The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-26

Of the ma engaged in preparing the sup
per. Another of the party sprang toward
him, when be, too, felt the keen edge of
the ak in tho hands of the mailman, and
with another delnoniacal howl the murder
GUS maniac vanished into the gloom of the
night.
In an instant in and about the camp all
was horror and CONSERVATION. Parties
from adjacent campfires crowded around
to find one man dead and another wound
ed and liable to die and the perpctrator of
tho crimes, a man bereft of reason, gone
none knew whittier, out into the mxEIy
night, with the weapon of destruction still
in. his bands. Above and below them
could be seen the glow of many campfres.
about which fitted the forms Of men,
women and even of little children, all ur-
suspecting OF danger. These must be
warned at whatever risk. Soon the ciat-
ter Of swift running feet was heard rush
ing through the rayines and up the hill
sides, and stentorian tones voiced the warn
ing on tho still night air: "Look out for
tie man with tho axl A man down in
Cedar rayine has gone crazy and has
Drained two Of his raftners with an ak and
has escaped. No enc knows what direc-
tion be has taken. Look out for the man
with the ax!'' At the warning men
sprang to their weapons. and pale faced
women, gathering their frightened chill
dren about them, retired to the recesses OF
tent wagon or shack, while husbands or
fathers stood vigil by the campfire, for
none knew at what instant from out the
Plutonian blackness of the night would
rush the demented demon, leaving death
and destruction in his wake.
There was an hour or more of suspense,
when a nan dashed breathless into the
principal saloon with the news that the man
with the ak had gone down the grade to-
ward Reese river valley, and on his way
had killed Johnnie Boulay, the French
gambler. whom he met coming up the
grade. 1t appeared that Johnnie was COM
ing up tho road from Jacobsville, where
he had been paying a professional visit, all
unconscious Of danger, and with one leg
thrown over the pommel of his saddle was
lightly caroling a ehanson of la belle
france and thinking, if thinking at all,
of tho appetite provoking cocktail and the
subsequent supper awaiting in the town
whose lights he saw in the distance, when
out of the gloom Of the night dashed a
grizzly figure. With a maniacal yell the
mailman crashed the AK into poor john
nie's thigh and disappeared down the road
into the darkness. Ar artery was severed,
and the Frcnchman had just enough of
life left to reach the first house on the out
skirts of the town. "Well, thank God, we
know at least which way be has gone!''
said the brawpy livery stable keeper.
tsSomo OF us must go after him and stop
bis doing further mischief if possible. !"
Soon half q dozen well armed men were
mounted and Gathering down the trail,
and word was sent to the anxious watchers
around tho campfires. In the gray of the
morning the pursucrs returned dust cover
ed and spent. They were remarkably
taciturn when questioned as to the result
of their night ride. The most that could
be got out Of them was that the man with
the ak would trouble them no more. After
ward it was whispered that a stock herder,
riding across tho sage covered valley of
Reese river. ran across a corpse with a
lariat around Its neck and full of bullet
holes. For many a day thereafter the
mothers of Austin bad il the story of ssthe
man with an ak u to conjure with
when they wished to keep their children in.