Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-09-23
cHAPTE Rs XII.
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ago at Inc Wtchiup li1edt Tie diIaIT Will
Sinclair had all taken place within q
period Of two years, and that practical
" all Of the actors in the event had
been together and in friendly relation
on a Thanksgiving day at the Cunning
ranch not so very long before the trou-
bic began. Dieksie Dunning was away
at school at the time, and Lance Dun
ming was celebrating with riding and
shooting fest and a barbecue.
The whole country had been invited.
Bucks was in the mountains on an in
spection trip, and Bill Dancing drove
him with a party OF railroad men over
from Medicine Bend. The mountain
men for $50 miles around were out.
Gene and Bob Johnson, from Oroville
and the Peace river, had come with
their friends. From Williams Cache
there was not only a big delegation
more of one than was really desirable
but 1t was led by old John Rebstoek
himself When the invitation is gen
eral, lines cannot be too closely drawn.
Not only was Lance Dunning some
thing of q sport himself, but on the
Long Range it is part Of a stockman's
neighbors. At a Thanksgiving day bar
becue not even mountain sheriff
would ask questions, and Ed Banks,
though present, respected the holiday
truce, Cowboys rode that day in the
roping contest who were from Mission
creek and from Two Feather river.
Among the railroad people were
George McCloud, Anderson, the assis-
tant superintendent, Farrell Kennedy
chief of the special service, and his
right-hand man, Bob Scott. In esne-
cial, Sinc1air's presence at the barbe-
cue was recalled. He had some cronies
with him from among his up-country
following, and was introducing his
new bridge foreman, Karg, afterward
known as Flat Nose, and George Sea
grue, the Montana cowboy. Sinclair
fraternized that day with the Williams
then that though railroad man he ap-
Deared somewhat outside the railroad
circle. When the shooting matches
were announced br0Wn-eyed railroad
man was asked to enter. He had been
out Of the mountains for some time
and was a comparative stranger
ia the gathering, but the Will
Iiams Cache men had not fer
gotten him; Rebstock, especially.
wanted to see him shoot. While mueh
of the time out OF the mountains on
railroad business. he was known to be
closely in Bucks counsels, and as 60
the mountains themselves, he was re-
outed to know them better than Bucks
or Glover himself knew them. This
was Whispering Smith; but, beyond
tow-voiced greeting or IN expression
OF surprise at meeting an old ac-
| ouaintance. he avoided talk. When
| urged to shoot he resisted all persua-
sion and backed up his refusal by
| showing bruise on his trigger finger
He declined even to act as judge in
| the contest, suggesting the sheriff, Ed
Banks, for that office.
| McCloud did not meet the host,
Lance Dunning, that day nor since the
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