The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1917-10-19
CHAPTER xxvil--centlna

dealer In ranches You know the story
that was going around about his be
Eng an escaped convict. or something
of that sortf 1t s~ss ~ 1ee=! coicr'
this morning. There's sheriff here
from back Eass osnswhsre--cams Ia
an the early train: names Macaaisy
and hes got the FcQuisit!on papers.
Nat smith's fooled him good and
pienty."
Again the chorus united IN an eager
asery.
"Iiowr'
I'll. died last nixht-~s little past
midnixht. They say they're going TO
bury him out ut the daiD-on the 3ob
that he pulled through aud stood ON
ats feet One Of Williams quarrymen
drifted In with the story tuss n little
while sgo. I'm here to bet you even
mooney that the whole town goes 10
Ahs funeral"
'Nreat gosh" said the man who
was cruaching the burnt bacon. "Say.
that's tough. Rixtyl don't care what
bed run away from back East; he
was q man. right. Harding has been
teilinK Everybody how Smith wouidnt
LIT the posse open Are ON that gang
lsf hold ups last Friday Night; how be
esisased across on the dam stagings
s1nisr and uiasffsaesf 10 try tss ,Assvw .as
warrants On ~'rsn mfd~ wirse '~sss stap
hring. IL was glorious, bat IL wasnT
war"
+. TO this the other mInIng man added
a hard word Dead" he gritted =:
"aDh only few hours earlier III. girl
had taken snap Judgment on him and
married somebody else That's thr
wumaa Of II T.
''0h, hold on, stryker." the ranch
broker protested Don, you get too
fierce about that There are tao
strings Ia that bow, and the longest
and sorriest one runs out 10 Colonel
Baldwins place on Little creek. TN
thinking. Tho Richlander business
wns only an Incident Stanton told
me that much"
As the event proved. the seller Of
TMnrh lands would have lost hts bet on
the funeral attendance. For some an
known reason the notice OF Smiths
death did not appear In the afternoon
papers, and only few people vent out
Ia autos 10 see the coffin lowered by
Williams worktnen into "A grave on
the mesa behind the construction
camp, grave among Others where
thc victims 81 an early Industrial az
cilent az the dam had been buried,
These who wen. our FROM town came
back rather scmndallked. There had
been most hnrd'hear,ed lack OF the
common formnlities. they said; u
cheap coffin no minister. no nldurnerr,
DOT even tho poor fellows business
.sSfs,clatts Ia thS -eosnrery~' ~ bad.
fought 40 hard to save from defeat and
extinction, Ii was shame
With this report passing from lip to
lip In brewster. another bit Of gossip
to the effect ,ha, Starhuck and Still
ings had gone East with thu disap-
potutrvt rhrrtff. 80 clear &aatth,a mem.
DRY" as the strset-talk had II, called
forth no little couiment. In the uophra
House cafe ou the evening of the
funeral day Stryker. the mining spes~
alator, Was loud Ia his criticisms Of
thu High line people.
Yea" no rallied, - couple u EN-
VIII 81 on q iunkatinS trip East 10
'r,~ar his ms,aory, after they've lot
'thesr 'wops at the aam bury him ltkN
yellow dog And this Rici,lsnder
wmnan; they say shed known him
ever since he and she were school
kids Together. she ~eat DOWN And
teak the train with her father ias;
about the tinc they were plantias tae
IS'or devil
Three weeks OF the matches Au
gust weather had slipped by without
Incident other than the Indictment by
the grand Jury Of Crawford Stsntoa.
Raruey NGrnw, Rud II auriher Of 9th,
ers cn charge ~ conspiracy: anti
Ws.AamA unmoltstTf since the nigh,
OF the grand battle In which sheriff
Harding had figured A. the master ot
the hunt. had completed the great
dItvh system and was installing the
machinery In the lately tlnlshed power
house,
over the hills from the northern
smeunsaia boundary At the rmanyoni
a wandering prs~rsctoe had COME with
q vague tale " new strife In sanssse
GuIch. placer district worried out
snd abandoned swenty years. earlier In
che height Of the Rel Rrtse excite
nent Questioned eieesdy. the tale
nrtnxsr c,ate~s<>i that he hsd no rrcas
positive NJ the strike: but In the hills
he had tcuad q wet..worn trail. lately
used. leading IN the cid camp and
Prem cae ~ the deserted cabins In
the Salca he had ~~en smoke s,istrg,
n III the fact II the trail the wan
dertnS tsle-h,rsr~r Was Dot a, fault,
On :he wsst perfect Of the late-,n.
Angus, mornings "A ysun1 woman. clad
IN >trvtccsh,e KHAKI, and keeping her
e,w,>,y heatgrsr snd sa9 tsr-et>ats In
gvsSi coanteasnge by rtitng astrs1e Ia
a asan's saddle. was Ygshtag her Houn;
VII the trail toward SGarsse GaieA-