The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-30
SACRAMENTO.

wa SE"TN -
1T ought to have been given to o boy
If it was q fit name to give anybody"
she said quite aloud. "But Tn more
boy than girl, anyway"
This fact was added rather bitterly,
as she looked at her brown, rough
hands and her bare ankles, and thought
OF the "boy's work" she had to do.
And it was hard to believe that this
was the best kind of a life for q young
girl like Sacramento. Here she lived
alone, for her father was down at the
mouth of the canon oil day. The gar
den work she was obliged to do, and the
care of the cattle fell upon her. 1t was
not often that she saw any person but
her father, although now and then, in
spite of 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 own" but il
came to her often as she went about her
work.
She knew that down at Santa Barba-
70 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 a life for
herself.
"Oh, i'll could only go away from
here!" she cried out, almost as one cries
out for help" If I could only go down
to San francisco and go to school there
for a single year! All, if 1 only had
$500"
Suddenly there was a step-not of q
man, but q horse-on the bank behind
her, and then some one spoke. She
knew the voice without looking up. 1t
was Pete Larrabee, a fellow who lived
down on Hahnemann's plantation, two
miles along tho trail. He sometimes
rode by. He had not heard her last
words at all; yet strangely enough his
own were q repetition of them.
Give hundred dollars, Sac" said he.
$500 in gold! Dye want to Darn it?
Theirs yer chance" and he threw down
to her a bit of paper crumpled into a
ball.
She picked it up, and slowly unfold
ing it, ran her eye over its contents:
$500 REWARD.
The above amount will be paid for in
formation leading to the arrest, dead or
alive, Of Walter Somers who has worked
for some time past on Maxwell's ranch.
Said Somers is about IS years old and
ST feet high, rather good looking, with
light, curly hair, blue eyes and a light
moustache. When last seer he had on
q black SLOUGH hat, gray business suit,
with blue flannel shirt, and boots with
red tops marked with the makers name.
The name of the county sheriff was
signed at the bottom of the bill. Sacra-
mento, having glanced it through, looked
up.
Hes been a stealin' horses" ex-
claimed Pete. "Got off last night with
four of Maxwell's best somewheres.
That reward won't do much good,
though. The Regulatorsll lasso him
and string him up long fore the law'n
git started. They're havin' n meetin'
low up at the Gulch. 1 tell We they
ire mad. They'll make quick work If
they ketch him. Yer fathers there.
Ye needn't look for him home afore
light, much"
Then, after q word or two more, the
.ian rode on, and presently Sacramento
ook up her pail, and with the sheriff.
ill still in her hand went slowly up the
.orl or1 ooroc. H. 4.zs1 $500 N
ouse, thinking very seriously about
he $500 all the while.
It was some hours after this, and the
fternoon IL was going down behind
he tops of the mountains, that Sacra-
aento, having finished her homework,
a preparing to sit down on the porch
o do her sewing, when she was met in
,he doorway by young man she had
seen before. And yet he was no
stranger. The girl knew him instantly,
although the SLOUGH hat was pulled
down over the flaxen hair and blue eyes,
and the gray pants, torn and muddy,
had been drawn out of the boot-legs so
as to no longer allowthe red tops OF the
boots with the owners name to be seen.
It was the horse-thief.
~ n"I.ei' enPfesS any
suipiise as sne saw nm. one was &C,
cusIoihe9 70 tue s'ght u rough evl!
t tl14 anu a. 'ne Hrst glance she naa
lei1 1iiAI 1ilis one ceuld 0 be eithe
very WicAea or very dangerous. ne was
no' niucn hnore tnan a laa, ana nae an
NJ - sehIieness una gooa Dreedlng
apouI nun Una! SIX months OF western
uie, anu .le miserable pli5ht ne was IN
W .lias ii94lene haa ny no mean de-
s.royeo ne seemed 70 o snort Tor
prea,il' VOC, ann was tfemDllng as II he
naq oeeh running.