Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-07

whisky drunk At al hours, and lot CT
pore painted things in short skccris danced
at night.
"a mail route was opened 10 Los An.
gales, but beyond that thar was NO sign
Of law, and as a Conscience We he'd 10
open graveyard up the hill. and most
every mornin we planted sone one who'd
been kiiloN down NJ the saloon tho night
before. II the KILN had stopped then e
wouldn't "a been NO bad, but we soon found
out that honest, sohcr men, az had families
at home, were being murdered Ia their
cabins jest 10 rob them Of the dust they'd
gathered
Bout this time Cap'n Bolton, who was
mimi sharp aud gin'ral spucklater, KEN
10 Dead Squnw's Gulch with his wife. The
cap'n was a fine lookin man Of forty, hut
oh, myl what regular LITTLE beauty that
wife was, To be sure and 80 inherent. The
Bottoms lived In little cabin 'wny oil
from ev'ry ono else, but the cap'n was
allus along to help on law and oriCr. 81
when the honest miner, began to be robbed
and kilt We formed a vigilance committee,
and ~ Capn l3Olton-no ono aXcd whcru
he got hls titlc-was cap'n already, We
'lected him capn for keeps.
AN went mighty lovely for little
while. Then the KILN aud robbin began
again and Cap'n Bolton and the vl!.llhntcs
WIS forever On a blind trail, and we wa,
almost discouraged, We ulster TO send IN
our dust to Los Angeles with Mike Mul
len, who carried the mall once q week ou q
blackboard. Mike had been lolcr, aud he
WIS brave rs Il grizzly and honest rs u hull
skyiul Of suns
"Niike started of bright and early one
mognln 10 go to Los Angeles, three day.
trip, but he hndn't been gone morc'n three
hours when the hure with the blackboard
KEN a.tearin bacl, 10 camp, with the rail
bag and the gold dust gone, nni NIKE
Mullen him a.dyln on the seat 'rwat me
and my purl that llftod the driver oll, for
be- was powerful bad shot, and any man
but him would ~ been dcad Aftcrwp
got little whisky into him he opened his
eyes and saidi
Boys, twas Cap'n Bolton that laid for
me and sprung on me unbcknownst down
at the Divide. Say youll do Tor him Ms
he's did for me, aud III die happy
You can just Wamblc that We was nil
'stonlshed, but We promised Mike, AMI
then ho said, I'm a-goin boysN and he
went,
"Wa-al, We started down 10 Bottoms.
HUN ~ wv A'tAAhA AHlAi shl's IhlAhN htllt
out with II rife IN her hand and aXed what
we wanted, and We said we wanted the
onp'n most powerful bad, She said he was
right down Sick all night, and she'd thank
us II we'd come some other time Hn's not
to 'sturb him. Thon mp and told that we
must have him, and she ran into the house,
closed the door, aud next thlngwc knowcd
two rifles was R-poiutln 1T ua through the
oliuks, 30 we III out
IAN day we kept watch ON the cabin
to see that the cap'n didn't escape, and as
we had time on hand we made up bundles
Of dry sugehrush and wood, and when IL
kom dark We rolled EN- down, determined
10 smoke the cap'n ont or to roast him In.
side II 10 be he poylar'd that.
IAN this tiu,o the two kept mp Gre and
three OF our men were wounded, SO when II
kem night we was all just wild for re-
yongc, but we didn't want 10 hurt the
womau, though m allow she wasn't Jest
what we believed her when we worhlped
tho tracks Of her little shoes In tile sand
We Wanted the cap'n to come out and bg
d.eantly hanged. but hs said he'd see Us all