The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-12

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,AA 'hON iuE III ihO
M @9 baked Garth,
D. M5 with here an d
ID ~ HERE n stunted.
d s-.-= leaaess tree. and
upon II hillock
n ~ u little way of
.N , gaunt, gray wolf
'fC Isl h on q { q d
against the sky,
TN have some idea of the
one pnrt of tho country
b;ch for two years the United
\ MARS marched and secuted
.mpt to kill or capture Il band
f ms haudils
should ride some hours over
Iste waste ycu would come
10 a donso Woodland of chap-
u tImost impenetrable thorny
lhich stretches for many
ong tho Rio Grande River
as miles inland from either
. neo the time seven years
q. Unclo Sans S cavalrymen
!, ,ceeded in rounding up and
1i the outlaws the face Of that
is un Texas country has
"a Rain, which nature had
a the spot for nearly two
again Visited the region.
Ias again appeared aud the
y, Il has drunk to it's fill with
was man with Mexican
"a but a citizen of the United
terino X. CARA by name,
is thought intended to en-.
- an attempt looking TO the
Or. President Diaz of Mexico
llJllIce and TO tho establishing
I ia the presidential chair.
s not have enough followers
~ raid TO cause much anxiety
oaixican authorities. After II
Iexican territory the leader,
N at two Kindred men, re-
. 10 Texas and there for two
r.s in tho dense thickets along
/ making occasional forays
IA q great Emoant OF snug
q nclc Sam put a number Of
in Tie Held to hunt down
nis, but owing to the nature
- untry and their familiarity
en- trails tho hunt was a long
I.i was during this campaign
outlaws that Trooper
bod D Troopof the Third CIV
lie eyperience OF which this
George j.. Chase, now
... lsargenfs in the Philippines,
.a,mmand Of d Troop in the
la list the Bandits. The little
rocpors was encamped at a
ut thirteen miles from the
he chapsrral, through the
IA, ghicll at q distance of thirty.
= lay tho Rio Grando River.
w ing before the last star had
I'll. I'D from the southern sky Il
ID g hurrieNy to camp. He
oia'seli from his horse at the
10 from the sentinel and said
. 90 tho commanding officer at
, eringing toncd "Who comes
the sentry as he checked
'ss OF tharider at the point
lrb blue roused Captain Chuse,
y minute he was confronting
who reported that there
y. ~ Thoring Of Garza's mon Just
n chapnlral near the ranch
i. Gertrude, something more
We miles away. Within
tes the commaning officer
m hirda Of his troop were gal
,g the direction indicated by
Ca, Az 81. Gertrude's ranch,
yh uthern boundOry was the
h he chaparral, the captain
ear ,d his men aud threw them
lm laishline with an interval of
- yards between each skir-
NJ, ia this order the line went
r:e ato the chaparral. Just as
ale Interea TIC outlying edge of
ia; y tblcket q volley was poured
TIED but no one was hurt. They
Tseveral hnndred yards into
tanglo q mesquite, prickly
- ether thorn growing south
,e alton, and finally found the
4 re the enemy had campod.
Fa dts, aoaever, had disap.
lelnd puYaait through that laby.
al. Q physical impossibility.
Hs extrome hight of the skir.
- was Ttooper Thomas. So
trail : tho unaergrowth that he
siH gee, save at times, the skir-
yIa ms left. only two yards dis.
Thomas lost his direction n
~. managed 70 get farther away
'' neareet eomrade than the
- the shirmiph line formation
= w, Suddenly there came the
'n' y. e'ng trumpet order: "As.
ao a,,, % the centre skirmisher. -
M n, a. thas HE men at the right
.as tna oellter should turn and
ieet'y toward the centre, thus
AZ bringing the command
,a' 70 shoulder in close order.
loS 'hcmas t'isned and headed
\ @poaad for the sound of The
!, Ho heard his nearest com.
aal Hsh'us thfough the thicke,
ed Iosea Tint he was followino
. ae 4. u's wake Ho soon found
! as getting Farther and rartbo,
!, Iv'p ~ the nciso of the crackino
.lo. aS q Thor he turned in !
W tIon and aoundered on. Fo,
ives he tept up the pace a.
,aps could nna was astounded f. +,
a, ss " nfa not yet come up will
,ers .os Hc raised his voice
lk Inere was no answer
sell M" 3pStfu his carbinn nm,