Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-08-05
TAKE HIM mi

TAKE HIM mi
$500 Reward will be paid for the arrest md
delivery of Rube White to the sheriff Of Yava.
pai county. He is about twonty-f ve years old
six feet tall, and slim, with light complexion,
and has n big scar on the right sid Of his face.
He is wanted for robbery and othc- crimes. II
killed in resisting arrest the reward will be
paid on satisfactory proof Of his identity
When last heard from was making for the
Tonto Basin country.
BY the time the reader had fin
ished, crowd of half a dozen OF
more men surrounded him.
"Now If that feller is headed for
che Tonic Basin country it wouldn't
be much of. q trick to take him, /" said
the first speaker refectively, as If de-
batting with himself the advisability
of making the attempt.
'If you hear me he amt going to
be taken in, and the feller that tries
it is going TO have his hands full.
They have been after him for two or
three years and amt got him yet.
They say he's right on the shoot, "
remarked another of the crowd.
"Well, feller ought to know him
as soon as he sees him from that de-
scription, hazarded the first speaker,
"if he got up close enough to see the
scar, and then all he'd have to do
would be to turn loose at him if he
didn't throw up his hands when you
told him. Besides, nobody but him
would try to cross over the noun
tains into the basin with this snow
on the ground. Blamed if I don't
think I'll 60 after him."
"Well, somebody ought to round
him up" asserted some one in the
crowd; ''he's been foolin roun hyah
long enough, jes' havin his own way,
sorter as If the country belonged to
him. burned if / wouldn't go with
you, Hi, if / didn't have to take this
grub over to the boys in camp"
"Well, if any Of you want to go,
all right. I'm going" replied the
man addressed as Hi.
1t was not the first time that Eli
Lansing had been on such expedi-
tions. He was one of those men for
whom danger seems to have a fas-
cination. AT his remark Frank
Crandall, young fellow who had
been standing quietly by, volunteer
ed to accompany him. The crowd
turned toward him with more inter.
est than they had thus far evinced
during the entire proceedings. 1t
was but few months since he had
come among them, fresh from the
east, to take charge of one of the
mines which had been closed down
by the winters storms. For weeks
ho had been cooped upin the isolated
settlement, and he longed for some
thing to break its monotony.
"Well, get your horse and gun and
come, !" replied Hi, and in an instant
the two men had left the room to
arm and equip themselves for the
chase. while the loungers gathered
around tho stove to discuss the prob
abilities of their success. In a few
minutes the two men rode past the
door, each armed with a rifle and six
shooter, and the crowd, stepping
out, bade them goodby, with the oft
repeated warning, "Be keerful and
don't let him get the drop ON ye."
The crust of the unbroken snow
cracked crisply under foot as the two
rode ON fast, leaving the little settle
ment in their rear. For some time
neither spoke, but at last the silence
was broken by Lansing asking his
young companion, did you ever
try this kind of thing beforea"
mo" replied the young man, II
never have"
well, then, you want 10 be keer-
full II you don't lose yer head.
you're all right. The only danger is
that we may run ON him before we
know it,"
And II we do, what thenl" asked
the young man.
"Well, he will probably commence
shooting. and il he does, and you
ar'nt hit the first rattle out Of the
box, why you want TO git oif'n your
horse and git behind something and
shoot back, If ther' amt anything
to git behind, keep your horse be-
tween you and him and keep a-shoot-
in. Whatever you do, don't let go OF
our gun. But what we want to do
70 see him first, and then we've got