The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-16
JOBNSON'S DEBTOR.
1t Was an Extraordinary Job to
Collect from Him.

Collect from Him.
when o. M. Carter, now president
of the American Loan e. Trust COM
pany of Omaha. sold his post traders
outflt at the Rosebud Indian agency in
South Dakota to Charles Stemwinder
johnson, as Ed Hall used to call him,
there were some accounts on the books
which he threw in as uncollectable."
1t was Col George Barry starting an
bsher story of his frontier life in the
cafe at the Lotus club the other even
ing after the coffee, says the New York
Sun.
''Well, ono time, after he'd got pretty
fairly well used to the redskins and
some of the surrounding territory, it
struck johnson one day that it would
be q good thing to collect some of
those unbelievable bills Every cent
he got out OF them was clean
profit The worst man on the whole
list was a Frenchman named Buche,
who was ranging some cattle over
toward the head waters of the south
fork of the White river. Carter had let
Buche run up bill of one hundred and
sixty dollars, and he couldn't get
cent of it.
Courts, the head clerk, who had
been at the post for years, told Johnson
TINT If he could collect Buche's bill he
could get every dollar every other man
on the Rosebud owed him. Well, one
day johnson got Buche at the agency.
and jollied him along until Buche actu-
ally agreed to pay.
eel tell you vat, Thomson the
Frenchman said, Il got some cattles
opon re reevairc. i gif you some of zem
cattles.'
..sAll right, Buche,' Johnson said.
Jack Arl1wright an I'll go up an get
'em some day before long,
80 they had a drink and Buche went
away. In ten minutes he'd changed his
mind about the cattle and concluded
not to pay the bill. He bounced back
into Johnson's store and excitedly cx-
claimed:
-. Thomson, keeptzosc cattles my
self. don't tsink gifts you zose cat
tles.s Zose is my cattles.
"'All right, Buchc. You can keep
your cattle said johnson. But the
cattle you gave me are mine, an Jack
Arlxwright an I'll go up an get 'cm
next Sunday
NJ Diet you ain goin' get zose cattles.
Nevaire! Zose is my cattles. Eth?
keep zem. know. Eth? You sec me?
am Duche. Zose is my entities. So.
keep zem. Vat you can do? Nozzingl
/ know Eat is good cad. Zere is
worse leads as Eat in con-n-gress. Eli?
And out OF the store he strobe.
johnson saw him once or twice after
that before the next Sunday and each
time said:
"Tll be down on Sunday for my
cattle
"Buche rayed around the agency and
swore by oil his vigorous oaths that
he'd fill johnson full of Winchester
holes If the trader made an effort t.
pet the cattle So on Saturday John
SON went to the agency building and hat
Jack Arkwright sworn in as deputy
United States marshal There ISM
very much law on an Indian reserva
ton. and in most cases might is right
but Arkwrights long official title had {
terrifying sort of sound to the half
breeds, and Jack thought himself only
second in Importance to tho president
He had Mexican, Indian and negro
blood in his veins. and was as fine
specimen as you'll see in many day
travel in that country of stalwart men
BESIDES that he didn't understand how
to be afraid of anything. and he be
lieved that six-shooter was made 10
use rather than ornament
,aWell, on Sunday morning johnson
and Arkwright, with his commission a
deputy marshal and herder, starte'
for Buche's headquarters ,seventy-fiv
i miles away on the river, leaving Ruch
boiling around the agency and swear
ing all sorts of things They rod
nretty hard, and made about sixty-fiv
miles before shutdown. They hadn'
much more than gone into camp befor
Buche came by riding like whirlwind
with Winchester balanced on the sad
die in front of him.
!. BE down in the morning, Buche
shouted johnson, an get my cattle.
..With an angry shout. Buche rode o
& toward his camp Very early the mex
morning Johnson's party started. The
made the ten miles to Buche's camp
about an hour, and couldn't find o sig
of life.
.Well, I'm gormcd.' said Jack Arr
wright. if the d. Frenchy hain't nj
his cattle in the buttes.
ssTbey separated and began to hun
for the cattle. While they were
work Buchc came riding up at furlou
gait from the Nebraska line 1t turne
out afrerward that he'd been. over ate
the Cherry county regulators to bel
him fight the cattle thieves But tn
tiYst person he met after he got acros
the line was q man whom he owed e
! wagon. The man spotted him Tor IN
money, and Buche fed for the nscrv'
ton again