Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-01-22
Youthful Desperados.

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find an owner five dollars worth,
not because he is afraid the owner
may need his gun next squirrel
harvest, but on account OF the pc
culiar notions on the rules OF
swapping displayed by the trader,
and thereby hangs tale, says the
Garfield Enterprise.
On last Sunday evening several
different parties in the neighbor-
hood of Mr.. Follis' ranch noticed
two boys riding in the direction of
Luke's house mounted on ponies,
one o gray the other a bay, with
blankets in lieu of saddles and hal
ters for brides. 1t was late in the
evening when they passed through
and 10 special notice was taken of
the very innocent fact of their
traversing a public highway nor
any Importance attached to their
having with them 22-caliber rifle
until Mr.. Follis went out to mis-
ranch on Tuesday morning, He
found the stable door pried open
and his work harness Of which
there were eight or ten sets, scat
tered around the barn, parts of the
lines having been cut away, bits Of
leather lay around suggesting the
theory that they had used the
lines to make riding brides. A
lariat forty or fifty feet in length
lay on the barn floor, evidently left
by them, and the rubber grip pieces
of a pistol stock were picked up
there also.
But if Mr.. Follis delivered him
self of some frilIed English under
his breath at the situation in the
barn he spoke it out loud when he
went to the house. The rear door
had been kicked in and one of the
rear windows had been smashed
Inside everything was turned
topsy turvey, a large trunk had
been left there by an old acquain-
lance and was ransacked, glass
fruit jars were broken with the
stove hook and the contents de-
voured as proven by the proximity
of two spoons. They kindly in
vited themselves to nights Iodg-
ing in good bed but betrayed their
lack of domestic training by for
getting to make" it in the morn
ing A new 22-caliber rifle was
among the articles in the house and
they promptly exchanged their Old
one for it, hence the rifle mentioned
above. The young brigands were
evidently on a frst-class lark as
they had disported themselves at
target shooting before they left us
ing the barn door as mark and
the fact that they hit it satisfied
them that they had made a good
deal. The rifle left behind would
be easy of Identification as it has
bone sights the rear one being
blackened as if by being burned.
and the stock had been broken and
mended with a screw and by wrap
ping with fine wire.
Mr.. Follis went to Colfax and
put the case in the hands of the
sheriff with good prospects of cap
turing the embryo James brothers.
The boys mentioned above We're
arrested at Pomeroy last Saturday.
They gave their names as Renwick
McCammon and William Letter,
their ages as II and - years res
pectiveIy and their place of resi-
dence as Occur d'Aiene, Idaho.
The MbCammon boy says his faith
er is now working in the saw mill
at Post Falls, and Letter lives with
his step father, Frank Russell on
farm six miles from Occur
d'Alene City.
At Colfax they sold the rifle to a
second hand store and a good re- /
volver to Hickethier's gun store
They started to Dayton, but before
reaching the Snake river broke in
to the house CT Il German farmer
and stole watch ard $40 in money.
Crossinf the river at Almota they
went to Pomeroy, reaching the lat
ter place a few hours ahead of the
deputy sheriff They were arrested
while sleeping in livery barn, but .
not until they had stolen bicycle .
lamp at the hotel where they ate
supper This was found in their
bed in the haymow Of the barn.
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