The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-15

Copyright 1908, by the National Press Agency.
~ LAKES squadron of the -th Cavalry, coming
81 from a scout thru the cactus and mez-
quite Mexican line, had bvouacked
81 Chiricahua Tanks, with "beer town" barely
twenty miles away They had been out for two
weeks, and had little communication
with the post and whatever with the town, and
hardy troopers took it much ass that he should
have chosen this theway spot to spend the night
instead of riding to Rncon where all the comforts OF
civlizationce beer faro monte free fight dance
awaited those socially disposed, and several sacks of
mail ready to unload alike the just and the
just-the sheep and the goats Of command famous
Indian campaign for its grit and vm but nowhere for
its pety
thing matter that Rincon lay
on direct road home-that squad
started at dawn it started for incon and that the
longegged major, along towards O'Clock, had turned
from the trail trayed from the path Of Righteousness
said old Sergeant Donnel and led them to this
nook at the foot of the sunbisered "picacho" from
whose summit Rncon could be plainly seen shimmerng
in miles away, and from who's chase it
but hours trot to the nearest point the South
ern Pacific The westbound express crawling snakelike
thru the tawny desert, in view much of the hour
preceding the trumpet signal "Dsmount and the order
to unsaddle
nelly, to stocky trooper who peering dreamy
think rdin in Pullman the bate of bronco day like
this? Co. help gather there won't be
coffee drink" then, with plaintive sigh, vivid
Whiskey only twenty miles away
Gallagher shook himself together without reply,
shifted a quid plug offside cheek strobe
fuel "a duck that" said Donnely, gazing after
him. 'The quetest in the throop till gets a
drop of the craytur, and then-oh murther!"
And he spoke the veteran was mentally recalling
the three four occasions since Gallaghers enlistment
sixteen months previous in which the united efforts
doctor and squad of guardsmen hardly sufficient
to control him.
Not in the command could guess where he came
from Not woman at Fort Grant was
story back of that coming. His descriptive list
cared him born in Ireland SO; occupation mechanic
distinguished marks, certain head and body
that told possibly turbulent past yet passed
the scrutiny of the officials and been
body must have stood for his
but
him after he learnt his drill duties, until
foul of the drink Until then he gentle oblgng
but reticen sad to the last degree He neat
and precise, fair horseman which surprising in
mechanic-"yet accounted for" said Donnelly "by his
nationalty'-an excellent soldier despite a
'stoop and the fact that the muscles of his left hand
seemed cramped at times. 1t easier
grasp the reins than to thru the manual
popularity that in keeping his to the
he had way of contracting the brows, half closing
the lids, and peerng out thru slit of grey and
ticeshp jocky, like Teller to a high
wind But Gallagher when questioned, merely smiled.
He wouldn't gamble, he didn't SMOKE tobacco
in the shape of qud until hapess night
circus at Tucson, he had displayed except
possibly for children The sergeants grew
know him as the delight of the youngsters. His grey
would soften at sight of their chubby He
used to wander along the accquia
of meeting his captains bairnies sailing toy boats
der of steam yacht hopelessy wrecked
and the smiling thanks Blake herself-which
covered him with confusion-and things seemed