The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

him IL he didn't turn out. v,s N
light by then. NYawk Joined ns ""
few minutes What the deuce wa.
fellers kicking up such a rlmnms w
last ngiht?' he asked. "Yn, Ma.u
blockhead, don't you know tbo h
answered. why, the sheriff so,,opH,
this camp last night. They had h"'
tie down at the bridge aftcrynrJ
either they are all killed or els. No auu
Is hurt. They would hay. h,on o'
otherwise. Ward took a shot a, , nen
once yesterday. but I guess no dI u.m
hit: the men got away anyv.u. nun
durn your sleepy head Won in, lu
there and snored. Well, ri be- JansosS,y
NYawk turned To get hi, Lr,ai,su'
His light shirt was blood stainrd ~ as
back-seemed to be soaked w, ue
the matter with your shirt. ii,s sa"a
| with blood?" some one asked .r,
that burned Daisy Belle ma. L..,, .,. .neh
ing in with me, that's all" NJ. a"i ,
Blame his bleeding snoot. I'm nnos Sdu
and give It something to bleed for
Then Mr.. Watson said "pais, 49,.
been in all night. He took J.sso.y aInt
Mhen ne went to town after supna,s
That started an inquiry ana 49,,
| with bleeding wound had po,,. '"e
with NYawk. II also dev,I.ped a.,
Mr.. Watson's splendid horse and s, 5In'
were gone. the rope that tho horse haa
peen picketed with lying Just as \
had been cut from his neck.
Now all was hustle and ..yci,.r,...
IL was plainly evident that one of ths
outlaws had lain hidden on N'YawL'.
h..l x.gln 81.
that afterward he had sadd.d the hor.a
and made his escape. HIS own horso
was found in the willows. the saddle on,
loose and the bride OF. but IN, poor
jaded thing had never moved n,
sunup the search party returned. ar
too worn out with twenty-fpur hours 1,
the saddle to continue the hunt. Thev
| were even too worn out To eat. but auno
themselves down for few hours resi-
The chase was hopeless anyway fm
the search party had gone north in
the night. The wounded outlaw haf
doubtless heard the Sheriff talking ana
the coast being clear TO the snnthwar
had got the fresh horse and was h
that time probably safe in the heavy
| forests and mountains of Utah His
getting in with N'Yawk had been
daring ruse, but successful one
Where his partner was no. one could
guess. But by that time all the camp
excepting Herman and Mrs Louderer
were So panicky that We couldn't have
made a rational suggestion.
N'Yawk, white around his mouth ap.
preached Mrs. Louderer. 81 want to
quit" he said We'll" she said calmly
slipping her coffee. "you haf done it,
I'm sick" he stammered. Il know you
iss." she said. Il hat before now seen
men sick when they ISIS scared to
death" MY old daddy" he began.
"Yes. I know. e waded the creek vone
time und you has had cold feet efer
since"
MY own home looked mighty good 10
me when We drove up that evening.
| don't want any more wild life IN the
range--not for a while. anyway.
Your ex-WashlaAy,
GILMORE RUPERT STEWART
In another letter Mrs. Stewart says:
ITO me homesteading is the solution OF
| all poverty's problems, but realize
| that temperament has much to do with
success in any undertaking, and persons
| afraid of coyotes and work ana nnel'
ness had better let ranching alone.
| 81 never did like to theorize, and 50
this year I set out to prove that a
| woman could ranch IL she wanted 10
| We like to grow potatoes on new ground
that IL. newly cleared land on which
no crop has been grown. Few weeds
grow on new land, so 1t makes less
| work. So I selected my potato patch
and the man ploughed it, although !
could have done that II Clyde would
have let me. I cut the potatoes, Jerrlne
helped. and we dropped them In the
rows. The man covered them, and that
| ends the mans part. BY that time the
garden ground was ready, so ! planted
the garden. had almost an acre 10
vegetables. I irrigated and ] cultivated
1t myself.
I'VE had all the vegetables We could
possibly use. and now Jerrine and
have put in our cellar full, and this Is
what we have: one large bin Of l"'
tatoes (more than two tons), half Ton
OF carrots, large bin Of beets, one oil
turnips, one OF onions, one of parsnps
and on the other side of the cellar We
have more than 100 heads of cab.
bage. l have experimental and touho
kind of squash that can be raised
here, and that the ripe ones keep well
and make good pies; ais" mat the
young tender ones make splendid pickles.
quite equal to cucumbers. ! was slau
to stumble onto that, becaus" pickles.
are hard to manufactur" when you
have nothing to work with. Nov nave
plenty. They told me when ! came
that I could not even raise common
beans, but | tried and succeeded Anu
also l raised lots of green tomatoes
and as We like them preserved, Iiiaur
them all up that way. Experimenting
along another line, found that
could make catsup. as delicious A. 'ha'
Of toma toes, Of gooseberrics, ! maze #"
exactly the same as ! do with iolnat"'
and ] am delighted. GoOseherrirS "e''
very fine and very plentiful TINS year,
so l put up great many, mliKe'
ten cows twice a day all summer nave
sold enough butter to pay for year
supply of -four and gasolene. We "
a gasolene lamp. I have raised "nn't
chickens to completely rene" my n"N
and all we wanted to eat and hh'" '''"'