The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-13
saints saints or lost sinners-anything sheepless

/ n1,e -N'u con deny that It's mo-
nolonous Tor me. Arc you sure you
corralied your sheep so they won't
| stray out?
=, They're shut up as light as thc jury
o. 3i mi!l!onaire murderer says l. And
III be back with them long before they'll
need their trained nurse =
90 ogden d1Ss up deck of cards and
we play casino. After five days and
loot on Broadway. When I caught big
casino ! ielt as excited as II | had made
ioonn9 million in Trinity. And when II, o.
about the lady in the Pullman car | laugh
| ed FOR five minutes
That showed what a narrative thing
me is. a man may see so much that he'd
be bored 10 turn his head TO look at a
$%.oo0, 600 fire or the Adriatic sea- But let
MN herd sheep for a spell, and you'll see
MIN splitting his ribs laughing at 'Curfew
iS hlinSelt PLAYING cards with ladies'.
by and by Ogden gets out a deCa Mt cr
OF Bourbon, and then there is total
eclipse OF sheep.
' Do you remember reading In the ma
pers. about month ago. says he. about
ttaln holdup on the NJ, *. & T.? The
express eNd,,i% agent was shot through the
taken. And It's said that only one man
- Seems 10 me do, says l. But such
thinSs happen so often they don't inger
long In the human Texas mind. Did they
oyertake. overhaul. seize, or lay hands
upon the despoilcr?'
d" 'Hc escaped says Ogden And was
IuSt reading in the paper today that the
officers have tracked him down into this
part of the country. II seems the bills
the robber got were all the first Issue of
currency to the Second National bank of
ESplnosa City. And they've followed
the tLail where they've been spent, and
II leads this way.
Ogden pours out some more Bourbon
and shoves me the bottle.
o M Gy-,0 L.
another modicum of the royal booze "that
1t wouldn't be at all disiugenuous idea
Tor train robber TO run down into this
part Of the country TO hide for a spell A
sheep ranch, now says I. would be the
finest Kind of place. Who'd ever expect
TO find such desperate character among
these song birds and muttons and wild
flowers? And. by the way says T. kind
OF looking II. Ogden over, was there any
description mentioned OF this single hand
ed terror? Was his lneaments or height
and thickness or teeth filings or style Of
habiliments set forth in print?'
Why, no says Ogden: they say no.
body got good sight OF him because he
wore a mask. But they know it was
always works alone and because he
dropped a handkerchief in the express car
that had his name oil IT,
AN right says |. 4 approve OF Black
Bills retreat TO the sheep ranges. ! guess
they won't find him
There's $1,000 reward for his capture,
says Ogden
al don't need that Kind OF money
tine eve The sl2 a month you pay me
is enough. I need 2 rest, and ] can save
up until ] get enough to pay my fare to
lives. II Black Bill ] goes on, looking
significantly a ogden, was 10 have come
down this waT-say month aSo-and
bought little sheep ranch and
"'Stop. SAYS Ogden, getting out OF his
chair and looking pretty vicious. DO you
mean TO insinuate--'
Nothing saws 7; TO insinus tions. I'm
stating q hvpodermIcal case. | say, II
Black Bill had come down here and
bought 4 sheep ranch and hired me TO
Little Boy Blue EN- and treated me
square and friendly. as you've done he'd
\ man is a man. regardless OF any COM
plca tionS he may have with sheep or
railroad trains. Now YOU know where ]
stand
ogden looks black as camp coffee for
nine seconds, and then ne laughs
amused. -.
] was Black Bill wouldn't be afraid to
trust YOU. Let's have a game or two
OF seycn-up tonight. That is, II yor
don't mind playing with, train rohber,
ments. and there's no strings TO en-
while ! was shuffling after the first
hand. asks Ogden as II the m I'd idee wa was
"'Oh' says he, from the Mississippi
That's nice little place SAYS ], I've
find the sheets Il little, damp and the
food poor? Now. ] hall says J. from
The Pacific slope. Ever put up there"
Too drauChty,' says Ogden. But If |
you're ever in the middle west just men
tion my name and you'll get foot warm |
ers and dripped coffee,
Well says !. 1 wasn't exactly iish-
Ing for your private telephone number
ana the middle name OF your aunt that
carried off The Cumberland Presbyterian !
minister; 1t don't matter Just t want
of your shepherd. Now, don't play hearts
on spades and don't get nervous:
'StIl harpins. saws ogden iaughing
again. Don't YOU suppose @ sisnoc,ed tmao IL was WA
"a mt a Winchester bullet into you and |
STOP my nervousness. II had any?
'''Not any, says l. \ man who's got
the nerve TO hold mp train single handed
wouldn't do d trick ike that. I've knock
ed a bout enough 10 know that them are
the kind of men who put value on
friend of yours. Mr Ogden, says |. being
.nnIv your sheepherder: but under e%pedi. !
lious circumsta noes we might have been. |
.s'ForGet the sheep temporarily. beg, |
eays Ogden and cut for deal
"a bout four days afterward. while my |
r,,ttons was incoming on the waterhole /
and ! deep In the inteTstces ot TnaRihs ,h
,.,.e mysterious person in tho garb OF
The being he wished to represent l1e WAS WAS
dressed somewhere between hansas a.s Ciag ~, |
Jefec,lye, Buffalo Bill, and the town dog
catcher OF Baton Rouge; ils 1hln nm ana so !
.Ve wasn't nodded on ilghtlng hhcs' SO
I knew he was only n scout
HeI9in sheep? to ne asST saSn inS' OF your ev,
~, I',ontIcuaI endowments, ] wouldn't |
Hs,e HaHt The nerve 10 state that [ am en-
Ca red In decorating oid oioi'"e' VI '''"e
picySyi Won don't talk or look like sheep |
,,rder 10 me- says he.
'Eut you talk Ike what you look hkc
'o.nina ihen he SKIS me who ] was work
tnr and I elbows him Rancho chi |
nml,o, two miles away, In the SHADOW l,rmutg OF
There's tr9n-robnsr bcaa cal'eG a sses ebsss
, h,,i .ays the scout. Hes been traced
as as Jar rs san Antonio ana a. maybe "a nf iar any
strangers around here during the past
month? .excent y rc
nor, of one over at the Mexican quar-