The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER H.
u Saved From Bedouins by a Cowboy

struck me that the cries Of the attack
ing party were echoed In kind by INC
men in camp. and suddenly as ! diew
near l that a body Of our men was
leaving the shelter Of the camps de
fences and charging the enemy; No ne
cries were tribal calls, The whole Ned-
iedan Hasan faction was deserving TO
the enemy.
4 pretty state OF affairs indeed! =
showed another clip into my rifle and
stopped running long enough to send
every bullet Into the treacherous crowd.
then / ran for my life. As | leaped over
the piles OF goods we hod arranged rs
permanent brea stworks one OF the Oman
hoyg drove viciously at me with his knife
but missed me. and then seeing who II
was would have fallen on the ground at
my feet lt ] had permitted him. TOLL
yer was having hard job getting the
proper ammunition distributed. Thank
eur stars the deserters had left with only
n few charges each.
The iuncture between the attacking
party and the deserters was an unfortu-
nate maneuver for them. as II broke the
force Of the raid long enough FOR us 10
get started into really effectual firing.
and we made II SO hot that the whole
party with wild yells dashed off to one
side. and st. was now too dark to make
them out. we stopped firing.
Tolliver's Courage.
The three men who had been at the
other entrance had vanished. That left
VS. nine men in camp against a possible
10 the exact range for the Abyssinians.
and doing very careful work ourselves.
Tclllver and | led off. making 81 hot for
the band. They were not well enough
armed 10 reply effectively. the best firs
they had coming from my own men IN
! their midst, and In ten minutes We had
driven them To cover completely, They
could not shelter their animals among
the rocks. and. tilouge we dlsiksd 10 put
down such fine creatures we began on
them. That settled the matter They
saw their position was untenable. and al
. signal cry the whole band dashed into
the open skirting the north side Of the
dry lake and vanished into the gorge
whence they had come, with the loss OF
but one man.
There was no question about what we
must do. II was only a matter of time
tn they could finish us. Tolllver and /
did not even consult. Picking our best
necessities. we abandoned everything else
shall we try TO take the stuff said
Tolliver. pointing 10 the result OF our
work.
we certainly WILL" said J. and we did
In less than fifteen minutes after the
last shot was fired we We're off for the
entrance TO the other gorge. The Bed
ouins could not follow us and overwheim
| us with their numbers without paving a
! heavy price for their victory At the
first sign OF attack all we need do was
! stand and led them come on in slender
! column. the only way they could attack
| in the dry gorge. II they meant to harass
MS from above they would have to mount
! the cliffs and circle the dry lake The
! natural thing for them TO do would be
| 10 follow along the cliffs until we were
| forced TO camp In some spot where their
! clrcling raiding methods would be ef-
/ fective.
It was a miserable flight, straight into
! the very heart OF the desert. We had
taken all hands into council after wc
! were safely started and the unanimous
decision was that 1t was best to push
a little 70 the north and strike the cara
van route to katal. The tribesmeu were
| OF the opinion that since we had in
flicted so heavy a loss on the Nedjedans
| they would go 10 extremes for vengeance.
| Also our arms, animals. the gold and
matrices would make fine loot.
The first day l had q bad riding fall
among the rocks and dislocated my left
shoulder. Tolliver and one of the Abys-
sinians got ii back, but the sufferirUeai in
conjunction with the heat was some tA0ng 8
| frightful
| The second day we made dry camp out
on the undulating waste OF sand between
| two low clumps OF rock. Better ground
| for which we had been aiming had proved
TO be a retreatlng Illusion and complete
| ly exhausted, both men and animals, we
were glad TO reach even the rocks Be-
| fore sunset three different bodies OF