Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-10
CHAPTER xxv,t.

i CHAPTER XVII. Il
Tho Fight In tho Cache.
A clear night and good moon made
long ride possible. and the Crawling
Stone contingent, headed by Stormy
German, began coming into the rail-
road camp by three o'clock the next
morning. With them rode the two
Youngs, who had lost the trail they
followed ACROSS Goose river and Joined
the cowboys on the road to the north.
The party divided under Kennedy
and Smith, who rode through the Door
into the Cache Just before daybreak.
II don't know what / am steering
you against this morning, Farrell"
said Whispering Smith. Certainly I
should hate to run you into Du Sang.
but we cant tell where we shall strike
him. II we have laid out the work
right ought to see him as soon as
anybody does. Accidents do happen,
but remember he will never be any
more dangerous than he 10 at the first
moment. Get him to talk. He gets
nervous Il he can't shoot right away.
When you pull, get . bullet into his
stomach at the start, II you possibly
can, to spoil his aim. We mustn't
make the mistake Of Understanding
him. Rebstock IL right. he is fright
with q revolver, and Sinclair and Sea-
grue are the only men I'm the noun
tains that can handle aHi1e with him.
Now we split here: and good lnck!"
Don't you want to take Brill Young
with your
You take both the Youngs. Farrell.
We shall be among rocks, and IL he
tries to rush us there isscover."
Stormy 0oruan with -four Crawling
Stone cowboys follower Whispering
Smith. Every r5der on the range had
grievance against Williams Cache,
and any Of them would have been glad
% undertake reprisals against the
rustlers under the wing u whispering
Smith.
just how In the mountains-witA-
out telegraph, newspapers. and all or
binary means Of pubaSeity-news trav-
els 30 fast may not certainly be said.
The scattered lines Of telephone wires
help. but news outstrips the wires.
Moreover, there are 20 telephones in
the MissloA mountains. But on the
morning that the roundup party rode
into the Cache II was known in the
streets Of Medicine Bend that the
Tower w men had been tracked into
the north country that some, IL not
all, OF them were IN Williams Cache:
that an ultimatum had been given, and
that Whispering Smith and Kennedy
had already ridden In with their men
to mako It good.
Whispering Smith, with the cow
boys. took the rough country to the
LETT and Kennedy and his party took
the south prong Of The Cache creek.
The instzaaction1 were to make q
clean sweep q The line advanced. Be.
hind tho caneef rode three men to
take etbn8 'dlivenisa from the wings.
Word that 1as bssef bat reasonable
had BEEN semi everywhere ahead.
Everyman. &was psonised. that could
prove sbzppeFty should have chance
to doseo akshA Door that day and the
ne1ta* sbs4 hAA brands that showed
sto3sn cns&ass iofs&Aat had been skinned
or tampefed WITH tn any way, were to
be tssne6 oveE746 the Stock associa-
ton Tor Tia hehaaesof owners.
Tbs Hsr5si mr. pocket rafded started
= row and.Nncdnered 80 head Of FIVE
yearoM stesfs bearing mutilated
Duck Ban brand It was like poking
at Sraftlesnaass b 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 Q protest was referred calmly to
Rebseock, ana before very long Reb-
stocks cabtn had more men around
at than had been seen together in the
Cache 1oe ysass. The impression that
the whoa JIG, was up. and TINT the
refugeeo hid been sold out by their
own bosA was one that no railroad
man 1andeytook to discourage. The
cowboys Snslsted on the cattle, with
the assurance chat Rebstock could ex.
plain everything. BY noon the Cache
was to an uproar. The cowboys were
riding carefully. end their guards.
rides IN hand. were watching the cor
nera. Ahead Of the slowly moving
line with the growing bunch Of cattle
behind Il douxished a. It were rather
+ consptcuoasly. fugitive riders dashed
back and forth with curses and yells
across the narrow VALLEY II n haA