The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-09-26

| ty-four hours they were hearing groans
and within n week cries for help, but
they were not encouraged.
| OF course the real hero was Bob Ben
nett. Rydcr's assistant, who had dis
covered the body when he went back
to The office ut half past 3 to close the
| forms. Hi, account of the finding Of
| Ryder dead on the floor was an ex-
| ceedingly grizzly narrative. delightful
| ly conducive of the shivers. He had
been the quietest If youths. but two
weeks after the murder he left for Chi
cago. lie sat, t,irre might be those
who could stand It. bnt Antioch wss
| too slow for hin.
Not less remarkable was Ryder's
posthumous fame. Men who had new
err known him in life row spoke of
him with trembling voices and every
outward evidence of the sincerest sor-
row. 1t was as if they had sustained
personal loss, for his championship
of the strike had given him Il great
out Of this championship, as all pre-
ferred to believe, made his death seem
species Of martyrdom.
Indeed, the mere fact that he had
been murdered would have been suffi-
cient to make him popular at any time.
He had supplied Antioch with glori-
Gus sensation. 1t was something to
and the town was grateful and happy
with the deep, calm joy of perfect
emotion.
1t determined to give him a funeral
which should be creditable alike to the
cause for which he had died and to the
manner of his death.
Meanwhile Dan had been arrested,
examined and set at liberty again in
the face of the prevailing sentiment
that he should be held. No one doubt
ed-he himself least of all-that Roger
! Oakley had killed Ryder. Bob Bennett
recalled their meeting as he left the
office to go home for supper on the
night of the murder, and red and
yellow bandanna handkerchief was
found under the table, which Dan
identified as having belonged to his
father.
Kenyon came to Antioch and made
his reelection almost certain by the
offer of Il reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the murderer. This
stimulated wonderful measure of ac-
tivity. Parties of men and boys were
soon securing the woods and fields in
| quest of the old convict.
The day preceding that of the funer-
al dusty countryman Oh a hard rid
den pillow horse dashed into town with
the news that Il man who answered
perfectly to the description of Roger
Oakley had been seen the night before
twentysix miles north of Antioch, at
place called Barrow's Sawmills,
where he had stopped at a store and
made number of purchases. Then he
had struck off through the woods. II
was also learned that he had eaten his
breakfast the morning after the muir
der at farmhouse midway between
Antioch and Burrows Sawmils. The
farmers wife had at his request put
up a lunch for him. Later in the day
man at work in a field had seen and
spoken with him.
There was neither railroad, telegraph
nor telephone at Burrows Sawmills
and the fugitive had evidently con-
sidered 1t safe to venture into the
place, trusting that he was ahead OF
the news of his crime. 1t was on the
edge of a sparsely settled district, and
to the north of it was the unbrOken
wilderness stretching away to the
lakes and the Wisconsin line.
The morning of the funeral an extra
edition of the Herald was issued, which
contained a glowing account of Ryder's
life and achievements. 1t was an open
secret that it was from the gifted pen
Of Kenyon. This notable enterprise
was one of the wonders of the day
venir of the occasion. and nearly 5OC
copies We're sold
All that morning the country people
in unheard of numbers flocked into
town. AS Clarence remarked to Spide
1t was just like a circus day. The
noon train from Buckhorn Junction
arrived crowded TO the doors, as did
the o'clock train from Harrison.
Antioch had never known anything
like it.
The funeral was at O'Clock from the
little white frame Methodist church
but long before the appointed hour il
was crowded to the verge of suffoca-
ton, and the anxious. waiting throng
overlooked into the yard and street
with never a hope of wedging into the
building, much less securing seats.
A delegation of the strikers, the
Young Mems Kenyon club. of which
Ryder was a member, and represent
alive body of citizens escorted the re
mains to the church. These were the
people he had ieered at, whose simple
joys he had ridiculcd and whose griefs
he had made light of. but they would
gladly have forgiven him his sarcasms
even had they known OF them. lie had
become Il hero and II martyr.
Chris Berry and Cap Roberts We're
in charge Of the ARRANGEMENTS. On the
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