The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-11-25

/ 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 Youngs. Farrell
We shall be among rocks, and II 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
to undertake reprisals against the
rustlers under the wing OF whispering
Smith.
Just how in the mountains--with-
out telegraph, newspapers, and all or
binary means OF publicity-news tray-
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 II was known In the
streets OF Medicine Bend that the
Tower w men had been tracked into
the parth country; that some, II not
all, OF then were in Williams Cache;
that an ultIsAtum had been given, and
that Whispering Smith and Kennedy
had already riGts>o In with their men
to make It good.
Whispering Smith, with the cow
boys, took the rough country TO the
left. and Kennedy and HE party took
the south prong of Tia Cache creek.
The instructions were TO make
clean sweep as the line advanced. Be
hind the center rode tnrse men TO
take stock driven In from the wings.
Word that was brief but reasonable
had been sent everywhere ahead.
Every man, II was promised, that could
prove property should have a chance
to do so at the Door that 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 associa-
tion for the ben, ct of owners.
The very first pocket raided started
a row and uncovered so head OF FIVE
year-old steers bearing a mutilated
Duck Bar brand. II was like poking
at rattlesnakes 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 Reb-
stocks cabin had more men around |
II than had been seen together in the |
Cache for years. The impression that |
the whole jig was up, and that the
refugees had been sold out by their I
own boss, was one that no railroad |
man undertook to discourage. The |
cowboys insisted on the cattle, with |
The assurance that Rebstock could ex-
plain everything. BY noon the Cache |
was In an uproar. The cowboys were
riding carefully, and their guards,
rifles In hand. were watching the cor
ners. Ahead Of the slowly moving
line with the growing bunch of cattle
behind IL, flourished as It were rather
conspicuously. fugitive riders dashed
back and forth with curses and yells
acr0ss the narrow valley. II II had
been Whispering Smiths intention to
raise a large-sized row 1t was apparent
that he had been successful. Reb-
stock, driven to desperation, held coun-
ell after council to determine what to
10. Sorties were discussed, ambushes
considered. and a pitched battle was
planned. But, while ideas we're plenti-
full. no one aspired to lead an attack
On Whispering Smith.
Moreover. Williams Cache. It was