The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-20

lieutenant were sent to investigate
and report. one night about ten O'Clock
we were all sitting about the porch
Of the hotel talking and smoking. a
man came up and whispered to Nc
| Donald. Come on BILL said the ran.
ger captain to Olds, I'VE are going out
among them tonight" SO the two OF
them disappeared into the night. Along
about three o'clock in the morning,
everybody in the hotel was awakened
by a hubbub in the county Jail, not
more than a hundred yards away We
piled out and went over to the Jail to
find that Mcdonald and Olds has Just
ought in sixteen prisoners. Among
them were the most desperate men in
the county.
How did you do it," someone asked
Mcdonald.
on" he replied. laughing, Il heard
these fellows were all Masons and
that there was going to be a meeting
Of the lodge. so / thought we would
go and look in Olds stayed on the Que
side to see that nobody got out Of the
windows and | went in to talk to the
boys. They were all there. When the
meeting was over told the outfit that
the sheriff wanted to talk to them
about this lynchng case and that they
had better come on down to the Jail
and square themselves. Then they
came"
But didn't any OF them resist and
draw gum asked this tenderfoot.
Il believe there was something OF the
kind" replied Mcdonald quietly. "One
or two of them did seem TO want to
get obstreperous, and reached back
TO get q gun or flask, don't know
which. | told them that they might
get me but that / would get some of
them and that the state of Texas
would get the rest, II seemed 20 kind
of cool them off. They asked me II
they wauld be protected. AMI when
told them that they would they sur
rendered, and here they are. be-
liev that's about all. Nor would the
faithful Olds add any trimmings. But
one Of the prisoners said:
"When Mcdonald came along the
game was up. Suppose we had tried to
shoot. Why, he would have killed the
whole blamed roomfull of us before
you could say scat. I'm willing to take
a shot at a sheriff or a constable, may
be, but when old BIZ Mcdonald comes
around, it's time to be good"
And after that, night after n--ht.
Mcdonald. singly or accompanied by
Olds, rode through the woods hunt
ing up testimony, and not a shot was
fired.
Again, there was trouble upon the
Canadian. Steers and horses were dis
appearing with alarming regularity.
The ranger force was sent to hunt
down the thieves. Now, some sheriffs
do not like the presence OF the rang
ers. II cuts down their fees and be-
sides, the rangers have an unpleasant
habit of arresting all OF the offenders
whether they happen to be friends of
the sheriff or not. The sheriff sent
Mcdonald word that If any m--o ran
gers came into his baliwick there
would be something doing in which
the undertaken would have a chance
10 make some money. Mcdonald went
to town that time himself. The sheriff
was on hand and fired the first shot.
When the shooting was over both
men were on the ground and both had
five bullets in their bodies. Weeks af.
ter Mcdonald retoined his company.
THAT fellow was all right. but he
had mistaken ideas ABOUT some
things" he remarked TO Sergeant Nc
Auley. That was all.
Fences were being cut In tne quad.
raugle formed by Howard, Mitchell,
Scurry and Dickens counties. McDon-
aid and McCauley went out TO look af.
ter II. They rode fence for five days
and then bagged six men and landed
them in Jail. "SoEe shots we're fired
two or three times" he said, "bnt as
It was night and ! couldn't seq the
fellows, and as nobody was hit, It
don't amount to mucn." McAu,ey wa
equally non-committll.
There had been 4 f"ud of yeas
standing in Fort Pend county, The Vel.
lowhammers and the Jayhswkers' war
is history down th ere. Every man, wo-
man and child in the county was on
one side or tfe olhc- MSS assinatl Ius
were frequent. Mcdonald and his men
stayed a short time in the county and
helped fill the jail and there has oeen
peace ever since.
The same thing happened in Bee
county.
And so on, and so on, and so on, TO
the end Of things. A thousand such