New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-29
BY THE ROMAN LAW.


! taken our B. Phi. degrees, we were both pretty
well tagged by overwork.
We had gone In as "preps" out OF the pubic
| school from our home town, and had pegged
| away steadily for five years. Besides hnishihe
| the regular course, we had carried extra s'uo'e'
| In economics and general history
| When we arrived home about the first OF July
| we felt the need of rest and recreation. Ohe
| morning. several days after our return, we met
| upon the street and. by way OF diversion strayed
| into the roomy law Office Of my classmates
| father, Judge Cascaden.
The Judge who is one Of the best lawyers IN
his State and usually busy. happened on that
| morning to be sitting at leisure. An assistant
was droning to his shorthand clerk In the next
room.
"t1u,,o Younkers." was his greeting. "Sit
| down"
| He threw aside a paper
| We sat at his table It was always pleasant
! in his Office when the ex-Judge could throw
| aside his work and his dignity.
| Say" he began, stretching out his legs ana
| throwing his hands behind his head. i've got
| a scheme for you fellows. don't approve OF
| the way you carried at college, not going In
| a bit for baseball athletic sports OF any
| sort l y'as a good oar at Yale, stout ana
healthy as a buck all the time and yet man.
| aged to cram my nodde as full of stun as the
average Now, understand you've done deal
| Of hard work; In fact, you both look II; you
must do something to take that wishy-washiness
| out Of your faces Don't go lazing around Min
netonka or any other lake. but get out onto
| the Western plains or the mountains for few
| months-shoot antelope and blacktail and ride
| bucking ponies. ] had letter from cousin Ben
| Shield Of Nebraska, the other day. He's got
| =, railroad grading contract In wyoming ana
| wants some Of to come out and WISH MIN
| in camp this summer; says he VIII furnsh trans
| portation from Omaha. Now, l can't go; III
| too busy but It's just the thing for YOU You
| lust take my advice and go along and stay
| whole wear out In that country before you begin
| your law studies seriously. Or. II you don't
| want to lose so much time altogether. you can
| take law with you
! He got I'D as though the matter was settled;
! went 10 an unused corner Of his library ana
| pulled down number Of ancient volumes
| Here" he said, png them upon the table,
here are some books my grandfather used-a
French print of Pothier, and some volumes of
| Grotius. Coke and Puffendorf. Begin with yoIr
] Justinian; read these in order and then youll
| be ready for a modern law course
Although the plan was sprung upon us With
out an instants warning, we took to 1t heartily
gave I'd our projected lake summerng, and went
| to Wyoming.
Along with out blankets. clothing tents and
| ammunition we packed the law books and
| shipped our effects by rail.
It is not my purpose TO tell OF our life at
Shields railway camp. but can brief" 1t by say
| ing that tramped hunted. geologized. potan-
| lied and grew stout rugged and brown as walnuts
| We even essayed riding some buoking ponies
| which visiting cowboys loaned us for the pur-
4 o,tn ha
pitchng over their heads into the sands Of the
| North Platte River bottom.
In October, when Shield finished his contract
and took a new one in Nebraska, we stayed be-
hind.
We secured quarters at the Half Moon" ranch
on Powder Creek. where the superintendent,
! Jolly Tennesseean. made us heartily welcome to
STAY Indefinitely. We earned our board partly
~ Ie.st bv bringing In wood from the hills for
the 6replace and fetching coal fer the cook stove
from an open vein in the gulch close at hand.
The ranch was a rambling log structure and
we had q good sized room TO sleep in. AS the
weather came colder we gave part or our
time to reading. Occasionally we rode out with
the cowboys upon the range and helped to
| round up cattle stray horses.
We varied these pursuits twice each week by
riding down TO a little frontier town seven miles
away for mail.
| Carson was a log town of the mongrel descrip-
t,on which grows up on cattle ranges In advance
| az projected railway lines This town was now
about thirty miles away from lend Of track.
1t had two or three stores and It's one squalid
street was lined with saloons and gambling re-
sorts Built upon the bare cactus plain, It's prin-
cipal resource was its expectations, which, so far
az we could discover, had not induced many re-
bic people TO make 1t their home.
II was governed. If such term might be used.
bv a deputy sheriff. justice of the peace and
marshal"
The deputy, Broadly. was noted gambler and
acknowledged to be mighty handy with a gun.
Squire De Land, the justice it was said was
O. hard drlnker and tool Of Broady's. AS we
never heard anything about the marshal" we
presumed he amounted to nothing anyway.
Carson was, in fact the resort only Of the
rougher element Of the ranchmen and cowboys
! of that part of Carson County.
One afternoon we rode into town and found
unusual excitement on the street. All the In
habitants Of the place-at least it seemed so
and q number Of cowboys whom we had seen,
from the Bar X' and Shoshone ranches. were
crowded in and about the office of the deputy
sheriff and justice of the peaces Judging from
innamed faces and excited looks, which were
turned upon us rode In, whiskey had cir
cuated freely during the day. and in more than
the usual quantity.
After alighting and "hitching horses to the
ground throwing the bride reins off in front
we elbowed way toward the postoffice door.
The postofice was in grocery and drug store
adjoining Squire De Lands office.
There was a gable Of confused and excited
talk. and passed through the crowd
caught the remarks:
Hang him. that's what they'll do"
You bet, that's the way to call down a boss
thief"
BY which we understood that a pony stealer
had caught and q he hanQed WI
was not unusual occurrence in that region.
Just as we were about entering the postoffice,
however a cowboy whom We had seen at
Shields camp caught AID by the shoulder. Say"
he exclaimed. you two boys know the Teller In