The Harlowton news., 1913-12-19
A Little G,reaser
Girl
By r. A. mitchell.

A little Mexican girl tshe mlRnt
have been an, where between fourteen
and twenty: no one could tell because
sba vas of the SINAI, kind, went into y
saloon in Arizona to sell some htt'e
nosjes she had made Of wild flowers r.
for | cent each a cowboy haD'eu
| Rucklin---a good looking chap bonght +
ona for which he paid her a quarter
and wunldn, take any change huek
lin didn't like the way she looked ~
1 rim when she thanked hin lhefe
was something III that glance tn'at
meant suddenly born love Inc 80"
hoy knew something about THESE ho'
hlopded girls of the south. these greass
era. and didn't care ~ nave al! ~
them fall III love with him Nl1hef
rho love must he returned OF the man
love,, was liable to have IA tarnntula /
,mt IN, Ills he'd or a knife In us nearl
or something OF the klllu
After selling Bnckiin the posS tnt
Mexican girl went up to the bar hha
stood beside a big fellow jerks. VINO
was ;lin,,,, ~ bad a specimen rs tt'+
,,n,ntry produced and the bad ones
were very bad and asked hi,h to WY
posy Locking down and seeing the
girl beside him. instead OF buying
n,,sy he gave her cuff aud, Witb an
oath. told her to "git along buckllh
| didn't like 10 Interfere. for I'D the urs'
: place he expected to either k'li Or pt
= killed II he did aud IN the second place
= he didn't wish to become the gis's =
I champion, for If he did he might not
i %, rid Of der without trouble. Buf
d there was something in bin that
|, couldn't abide jerks act. aud he
y spr,ng for him from behind aud tum
i. bled him on the floor Then. holding
T. him down with one hand he whipped
It out his gun with the other and. press
ing 1t against his cheek, sa1d 20 nun:
= "I've done this for what you did &c
=. the girl Your life is mine III give
II to YOU If yu,,'ll agree before THESE
witnesses to keep the peace with me.
The u,an. knowing that 1t was deatf
OF consent. gave his word for peace.
There WAS an nuwritten law IN tina
part of the country that anplleo
such a case us this. and Jenks knew
: that If he killed the cowboy anothe
COWBOY or some other person Wour
shoe, him from behind Being re
strained from killing the Cowboy MN
self he concocted a scheme WheFeo
some one else would do the JoD &c
him He stole horse ard. ieadlng
to where Bucklin was asleep alone 9
- a campfire. picketed the amman = =
- eide him. Buckin was tried by u
'-~, vigilance committee and senteheeu
ID hanged, bnt the night before
, was to he executed the l1ttie gFeas
ls pirl collected lot Of vipers OF p'
souous kind and. throwing the
.monp the guard scattered them. th
giving Bucklin al opportunity 10 he
out.
IS But the end of the story Is not y
With feminine divining powers I
preuser girl understood that jerks q
. yot Hucklin into the horse steall
- tronb]e One day while walking alo
a road she saw the body of man
ing on the ground. Since there
nd hole in him she concluded ne
died a natural death a stroke
genius occurred to her, Tak1ng on
little pisto, she carried In her BOSE
she fred bullet into the dead ma
brain. then took things she 'o"ho
HI his pockets-tbere was quite eho'
to identify hiln--the awaited her
nortunity to put them in jerks pc
IS ets. Having succeeded III thlS'
went off aud told n citizen that
- ,.a seen .Ienks murder man
'see rifle his pockets,
a The recipient of this secret to'u
ers, am, several men Went 10 w
~ the body lay. then proceeded 10 Jt
:" and interviewed him. The visl
searched his garments. ana Jenks
-e astonished at the result.
unfortunately for .tenks. every
in that region wanted 10 get r'n OF
The bullet hole in the dead mans
- did MOI Indicate that one of lenkS
mo,,s bullets had passed thrnug
nm II WAS suggested that he n
h,va sereeuwd himself by using q
foreu weapon And did not tn
t;.,ps thnt had been taken from
mans uocket prove the MURDER!
If was soon learned who the man
and that the things beongPd "
sD. Ii II mas leen said that "tlle Wish
the, to ,he thought" and the sam
tajns to evidence Every one
.,enks ia be proved guilty so tn
IN could he got rid ut. aud on tn
xD ,.o,,nt there was little trouble IL
, vi.tng him
. Meanwhile the little srease'
Lines S Went a"'H st''',ns @ '''s, San,a IN
seen the fracas in her behalI so
ANA cd thu, she had put up jo' on
hut the idea that such dui'
could nave invented such pa
EsaE3 generally secuted lenks sent
sVH and heggtsi her to own that =
10 lied She looked more stulho