The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-11

well armed and not afraid OF fequisiVioi's
tarantulas.
zone dav there passes through Pearsall
bunch of these money investors from the ca
and they stopped of there, Pearsall then !
ing the dinner station on the /. IT, n, ~
was lust coming back from Mexico looNl
after mines and such. There was hVe OF eiI
four solid parties, with gold watch chalhS' ny
would grade up over two hundred POUNDS
the hoof, and one kid about seventeen
eighteen.
This youngster had on one of them cowb
suits such as tenderioots bring west win ef
and you could see he was aching TO wing.
couple of Indians or bag grizzly or two WI
the little pearl-handed gun he had buck4
around his waist.
IL walked down to the depot to keep an 4
on the outfit and see that they didn't locNte al
land or scare the COW ponies hltched IN front
Murchison's store or act otherwise unseem
Luke was away after gang of cattle thieY
down on the Nueces and always looked afu
The law and order when he wasn't there.
After dinner this boy comes out of the di
ing room while the train was waiting, al
prances up and down the platform ready
shoot all antelope, lions or private citizens IN
might endeavor to modest or come too near M
He was a good looking kid; only he was N
all them tenderfoots-he didn't know la
and-order town when he saw II.
by and by along comes Pedro Johnson, q
proprietor of the Crystal Palace chili-con-car
stand in Pearsall Pedro was a man who lik
to amuse himself; so he kind of herd rides u
youngstcr, laughing at him, tlckled to death
was too far away to hear but the kid seems
mention some remarks to Pedro, and Ped
goes up and slaps him about nine feet ava
and laughs harder than ever. And then 4
Ooy gets up quicker than he fell and jerks O
his little pearl-handled gun and-bing. bin,
bling, Pedro gets it three times in special al
treasured portions of his carcass. | saw q
dust fly off his clothes every time the bullq
hit. Sometimes them little thirty-twos cali
worry at close range.
The engine bell was ringing, and the trd
starting of slow. | goes up 10 the kid a.
places him under arrest, and takes away
gun. But the first thing knew that caballaI
of capitalists makes a break FOR the train. q
of EN- hoSitates in front of me for secoi
and kind of smiles and ShoveS his hand
against my chin, and | sort of laid down on Z
platform and TOOK nap. ! never want a,
persons except a barber to take liberties III
that with my face again. When woke up, d
whole outtit-train, boy, and all-was gone.
asked about Pedro, and hey told me the docd
said ne would recover provided his woun
didn't turn out TO be fatal.
when Luke got back three days later. al
! told him about IT, he was mad all over.
why didn't YOU telegraph TO San Anton
ne asks, and have the bunch arrested therd
"'Oh. well says |, i always did adml
biography; but astronomy was what had to'
up Just then. That cap talSt sure knew I'D
to grsticulate with his hands.
MI. ,r,f 1lar aDl T,adlar TIa iuya
tgatos and finds in the depot card one
the men had dropped that gives the address
some hombre called Scudder in New Yoi
City.
Bud says Luke, I'm going after III
lunch. I'm going there and get the man
boy, rs you say he was and bring him bac
I'm sheriff of Frio county, and ] shall keep la
and order in its precincts while I'm able
draw a gun And ! want you TO go with m
No eastern Yankee can shoot up a respectful
and wcll-known citizen of Pearsall, special
with thirty-two calber and escape the La
Pedro Johnson says Luke is one of our mo
prominent citizens and business men. I'll a
point Sam Bell acting sheriff with penitential
powers while I'm away, and you and me "
take the six forty-fve northbound tomorro
evening and follow up this trail
I'm your company says |. i never s.
says |, don't you have to have a dispensatiC
or a habeas corpus or something from the stat
when you reach out that far for rich men al
malefactors|
did have a requisition, says Luke, 'wh,
| went over into the Brazos bottoms al
brought back Bill Grimes and two more f,
holding up the International? Did me and "
have a search warrant or a posse comitatl
when we rounded up them six Mexican co
thieves down in Hidalgo? It's my business
keep order in Frio county
And it's my business as office deputy
says |, TO see that business is carried on a
cording TO law. Between us both we ought
keep things pretty well cleaned up
$50, the next day, Luke packs blanket ar
some collars and his mileage book in a have
sack, and him and me hits the breeze for Ne
York. 1t was powerful long ride. The sea
in the cars was too short for sx-footers like |