The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-01-08

Ho Outwittod Then In = Race For Life.
III have not yet exhausted the subject
Of the pony express, . began Colonel VII
liam f. Cody. List me tell you Of one
Of my bear storics Captain Slade Of the
express had taken great fancy 10 me and
had made me kind OF supornumerary
rider who only went when u was necassa-
~. So I had good deal OF time on my
hands. To put In my tir,e would fre-
quently 60 hunting for bears.
Ono cool autumn dny took an express
pony, a good rifle and pair Of revolvers
and started for the foothills Of Laramie
peak, rode along until O'Clock In the
afternoon. Although knew from the
tracks In the snow that bears were In the
neiRhborhood, / had not succeeded In find.
ing any. Feeling hungry, shot a sings
hen, tied my horse 10 a treo and built
fire, on which ] proceeded TO broi1 my
chicken. After good dinner and shors
rest started out again. As my friends
all knew that had gone out for bears
thought that I would rather spend all
night In the place than go back empty
handed.
might came on, and still no bears. I
decided to camp out. Shooting couple
more sage hens, hunted up an empty
place In the timber near little mountain
ctLcain 41cIc L uioiutuhtoas Auuuc alA
preparations to build fire when was
startled by hearing not far on the neigh
of a horse. Where there Ii q horse there
undoubtedly must be q man. But what
sort Of o man was her Was he white or
Indian, nm honest man or crook That
was the question determined to solve
before let him know I was in the neigh
borhood. So / tied my horse to tree,
and taking my rife with me I orept eau
tiously up the stream.
II had not gone more than 400 yards
when, turning the bend in the stream, I
came in sight of dozen horses grazing.
On the opposite side of the stream light
was shining high up on the mountain
bank. ! waded across and cautiously APP
preaching the light soon found that IL
came from a dugost, or cave In the bank.
Soon / heard voices Then could dis
tinguish words and found that they came
from white men who spoke my own lam
guage. I concluded that they must be a
party OF trappers, SO boldly walked up
and knocked at the door. Instantly the
voices were hushed to whisper. Then
one Of them called out:
"'Who's therei'
ga friend, a white man. replied.
IAN uncouth looking man opened the
door and invited me to come In. The
pants of the room of an equally repulsiye
appearance. Among them I recognized
two men who had once been Transfers in
the train of Lew Simpson, had been dis
charged a few months before and had then
disappeared. 1t was said that they had
robbed and murdered ranchman and
gone off with his horses.
IT acknowledge that my heart failed me
for the moment, but l gave no outward
sign Of the fact I determined 60 chat
with the men for few moments, to tell
them as little as could about myself and
take the earliest opportunity Of leaving.
"'Well, young man, said the fellow
who appeared to be the leader, who are
you, and what are you doing herei"
81 came from Horseshoe station this
morning I replied. Il am searching for
bear, and as did not find any decided
to camp out and stay here all night, but
hearing your horses neigh came up hero
Are you alones'
"Quite alone
"'Where is your horsef
"'I left him down the stream
"'Well, said the captain, we will go
down for it,
THAT was exactly what wished TO
avoid, for II they were to get my horse
they would cut me off from all possibility
OF escape. had a shrewd suspicion that
they were a party of horse thieves, and
that would find them ugly customers.
"'No, captain / said as cheerily as I
could. I will leave my gun here, and I
will go back for my horse and stay with
you all night If you will give mo the &C.
commodations.
~ thought that If left my gun behind
mo they would be sure would come bas's
for it. My real intention, however, was
4 - . (rn., hat
as quickly as possible Tho rufllans evil
IDENTIFY saw through my plan, for two of
them spose up and said, We will go down
with you to get your horse, and you will
leave your gun behind you.'
There was nothing to do bat to con-
sent. After all, thought to myself, ]
will be better IF with two of the scoun-
drels than with the whole party, and de-
cided in my own mind to lock out for the
first opportunity of giving them the &C
by. When we came up to the horse, one
of the men unhitched it and said I will
lead it,
IAN right, said 1, with assumed care
lessness. Il have a couple of sage hen,
here that killed for my supper and break
fast. ] guess l will take Them along.
~ picked up tho hens and followed
the man who was leading the horse. Il
had now become quite dark. i put ms
hands in my pocket and drew out my re
volver. The gang had omitted to search
me. Then, as If by accident, droppet
one of the sage hens.
"'Will you kindly pick it up9' said t.
the man who was following me.
He stopped down. Instantly knock
ed him over tho head with the butt end o
the revolver. He fell scnseless. The orasl
startled tho man in front of me, and b,
wheeled round quick as a flash, with hi
hand upon the revolver. But was quick
or than he One shot, and he fell to tn
ground in his death agony. 1 juDpet
upon my horse and urged him to race 70
his life From the noise behind me coui,
dimly make out that the shot had beel
heard by the men in the dugout; that the.
had rushed out In body and had learnei
the story from the man l had knocke'
down and had started In pursuit of me
They were on foot, but in that rough AM
wooded country man could mako hi
way quicker ON foot than he could o.
horseback. found that they were gain
ing ON me. At last had to abandon m
horse. leaped off his back, gave him
vigorous slap on the launches, which sen
him flying down the valley, and l creT
up the mountain side My pursuers keT
on. Hearing the sound of the horse
heels, they followed, with the evident ide
that WINS on his back. ! hid behind
tree until they were out Of hearing, whe
I started to walk back to Horseshoe Sta
ton. 1t was long walk, fully 80 mile
but as soon as was out Of the woods
struck out and reached home at day break
Chicago Times.
Larger Pc ice Force.
Wilmington's police force will be In
creased. At least that is the purpose of
bill which will be presented to the Legis