The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-06
ROUGH RIDERS YARNS.
Story Telling at the Santiago Head
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 q locker around an there was Jim, about the color of chiny nest egg, an his jawbone stickin' out below his ear l like he'd dislocated a chew of terback- CT, he was settin' his teeth down so | hard to keep 'em from rattlin'. I seen | him snap his gun twicet before he mo- | ticed the magazine was empty, an his | hair had lifted his hat plum off'n his | head. I notice he hasn't found it yet" You're a liar' retorted the person referred to, calmly. You never was | anything else but a liar an you never | will be. You was too busy makin' up | what does you for mind whether you | had sand enough to dodge the bullets | an run to notice me; but you've acci- | dentally got in shoutin' distance of I the truth this time. I was good an't ] scared"
 | A group of Rough Riders of Troop G were discussing the events of the fight at La Quasina as they were encamped | on the plateau that they had so dearly won. It was bright moonlight, but l there was already a slight chill in the | air, and the handful of fires dotted here and there among the shelter tents l looked cheerful Most of the men were sleeping soundly, and their deep breath | ing sounded curIously distinct in the pauses in the conversation. One could here too the tread of the sentry on the | gravel in the road below and the rattle 1 O fthe thickly lying cartridge shells as he kicked them aside in his walks. l I'd have given six months pay and | a pound of snokin tobaeker to have been in the milk cellar on my ranch, said third. George Roland was near me when he was hit, an I though my time had come, sure. Then we passed l that l. Troop trumpeter the next rush. 1 Who's seen Heffnerffl Some one said | he was wounded"
 "Killed!" said the first speaker, and there was silence for minute. T was never scared so bad but once before,' replied slightly built, boyish | looking fellow. That was when was working for the Turkey Tracks two | years ago last September I'd been huntin' horses over in Peabody's can- yon, an hadn't found a hoof, an along about sundown I came along to little 'dobe house with a slab corral. I didn't l reckon there was anyone in, for I | hadn't seen no smoke as I came along So l put my cayuse in the corral an shok down forkful of hay for them to bite on, an then opened the door an l walked in.
 'I made for the flour barrel first thing an found it was empty, all but | A H..
 some coffee on the stove, though, an it smelt tolrable fresh, so I built a little | fire in the stove an warmed it up That made me supper, an when that was done I prospected around some more an found bundle of illustrated papers an the best part of a candle. That was a pudpin' l d'no when I'd seen so much readin' matter before. Well, be- fore l turned in to read 'em I started to look for a lantern, so I could go out and look after the cayuse, but I couldn't find one high her low. Then it occurs to me that the feller that owned the ranch might have put it un- der the bed, an I took hole of the foot an hoisted it around an there under
 that bed was man lyin' with his
 throat cut.
 No use talkin', I was stampeded. I
 didn't stop to open the door-I went
 straight at it an busted it off the | hinges. I hadn't time to get my pony.
 I lit out on the keen run an never stop- ped till I got to Santa Clara.
 "Then began to feel that I had act
 ed like a locoed hen, an I reckoned at first that I wouldn't take no one into 1 my confidence, but when I got into | Henry Marty's place I seen Charley
 Simmons, the sheriff, an took him out
 side an told him. He thought hte best
 thing to do was to go out to the ranch
 an investigate, an invited the crowd
 to go with him. All their horses was
 tied outside, an I never thought for a
 moment, but started to hunt for mine. Then I remembered. Where's your pony?' says Charley. I left him in the | corral at the ranch l says. He was | tuckered out an there wasn't no hur- ry, so I concluded I'd walk in"
 Charley didn't say nothin'. but he ! commenced to holler an laugh, an the
 rest of them joined in an I just had to | take it.
 Well, I got another horse an We
 started out, but when we got up to the
 top of the hill We saw a red light in
 the sky over by the ranch.
 The kids set the place afire,' says