Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-09

| Witns an pint OUT an get MIN.
80 Peets, Booth. Boegsan Cherokee
Hall steps into the saddle an, pickin NJ
the trail over by the corral, lines out
toward the Tres Hermanos. They runs
the trail until late that afternoon an
camps, an gettin It agan In the morniD,
b takes 'en into the hills. Yere II gets
hard and rocky. an they. nacheral
enuff, not bein InjuDs, lose IL. An In
Jun can track a tomcat along a stone
wall. but white men amt got no sech
gift. But on they goes. trail or no
trail
:" We gets this yere Johnson, says
Jack Booth, or up goes a wickeyup
an lives right in these yere hills from
now on. Either we downs him or !
don't 60 back no more. in which event
Wolfville lose not only ten hosses, bat
valyooed citizen Booth is marshal
for the Strangers, an for outsider
like this yere johnson to stroll In and
quit MS ten hosses ahead Is mighty
grievous an gratin to Jack.
"As the outfit was stuInblin up a
canyon they hears hoss whinny t'other
side Of the hill. It was one of the
stage bosses, an he gets scent of an ac-
quaintance of his'n--they bein TO wind
'ard-which the same IL carryin Doc
Peets all easy enuf, an 80 be says
'HowdyP to him, hoss fashion. Peets'
hoss, he says 'Howdyr back, an the
next minute these yere four people is
pilln all permiscus into the canyon
where the ten hosses is, an each
a-shootin. Sos johnson, for that mat
ter, an for a time it's some lively.
When the shootin ceases there's that
man johnson stretched out with his
laig broke at the knee, an Booth is
busy gettin his saddle off his own dead
hoss to put 1t onto another. Then
they sets johnson In a saddle after tyin
up his laig, takes the ten HOSES. which
is all lookin on, some interested in the
racket, an lines out for home.
Just as the outfit Is enterin into a
long, narrer stretch of canyon where
the walls Is high an onclimable, they
hears fifteen or twenty guns behind
'em, an at the same time the bullets
begin TO scutter an spatter around in
the rocks. Back they looks and thar's
forty 1njuns up the valley half mile.
"'Ohl you wants us, do your says
Booth, plenty scornful; well, we'll
Just fool you up whole lot What
do you say, Peets; let's stop an give
'em rough tossl There's nuthin in it,
of course, but let it go into the minutes
of the meetin under the head of good
of the order."'
"'No, says Peets, let's get out Of
the hills onto the fat ground first. Too
good a chance to crawl round us yere
" But I'm constitootionally agin al
lowin Injuns to pester round me this
away, says Jack. What do you ali
say, boysT he continued to Boggs an
Cherokee. tfh
"Boggs was for stoppin, an Cherokee
he don't care none which way;
as suits the rest suits him.
Don't get no vote in this yere,
I'd like for to known says johnson.
who sit on his boss listenin, some pale
with his busted laig, but game an ugly
Jest the same. Amt ! into this at all9
"'Well, should say not, says
Booth. mighty contemptuous. DO
you think we're comm out yere in the
hills to let hoss thief vote along of us
II you do, you amt got our grade, none
ut all.
Gan this time the Injuns is closin up,
a-shootin wild an wastin good lead like
hey alters do, an SO Peets, a-seein how |
sentiment stands, sorter drops the whole |
outfit in behind point o. rocks an be.
gins punpin it into the hostiles in |
'apid an unpleasant way. This yer,
goes on for two minutes, an the Injuns |
'orter drops out of the game long enuf |
% count what chips they're short.
g. s'pose, says Johnson to Poets,
while they're waitin, you alls shore
iue to hang me when we gets to Wolf
filler
1--WE most likely will waste lariat
hat away says Peets. Why what
'ver makes you doubt itT
"'l amt doubtin of it, says John.
on; none whatever. This yere's Jest
ny way OF beginnin a conversation.
Now, what Tin gettln to is this: I'm
,oin to hang anyhow, an II hurts my
aig like blazes to ride, Now, what's
he matter of you all givin me Win
hester and couple OF Colts, and say
bout 100 rounds of "44's," an lettin
ne camp right yere In the rocks an
AIRY on the war. You all can stroll
III TO Wolfville then, an I'll see that no
NUNS go by me. The canyon walsh
% they don't so round none, an thar
ou be-. | think she's bang up good
cheme, myself, as does me credit. They
ant nohow down me for two hours,
n thatd give you start enuf, even II
ou're afoot What do you say; Is it
gor
"'What do you all think = says Peets
D the rest. so~'er thinkin of II over TO
linse't IL looks all right TO me.
his yere man is bound 10 so anyhow,
n simply prefers Injuns TO us an bul-
rs 20 rope. would myse'f, simi.
'rly situated. Utmost likely is a-hurtin
his laig heap 10 make him ride too.
Ghat do you all sayi Shall we let
i'm make the playr
1T looks like when u mans done
oun to lose anyhow, says Cherokee
le shore oughter be above To say
hioh card he drops his stack on.
1--WE might as we'll let him have his
ay,' says Booth glooInlly. 'Packin
I'm In with his busted knee Is heap