Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-23
} locked the stable at the usu.

al time.
The trumpet blew u stirring call now;
one that brought the flush of excite
ment with faster pulsations, and a mo
ment's blood tingling worth year of
commonplace life. In twenty minutes
Troop B of the --th cavalry charged
down the dusty road, the huttering of
the guidons and yellow facings of the
cavalry uniform, the rush of gray horses
and the sheen of the polished steel scab-
bards as they caught the early rays of
the morning sun and clattered in chorus,
making picture worthy the study of a
disciple Of Meissonier. At Bonanza City,
better known DIS Fatty Carroll's place,
on the very edge of the reservation, d
halt was made and the troop apportioned
into detachments to cut the surrounding
country into segments as the spider does
the circle of his web when he runs his
lines across it. Fatty was called on to
keep open house, and having been SOL
der himself knew what it meant and
hustled.
The post had not been paid for three
months, and the heyday in the blood of
Fatty's boarders was tame. Nothing
was found in the dance hall but sawdust
and commingled "reminiscences of stale
beer and stogies, and the bedrooms of
the blear eyed and very dizzy ''girls"
gave no better results. One squad then
whirled away like Arabs down the river
road toward Spokane Falls, anotheg
swept along the road cutting through the
forest, past its margin where the "hold
up occurred, and on to Rathdrum,
while two others deployed and went at
twenty yard intervals through the giant
pines to the open prairie beyond. Dur
ing the afternoon the last detachment
had returned; the fruit of the recon-
noissance, an old miner in the post
guardhouse.
A burro, as old as his master and none
the less patient in appearance, in appar-
ent unconcern nibbled the quartermas-
ter's straw rick near the corral, care
fully adjusted diamond hitch still in his
pack. Corporal Bainbridge had not suf-
ficiently recovered to view the captive.
He had not detailed an account of the
robbery, having been carried unconscious
from the adjutant's Office to the post
hospital, where for several days he and
life were not on speaking terms
The miner and his burro had been
sighted near the scene of the robbery on
the road to the fort. Both were walking,
deeply plunged in meditation to hear the
approach of the troopers and both were
unfeignedly surprised when arrested.
In the pack were the miners usual para
phernalia-extra boots, red flannel
shirt, pick and pan, a sufficient grub
stake for months, and spade bearing
signs of recent use. His manner, his
dress, his idom, his tone, his atmosphere
proclaimed the miner, his pockets even
spoke of his occupation, for in one re-
posed a greasy buckskin wallet, closed
by a puckering string land containing
seven gold twenties and a few small
nuggets gummed together by chips of
navy plug. No other money and no
weapons except a revolver and knife
were found upon him, and his account
of himself was SO remarkably perpen-
dicular that even Major Bull was con-
strained to let the poor devil loose. Ac-
cordingly the patient old man and burro
were liberated in two hours after their
capture, and set out bearing no i'll will,
SO the spokesman said, but q sense of
great injury was plainly visible in their
bearing as they passed slowly out of
sight. A few days later and it was cur
rent they had survived the snow-deeps
of the Fourth of July pass and had fairly
entered on their prospecting among the
spurs of the C9ur dAlenes, where gold
was soon after discovered. Subsequent
events proved the falsity of this rumor,
and that they had waded through to the
railroad in the neighborhood of Pend
d'Oreille and gone back to "the lower
country" to sip again the sweets of the
blossom of civilization.
During his convalescence Corporal
cambridge was tried by garrison
court. His commanding officer, Cap
tain Kell, known to his familiars as the
"Jack of Clubs" because of his star
ting resemblance to that chap as found
in the squeezers used at the clubhouse,
was most aggressive for the accused,
who had enlisted to learn music when
boy of fourteen and had soon been trans
ferred to his company, where he now
was after nine years service. The cor
poral submitted statement in his own
behalf, in which he said he was reach
ing for his revolver when he was shot
and only then discovered it's loss. The
finder having restored it and testified to
having dug it out of the mud near the
freight Office, the court found q verdict
of acquittal- against all precedent.
Three months later the young soldier
found himself, with private of his
company, detained at Ainsworth,
struggling rendezvous of lumbermen
and miners on the Snake river. The
train ferryboat Frederick Billings was
too tublike to attempt crossing that
evening, and to make detention doubly
sure the wind blew so strong from the
low stretch of the further shore as to
glue her to the bank more securely than
other anchors could have done. Our
hero of the stage episode was en- route
to Vancouver barracks, intrusted with
the safe keeping of a military convict
sentenced to imprisonment there, and
with other passengers sought the COM
forts of the big hotel, and secured the
usual accommodations of ten in a room
and two in bed.
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