Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-27

look In his dark eyes. ut would be .
good time now, I'll admit, to buy some
real estate here as q fier, but / don't
care to drive out there. II happen to
see lot go by here that like, I'll buy
it, but I'd rather not drive out where
they come from.
1--WE will get tough steak here, !"
he said one day last week as We sat
down in a CHEEKY dining room.
"Why?" inquired, with large, soal-
full, longing eyes.
because you notice how wabbly the
table is on its legs? Well. that's done
by trying to cut woven wire steak on
it. Tables can't stand that sort OF
thing more than one season."
We are now running through the In
dian Territory. It Is very rich cOun-
try between Winfield, Kaa., and Fort
Smith. I've also heard 3 good deal
about the Cherokee strip. but never
saw one do so till the past week. I told
the police about 1t, and he resumed his
clothes once more.
The other night rode till most morn
ing beside United States deputy mar
shall and with Winchester rifle on my
lap. He chatted pleasantly about the
outlaws here and how they had to DO
hunted.
Every year on an avsrege IS deputy
marshals die at the hands OF these out
laws Of the Dalton stripe.
My friend said that though few Of
the deputies lived to grow up they are
very poorly paid, and though they az
ford police protection to the railroad
and express companies l noticed that
be had to pay his fare.
"Whatr' l exclaimed. "You don't
have to pay fare here when you are
trying to protect the company's prop
erty and the lives OF passengers"
"Oh, yes" he said, looking down the
barrel of his gun. Every outlaw
knows me and is at liberty to shoot me
down in cold blood, yet l get barely
enough to live on from 1t, and though
the railroad company sometimes passes
US 10 the scene OF an express robbery,
after we have secured the country and
slept out Of doors a week in pursuit OF
the robbers, when we return We pay i've
cents per mile TO get home il alive and
about the same rate IL dead.
The Indian Territory at present Is
filled with desperadoes from all over
the world, and Cass county, Mo-, too,
for that matter.
The wheat crop is very fine, running
on an average 30 bushels OF fine wheat
per acre. These lands are rented to
white settlers. who give about So per
acre in crops or one-thlrd the yield for
the use of the land, but these people
have, am sorry TO say, dime novel
idea Of the brave outlaws and will not
only shelter them without cost, but keep
guard over them while they sleep I'M
der their roof.
This makes II almost impossible for
the government to overtake these mon,
unless, as at Coffeyville, the robbers are
shot down before they can get across
the line.
A man named Anderson, who lived on
the frontier many years, said that one
night there came to his cabin at O'clock
worn and weary, pale and hungry par
ty OF men. They said they had not eaten
or slept for forty-elght hours, and they
looked IL, too.
''Come in," said Mr.. Anderson.
"But there is a price on every head
here that would make you rich " you
were TO tell OF our whereabouts"
"Neyer mind" said Anderson. "You
are Starving, and l shall not take ad-
vantage OF your condition. Come In and
eat a bite and 90 TO sleep. You will
not be disturbed"