horses, and for whose cap
ture $500 was offered, in her own
kitchen. Five hundred dollars, Elk
actly the sual she had been wishing
for-the sum that would take her
down to San Francisco to school and
make lady OF herself And this
sum may hers il she could in some
way secure this stranger or somehow
keep him in the house until help ar
rived. Help7 Why, she hardly need
ed help. He was weak and exhaust.
ed, and in the drawer of the kitchen
table there was loaded revolver,
which she we'll knew how TO use.
She came out presently and set TIE
things before him, bringing also the
teapot from the stove and pouring
for him cup of tea. Then she went
and sat down by the window, and
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