The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-13

There's $1,000 reward offered. says
the captain, but It's for his capture and
conviction. There don't seem TO be no
| provision made for an informer.'
"'It looks like 1t might rain In day
or So says l in a tired way looking UP
at the cerule5n blue sky
"If you know anything about the To-:
| cality, disposition. or secretiveness OF
this here Black Bill says he. In Sc
law in not reporting it
"I heard fence-rder say. says J.,
In a desultory kind of voice. that d
at Pldgin's store on the Nueces that he
heard that Black Bill had been seen in
Matamoras by sheepman's cousin two
weeks ago.
q" Tell you what III do, Tight Mouth,
says the captain. after looking me over
for bargains. II you put us on so we
can SCOOP Black Bill. III pay you a
he, You aln't entitled to anything
Now, what do You say?'
" Cash down Dow1' | asks.
The captain has a sort of discussion
with his helpmates. and they all produce
the contents Of their pockets for analy-
sis. Out OF the general results they fg
ured up S102.S0 In cash and s3l worth Of
plug tobacco,
" Come nearer captain meeo.' says J.
and listen. He so did
I am mighty poor and low down in
twelve dollars a month trying to keep a
lot OF animals together whose only
thought seems to be to get asunder, AL
though. says !, I regard myself as some
better than the state OF South Dakota,
It's a come down 10 a man who has here
tofore regarded sheep only in the form
of chops, I'm pretty far reduced in the
world on account of foiled ambitions and
rum and kind OF cocktail they make
along the P. Il. F. all the way from
Scranton to CIncinnati-dry gin, French
good dash of orange bitters. II you're
ever up that way, don't fail to let one
try you. And again says |. 7 have
never yet went back on a friend. rve
when adyersity's overtaken me I've new
or forsook 'en,
But goes, on, this is not exactly
'he case OF friend. Twelve dollars a
money. And l do not consider brown
beans and corn bread the food OF friend
snip am poor man says 7 and
have widowed mother In Texarkana
fou VIII find Black Bill, says !. lying
asleep In this house cot n the -
TO YOUR right. He's the man YOU want
as ! know from his words and converse
ton lie was IN a way a friend 7 en-
plains, and II | was tho man I once was
The entire product OF the mines OF Con
dola would not have tempted me to be-
tray him But. SAYS l. every week half
of the beans WAS wormy. and not nigh
enough wood in, camp.
Better go In careful. gentlemen
SAYS l. He seems impatient at times
and when YOU think of his late profns-
sional pursuits one would look for
abrupt actions il he was come upon sud
dem.
$50 the whole posse unmounts and
ties their horses and unimbers their
ammunition and equipment. and tip toes
Into the house And | follows like De-
liah when she set the Philip Stelns on
to Samson.
THE leader of the posse shakes Oc-
don and wakes him up. And then he
jumps UP. and two more OF the reward
hunters grab him Ogden was mighty
tough with his slimness, and he gives
'em as neat singlc-foote tussle against
odds as 7 ever sec
"'What does this menn?' he saws aft-
er they had him down.
you're scoopGd in. Mr. Black Bill,
saws the captain. That's all
IT'S an outrage says II. Ogden.
maddcr yet.
II was. says the peace-and good
VIII man. The Katy wasn't botherine
YOU, and there's n law against monkey
Ing with express packages
And he sits on RI. Ogdens stomach
and goes through his pockets sympto-
matically and carefully.
"I'll make YOU perspirc for this. says
Ogden. perspiring some himself. 4 can
prove who I am.
$50 can T. SAWS the captain, as he |
draws from II. Ogdcn's inside coat pock- |
OF a handful OF new bills of tho Second |
National bank of Eupiposa City. Your |
rppu1or yp1 do ps Il II Il