The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-06
LIKE A NIGHTMARE.
calls AND HA RDSalPS OF A
DRIVE IN TdE WEST.

Driving! The whole trip was like a
rbtmare. said my companion, "aud I'll
tell it all q YOU as a sort Of homeo-
ic cure for your headache"
scot lima he is, manage for Gas-
cattle cOmpa J wni h has cattle and
0ches in Panhandle aud north Of It.
,anty two years has been in this western
1ntry.
This is the story: I had bought bunch
about 700 stock horses in Southeastern
tsvlp. which was tue horse country, to
iva pack TO my ranch in Wyoming.
to a man in little place called Gold
iale. d asked MIN to recommend to me
brennan. He did SO; employed the N a
recommended, and ne in turn hired the
re men needed with the outfit.
Ne hadn't been out long before felt con-
nced that my Goldendale man recon-
nanIei this fellow as f0rems 10 me simply
70 him out of the country, for he was a
eTular blackguard a tough and scoundrel,
nj he had hired five congenial friends
S: such fellows as himself. A pc feet lot
devils they were, getti drunk and
rooting up every little place we oane t..
could not be friendly and familiar with
hem, as is customary when out on the trial,
Ind had TO take my bed away off to one
rde and sleep with one eye open and my
rst'l ready to my hand for never doubted
heir readiness aud good will TO kill me any
night and take the horses, If they had
bought they could make it go.
"A Yes despite all this there was certain
,rt Of good feeling about them which
Xfowed itself IN a episode that occurred near
hneville in Oregon. They were three horses
hat knew t. be strays in the bunch, aud
men we got to Prinevllle IA hard little place.
vbere there were some corrals. | had the
men cut the three out and fasten them
FL ssurely in a corral.
Ell When we had been on the trail maybe an
81 bur or two, there came the three horses
RsrlDg after us,
AND PLUNGED DELIGHTEDLY
into the bunch. The men tried their utmost
tOcut them out and drive them away, but
f hrses are always crazy to be with a big
which have several hundred; and finally.
when | saw the bunch would be all torn up
and the little colts run to death before the
q gtrsys could be gotten out, told my men
Y olet them alone, that l believed that they
y bad been turned loose to follow US pur-
n p0sely, for some sinister end, and that we
would 60 on to the next camping place,
B where there was a corral, and pen them
4 there
4 US, riding hard, and loudly demanded to
3 know if we had any strays | told them
we had three that we knew Of, explained
the recent occurrence, and that my iuten-
ton was to pen them again at the next
corral.
They we're all extensively and obviously.
not to say frightfully, armed. The man
who had spoken pulled out a great official
paper yard or so long, remarking that
a" > ,vs go
for horse stealing and asked if meant to
20 peaoeably or not.
motioned for my men TO come up, and
said, II shall not go at all II can help my
self. This is Matchmaking or robbing
scheme, and if my men will stand by me
I'll not go a step, but pen the horses, as l
said, at the next corrai.n
Livery one Of those rascals of mine ierked
out his six-Shooter and announced his readi-
ness to stand by me until the internal
regions were one vast skating rink ard as
We we're six to three, the Prineville men
finally rode back.
Their intention was, think, TO take me
back to Prineville, give me a preliminary
trial, make me put up several hundred dol
lars bond, which, after / had COTTON away
hundreds of miles to my ranch in wyoming
| would supposedly forfeit rather than re-
turn the long and tedious journey to
UNDERGO AN UNFAIR TRAIL.
Well, we were having minor eruptions
aud outbreaks all the time, either on the
part of my tough outfit or the tough people
we we're passing on that VIGOROUSLY tou b
trail or in the way of collisions between
the two; but the next event of considerable
Importance occurred near Harvey not very
far from the line Of Oregon and Idaho.
l was riding away back near the rear OF
the bunch, and my foreman up toward the
head, when, right in the broad daylight, a
man on good horse rode up at a fast gait
and dashed right into the bunch, frighten-
ing and scattering the horses out terribly.
The men near him ye led at him, aud
headed him out; he only took good start
aud did the same thing over again. 1t
looked like the behavior of lunatlc to any,
one who did not guess his motive. BY this
Tune was very angry, and when he came
back at the head of the bunch the third
llme-half of the horses wild with fright
and almost impossible to hold called to
the foreman, ''shoot him!"
Then on wiser second thought, "no, drop
MS horse" but to my surprise the foreman
only rode along between the man and the
horses, striking at him with his fist. He
Knocked him off or the fellow fell off. |
never knew which; there was much con-
fusion and excitement, and the conclusion
OF the VIII lie affair was that We were ar
rested aud taken into Harvey for trial.
court was sitting at the time and the trial
come on the next day.
man who had a ranch down near mo
IN wyoming was buying horses also, 10 in
oregon near where got mine Just as
ing outfit was starting out this man fell sick
with smallpox, and every creature deserted
MIN. went and looked after him myself
until found a nurse for him who had had
the disease, delaying my outfit several days
TO do so.
Well, this man lived and was we'll known
~ THIS Harvey neighborhood. and when he
neard OF my trouble behaving entirely
recovered and caught up with us-came in
ana testified in my behalf using his per-
sohal influence, which was much, and
which procured me
FAVORABLE HEARING.
Inc man who had ridden into my horses
came into court bringing his saddle with a
ouLet mole through one of the stirrups,
which he said had been made with murder
gus intent by a ball from my foreman's
pistol, out after an examination as to direc-
lions relative positions, ETC. it was proven
tnat this ony could have been made by
shooting clear through his horses body,
and as he said the horse was In good health
auu spirits this circumstance tended I'd in
!ure tne value of his testimony, and we
unslly came of victorious.
Inc fellows plan had been to stampede
tne horses, when they would have run out
.llo the rough country about, full of breaks
ana hollows, where it would have been easy
.yr MIN and his partners to steal good