The Ekalaka eagle., 1915-12-10

"Any foutin gwine on:''
'\otllin= very serious
ANY them Kansas iayha wkers ever
come long thar raisin' the dickens with
things:"
81 think not. DO they ever come
along herc:"
''Yo' bet they do. but .cckon they
won't come ng'in soon"
"Why:'
Case the last time they war here
they got a dose that ort to do 'cm Il
right smart spell. Yo' been hearin' tell
bout the Conrow fight, l guess:'
Eyes, l heard something Of it. The
jayln'wkers were pretty badly used up,
weren't thcyy'
Jest charmed all to pieces. I'm kind
o Watcl1in' round for one of 'em now"
Indeed! Is there one still here
somewhere"
''Dunno for shore, but we sorter low
thar mought be. You see, thar war
one of 'em over to 81 Bones the night
after the Fou't', an some of us went
over to tend to him, but some other
fellers come an got him away from
us. We amt never see hair nor hide
of i'm since, an we don't know what
has ever come of i'm. We lowed,
though, be couldn't never git clean
away 'thout somebody clappin' eyes on
im and as nobody never has we sorter
reckoned he mOught be hanein' round
here in the woods sOmewhar. Guess
you didn't see nobody as you come up?"
Nobody but a woman. Crazy Mag,
she says people call herr
Eyes, l know Mag That feller I
jedge, was a good deal sech lookin'
chap as you"
stone gave little start and eyed the
other inquiringly. Jake Martin went on:
You see, we never tuck no special
notice of the feller cause we didn't
low it war necessary, an then the
room was sorter dark, jest one taller
candle burnn', an he set back in the
corner whar it war so dark we couldn't
make out much what he looked like,
nOhow."
$50 it is doubtful whether you would
know him even if you were to see
him:'
"Waal, guess so. The only thing,
if we war to run acrost any strange
chap prowlin' round in the woods, we'd
take it fer granted it war him.
II see. And those men who took
the jayhawker away from you, who
were they:'
'"That's jest what I'd like for you or
somebody else to tell me-"
'Then you have no idea who they
wcre?"
"Nary ghost of idea"
How did they manage to get him
away from you:''
Easy enough, seen' as we want
expcctin' nothin'. When we stepped
out o old Bones house, with the feller
along of us, we stepped right among Il
half dozen masked men who held
pistols p'inted slapdad at our heads
What could we do with our pistols in
their scabbards, when if we'd made a
motion to draw 'em we'd got bullet
through our brains? Under them sort
o circumstances you can't blame us
for lettin' 'em git the feller away"
'Far be it from me to blame you.'
"Then without word them men mo-
tions us to hold up our hands, an
when we'd done it they takes our pis-
tolls an puts 'em in their own pockets.
Then they marches us to old Bones
smokehouse an puts us in thar an
locks us up. That's the last we see of
'em an all we know bout em, for it
war two hours afore we could git ST
to let us out. he war so skeered o.
them men, an by that time they war
clean gone, jayhawk an ALL
"And those men never offered to
hurt you?"
'Nary time. An thet's the quaire
part of it. Shows they want jay
hawks. for sho. cause if they had
a-been they'd a-settlcd us right then
an thar. Way l tigger it out they
must a-been fellers from round yere
in the neighborhood who got word
somehow bout the iayhawk bein' thar
an gathered up an come to git him."
''Do you think it possible?'
Cant make it out nohow else.
Hain't a sign of a notion, though, who
they could ,a-been. an it hain't likely we
gWinc to know, nuther''
81 presume not. But if you were to
find that jayhawker what would you
do with him!'
ooh, finish up the little job we under
tuck over thar that night. l guess"
'Rut you would want to be sure you
had the right man."
"Oh, medium shore. O co'se."
"And / presume neither of those men
who We're with YOU there that night
would recognize him any more readily
than you?'
"Not grain. Jest as I said, if we
found a stranger prowlin' round yere
we'd jest have to take it fer granted
that it was him an act accordin'.'
II see.''
"Waal, I guess I'll be a-goin'. Say,
didn't you speak somethin' bout meet