The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-24

| po1HV' Lie proposal is mdn11eSUly re
ceiving favorable consideration here
: Primarily it places the Agriculture
College in the artesian belt where
!. scientific and practical experimental
tion in artesian irrigation can be
made. Moreover, the action of the
city Of Brookings toward the Agri.
: cultural College has created much
: dissatisfaction and many people
are quite willing to deprive them of
: the college benefit.
DOANE ROBINSON.
DRUMMER KELLY's ADVENTURE.
He Was Left Tied to Tree Two DAYS and
Night.
A Cleveland man by the name of
John w. Kelly has had an experience
in the Indian territory which reads
like dime novel, but which is unde-
niably true and no doubt no more
strange than many adventures which
Defall people in that country who
never lived to tell the tale, says the
OiCfCldHu
Kelly is travelling salesman for
an Eastern carriage concern which
has employed him for many years and
values his services at a high figure.
His duties take him all over the
United States, and about the first Of
the present month he found himself
travelling by rail in the Indian terri
tory. He noticed that man across
the aisle was scruntinizing him very
closely, and. returning the gaze of
the stranger, recognized him for an
old school friend and companion, Ned
Best. Mutually the two men
stretched hands and "shook."
Best was dressed in the guise of a
government scout or ranger. Kelly
was invited by Best to alight from
the train and stop over and rough it
with his party for few days. Kelly
accepted, and that night by rousing
campfire tney told stories and smoked
pipes. The night was perfect, and
the glamour and novelty of the thing
SO impressed Kelly that with very
little persuasion he was induced tC
don an outfit and join the party, be.
coming one of them.
Two or three days passed when il
began to dawn upon Kelly, much to
:, his horror, that instead of having
Joined party of government scouts
as he had supposed, he was one of q
party of train wreckers and toWr
y despoilers; in fact, of border ruttians
who were even then engaged in plot
y ting to wreck train and sack {
neighboring town. Kelly begged
them in Gods name to desist, but not
only would they not yield to his en-
' treaties, but actually eyed him with
suspicion and intended him harm.
He was IN danger, but he made III
his mind that sooner than let tn,
thing go On he would warn the tow1
authorities at the risk of his life.
. When Kelly was young man h
y had WOOed and won a sister of Net
y Best, the leader of the gang, a beauti
full young girl, who had reciprocate,
y his affection and consented to becom
- his wife. Just as happiness wa
: about to dawn upon them, she diet
to her lovers great dispair. Tim
y had healed the wounds, but, as kell
~ found himself in this great danger
his mind reverted to her, and in he
% % name he besought Best to spare hi
u life.
II The heart of the desperate wa
~ touched, yet caution remained will
. him, and he distrusted the other. II
. consulted his ieutenants, and tn
- following plan was arranged: The
consented to spare Kelly's life, bu
= would not agree to leave him at libel
. ty at the risk that he might inform
. upon them. Therefore they tied hin
to tree in ravine and left hir
y there while they were gone upo
- their nefarious errands. For tw
;. days and a night he remained tie
- there, supplied with blankets an
food, but without firearms to protec
'e himself from the Indians and viii
- beasts that were liable to come alon
~ at any moment.
At last the band returned. Th
, SO hours had seemed to Kelly like a
many days, but had it not been tina
the marauders had given up as unsat
= the town-sacking raid and contente
: themselves with wrecking the trai
- he would have had to remain a pri
:. oner yet another "a hours. Kelly wa
!" unbound and they started him acros
- the country to a settlement on
good pony. He was thankful tc e.
% cape.
N Asingle mahogany tree in Hondura
X was recently cut into boards, which
le when sold in the European marke
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