Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-08-02

gents, who are you?
The gentlemen gave him thel'
names and told him their business
They we're pretty badly frightened
as | could see, while the oVerseet
trembled like Il man ina chill. As he
was a big, strong fellow, ana had
laughed at the idea OF brshrangers
meddling with us, | could not under
stand his fear until sam spoke again.
Better and BETTER he said,
as fierce look came into hls
eyes. Boys, here's TINT over
seer who set the patrol on our track
down below, and who wasn't salts
fed with that but must turn out 70
help them. think we have made a
good haul of it.
All our arms were in the wagon,
and We were helpless To offer any re.
sistance. The first thing they did
was To despoil the two gentlemen
and the overseer of everything OF
value, and then each one was dashed
to tree. 0'Hara was ordered "a
sit down beside me, and the black
took matters so cody that nothing
was said to him. The rangers sign
ed to him 10 turn TO and get supper,
and he cheeriully obeyed When
they had eaten and drunk and light
ed their pipes Sam turned TO rue With
And so you din't tell the police
that You gave me food and pistol?
mo, sir
II know you didn't, TOR | was that
tired out that laid myself down for
two hours almost iii your camp.
Even when they told you who | was
and that price was SGT upon my head
you hadn't u word TO say"
mo sir ("
"Well. you boys have nothing %
fear. We have nothing against you.
After a day or two you may 20 free. "
There was no sleep tor anybody
until alter midnight, and | dou
think the two gentlemen ot the over
seer slept at all. know they were
wide enough awake when | opened
my eyes in the morning All Of us
had a bite to eat after the outlaws
had finished, and then the wagon was
robbed OF whatever they fancied and
hauled of about thirty rods and upset
ina deep gully. The oxen were turn
ed loose with the sheep, aud when we
set out sam and two OF the men rode
the horses ana tho rest oil us went on
foot. One outlaw on foot went ahead
and the Others closed up behind o..
and the general direction was to the
north. Every mile took rs into il
wilder and more unsettled country,
and it was 50 broken that iplt that
could not get outeven ifturued free
At about four in the afternoon We
reached the rangers camp. which was
4 in Il wild and desolate spot | don [
think they intended the gentlemen
any harm from the start, but that
the oyerseer's doom was sealed we
all felt certain He realized il, too
for observed that he was constant.
~ on the watch for a opportunity to
bolt. 1t came as we entered the camp.
Realizing that they meant to paw On
the old score, he suddenly dashed inr
q thicket. He took item Off their
guard, and If an accident had not
happened him he would have rot
clear OF. Half way to the thicket a
stone turned under his foot and threw
him, and as he got up one Of the mcr
shot him down in his tracks. They
lett him lying there anti went into
camp, saying that they had
meant to torture him with fire
and that he had rot out d
it too easy. The wogcntlemen wcr,
very closely guarded, but O'Hara
and myself were allowed to wall
about MS we pleased. They had TAX
en- over II 900 from the two and Dor,
them no grudge, but Tor five dny,
and nights we were prisoner.
and in their power. On the morning
OF the sixth day, when it was plaiT
to be seen that they were of for an
other adventure. the four Of IA wer,
turned loose and told to make 0ul
way home. They headed us to tn,
west, which was the wrong wav. an,
we Travelled twenty miles in that III
rection before We found ont the trick
We were nearly week i'm the scrub
living on roots and berries and de
cayed wild fruit, before we reached I
settlement, and were then all Of thir
ty miles from Dnyidson's. We wer,
sad-looking lot when we finall,
reached home, and, while Mr.. Cutler
was takenswith fever to die in nbou
ten days, Mr.. Williams was SO brok
en- up that he lived only long enough
TO get down to the coast. 4 yea
later Sam and two OF that Grove
were caught, tried atSandhurst, anc
Y Hara and saw them drop iron
the gallows. They had asked us {,
identity Sam in court. but we had OK
cused ourselves. He was bad man
with the blood of many victims Of
his hands, hut he had given us ou
lives and played fair.
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