The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-11-04

gun again, except in of extreme necessity.
L asked him how his horses were, and he said
that they were pretty we'll worn out I told him
that l had couple of good horses at the end
OF the canyon, and that we would take her over
to our ranch at once"
we bound her arm to her side, and carried her
towards the end of the canyon. On our way
up the narrow part of the canyon, we met Stone
He had heard my shot, and was on his way down
to ascertain its cause. When we reached the
end of the canyon 1 had all three of our ponies
saddled, taking the spare for remount, and
instructed the boys to secure the two horses in
the canyon for their own use. | gave the hus-
band my own pony, of the best that any cow
boy ever rode, and we started on our twenty-five
mile ride to the ranch, carrying her by turns
She seemed to be suffering considerably but
knew that old man Wells pretty fair doc
tor, and that she would be we'll taken care of
by him and his good wife. We reached there
in about five hours. Mr.. Wells set her arm and
soon she was resting comfortably
L was tired and slept at the ranch until two
o'clock, when l woke and rode back to the
canyon. We stayed at the end of the CANYON
until noon, when we concluded that either the
rusters were not there they had all been
captured Then rode through the canyon
and about two miles from the lower entrance
were the evidences that pretty lively scrap had
been going on. We followed the trail over
to one of the ranches, where the entire outfit
were gathered. They had killed two of the
rusters, capturing six of them, some of them
wounded, and recovered quite a likely bunch of
cattle. When l reached our ranch | found that
the injured woman was getting along very nicely
and the husband told his story.
His name Jim Bennett. His family
were fairly well-to-do, and had given him an
education as mining engineer He had gone
out West looking for a job, but as positions
were scarce in his line at that time, he had
gone to work as a cowboy, with mining as a
side issue. He would work for quite a while
until he had sufficient money saved up then he
would go out prospecting trip. On his
last trip he had run across what had looked
like fairly good claim He located the claim
but as his possessions and money were about
run out he went back to work as a COWBOY on
the ranch where he had worked the previous
year The owner of the ranch gruff old
Westerner, with very pretty daughter, and
she and Jim had fallen in love with each other.
When they told the father of the affair, and
Jim explained his circumstances the old man
Informed Jim in most emphatic terms that he
was too much of wanderer to suit him, that
he wanted his daughter to marry something
besides health and good looks, and promptly
fired Jim. Jim went to work on a neighboring
ranch, and they managed to meet quite fire.
quently unknown to the father, and finally ar
ranged an elopement Jim had told her about
his mine, and that he thought they had better
wait until he got something out of it, but she
was bent foughing it with him and helping
him at the mine. So day they rode away
together to the nearest county seat and were
married Father meanwhile had gotten wind
of it in some way and with couple of his