The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-02

Leavenworth q prisoner. Rpt
heart directly. Remember;ra pook
E : Clothes and my COWBOY byats Sly
thought | surely could not 81 a n.y.
ed IN my disguise. FINALLY zee
back to the house for sunnar weaE
said: @satll and
soldier?' "h youa
fore ~ mat be-
Well, said she with d kioa \.
JERK, maybe you amt; but wban \
seen you walk out the house list ~
with your head up, your sho,,s wv
back, and your little fingers = 'u 81
seams OF your pants, / says - : s'E
self that feller's a skipper. You ca m
fool me, young man. I kno1 vaa1
why, didn't see you goin' thronsa'
here with some cavalry last fai,sa
know | did; you can't fool ma,
NO said | again, desperatalv. :
am not a soldier, / am a COWBOY
Lord! Lordl' the woman lanoh.a
holding up her hands, 'how some ms,,
can lie! Never mind, though, 7 a S,Ta
gom' to blow on you; supper is ready.
come in
81 didn't GO in. skipped outoftb.
house, and ran as fast as / could tIIG
was five miles from thefort. Ithorgbt
I'd die OF hunger that night 0ns
down on my all tours and drank san, S
water out of brook. 1t had moi asto
at all, except that it was wet. ana 4
made me feel as if | had got So mneh
lead in me. Itrudged on to the y,srf
station on the Northern Pacific road
and got something to eat. Ihadbeen
without food for four days. A paS.
senger train came along and STONED
and / boarded it, but it had not coma
far when the conductor put me of' IS
went back to the station and waited
for a freight train. The way totrayel
out there is to tip the brakemen on
freight trains. | gave my last dollar
to a brakeman to let meride. Heput
me in a car, and there i stayedthirty-
SIX hours without food or water. Nv
only consolation was the t~houehtthat
| was getting further from Fort Ellis.
81 got to st. Paul on the 10th Of
May. From there | rode on a freight
train to Red Wing; and then | walked
more than a hundred miles TO La
Crosse, Wisconsin. / stole aridefroln
La Crosse to Milwaukee; then walked
twenty-five miles and got another ride
to Chicago. / felt a great deal better
when / got to Chicago, for | knew
some people there; but / was in ai
awful condition. My shoes were com.
pletely worn out; my feet were sore; I
was lean and haggard from hunger and
exposure. | stayed in Chicago eight
days without q cent, and scarcely bes
ing able to beg enough to keep my
body and soul together. Finally /
struck a man who asked me, in re-
spouse to my application for work, i
! could fire a steamboat engine. |
asked him which way the engine was
running. and hetold me from Chicago
to Buffalo.
That was the way | wanted to go;
so / told him | was q first-class fire.
man, and he gave nae a job. fired
the engine on a boat from Chicago to
Buffalo, and it was about the toughest
work / ever did. You ought to hanS
seen me when I got there. My hardt!
were as big and as red as hams; my
face was as raw as a beefsteak; was
as ugly as Sitting Ball. ! had agreed
to fire during the roundtrip, but alter
/ got my feet on New York soil again
a dozen agreements couldn't me
go back on that boat. One thing !
must say; while / was on the boat
went to bed for the first time in twen,
ty-six days. / had made q pillow q
my sombrero, and slept on the ground
in a freight car, or under some rickety
shaaty, every night since lett Fort
Ellis.
IL got a job on a canal boat from
Buffalo to Albany, and earned q lev
dollars on the trip. My: employer
seemed to like me, and he gave mt
SIS and told me to buy some new
ele4hes 550tGgh d suit Il a:
for $14, and then paid fifty cents ~
q ticket on a boatt to New York. Mnel
/ landed here next morning, ! ieI
strange, and things seemed odd 70 me
People looked at me and laughed for
still had on my cowboy hat.
81 was walking up Eight avenue q
my way to the house where usea 9
live with the family, when Q ma
caught hold Of me and said: .lsn
your name So-and-so?' | told mn
my name. WELL said he, 4 kno'
you, and / want you. / an q de.s'
tive, and Iarrest you for deserting' y
army.
II was put in prison, and staye
there a few days. Then was o'
charged on a writ of habeas CORPUS
for i had joined the army before | NJ Y
81 a Of age, without the knowieue