The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-11

Bill. They was sort OF gI4....t-. same
as me an Jim. We saw we'd have to
split up here, for Bill couldn't ride
as hard as we'd likely have to- We
hadn't fggeTed on ever gOin' furth
than right where we was then. Jim
fixed it up. He said:
I'll tell you how to do this. These
Swedes haven't seen our boys yet ut
all. Now, well start the herd full pelt
and cross the fat right by their ID
hay outfit. You an Bill, you come on
after US, a-chasin' US an a-shootin'.
like you was trWn' to catch us. When
YOU get to the Swedes you pull up. an
tell 'em we are two horse thieves that's
run off with a big bunch from up
country. an that you've been follerin'
US for three days. It'll take that outfit
about ten hours to git it through their
heads, an that'n give US some chance
You two fellers. stop here, an do just
the best you can. AS for Cupid, he
amt never gOiu' to stop
I'VE done it that way We come out
on to the fat a-whoopin' an a-goin'.
Willie an Bill behind a-shootin' and
yellin' like they was crazy to catch up
with US. We shore stampeded the hay.
festival. Jim an me didn't stop to
learn how it all come out, but we
learned later that Willie and Bill took
the first train as soon as they found
The new railroad, an got out to Omaha
all right.
Jim an me. we travelled a day an
night from Squaw Flats an then we
crossed the new railroad in the night
an headed southwest. square for the
Red Desert of wyoming Then it was
60 cd deal like a dream, for that was
the awfUlest ride 7 ever took in my
life. Our horses died along the trail.
on after another. an all they could do
was TO walk. We kept 'em goin' all
we could, ridin among them an shoot
in down the ones we saw was goin'
to drop soon. We lived on horse meat
for days. for We hadn't anything else
to eat. When we struck good feed an
water for the stock we hadn't over for
~ head left an we didn't care wheth-
eT school kept or not. Jim was wore
down to skin an bones, an his face
was cracked an split with the alkali.
the same as mine, an he couldn't
hardly talk some days, but he never
did weaken. an he stood watch fair
when it did come his turn, an he
wouldn't have gone to sleep if he'd
aided a-standin- An all along. the
ride he stuck TO his actor clothes partly
because he didn't have any others I'M
less I give him some of mine, but
him have both saddle blankets at
night. for he said there wasn't much
warmth in bis wings. The Teller that
built those wings didn't gauge 'em for
this altitood. / reckon he said.
I'VE knew we had to do business
right soon if we ever did at all. for
what with this telegraph keepin' us
movin' so far. our stock was sos foot
sore an wore down that Ii couldn't
travel no further. We KEEP on the best
we could. but we wasn't averagin' ten
mile a day. an a-losin' a horse nigh
about every mile, you might say.
I'VE was now long step from Mon
fanny, an We finally allowed wed head
for the Green river settlements, where
the Mormons was, thinkin' we could
maybe ship our stock by the u. p
from there, where nobody knoWed us
1t was long pull, an mighty hard on
our property, but we finally got in on
the Green river.
1.-THE day We was to strike the rail-
road at the Mormon settlements we
met a Teller ridln' out a little way from
the railroad station, an stopped while
to pass the time o day. He looked right
at our outfit, an finally Jim asked him
who he was.
I'm the sherf, said he. quiet like.
oh, you be2' says Jim.
ep,' says he. Who are you?'
Well says Jim. a-throwin' one leg
acrost his saddle T started out as Gu
pid. but I allowed. if we hadn't of met
you, I'd arid into that there town and