The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-18
CHAPTER XVII.
The Fiqht in the Cache.

a clear night and good moon made
2 long ride possible, and the Crawling
Stone contingent headed by Stormy
German, began coming into the rail-
road camp by o'clock the next morn
ing With them rode the two Youngs,
who had lost the trail they followed
across Goose river ana Joined the cow
boys on the road to the north.
The party divided under Kennedy and
Smith, who rode through the Door into
the Cache Just before daybreak.
Il don't know what / am steering
you against this morning, Farrell"
said Whispering Smith. Certainly 1
should hate to run you into Du Sang.
but we can't tell where we shall strike
him. If we have laid out the work
right, / ought to see him as soon as
anybody does. Accidents do happen.
but remember he viii never be any
more dangerous than he is at the first
moment. Get him to talk He gets
nervous if he can't shoot right away.
When you pull. get a bullet into his
stomach at the start, If you possibly
can, TO spoil his aim. We mustn't
make the mistake of Understanding
him. RebstOck is right; he is q fright
with a revolver, and Sinclair and Sea-
grue are the only men in the noun
tains that can handle a rife with him.
Now we split here; and good luck"
Don't you want to take Brill Young
with your"
You take both the Ycungs, Farrell
We shall be among the rocks. and if he
tries TO rush us there is cover"
Stormy German with FOUR Crawling
Stone cowboys followed whispering
Smith. Every rider on the range had
a grievance against Williams Cache,
and any of them would have been glad
n rrnHarfa warriGo1c frc a..
Tustlers under the wing of Whispering
Smith.
Just how in the mountains-with-
out telegraph, newspapers and ali or
binary means of publiCity-news trav-
els so fast may not certainly be said.
The scattered lines of telephone wires
help, but news Outstrips the wires
Moreover, there are no telephones in
the Mission mountains But on the
morning that the roundup party rode
into the Cache it was known in the
streets OF Medicine Bend that the
Tower w men had been tracked into
the north country, that some, if not
all, Of them We're in Williams Cache:
that an uitimatum had been given, and
that Whispering Smith and Kennedy
had already ridden in with their men
to make it good.
Whispering Smith. with the cow
pDNof l0ch the AOuEu country 10 lIE
left, and Kennedy and his party took
the south prong of the Cache creek.
The instructions were to make a
clean sweep as the line advanced. Be
hind the center rode three men TO
take stock driven i'm from the wings
Word that was brief but reasOnabl
had been sent everywhere ahead
Every man, il was promised that could
prove property should have a chance
TO do so at the Door thai day and the
next: but any brands that showed
stolen cattle, or that had been skinned
or tempered with in any way, were to
be turned over TO the Stock association
for the benefit of owners.
The very first pocket raided started
row and uncovered eighty head Of FIVE
year-old steers bearing a mutilateG
Duck Bar brand. Tt was like poking at
Fattlesnakes TO undertake to clean out
the grassy retreats of the Cache. but the
work was pushed on in spite Of protests,
threats and resistance. Every man that
rode out openly to make a protest was
referred calmly to Rebstock, and before
very long RebstOcks cabin had more
men around il than had been seen to-
gether In the Cache for years. The inn
preston that the whole jig was up, and
that the refugees had been sold out by
their own boss was one that no railroad
man undertook TO discourage. The cow
boys insisted on the cattle, with the as
surance that Rebstock could explain
everything. By noon the Cache was in
an uprOar The cowboys were riding
carefully, and their guards rifles I'm
hand, were watching the corners. Ahead
OF the slowly moving line with the