The Lamar register., 1919-03-26
Illustrations
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haven't you been up long enough yetf'
81 heard yesterday that he was be
ginning to mend" replied the break
faster ON the left.
you're out of date" this from the
dealer In ranches. You know the story
that wns going around about his be
ing an escaped convict, or something
Of that sort? II gets Its local color
this morning. There's sheriff here
from back East somewhere-cume In
on the early train; names Macauley.
and he's got the requisltion papers.
But Smiths fooled him good and
plenty"
Again the cnorus uniteu in an eager
query.
"Howf"
.He died last night-a little past
midnight. They say they're going to
bury him out at the damon the job
that he pulled through and stood on
It's feet. One Of Williams quarrymen
drifted In with the story just Il little
while ago. I'm here TO bet you even
money that the whole town goes to
the funeral"
Great gosh" said the man who
was crunchlng the burnt bacon. "Say.
he'd run away from back East; he
was man. right. Harding hns been
telling everybody how Smith wouldn't
let the posse open fire on that gang
of hold-ups last Friday night; how he
chased across on the dam stngings
alone and unarmed to try to serve the
warrants on 'em and make 'em stop
firing. II was glorious, but 1t wasn't
war"
To this the other mining man added
hard word. Dead" he grltted:
'nnd only few hours earlier the girl
had taken snap Judgment on him and
married somebody else That's the
woman OF II -
"Oh. hold on, Stryker." the ranch
broker protested. Don't you get too
fierce about that. There are two
strings to that bow. and the longest
and sorrlest one runs out To Colonel
Baldwln's place on Little creek. Tn
thinking. The Rlchlqnder business
WAS only an Incident. Stanton told
me that much
As the event proved, the seller OF
ranch lands would have lost his bet on
the funeral attendance. For some un-
known reason the notice of Smiths
death did not appear in the afternoon
papers, and only few people went out
In autos TO see the coffin lowered by
Williams workmen into Il grave on
the mesa behind the construction
camp; grave among others where
the victims Of an early industrial ac-
cident mt the dam had been buried.
Those who went out from town came
back rather scandalized. There had
been most hard-hearted lack of the
common formalities. they said; II
cheap coffin, no minister. no mourners,
not even the poor fellows business
associates In the company he had
fought so hard to save from defeat and
extinction. II was n shumei
With this report passing from lip to
lip in Brewster, another bit of gossip
To the effect that Stnrbuck and still
ings had gone East with the dlsHp-
pointed sheriff, ''to clenr Smiths mem
ory," us the street-talk had 1t. called
forth no little comment. In the Hophra
House cafe on the evening Of the
funeral day Stryker, the mining spec
ulator. was loud In his criticisms of
the High Line people.
"Yes. :" he rallied; "a couple of 'em
will 60 on II junketing trip East to
clear his memory after they've let
their 'wops' at the dam bury him like
a yellow dog, And this HIGHLANDER
they say she'd known him
ever since lie and she We're school
kids together; she went down and
took the train with her father Just
about the time they were planting the
poor devil"
Three weeks of the matchless Au-
gust weather had slipped by without
Incident other than the Indictment by
the grand jury OF Crawford Stanton.
Barney MGraw, and number of 9th |
ers on charge of conspiracy; and |
unmolested since the night |
of the grand battle In which Sheriff
had figured as the master of |
lie hunt, had comp!, ID the great |
Hitch system and was installing the
In the lately finished power
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