The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-10
name was stearns, and has post oflc6
address Minden And then up jumped
Rand. with lipht IN his eyes.

name was Stearns, and has post sOmc6
address Minden. And then up jumped
Rand with light in his eyes. q.
III That's what I wanted to know. s
said he. 81 thought I'd seen that poor
boy before. Now, corporal, don't worry
about this matter. We could acquit
you easily enough, but there's some
thing else to be done. We want to nail
the real perpetrators and get that
money back if possible; SO the trial
can't come off just yet
s.But-pardon, colonel" said Schramm.
rising again. sMay not my box have?
There are letters, portraits-hone-
gifts And Rand said he was going in
to see the sheriff then and there.
A month the troops from the plains
were kept on duty in and around the
railroad centers of the west. Four long
weeks the garrison at Ransom consisted
of Morgan, the surgeon, the band, the
ordnance sergeant and clerk, quarter
master, employees, and so on, with the
hospital steward and attendants, the
sick and wounded. Schramm, con-
valescing rapidly now, was assigned to
daily duty at the adiutant's office. JET
fers, still limping little, with Treacy
and others, became the nucleus of
species of running guard, and did
patrol and watch duty. The railway
company, grateful for the services of
the troops in saving their property, sent
sleeper to Butte and an invitation for
such of the officers families as would
like to go to Chicago, Omaha or where
soever the husband and father might
be, as the guests of the road, and many
went, and Rand wrote asking for Coon
ME and the kids" to come on and pay
Mrs. Rand visit, but Connie wouldn't
go. s'Who would take care Of daddy?"
she asked, nesting her face against
that veterans stubbly cheek; and Nor
gan gave it up.
The sheriff, who had been frequent
visitor, quit coming out to the post,
and began to talk around town about
the way the fort people had behaved
from the start in this robbery business.
He would have had the robbers at the
time, only the cavalry had interfered.
He and his posse would have nabbed
GAOSC iSAIOWS AcA 1oAAAdho W. n
range if it hadn't been that those
id meddlers of troopers drove them
beyond his jurisdiction. The Toma-
hawk was the name given the black
fringed spur that came down from the
mountains west of Wagon gap almost
to the valley Of the Ska. It was famous
for bear, elk and black-tail deer, and
all it's length, except few miles at the
southern end, lay within the Sioux
reservation, and no one could go
thither to shoot except by previous ar
rangement with the agency people.
Nevertheless old Stearns, the recent
victim of Sioux vengeance, had for
more than a year kept a shooting-box
somewhere in the mountains, where
with his half-witted boy ne lived
hermit life, coming down to
Minden very seldom, yet fire.
quently being seen about the
agency at the north. Keen sports
men of Omaha, Yanhton and Sioux
City, it was said, sometimes made
up hunting parties, and, having prop
erly and previously fixed" the Sioux
chiefs through agency interpreters,
went up by way of the Indian villages
and, with Indian guides, had many a
day of famous shooting, and came
home, the envied of their kind,
with baggage-car load OF carcasses