The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-29
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W 1iits
There's been a hillin' over Ftsrellee
way" announced the sheriff. putting on
his hat and becoming an officer of the
law with duty to perform.
WHO is the misfortunate?s asked
~Sagebrush. as they gathered about
Hoover and listened intently.
Murder in Arizona was a serious
matter. until Punishment was melted
out to the slayer or he was freed by
his fellow citizens. Far from courts
Of Justice and surrounded by men to
whom death was often merely an lei
dent in a career of crime, the settlers
were forced to depend upon themselves
to keep peace on the border. They
acted quickly. but never hastily. Judg-
ment followed quickly on conviction.
Their views We're broad, and rarely
were their decisions wrong.
"'Ole Man Terrill." replied the
sheriff. Happened about 10 this morn
n. Some man caught him alone in he
railroad station and blowed his head
half off"
do tell" was Aliens exclamation.
YEP" continued the sheriff. He
must have pulled a gun on the fellow.
He put up some sort of a fight as the
room is some mussed up"
Robbery" queried Polly, with wide-
open eyes.
That's WHAT answered Slim, turn
ing to her. HE had three thousan'
dollars pinned in his ~vest-county
money for salaries. You kno how he
toted his wad around with him, defyin'
man or the devil to get 1t way from
him? Well, some one who was both
man an devil was too much for him.
"Who found him?"
"I did myself. Went over around
noon after the money Didn't stop to
go back to own fer a posse. Trail was
already too cold. Could tell 1t was a
man that rode a pacin' horse"
His auditors looked at each other,
striving to remember who Of their ac-
quaintance rode a pacing horse. Sage
brush Charley shook his head. NO
body down this way, 'ceptin', of course.
the boss, rides a PAGER. Must be
of the Lazy X outfit, I reckon"
Most likely said the sheriff; 'the
struck out south, probably to throw me
off scent. Then he fell In with two
other men, and this balled me up. I
lost one of the tracks. but follered the
other two round Sweetwater Mesa, till
/ came where they rode into the river.
of course L couldn't follow h trail
any farther at that pint, so, bein' as
L was near Uncle Jim's, / rode over fer
help to look along both banks an pick
up the trail wherever 1t comes out OF
the river. Sorry I must break up your
fun, boys, but some o. yuh must come
along with me. Duty's duty. / want
Sagebrush, anyhow. as l s'pose I can't
ask fer Jack Payson."
Sagebrush pulled n long face. At any
other time he would have jumped at
the chance of running to earth the das-
tardly murderers of his old friend Ter
rill. But in the matter Of this. his first
experience of a wedding, he had tickled
his palate so long with the sweets OF
anticipation that he could not bear to
forego the eliminating swallows OF
realization.
"I don't see why / shouldn't be let off
as well as jack he grumbled: "our
cases are similar. You see, it's my
first weddin'," explained the foreman
to the sheriff.
The other cowboys howled with de-
light. The humor OF the situation
caught their fancy, and they yelled a
chorus of p~rotestation In Hoover's ears.
In this Colonel Allen Joined.
Don't Spite the weddin'," he pleaded.
"dThis here event has already rounded
up the Sweetwater outfit fer yuh, an
saved yul more time than you'll lose
by waitin' till it's over. Then we'll
all jine yuh.i'
Hoover commanded silence, and, roll
ing a cigarette, gravely considered tho
proposition. He realized that the muir
derers should be followed up at once.
but that if he forced The cowboys by
the legal power he exercised to forego
the pleasure they had been anticipating
so greatly. they would not be so keen
in pursuit as If they had first "given
IN boss his send-off." The considera-
tions being equal, or, as he put 1t,
''hoss an boss" it seemed to him wise
to submit to Aliens proposition, backed
as it was by the justice of his plan
that the occasion of the wedding had
already saved valuabl time In assem-
bling the poose. He assented, there
fore. but, to maintain the dignity or
his office and control of the situation,
with apparent reluctance.
"Well, hurry up the sacreements an
ceremonies, then, an the minute the
preacher ties the knot. every man NV
yuh but Jack an the parson an Uncle
Jim gifts on his boss an folluhs me.
I'll wait out in the corral"
At this there vas another storm of
expostulation, led this time by Allen.
OF course Hoover was to come to the
wedding, and be its guest of honor
You shall be the first to wish Jack and
Echo luck said Allen. THAT means
you'l be the next one to marry"
The ruddy-faced sheriff blushed to
the roots of his auburn hair.
Much Obliged, but I amt fixed up
fer a weddin'.'' and he looked down at
his travel-stained breaches, tucked In
riding-boots white with alkali dust, and
felt of his buttonless waistcoat and
Bingham shirt open at the throat. with
the b%andanna handkerchief around his
neck in lieu of both collar and tie.
Polly assured him that he would do
very well as he was. that for her part
she wouldn't want no better dressed
maj than he to be present at her own
wedding, not sven the Teller she was
goin' to hitch up to- whereat Slim
Hoover was greatly set at case.
Polly was bounding up the piazza
steps to tell Echo of the accession TO
her party. when Hoover held up his
hand. A terrifying suggestion had
flashed through his mind.
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