Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-22


 War Do!an. @ly with excitement. drew 1 round him Carter, Larned and Collina- wood. smith and Denver Dan were the center of another squad. while Ray i nond took Munro aside and earnestly i pleaded: See here, old man. you mus. l keep out of th:s. IL isn't yorr funeral. 1 but it will be if you don't vamoose the ranch
 T can't go back on tie boys now. | Rob. They need lay military training and, besides, l am in it. won't st 1 back and see the district done uD hv l these thugs who never earned an hon. est dollar in their lives And your friend Earnett-wll;lt good is lie oil earth: Just q blooG>s.nitr on the bare back of Ia'5or. I'm with tiIe boys. aud if my experience can do 'eln any good I'm ready.
 T knoW hoH' you feel, Jack but tAis is desperate business A fight witll tho sheriff will set the whole country against the miners"
 Munro smiled centemptuously. He won't fight. \ round of shot, in tue air will send hi.. hotfoeting it back to the Springs It's ail farce
 Be careful. The farce may turn into tragedy at q moments notice These miners are idle and full of liG- uor. Men like Kelly who have women to protect@-
 Munro caught It this. By the way who was the femme" My word she's peach
 Eaymond's tone was cold}y indiffer- i cnt. Miss Rupert is from New Yorl, city, Barnett's cousin he is here to look after her brother Louis I was not thinking of Eer 90 much as of Mrs Kelly and other women who can't get away"
 Larned's voice. rising high and cut slnS above the others, interposed. Then l leave Iou are crazy. You can't hold tlis hill With a million Gatling guns. Ihe national committee will not stand for it. GoeaNy"' Chipping his hat OH his head, he walked out of the room. his white face set in furious froWn.
 Brock roared out: "Cal meeting. Carter and we'll carry it our way. 10 blazes with the national committec..' Carter, however. was scared blue by Larnedss despairing retreat and re- fused. we've got to go slow We can't win without help. I won't make the call.
 San Juan smith with flaming face shouted furiously: "Ihen we'll do it without your sanction. The executive board will act
 Raymond, on the doorstep, made a last appeal to Munro. Jack. YOU can't afford to 90 into this thing With Smith. Keep out of it. It's bad business all around. It's one thing to strike and another thing to resist authority. See this street,
 In some way word had already passed along the ridge that the sheriff was ac tually on the road and that he would reach the end of the railway in mid afternoon, and great throng was packed round a man on horseback who was good naturedly trying to force his way toward headquarters
 That's one of my scouts" said Nun TO, with news of the invaders" And he pushed off into the crowd, while Raymond, with serious face and slow step, went down the path toward his mine.
 "They're going to fight" he said to Kelly
 Flight? Of course they'll fight. They'll go down and drive the sheriffs men like sheep. But what then? The crazy jacks!''
 Do you think we ought to tell the women? Are they in danger?"
 Kelly was reflective. Not now. The sheriff will hardly reach the hill this time He'll go back. The authorities and the newspapers will chew the rag for couple of weeks, and then-we'll be up against it"'
 "All the same, Matt, I wear my guns from this on. and one of us must stand guard at night. The camp is filling with dangerous men,"
 At Kelly's invitation. Raymond and Louis took monday dinner with him. It was most delicious meal to Ray mond and a pleasantly exciting one to Ann. for she confessed to having cook ed the eggs and potatoes. All reference +c the trouble on the hill was iocular
 .It es,l'U UOur tunerai, but tt aUttt be- The roaring savagery of the Golden Horn saloon seemed of another world. having no possible connection With the peace and sunshine and homely joy of the Kelly cabin.
 The old mountaineer seemed to take it lightly. "They must fight their own battles. I had nothing to do with bringing on the strike. and I'll have nothing to do with staving it off. y
 "Is it regular strike? asked Ann
 Ut is, and it is not. The big mines are all shut down. So far, it is lock out. But the men refuse to work shlItS of nine hours for eight hours pay 10 that extent it is strike