The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-05-21
CHAPTER xXV-(Continued) !.

#a" AhGy QOue give JOnn three nOuIH
more. Then IL he don't surrender thy'n
charge the house and riddle It'll And
John he won't let the children come
out-or any one. He avs the Lord Is
Curran was staring In his turn.
Mich What Is it?'
The old soldier looked at him with
a remembrance. II forgot, Mr.. Wiley
Where you been? Folks were askin'
To- you-they said IL airy man in the
county could talk reason TO John, it's
you'll"
Look here-has there been any
trouble-any fighting2" Il
Fight! Where have you been!
Started last evening. Why, II done
break UP your meetin', didn't Ill The
They had q time getting the bodies
dragged off--worked all night. and two
more deputies were shot at midnight;
and then this morning the folks got
Marryat 20 go try another parley with
John-and he killed the sheriff. MIR.
Wileyl''
The editor clenched his hands. IT
heard--I know, now?" "
The posse Is all around the place.
! sneaked away at dark and come to
town to telegraph Aurelie. The depu-
ties are keeping the crowd to the creek
road. Everybody's there-all the town
folks n the farmers that drove in to
hear you. God Almighty, what a. cleo
ton day! They amt a man though Of
II yet! Five Of EN- been killed, Mr..
Wiley, and the sheriff's body is lying
there yet Johns fired at every one
who shows himself" &c.,.
"And they've fired at the housed"
Eyes. Mebbe killed some O. the boys.
Johns got 1t all barricaded. He can
fight from any window-and they got
to o that field where he can drop
any one" ..
curran was hurryins with him. The
shock OF the matter had driven every
thought Of himself from his mind. They
passed q man or two who hardly
looked at them. Curran could not tell
whether II was the palsy of. the
tragedy, or the contempt in which they
must hold him today when all the state
would be ringing with his downfall.
When they reached the junction, q
crowd was waiting for the train. He
heard anatches Of the talk. Men were
gaunt and hollow eyed. Heard some-
body'd wired the governor to send
militia. No, they amt coming
Mr. Van Hart says 1t would be O
disgrace IL h county can't handle this
affair. Folks say the governor amt
his pohtics-and he would't call on him
II half the county was killed. - .
Marryat was q fool to try draw up on
h house when John had Just told
him to stay off. And District Attorney
-Jewett threw up his hands-said he was
going out of office, and he wasn't GO
ing to monkey with it. So they all
charge Of It'll" =
The two. watching for the 0 o'clock
train from Chicago to draw out Of the
creek cut, heard this endless babble.
Teams drove by on their way to the
quarry. Women were crying. The
local" from Earliville brought four
correspondents Of mid west papers who
We're being bounded for follow
stories. The affair had already been
flashed nation wide. Last nights bat
tie was in all the Chicago papers which
got early editions to the river towns at
daylight. 1t was q sensation-this
story Of q one armed outlaw, crazed
Tqa. thedton ?mh ami ami amhmhmh
with religious brooding, driven to des-
peration by his wrong Of the law, for
flying his cabin and defying the COM
munity to take him. Five men dead
and eight wounded: the shanty rid
died again and again, but the de-
fender unhurt, and refusing all par
ley, all demands to surrender. The
pews shot through the staid and sober
midland counties like a drama from
the ancient and lawless west; 1t
wrested attention even from the mo-
mentous election. r \
Curran listened to Michigan's be-
wildered recital. ard to the fragments
Of talk. The tk-ong grew. Some said
Two companies OF militia were coming;
hat the haStily summoned county dep
pties were hopelessly inefficient, scared,
'bluffed' out by Lindstrom's merciless
shooting and the number OF the dead.
Nobody wants to tackle him. said
/ breathless clerk from the Hub cloth
ing store. Some of the boys thought
they could sneak around In the timber
and get a shot at him close, and he
wounded three OF them before they
tould lift a flnger!"
"And they could hear a woman cry
ing In the house. And q boy-must
be- that little Dane kid. Peterl"
Old Michigan was fearsomely listen
ing. IF she comes" he breathed. Ito
save Peter and the baby!"
They won't fire the house, Mich"
"They will Young Mr.. Van Hart
said they will. He give EN- a chance
to surrender--he's give 'em three
chances to surrender-and John won't
hear Of 1t. And Mr.. Harlan said not
an hour ago there'd be one more
chance! Then he'll charge that place
II so men are killed. The law, Mr.. Wiley
he says It'll be upheld at all costs.
no difference who Ia hurtl"
Harlan" muttered Wiley, IL
wish I could see him. Beg him-ah,
welll" he stared at the depot crowd. He
was thinking Of hat dogged and in
vincible quality he had seen grow in
Harlan. He knew. He had felt its
p~ower-under all else lay this Viking
Yes. IL IL lay with Har-
Ian. he would not hesitate. The way OF
peace with him vas the law INDICATED.
But It vas curious. in all the turmoil,
that no one noticed him-the o5session
of the tragedy must have obscured even
the sensation Of his downfall. He tried
to buy q paper but none was to be had.
Through all the complaints and re-
ordinations, denunciatton Of the coun-
~ Officers for not doing something. he
became aware to his amazement that
no n questioned him. He met Mowry,
the undertaken. in his long black coat
and string tie. and Mowry had no
thought except a grievance Of his own.
The Widow Steger had passed, and
Just his ~luck-passed in the hospital
at. Burlington where her soninlaw had
embalmed her. And here Mowry had
buying his groceries Of Dickinson
for nine years In expectation Of getting
the widow.
"Dog-gone It. Wiley. this Is a sore
head town! It's irritatin' when folks
patronize home industries. I'm
going to Californy where Hen and Ben
are bottlin' mineral water. They say
there is q great opportunity for an I'M