The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-09-27

SU0 yJu0u w ere VSTFI1dUSs
comes within striking distance you
jump as If you were falling on a foot
ball, and If you are lucky you will have
chicken for dinner.
| was out one day in a motor with
a stan captain and Dave Smith, the
heavyweight champion, whom l bump.
ed against during my first days in the
army. We had been up to a brigade
headquarters and were on return trip.
| had taken a shorter way coming
back. and it vas along a very narrow
road. Dave was sitting in the front
with me-, and the captain was In the
tonneau. We were bowling along at
a fairly good pace, and l had visions
of being back in time for dinner.
noticed q few cavalrymen away
ahead of US, but they were SO far ahead
| didn't pay much attention to them.
The first that l knew we were striking
anything out Of the ordinary was when
Dave grabbed my rifle out Of the buck.
ct and began firing over the wind
shield. Then I took another look and
saw the cavalrymen were Germans
and there were seven of them. "
The road was so narrow that there
wasn't a ghost Of a chance to turn
around, and I figured that II We rushed
them we could bluff our way through.
whereas If we stopped they would see
that they outnumbered us two to one
and the chances were we would get the
worst of 1t. l was SO excited I was
trembling all over. and the captain was
shouting orders at the top of his voice.
Dave was the only cool man In the
car, and he was sending shot after shot
at them as calmly as If he were on q
rife range. He shouted to me: go
like hi! Crowd EN- off the roadw
When they saw how we were gain.
ing three of them left the road and hit
out across country. I thought Dave
must have hit the other fellow, for he
simply put the spurs to his horse and
stuck right to the middle of the road.
He didn't attempt to fire at us at all.
He was just going for all he was worth.
When I saw this I started after him
IN earnest, and he didn't have a chance
in the world. That ar had done seven
ty-eight miles an hour on her test, and
| hardly gave German horses credit for
such speed as that. As we got closer
to him Dave quit firing, for it would
have been murder to shoot a man in a
trap such as he was in. He kept to the
center OF the road, though, and he
wouldn't give an inch.
l was blowing that old siren for all
it was worth, and I opened the cut-out
to make all the noise I could, trying
to scare his horse OFF the road, and the
animal wanted to Ce' out of the way.
too, but the rider held him in.
At last Dave said, "I'l make him
move" and he sent a bullet Sc close
I'll bet he could have kissed it as it
went by. He gave way then all right.
and as he did I pulled up alongside of
him. AS w came up he pulled a re-
folver and fired two shots. which just
went over my head. Dave leaned over
and caught him by the belt. He yank.
ed him clear of the saddle and slung
him into the back of the car. He land
ed on top of the captain, and those two
were SO mixed up you couldn't tell one
from the other.
I stopped the car as quickly as !
could, and we oon had him Saying
Uncle" though he fought like a wild
cat for a few minutes. The captain
got the worst Of it, fer he had a beau.
tiful skinner and the skin of his
knuckles. When we searched him we
found thirty-three English ten shilling
notes on him. He had taken them
from some Of our fellows, of course,
but what made us mad was that the
captain would not allow us to keep
them.
He said 1t would not be honest, but j
noticed that when we handed him over
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