Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-07-18
Continued from last week.

'Lordy, but this will raise a rum
pus," groaned the landlord. "We'H
have detectives an"
81 guess they got what was comm
to 'em," said another of the men.
"What's that? Why, they was ridin'
peaceful as could be to Spanish Falls.
What do you mean by sayin' that, Jim
COnley? But wait "a minute! How
does it happen that they were up near
your dads house? That certainly
amt on the road to Span"
Spanish Falls nothin'! They wasn't
m to Spanish Falls any moren om
at this minute. They tied their horses
up the road just above our house. y
said young Conley, lowering his voice
out of consideration for the feelings
of the helpless man. "It was about
home from singin' school up at Number
Ten, an passed the bosses hitched to
the fence. Naturally | stopped, curl
Gus like. There wasn't no one around,
fer as | could sec, so l thought I'd
take q look to see whose bosses they
were. l thought 1t was derned funny,
them bosses bein' there at that time o.
night an no one around. Looked
mighty queer to me. Course, thinks
l, they might belong to somebody
visitin' in there at Green Fancy, so
thought I'd"
Green Fancy" said Barnes, start.
ing.
"Was it up that far?" demanded
Jones.
They was hitched jest about a hun,
dred yards below Mr. Curtis propity,
on the off side O. the road. / hadn't
any more'n got to our front gate when
l heard some one running in the road
up there behind me. Fore | knoWed
what was happenin, bang went a gun.
l almost jumped out'n my boots. The
runnin' had stopped. The horses was
rarin' an tearing SO I thought I'd"
'Where'd the shot come from?" de-
manded Jones.
up the road sOme'eres, I couldn't
swear just where. Must'a' been up by
the road that cuts in to Green Fancy.
So | thought I'd hustle in an see if
pa was awake, an git my gun. Jest
then pa stuck his head 0ut'n the win
der an yelled what the hell's the mat
ter. You betcher life I sung out who
was mighty quick, cause pas purity
spry with gun an j didn't want him
takin' me fer burglars sneaking around
the house. While we wuz talkin' there
one of the bosses started our way
lickety-split, an in about two seconds
1t went by us. It was purity dark, but
we see plain as day that there was
man in the saddle bendin' low over
the boss neck and shoutin' to it. We
waited a couple O minutes, wonderin'
what to do, an listenin' to the boss
gittin' furder and furder away in the
direction of the crossroads. Then
way down there by the pike we heerd
another shot. Right there an then pa
said he'd put on his clothes an we'd
set out to see what 1t was all about.
swell, pa come out with my gun an
hiS'n an we walks up to where 1 seen
the bosses. Shore 'nough, one of 'em
was still hitched to the fence, an
t'other was gone. We stood around a
minute or two examfnin' the boss an
then pa says let's go up the road ways
an see if we en- see anything An
by gosh, we hadn't gone moren' fifty
feet afore we come plumb on man
layin' in the middle of the road. Pa
shook him an he didn't let out
sound. He was warm but deader'n a
tombstone wuz fer leavin' him there
till we cd git the coroner, but pa says
no. We'd carry him down to our porch
an lay him there, SOS he'd be out O.
danger. | jumps on Polly an lights
out fer here, Mr.. Jones, to telephone
up to Saint Liz fer the sheriff an the
coroner, not givin' dang what run
into on the way. Polly SHE'D some
thin terrible lest afore we got to the