The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-12-14

Apache reservation, where he ate
good cooked food. and drew good
gun-ammunition, all of which our
Government supplies to it's pets.
the Apaches. The other three
months would find him, accompanied
by string of speedy racing cayuses
and string of favorite squaws, ma
King the rounds of various fiestas,
where he invariably happened by
nook or crook, principally by crook.
to pull off something in the way of
racing-money and poker winnings.
wet Dog, in brief, was a consum-
mate sport, and not a square snort
at that. This fact one regrets to di-
vulge, for this noble red man had
twice been converted by missionaries.
who wrote home, joyfully, that the
famous, bloody Apache chief had con-
fessed his sins and been gathered into
the fold. But the truth must out.
and Wet Dog had certainly acted
shamefully at the Gold Gulch "roos-
teT-pulling" in the doping of Limp
Ing Jimmy's cowpony racer
AS result, many dollars had
passed into the dishonest hands of
wet Dog, who, with ponies and
squaws, fastened to fee before his
trickery could be discovered. There
was naturally much lamentation and
profanity among the cowmen, who
mad backed Limping Jimmy and his
Paloma with their very last red; bit
ter were their reproaches as they
struck their homeward trails. and the
desolate Jimmy, left alone to doctor
poor Paloma, felt the matter keenlv
An autopsy soon performed showed
exactly what had been wrong, and
the Limping One swore to himself
mighty cowboy oath, I'll fix that
sneaking Injun, so help me Moses. IL
IL takes me twenty years TO do it,"
For many months following the
Gold Gulch episode, Wet Dog, rich in
his ill-gotten gains, and fattening on
government rations, lived peacefully
on the reservation. Meanwhile. his
| newly bought pony Blue-Jay was be-
ing carefully trained for the Wolpi
races, at snake-dance time and the
horse's owner practiced stealthily I'm
MS tepee various new combinations
/ on poker hands, for the ultimate I'M
doing of Lo, the poor and unsuspect-
Ing Indian. to whom card-stacking
was an unknown dodge. but poker
a thing of everlasting joy.
AZ this time Limping Jimmy was
lying low, and formulating some
tricks of his own, aided and abetted
therein by his bunky, one Shorty"
Smith.
These tricks necessitated the
swearing-off of the two COWBOYS So
far as whisky and poker were con
cerned, and the saving of their every
cent. They also necessitated,I grieve
to say. a midnight journey of thirty
miles to the Bark range: the round
ing-up thereon of a wild and I'M
tanned outlaw pony, the stealthy es-
corting by night of that same wild
though promising pony. and his stalk
Ing in a certain secret pasture. al
ready prepared by the two men.
wnere the outlaws busting was taken
in charge.
On the Bark ranch there was
some hunting and chasing after the
missing morse, which ceased upon
shorty, OF the Circles, stating to the
BARK foreman that he had the day
before spfed bunch of Apaches driv-
Ing some ponies northward from Bar
x, and that, "By ructions. there was
a gray bronco, with one white LEG
roped-in with them there Iniun cav
usesi"
Shorty's perjury saved the day.
me Bark foreman. vowing death
and destruction to all Apaches. re-
tired disappearing to his ranch.
meanwhile Limping Jimmy ana his
colleague continued to labor with
and educate IN secret. that same gray
outlawed bronco with one white leg
Weeks of hard labor we're re-
CURED, for surely never was there a
wickeder bronco than Outlaw Az
MS training progressed. Shorty had
an arm broken, and Jimmy n leg
Doth were constantly mass of bruises
ana IL Is wonder that their neck 6
were not broken But they never
gave In, and. as patience and dog
gedness will work wonders with evop
an outlawed bronco. the gray horse
was finally subdued. and broken To a
hnish. AS his delighted trainers
vowed to one another. there wasn't
horse I'm the two Territories able to
even keep within sight of his heels.
much less run with him.
And now Shorty disappeared on n
brief leave of absence: meanwhile
Limping Jimmy used an old side-sad-
&c and Tapping blanket I'm the
farther education OF Outlaw. who did
not take In the least kindly to this
particular branch Of his training
After a weeks absence. Shorty re-
appeared well laden with divers bum
dies, and full Of mysterious informa-
ton, over which he and his bunky
chuckled and rejoiced nightly
IL was a slack time, with little do
Ing on the ranch. so the two had little
difficulty in securing permission for
q fortnight's absence 10 attend tn
some business over I'm Arizona" they
said. SO away they loped one morn
ing. followed by the boots and ieers
OF their less fortunate comrades. who
had spent their wages in riotous liv.
ing. and no vacations could come
their way
Now, while Jimmy thus babe adieu
70 the Circles. I'm company with
1 Shorty Smith ~ vvae 60, 49,, sfes,