Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-17

means murderer, are adjudged guilty
of carrying two concealed weapons.
and therefore 7 assess you 5000, or a
year in the workhouse, at the afore-
said hard, grinding labor. Now leer,
you staggering bushwhacker'
"I hain't no better'n n gopher
when ii comes to powwowin',' Dave
started to say, but it sure looks hull
lot to me like you people back this-a-
way are a heap big at hamstringin'
I strangers that
"'You are adjudged guilty Of con-
tempt of court and fined an additional
$685.! cut in the angry little magis-
trate, whereupon Dave concluded that
conversation was too expensive in the
state of Illinois He pulled out his
private wad, peeled off 1925 and hand
ed the money over to the clerk of the
court, and the bailiff nodded to him
| that he could vamp.
"'Seein',' said Dave then, as how
I've done coughed up proper for this
yere little game of spy, now do git
them guns back?
| "'To run amuck with them through
the peaceful streets of Chicago, ruth
lessly slaughtering women and little
children?' snarled the magistrate at
him. You get nothing, you Staying
coyote of the prairie, except the hot
| foot out Of this law abiding city as
fast as you can gO-and If you ever
come before me again under any cir
cumstances whatsoever I'll build a
fire under you, you bull prodding
bully-remember that!
Dave, as 1 say, didn't mention a
word of it to me when he returned to
the ranch. But for long time after
his return 1 noticed that he tugged a
good deal at his long, gallery NOUS
tache and looked sort Of preoccupied,
and | fell to wondering if he'd met a
girl or something like that, until L
found ont what had happened to him
in Chicago the next time I visited Chi
cago myself.
Just a year later after the roundup
and branding / told the hands that
they might as we'll get the midsum-
mer drunk off their minds just as soon
as possible, and they hiked for Raw
Inns. I had some business in Rawlins
myself a couple of days later, and so
I drove over there, starting before
daylight, SOS to get there by noon. i
found the boys lying around pretty
promiscuous, enjoying their liquor a
plenty and blinking in the sun.
"At the station I heard that the
trestle a few miles west was down,
and that No. 4, the overland west
bound train, due in Rawlins at 4
o'clock. would have to wait there till
the trestle was repaired. 1 decided to
stay over in Rawlins until the arrival
of the train from the east, to have a
look at the passengers. All Of my
hands, including Dave-who didn't
appear to have much of the, alfalfa
fluid under his belt, as he was prob
ably saving himself for his regular
toot in Cheyenne-were at the station
of course when No. 4 from the east
came in.
II was sizing the passengers up as
they stepped down from the cars, the
usual pampered, don't come-a-nigh
me looking crowd of fasteners taking
palace car view of the west, when my
attention was attracted by queer eX-
preston on Red Dawes face. Red was
eyeing an individual who was in the
act of stepping from the train. This
individual was a runt of a man with
bristly sandy gray moustache, pop
eyes and a scowling countenance. He
wore a plaid business suit, spats, a
fore and aft cap, and had tenderfoot
tourist stamped all over him. A num-
Der of the male passengers started TO
shooting at marks in lot across from
the station with their silver mounted
| toy guns, and this runt of man
started in to boss the whole thing He
had one of the toy shooters in his hand
and he begun to do the directing as to
the order in which the passengers
should do their shooting at the marks.
Dave, not observing that I was eyeing
him-and I am bound to add that he
wouldn't have cared hoot if he had
-strolled slowly over to the group and
walking up softly behind the little
man with the spats and the fore and
aft cap gave him a clout in the small
of the back with his open hand that
sent the little man spinning ten feet.
"'Howdy!' said Dave amiably.
"The runt of a Chicago magistrate
turned about fiercely when he regain
ed his balance and glared at Red
Dave, whom he instantly recognized,
as I could see. Then, mumbling fe-
rociously, he began hastily to reload
his empty little silver mounted six
shooter, while Dave, with his hands
on his hips, stood grinning at him.
"'What you all caic'latin' to do with
that thing?' he inquired, in good ma
tured tone, nodding at the runt mag
istrat's toy pop. The magistrate NUT
tered some inarticulate reply and went
on loading the harmless little thing.
"'Because,' Dave went on, If you
all was to shoot me with that thing
and 1 was to find it out, I'd sure git
cross enough to hand you a right
peart slap on the elbow-I sure
would
"Then of a sudden Dawes manner
changed. In two jumps he reached
the little Chicago magistrate who had
given him such a hard deal and with
one twist he had the little gun out of
the magistrates hands and stuck into
his own belt. With the other hand he
took a good clutch on the collar of
the squirming magistrate.
'Podner,' Dave said to him, in a
judicial Tone are you all aware o. the
fact that you're vi'latin' the law O. this
neck O. the brush hull lot in comm
out yere and tryin' to git away with
a scandalous, scoohoopilous and sap