The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-22

us that he had refused her. We
wanted to sec her pay that bet to
Campbell.
"Nondas rode out of town all
alone early that evening, headed
for the Ell Morello. Bill Martin,
who runs the general store. saw
her go and told Johnny about it.
Johnny rode after her, but came
back in an hour madden than
thunder.
"'She says she's going to get
Jose de la Cruz and a bunch of
Mexicans down the valley and come
back here and take that prisoner
away from me- he told a crowd of
US over in Martins.
'What'd you say% asks some
one.
az told her il De la Cruz comes
Fostering around that jail I'll
shoot his ears or says Johnny.
looking fierce. And I'll do it, too.
Then he walks out calling back at
US: Don't none of you fellows in
terfere, no matter what happens.
This is my funeral
"Old Martin makes a speech right
away.
"'Tell you what it is he says. 4
amt for mixing up in love affairs,
but if the little she-cat comes back
here with any greasers and they
hurt Johnny there1l be more
funerals than his'n.'
"And he picks up a Winchester
and commences slipping shells into
it without another word.
That's whatever says Spike
Baldwin, corral boss of the Box
outfit, and he goes to looking over
his six pistol.
THE rest of US go busy inspect
ing our arsenals, when old Peters
has an idea-which was strange for
him.
Lets wait and see what they
do first he suggests. we can be
near enough to stop any harm to
John, but I think he'd rather
handle it alone
After talking IT over for a while,
we thought so, too. So we decides
to wait around and see what hap
pened. We weren't opposed to
them greasers lynching another of
their own kind, but we didn't want
them to hurt Johnny.
81 got it from a range-rider after
ward what happened when Nondas
got to the Garcia ranch and sent
for De la Cruz. She was so mad by
this time she was in tears. She
told Jose how her father had been
cut down by a worthless sheep
herder, and even then might be
dying. The American, Everson, had
the sheep-herder in jail, and when
she had suggested that he be given
over for punishment the American
had laughed at her.
"Of course, you can't blame De
Ia Cruz for rising to the occasion.
Nondas TOLD him that she had told
Johnny she intended getting De la
Cruz to take the sheep-herder from
jail. and there wasn't anything left
for Jose to do. She also told him
that Johnny had declared he would
shoot Jose's ears on. In the pres
ence of a dozen of the herders and
range-riders, Nondas told De la
Cruz:
Jose she said. If you go and
take that sheep-herder from the
American, I'll marry you to-nior-
row. But not If you lose your ears
This was about as plain urging
him to shoot Everson first as you'd
want to hear. DE la Cruz was
naturally hog-wild when he heard
her. He commenced beating up all
the MeXicans on the two ranches.
and he got about fifty altogether.
They were all anxious to go Just
for the excitement of the thing; not
that they wanted trouble particu-
larly.
"Nondas insisted on going with
the crowd, and early the next morn
ing they came riding into town like
a herd of soldiers, Nondas and De
la Cruz out in front.
Every American in town was
on deck when they arrived, and
there seemed to be a few weapons
scattered among them.
the jail, as TOLD you, was next
to the court house, in the centre Of
town, which was laid out around
the two buildings. Both the jail
and court house backed up against
a hill, so there was only one ap-
proach to it, and that was by the
front. We had scattered out and
found places behind the houses near
the Jail in easy range. where we
couldn't be seen, but where We could
see everything that went on.
mo one had seen hide or hair
of Johnny since he left Martins
store, but we knew he was some
where around that jail.
"Nondas and De la Cruz rode up
the street with their pack of