The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-12
By the Roman Law.

were both pretty well tagged by over
work.
We had gone in as "preps" out of the
public school from our home town. and
had pegged away steadily for five years
Besides finishing the regular course we
had carried extra studies in economies
and general history
When we arrived home about the Ist
OF July we felt the need of rest and
recreation. One morning several DAVIS
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 hest
lawyers in his State and usually busv
happened on that morning to he string
at leisure An assistant was droning to
his shorthand clerk in the next room.
"Hullo, Younkers." was his greeting.
"Sit down."
He threw aside a paper.
we sat at his table. 1t was ALWAYS
peasant In his office when the ex-J,,dpa
could throw aside his work and dignity
say, ne began, stretching out his
legs and throwing his hands behind b,s
heao' I've got scheme for Won felIows
uoh approve OF the way you carried
on at college, not going in a bit for base
pan or athletic sports of any sort.
was good oar at Yale. stout and
heaIthy as a buck all the time. and yet
managed to cram my noddle as fuIl of
STUN as the average. Now. UNDER
stdhu you We done a deal of hard work.
In Iact, you both look it; you must do
something TO take that wishv-wasbi-
ness out or your faces. Don't go Iazing
aiouhd Minnetonka or any other lake.
U' ee' Out on 10 the Western plains or
the mountains for few months-shoot
antelope and blacktail and ride buckinp
ponies. had a letter from cousin Ran
Shieid' of Nebraska, the other dav He's
got railroad grading contract in wvo-
ming and wants some of us to come ONT
anu Visit MIN In camp this summer: saws
ne VIII furnish transportation from Oma-
ita. VOW 1 can't go; I'm too busy. bnt
- Just the thing for you Yorl fust
my ADVICE and go along and sta,
q "hole year out in that countr,, bo
iv o. Desln your law studies serious
VI, IL you don't want to lose 40 ,,,,'",,
une altogether, you can take so,,i4 i 'N,li
with YOU" Ae some law
ne got up as though the matter ,as
1SS.lIed, went to an unused corner or his
ancient volumes. oiiipef OF
here, he said, piling them uno, 49,.
t.t, mere are some books INV grand
tdtHer used-a French print of PothiN-,.
6 6na some volumes Of Grotius. Coke and
read LOTT Begin with your Justinian
Iea9 tnese In order and then vo,,'u ~
READY for modern law course NC
No ,i.S the plan was sprung upon
"itnout an instant's warning we
, LOOK 10 IL heartily, gave up our proiaoteS
iaa1 summering and went to WYOMING
Aiohs with our blankets. cIofbinc
tents and ammunition we nscLed tto
law DOCKS and shipped our effects Nv,
II Is not my purpose to tell of orr life
q a.. onieids railway camp, but I can
Drlef 1t by saying that we tramnai
hunted, geologized, botanized and g.,
STOUT, rugged and brown as waInuts
we even esSayed riding some buckinp
ponies which visiting cowboys loaned ne
1or the purpose, and actually. enioyed the
80 III oI pltchlng over their heads
bottom. ii'eA
In October when Shield finished his
contract and took a new one i'm Ne
Draska We stayed behind.
We secured quarters a the IIarf No.,
ranch on Powder creek. where the s,,-
perintendent, a jolly Tennesseean. made
US heartily welcome TO stay indefinitelv
we earned our board, partly at least
by bringing in wood from the hills for
ene fireplace and fetching coal for the
cook stove from an open vein in the
gulch close at hand.
Inc ranch was a rambling log struct-
ure, and we had a good sized room IN
sleep in AS the weather came ON cold
er we gave part of our time to reading
Occasionally We rode out with the COW,
boys upon the range and helped to round
up cattle or stray horses
We varied these pursuits twice each
week by riding down to little frontier
town seven miles away for our mail
Carson was log town of the mongreI
description which grows up on cattle
ranges In advance Of projected railway
lines. This town was now about thirty
miles away from lend OF track" IT
had two or three stores, and its one
squalid street was lined with saloons and
gambling resorts. Built upon the bare
cactus plain, its principal resource was
Its expectations, which, so far as we
could discover, had not induced many re-
spectacle people to make it their home
1t was governed, If such a term might
De used. by deputy sheriff. justice of
the peace and a marshal"
The deputy. Broadly, was a noted
gambler and acknowledged to be mighty
handy with a gun" Squire De Land.
the justice, SO it was said. was a hard
drinker and tool of Broadys. 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 ranchnen
and cowboys of that part of Carson
county.
One afternoon we rode into town and
found unusual excitement on the street
All the inhabitants of the place-at least
1t seemed so-and a number of cowboys
whom We had seen from the Bar V and
ShOshone ranches were crowded in and
about the Office OF the deputy sheriff and
justice OF the peace. Judging from in
flamed faces and excited looks, which
We're turned upon US as we rode in.
whisky had circulated freely during the
day, and in more than the usual guam
tity.
After alighting and "hitching our
horses to the 81 ound"-throwing the
bride reins off n front-we elbowed our
way toward the postOffice door, The
pOstoffice vas in a grocery and drug
store adjoining Squire De Lands office.
There was a gable of confused and
excited talk and passed thrOlfoh