The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-30

tenderfoot, but he'd no sooner got intd
the blacksmith shop and the court had
taken his seat on the edge OF the cool
ing tub than he give sigh of relief
and smiled like his troubles was all
over.
Stranger says the judge, you
don't seem to realize the gravity OF
your position, as near as I can make
out. If you see anything to laff about
1 don't
why says the tenderfoot, I guess
| there's nothin' to make me uneasy
You was camped over to my place an
eatin' my salt pork when that burro
happened along
'Silence,' says the judge. How
dare you talk back to the court? We
will now proceed. Mr.. Sam Hickson
you may state your case
''Sapn/told about losing the burre
and led it in and identified it.
"'Hm-m!' says the judge. Looks
sort O. dark for this gent. Mr.. Jack
McLemore, you may tell what you
know
| Jack gave his evidence and the
other boys stepped up. one after an
other and gave theirs 1t was pretty
late by this time and the judge had to
shoe team for Ed Wilson while II
was light, SO he adjourned court until
ten o'clock the next day.
but see here says the prisoner:
there's no need O. this. You can
'Silerce!' roared the Judge Are
you trying this case or am 1? Mr..
1 1oo
chain and make the accused fast to
that anvil for the night Court is now
adjourned until tomorrow morning
Smile. will We? Daggone your friv-
'lous. trifiin' hide!'
The Teller didn't smile any more
He just cussed and swore. didn't
want to chain him up. but l had to
He'd have Drained the old Judge with
the tongs IL hadn't. That bald
headed. goat-whiskered old rip was
there at the time. tell you'll he, shout
| ed. Let me get at him.
81 didn't quite understand 1t. but !
made him dry up, while the judge shoe
the teams AS soon as he'd got ZEN
shod he invited us all into the house
to eat. You can come, too he said
to the tenderfoot, If you can keer
from smiling an not open your mouth
except to put grub in it
1.-THE tenderfoot told him to go tc
blazes, so the judge sent him out his
supper-a good one, too. His wife was
a cook from way back. I took my
blankets into the shop and slept with
the Teller all night The next morning
the Judge opened up court ahead 81
time. I'd given the prisoner hint
that he'd better keep his head shut II
he didn't want to be turned over tc
the crowd, and he seen the force OF
the argument.
1.-THE judge took his seat again on
the cooling tub and put on his spec.
tacles and looked at the tenderfooi
steady and severe. Then he says:
Prisoner at the bar, you are charged
with a serious crime. You don't seem
to savvy that It is serious. You. might
! steep a homicidal hand in gore UP tc
the elbow and smile; you might swil'
barrel Of tarantula juice and shoot
up the town and still smile; you might
hold up the stage and smile at the &C.
cusation; you might rob the mother
of her tender child, but you can't rot
a prospector of his mule and indulge
in unseemly hilarity in this court
That, is a crime from which debased
hyena would shrink in horror. The
mule is the prospector's life. his
wealth. his companion, his friend ant
his Child, rolled into one. The evi.
dence is clean agin you. You stand
here before me in jeopardy Of the eX,
treme penalty of the law. Is this 6
smiling matter?
"I punched the tenderfoot in thu
ribs and he says: No. your honor.
"'That's all right, then says tn,
Judge. 'Bein' as you admit that, nov
abrergate my judishul authority an
testifyin' as Bill Quinn, citizen of THU
territory, inform the crowd that wa:
up to this mans cabin on Whitehall
hunt about mouth ago. seen the
burro stray along the ridge an helped
the prisoner to ketch it. I told hin
he'd better bring it into town the frs
time he come.
"'Now, resoomirg the authorit,
vested in me under and by virtue o
the laws and revised statutes of tn
; territory of New Mexico. I turn tn,
prisoner loose. with the caution not t.
think court is to have its dignit,
monl,eyed with. even if it is held in
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