Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-12-01

shortly lie Milford, being the place
whers everything and everybody
bound for Beaver disembarked from
the train, was always stopped at for
some little time, the extent depending
upon the connections one could make.
On the occasion referred to the STOP
page was for the greater part of a
day, and If this was regarded as a
vexation at first, it was not so for
long, for behold! I jumped into an
important case in exactly one hour
and forty-three minutes after arrival.
A man who had lost an arm in the
service of the Southern Confederacy
and was known by the nickname of
One-Armed Reed, was there under the
vigilant and attentive escort of the
sheriff, the cause for which espionage
was the then familiar charge of horse
stealing. 1t seemed that Reed had
been employed by Ben Tasker, pro-
prietor of ranch at Desert Springs,
in Iron county, and himself by no
means famed for excessive prodigal-
ity in the matter of obeying the laws:
in fact, if alive, he is a fugitive from
justice with a conviction of murder
booked against him in the archives
of the district court in that same town
of Beaver, and most of his numerous
horses and kline were understood to
have once belonged to those who may
have looked for consideration there
for, but must have ceased doing so by
this time.
Well, thus envroned and associ-
ated, what wonder that the lone
winged bird of passage had his sensi-
bilities regarding recognized forms in
the matter of acquiring property
somewhat blunted? Anyway, he and
valuable horse disappeared stimuli
taneously and arrived at Milford in
each others company, he occupying a
triumphant position on the animals
hurricane deck. Having no money, he
made an arrangement whereby the
livery stable keeper agreed to take
care of the steed and advance Reed a
little cash as well, holding the ami
NAL as security. The money disap-
peared like the "baseless fabric of a
dream" and next morning, bright and
early, solitary horseman might have
been seen vending his way along the
road leading northward; it was Reed
and the nag, the one which Tasker
and the Milford livery man jointly
and severally lamented. BY keeping
away from postoffices and telegraph
stations, the knight Grant managed to
get as far as Juab, in the county of
the same name, where bad judgment
and false sense of security prompt
ed him to seek such shelter and re
pose as civilization provided and he
doubtless needed here the Milford
performance was repeated, the owner
of the stable being the only change in
the cast. Here, also, Reeds Nemesis
swooped down from her airy perch
and pinned him to the earth-figur
atively speaking, of course. He was
ANONYMOUSLY hailed to the venue OF
his previous exploits in the field OF
equine speculation and at Milford
pending the arrival of a conveyance
from Beaver to take him there, l mel
him and became the recipient of the
recital of his troubles, ending in al
engagement to undertake to show thai
he never did it. The fact that he hat
borne arms "ag'in the government
didn't hurt him in my estimation {
particle, having had several relatives
in the same disastrous undertaking
The terms of my retainer were the
conveyance to me in fee simple of the
animal in question, which had changed
owners so often in so short a time
and as often gravitated back to the
culprit in the case. / was to pay tht
livery bills make settlement other