The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1903-05-30
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! never fOunu iHucu uanScf Except ifoiii
! horse thieves"
Ever met any Of emf inquired
| (om Cunning. drawing his chair closer
aud turning his head sidewse to catch
! his answer.
| We'll yes. Andy Gwinne and ! once
! had a brush with some of EN-. One
! day after dinner. while we were smok-
ing our pipes and looking up toward
! the mountains, two men came down
the slope opposite and made straight
| for our camp. The nearer they got 10
rs the worse they looked. However
there are n good many people In the
country with lots Of good In 'em under
rough outside, and they seemed very
friendly. They said they had their
camp up In the mountains. that they
| had seen our camp aud AZ people were
scarce had come over to gel sight
of somebody besides themselves. We
brought out the dcmiiohn and gave EN-
what they wanted to drink, and after
spending an hour with us, during which
they looked mighty carefully over our
stock, they went back In the direction
they came from
ANDY and were both suspicious of
'em. especially when we saw the inter
est they took in the stock. The horses
weren't picketrd. though we had drag
gcd logs to make n corral in II circle,
with an opening CLOSED by our tent.
The corral wasn't very high and only
intended for ordinary purposes that
IL, ii wouldn't stand Il stampede. If
the men were horse thieves they had
probably made their visit to look us
over and see Just how we kept the
stock We bad three horses my mount
and Andy's aud pack horse for the
tent and supplies We talked the mat
ter over aud concluded that we'd likely
have visit during the night and had
better picket the horses After max.
Ing everything fast wc lay down with
our rifles IN our hands.
when we woke up In the morning
the stock was there all right. and we
| concluded that we'd made mistake
! about our visitors We hunted during
! the day and IN the evening used the
! same camp. What we should have
| done WINS to go as far from II ~ posi-
bile. That niGht wc ptck"lod the horses
again. but didn't sleep uu our arms. as
| the soldiers say, though should think
| weapons would make a very uncom-
| Portable bed Nevertheless we had 'em
close by and could easily reach 'em.
"All OF sudden we were Weakened by
terrible yells and bang, bnng, bang! !
knew in minute whit IT meant; In
fact. we both did for we grabbed our
rifles and got outside the tent mighty
quick The horses We're snorting in
terror and trying 10 break their teth-
ers, but we had tied EN- against II
stampede aud had tied 'cm strong
The consequence was not n horse broke
loose. This wasn't what was calcu
lated on by the men that had tried to
stampede 'cm They made a second
demonstration. and as they didn't start
the horses they came galloping right
down 10 the edge of the corral. They
didn't come from the direction they'd
/ CONF from the nay ih'ltlF. bfiNllSf tilut
would have been uphill. but from the
rear which was downhill saw
mounted figure against the sky line
Just jumping the corral and fired. The
figure pitched headforcmost over the
logs, and the horse came ON, jumping
the other side of the corral and tearing
on down the slope. Then Andy caught
sight Of another man and put bullet
into him dropping him off his horse,
which stood stock stil
Well we crawlcd up careful on to
the two men We heard nothing of any
more finding one stone dead and the
other dying
"'lou men, he gaspcd, go TO our
camp up there on the mountain, You'll
find little gul there bout thirteen
years old Tel her her pap won't come
to her no more
1T was all he could do to get the
words out 50 that We could understand
them, and he was dead soon after.
II didn't like the business nj all XIII.
ing people isn't 10 my taste In the
morning WE covered the bodies with
wood aud leaves and put stones on To
EN-. then started to lind their camp
We hunted good while, but at last
struck II by smelling smoke Going In
the direction from which ii came. we
saw a couple of tents with fire before
en- aud little girl IN the act of hang.
ing coffee boiler over It.
"Thc hardest Job ever had 10 do was
to tell her We'd Killed her father. She
sort Of witcd under Il. rs though
hliGhted by one of those hot blasts that
come out Of q volcano She was nice
little thing, nothing like the daughter
OF a horse thief Indeed she didn't
know her fathers business Her
mother had died several years before,
and since that time her father had
gone duwnhill, though she had no sus.
piciou that he had got TO horse steal.
ing AID didn't tell her. said Il
was all mistake"
"Wmt bceaue OF the galf" inquired
Tom Cunning
Andy aud Clipped in aud sent her
east to school"
There yctt'
NO; she's been out year She's TO
be married next month"
"You or Andy
"Nethor Nou see. we each found
ont that the other wanted her and
neither Of US could hear the thought OF
marrying her. knowing that one OF us
had killed her father and not know Ing
which had done II so neither OF us