Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-01-14

longin' to Joe Doyle and ride gayly
away. On that boss was Joe's rifle and
camp outfit.
HE diskivers his loss in about half
an hour, but does he whOop and yell
and start off in pursuit? He don't
When three or four bosses and guns
are offered him and when this yere
court herself advises him to foller Oh
and plug six kinds of Sundays into Bill
H1~an's carcass, does he fOller? He
don't. He jest turns about and de-
mands jestice-demands that l issue q
warrant and send a constable to serve
it.
Its no use tryin' to describe our
feelin's, fur 1t can't be done. l ap-
pealed to Joe with tears in my eyes
not to bring disgrace upon the fair
name of our commonwealth, but he
continued to screech fur jestice till
issued the warrant.
bill Hogan was brung into court,
and Joe Doyle was thar to look him in
the face. This court didn't go ac-
cordin' to law and evidence, but &C.
cordin' to jestice 1t turned Bill Ho-
gan loose with warnin' to behave
his future conduct and it sent Joe
Doyle to jail fur three months fur be-
in squawg man without any sand.
Joe would have took them three
months and said nuthin', but along
comes a shyster lawyer and appeals
the case, and a higher court reverses
it on NE and orders new trial.
Thar won't be any. Bill is in
states prison in Utah. and Joe is in
Jail in Iowa, but ar thar man in this
courtroom who don't feel degraded and
disgraced by this reversal? We might
as well put OH coats and petticoats
and throw our guns away. 1t degraGes
the American eagle into buzzard,
and it makes the sacred name of Bun
ker Hill byword.
And thar's a second caSe," resumed
his honor as he got the better of his
emotions. 1.-TWO months ago Tom Da-
Wis come down from the hills. He'd
bin havin' bad luck fur several weeks
that is, every time he held threcs
some of the other boys would hold
Straights or Pushes.
When he reached this enterprisin'
town of Sandy Bend he had jest 10
cents in his clothes, and he paid it to
me over the bar Of the Red Dog Next
day it struck him that he'd better get
his shirt washed after three months
of hard usage. He borrows an old
shirt of somebody and takes his own
up to Sing Lees washhouse and hands
it in. There was nuthin' in his ap-
pearance to lead one to doubt his
financial ability, but that sQuint eyed
heather looked from him to the shirt
and says cash in advance.
This court amt sayin' that Tom
Davis has got the fine feelin's of a
wilder woman, but it do contend that
he's got feelin's enough to know when
a blow is struck through him at the
bulwarks of American liberty. When
told that he must pay in advance to
get shirt washed all the sentiment
and manhood in his soul riz up, and
he took the heathen by the neck.
THAT was as it should be and as this
court would have advised, but, alas,
what spectacle presented itself to the
eyes Of us patriots five minutes later
Sing Lee not only refused to be choked
but he insisted on doing a little Of the
chokin' himself. In other words. he
was too much fur Tom and within five
minutes was runnin' him right through
the town and into the bushes.
THAT was the day of degradashup
for Sandy Bend. A cry of indignashun
went up at sight of a heather chasin'
a white man, and this yere court was
one Of the first to offer Tom Davis a
gun to retrieve his reputation. 1t amt
in the statoots of Wyoming that he
should have taken a gun and walked
back to that washhouSe and made that
heather lick his boots and beg a thou
sand pardons, but we've got to let law
slide now and then and go by custom.
Tom didn't accept Of a gun. He didn't
go back to the washhouse, even to
claim the shirt still lynn at the door
He comes Skulkin' around to me, and
in voice that was plaintive he yells
out fur jestice.
Great snakes, but think of it! Run
out Of town by heather and then