Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-12-06

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nett?"
"S'pose So" Bennett replied, and he
bent and gently shook her.
She opened her eyes and looked va
cantly about, and at last fixing them or
Bennett said:
lis he here?"
ais who here?" Bennett asked
"Joe, has he Gomez I thought /
heard his voice"
%Who is Joe?" and the old miners
voice grew wonderfully soft and gentle.
Instead of answering the girl began
to talk of something else, and her words
were half unintelligible.
BOYS" said Bennett, she's out o her
head, an expect may be in bad fix.
We ort to do somethin' for her."
Ought to have q doctorl And if
you felIers will stay here" said Ike,
"Tll go down to tn, post and get one.
Wonder who this Joe is that she talks
about?"
%Don't know. Reckon maybe she's
jest dreamin' or somethin'," replied
Bennett. Better hustle along if yer
going fer dock"
Just then one of the men noticed a
slip of paper clenched tightly in the
girls hand, and Bennett took it from
her.
sits jest a name, I reckon" said he
after futile effort to read it. Here,
Ike, you're the only scholar among us;
you take it an see what you kin fgger
out of it."
Ike gave it glance and said:
"1t's the name O. that teller she's
talking about-Joe Johnson-and he
lives down at the post. Take care of
her boys, and I'll go for the DOCTOR"
The new day was beginning to break
when, after long, tedious wait the
miners in the cabin heard the clatter of
horses feet down the gulch, and Ike and
the doctor came. in sight.
They were accompanied by third
persona young man, well dressed and
of good appearance.
"You wuz mighty long time gittin'
back, Ike old Jack said when they
came up.
eyes, took good while to run onto
that young chap"
"That young chap" old Jack said.
who's he, anyhow"
"Why, man, that's Joe-Joe Johnson
you know-the chap the girl was going
on about"
why, where did you strike him?"
run on to him down at the post
You know that paper said he was down
there, and thought, from the way the
girl took on bout him, that she wanted
to see him powerful bad, so 1 hunted
him up. He's her sweetheart, Jack"
as that so? Well, 1 fanoied he must
be somethin' O. the sort"
Joe's presence and the doctors at
tention soon brought change in the
condition of the girl, and she rallied
fast.
There was not much ailing her ex-
cept that she was worn out with walk
ing and overcome with anxiety, and two
or three days after she was removed to
the camp at Poverty's Gap she was able
to walk about with Joe's support.
The miners had rendered her all the
assistance in their power, and We'd with
the others in trying to do the most.
One evening Jack and Ike Bennett
went up and had long talk with the
girl, and Joe, and when it was over and
they came down to the saloon where
their companions were, Bennett said:
Boys, theirs claimant for the Liza
Jane Nine"
"A what?" one of them cried.
A person that lays claim to Liza
Jane" Bennett replied; "and 7 guess
We'll have to give it up"
Bennett, air you gone crazy? Give
up that mine? What yer mean?"
MEAN what I say. Liza Jane is
claimed, and it looks moutily like the
one that claims it has a right to it.
Anyhow, thar's the papers to show for
BLAINE the papers," said one of
them. We've got possession, an I
recken kin hold it agin any Teller what
comes along"
But the law, Jake"
"Haint ell the law we've got a rope
an q tree? Jest let the Teller that
claims the mine show up in these dig
gins an well soon settle his hash"
~SPose it amt . chap that sets up the
claim, Jake, Bennett asked.
H-SA WIZ A VIC u6blOQ can IL Der
Why, it's gal, Jake, an the hand
soonest an sweetest gal ever sot eyes
on, an l say the mines her'n."
A gal?" said Jake in surprise. %You
don't mean"
But I do. I exactly mean the gal
down thar at the cabin. Her names
Ross, an she's old Andy Ross daugh-
ter; an it was old Andy that built the
cabin up thar. Ikrowed old ANDY a
good many years, felIers, an thar warn't
never q better man lived, an you bet
I'm not goin' back on him nor anybody
that belonged to him"
Wal, how does the gal come to be
out we're? an what has this Joe got to |
do with it?'
why, this Joe is the gals sweet
heart, an when Andy died he came ont |
here to see bout him, an then sent
back for the gal. She wuz coming out /
an got lost back here somewheres. an
wandered bout till she drifted right
slap on her fathers claim, an thar gave
out The rest you all know. feIlers
an now / az you, whose claim is that p
For moment no one spoke, then old
Jake arose. and planting himself firmly, |