The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-03-09
TWO YEARS
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written Tor the DeLamar NUeenr.
CHAPTER VIII.

out his ranch on the mountain, having
come to the conclusion that he had got
ten about enough of Arkansas and
agreed with him. During The follow
ing winter and spring we removed tc
Searcy county where we we're engaged
in building saw mill for a man by the
name of McCairn. The gulch where
we were working had no name SO we
christened it "Rag Hollow" in compli-
ment to an old fellow named Dick Toll
liver, who. with his family, we're lit
tie bit the dirtiest and most ragged hu-
man beings | ever saw. In fact they
we're indecent. Dick and his two boys
aged respectively 16 and IS years,
worked at the mill and the clothes
they wore would be rejected by an or
binary ragman.
There was continual kick among
the women on their account. The men
talked to them, trying to get them to
improve their appearance, but all to no
purpose. Finally the women held a
meeting and it was unanimously agreed
that as old Dick and his family refused
to be civilized some means must be
taken TO get them out of the neigh
borhood.
Myself and a young fellow named
Gus Gilbert, were called in as auxilaries
and the plan explained to us with in
structions as to our share in the pro-
ceedings.
The arrangements being completed |
the women, dressed in mems clothes, |
went to the top of steep hill above
Dicks house, unseen by Dick, of course.
Gus and were to act as decoys In
the first place We borrowed Dicks gun
to prevent tragical ending to our cpl
sode. We loaded our guns with blank
cartridges and went up by Dicks house
just at dark, after the women had
gained the point they had selected for
their ambush and of which they in
formed us by preconcerted signal. {
We found Dick at home in the bosom
of his family and told him we had dis &
covered turkey roost. and wanted him
to go with US. He said he was too t
tired and with all our persuasion We
could not induce him to 60 However. c
1T wasn't far up the hill to where our r
ambush was laid and Gus and | went /
up. The women heard us coming and |
thinking old Dick was with us, yelled e
'Haltp' We fred off our guns and the Y
women responded with regular fusif- a
ade Yelling at every jump, Gus and h
made for old Dicks house. The old Il
fellow heard the rumpus ADD was out D
side, listening. We rushed past him a
into the house, yelling "Ku-Klux'' and tc
the old fellow lost no time in following b
us and barring the door. At that time b
the papers were full OF sensational it
stories regarding the -Klux-Klan, az
and the atrocities they were said to is
have perpetrated all over the south was ic
enough to give person the horrors, ht
and our sudden advent into Dicks er
house with the information that we had th
been fired on and chased by the Ku- W,
klnx almost gave them the iim-jams. to
In the mean time, my brother and dr.
NcCairn, the owner of The mill, and sh
me or twoothers, thought they would til
'lay joke on the women, SO each one me
.ot sheet and went out to way-lay sol
hem. They hid just at the top of the fel
ill and waited. Presently the women ira
anne along and the men, dressed in lik
heir ghostly garments, showed them goe
elves. The women, instead Of getting bel
rightened as the men thought they we
'ould, commenced shooting and the sou
'ould-be ghosts took TO their heels, the of
omen after Ethem, shooting and at ma
very shot the men would put on lit par
e more speed, and as it was down tell
III race their running was something ME,
rifle. Mccain had on long tail out
'at and that with the sheet be had see
'ound him got him tangled up until into
3 fell headlong and rolled clear to the she
'ttom of the hill in rather democrat bad
ed condition. Early in the flight my mac
other lost his sheet 1t had caught wur
some bushes he didn't stop to losen ped
either. He thought "Dsrn it, what Sam
a sheet TO mans lifen This Gre The
I'd diversion in favor of the retreat me
men Tor when the women saw the my
Get thcy naturailysupposed there was gigg
nan inside it and called on him to she
render, and they spent so much Heff
le in reconoitering before they dare i D m
'ture it that it gave the men Pm
start of them. But the sheet to co
ich my sister.in-law recognized, and gal 1