The Washington herald., 1915-06-06
THIS WRITER THINKS GUN
IS MIGHTIER THAN PEN

jobs here and there. and mahaeins to
| make enough in one town to get on to
the next.
In the course of time he landed in Col
orado and tramped for seventy or eighty
miles up into Routt County-then an un-
fenced wilderness. where cattlemen
grazed their huge herds without let or
hindrance.
He applied to a ranchman for q job
as cowboy. and to his intense salts
faction was given one which carried with
an ample supply OF food and a warm
place to sleep.
The Fever Of Adventure.
Among other things. he learned to
bust a bronze" and to look at the placid
Corey Of these days one would be COM
PEELED to strive nightly to picture him
wrestling with an ill-tempered mustang
and cussing his way to victory.
But the fever of adventure was so
strong in the Corey system that he could
and broncho busting.
II always wanted to be where
wasn't" Is the way he puts it.
A driver on a stage line that ran from
some point In Colorado to Laramie
wyo., was killed by road agents one
day. Corey applied for the job. and
thereafter drove that stage distance Of
some eighty miles. week In and week out,
for more than a year.
Then, for some reason which appealed
to him at the time. he resigned as stage
driver and entered upon q life Of ease in
Laramie.
After two weeks Of idleness his. money
had flown. and Herbert Corey. adven-
turer, found himself penniless In q rather
bleak land. with snow on the ground and
the mercury trying to crawl out Of the
bottom Of the Thermometer.
He knew the proprietor\of dance hall
in Laramie and applied to him for a job.
There was none available. but the dance
ing pity on the kid-Corey was still
boy-gave him a sleeping place in a
woodshed back of the dance hall.
Corey stayed there all winter. sleeping
on rude bunk and doing such odd jobs
in the town as presented themselves.
Those were the days when there was
war to the death between the sheepmen
and the cattlemen in the Northwest.
They fought over ranges, and a cattle
as legitimate game. 1t was always open
season for sheep herders according to
the cattleman's code.
Corey saw an opening. He applied to
one Of the big sheep owners for job as
herder and got II.
One incident Of his career during this
period is worthy Of note.
Fight with Grassy Man.
Corey had a "par' in Laramie who was
down on his luck and who finally be-
came a little Eighty. Corey heard about
his plight when the supply wagon came
out to his lonely cabin in the hills and
asked the men to tell Ben to come and
stay with him q while. thinking that the
change would do him good. Ben came.
and the two cronies prepared to bunk
for the winter.
For several weeks the ARRANGEMENT
worked out we'll. Ben was apparently
normal. and Corey felt q glow
of satisfaction in having done q good
deed.
And then. one day. something went
wrong with Ben. and when Corey en-
tered the rude cabin his companion at
tackled him and cut a great cash in his
head with the butt of revolver A
rough-and-tumble fight ensued. during
which Corey managed to get his own
gun.
He covered the crazed Ben. who still
had sense enough left to know that he |
would do well to quit. Corey got Ben's !
gun and kept it from him. but he couldn't !
trust himself to 90 to sleep with lunatic
In the cabin.
All night he sat on the edge Of his
bunk. watching the crazy man. who
covered in q corner. but refused to be
pacified.
There was no help within fifty miles. +,
Ind for two days and two nights Corey
went about armed and ready for an at
tack at any minute. Fortunately the
grub wagon came along at the end of
that time. and Ben was taken back to |
Laramie and sent to an asylum.
Back to Buckeye.
Along about 1891 young Corey bark
sned to the appeals of his Ohio relative I
md went to the Buckeye State.
Corey reentered the journalistic field |
Is a reporter on the Columbus Press. /
But the old longing for the West /
would not be stilled. Corey wasn't sat
SIZED.
He married a Columbus girl aid |
.ried to settle down to the newspaper |
business for good and oil. But the
kept calling. calling" and |
within a few years Mr.. and Mrs. Corey |;
vent to Colorado-back to Routt !
where. years before. the ad-