The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-01

fore another session of congress could
do him any good if it wanted to. AS
general thing the United States mar
shall is not prepared to shoulder the
financial burdens Of the country at five
minutes notice and loan the national
treasury the money to administer
Sneedy Justice for a year at a time. So
they did the best they could-cut down
expenses. borrowed of their friends,
and stood off the balance till congress
met 1t was a time to try mems souls.
At that time the marshal of Wyo-
ming. one of the most genuine gentle
men Of German descent that ever
knew-and I've known a good many
of them-was necessarily absent from
the territory. One afternoon while the
warden was over in town buying beef
for the prisoners. word was brought to
the guard that kid" was sick in his
cell. very sick. The guard got some
Thing hot from the kitchen, and ac-
eompanied by the cook, an eminent life
member Of the penitentiary, went to
kids" cell to administer it
AS he handed the soup to the patient
he got a push from behind, and pretty
soon the Kid and the cooker were
taking his revolver and bunch of keys
from his person while they sat on top
of him and held his nose down in the
blankets They then went out of the
cell and locked the guard in. He told
me afterward that the Kids" recov-
cry was the most sudden transition
from dangerous illness 70 vigorous
health that he ever kr.ew- When
other guards or the warden appeared
during the afternoon they We're cor
daily met at the portals by armed
convicts. who escorted them to their
dungeons and carefully locked them in.
So. along about o'clock the United
IL IL, g
the gentlemanly murdererS and high
waynen Of the Rocky mountains. They
d;d not rush off into the adjoining
country at once. but fingered around
+he men nd enjoyed themselves. The
,oer,ffertie ~ is located across the river
from the town, and so it was not dis
+7,1-bed. The striped humoriStS pro-
ceeded TO harness up the marshaFs
hest team to a spring wagon and to
load the latter with al the deiicacies
Of the season. They also took along
several rifles and double-barreled shot
guns. a tent and a fine bird dog, in
tending to rusticate in the mountains
for a few months in order to enjoy
much needed rest and change of scene
After dusk they told the warden and
guards that they were sorry to see
young men of such high social posi-
ton in such a place. but offered to in
tercede for them with the governor,
left the keys outside the big portals
and went reluctantly away. We used
to hear Of them for long time after
ward on the road.
All they seemed 10 do for a living
was to trade horses with people. When
497ev saw a horse that they fancied
they would most generally kinder
dicker around with the owner until
they got il. In this way they made
good deal Of money. Ever and anon
some Laramie City man would come
home with WORKOUT foundered horse
that he had secured in return for
$500 steed in one of these trades. The
highwaymen never gave boot, and yet
they always got q better horse than
they gave Sometimes they would stoD
the coach on the Rock creek road, and
while the kid" traded horses with
she driver the others would trade
watches and pocketbooks with the pas
senEers.
They had a real good time for quite
a long spell. 2nG the pure, crisD air
brought back the flush of health to
their wan cheeks.
They shot sage hens and caught
mountain trout in pleasant wea Their.
and when they got worn out with en-
mi they v-aYld go out and trade horses
with the stagecoach
One dav they met the sheriff and
stunpeo him for q trade. While they
were haging abount It a squad Of the