Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-18
$500 REWARD.
.rnat isn't q bad rewardlr

hN NNilN hiAhN lNNAAg N''N NhtNH
Let's see." and the second speaker
began to read tho postal card that
the postmaster at Hard Scrabble bad
Just tackled to the door Of the store
that constituted the "oliicc, - so that
every one might read;
TAKE HIM fNi
ci0o Reward will be- paid Tor the arrest and
delivery u Hubo white 10 the sheriff ~ inya.
pal county. llo Is about twenty .hyu year. old,
six feet tall. aud slim, with iirht complexion.
and has a biz scar on the right hide N his face.
lie l. wanted Tor robbery and other crimes. N
ALLIED In resisting arrest The reward viii be
paid on satisfactory proof Of his Identity.
Whom las, heard from was making Tor tho
Tonic liasln country.
BY the time the reader had fin
ishcd. n crowd of half a dozen or
more men surrounded him.
Now II that Teller Is headed for
the Tonic Basin country IL wouldn't
be much Of trick TO take him. " said
the first spclkorrencctively. as If de-
batting with himself the ACCESSIBILITY
Of making the attempt
III you hear me no amt going TO
be taken in. and the fcllor that tries
II Il going TO have his hands full
They have been aftor 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, n fcller ought 10 know him
M soon ns he secs him from that do
scription, "ha2aided the first speaker,
'if he got up close enough 10 see the
scar, and then all he'd have TO do
would be to turn loose ut him II no
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 II | don't
think Ill go after him"
"Wcll, somebody ought TO round
him up, asserted some one in tho
crowd; hes been foolin roun hynh
long enough, jcs hayin his own way,
sorter Us II tho country belonged 30
him. burned II wouldn't go with
you, Iii, II didn't have 20 take this
grub over TO tho boys in camp
"well, II any of you want TO go,
all right. I'm going" replied the
man addressed ns Ill.,
Il was not the first timo that Hi
lansing had been on such eNpedi.
tons. He was one of those men for
whom danger seems to have fas-
cination. At his remark Franl,
Crnndnll, n young fellow who had
been standing quietly by, volunteer.
ed to accompany him. Tho crowd
turned toward him with more inter.
est than they had thus far evinced
during the entire proceedings. II
was but few months since he had
como among thcm, fresh from the
east, 10 take charge of one of tho
mines which had been closed down
by the winters storms, For week.
he had been coDped upin the isolated
settlement, and he longei for some
thing 90 break its monotOny.
"Well. get your horse and gun AMI
come, - replied ILL., and in an instant
the two men had left the room /,
arm and equip themselves for tn,
chase. while tho loungcrs gathere,
around the stove to discuss the prob
abilities Of their success. In Il few
minutes the two men rodo past tn
door, each armed with rifle and six
shooter. and the crowd, steppinI
out, bado them goodby, with the OF
repeated warning, BE kecrful an
don't let him got the drop ON ye."
The crust Of the unbroken sno'
cracked crisply under foot as the NV
rodo ON fast, leaving the little settl'
mcut in their rear, For some tim
neither spoke, hut at last the silenc
was broken by Lansing asking h
young companion, Did you eyt
try this kind of thing boforc"
mo" replied the young man,
never haye.'
well, then, you want to be kee
full. II You don't lose yer hoa
you're all II dit. The only danger
that we may run ON him before
know it.
And IL we do, what them" ask,
the young man,
"Well, he will probably common
shooting, and IL lac does, and y,
nr'n't hit the first rattle ont OF d
box, why you want TO git oif'n yo
horse and git behind something N
shoot back. If Their amt anythil
30 git behind, keep your horse |
tween you and him and keep n-sho'
in. Whatever You do don't let go
your gun. But what we want TO
H. 10 500 him first, and then we've g
the play on nm, and all you have
do IS to tell him TO throw up"
And If he don't throw upl' ask,
Crandall
"Why, then you let him have
The reward will be paid just I
same"
The apparent indifference wi
which lansing spoke of tho emit
matter much as If hc We're discu
ing tho best method of hunting
wild animal, shocked the young ma
but he had committed himself t
far 70 Withdraw Besides, he h
TINT feeling that all men have VIII
they are young-tho curiosity
know whether or not ho coulG n
on himself when danger threaten,
1--WE should strike his trail on {
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