Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-02


g you've done told that so much a
.. It's dang nigh wore out. S'posen y
t go back thar to the orchard ahind Q
IS the house and see what Gale ant
Il Luke's a-doln'; hey, By"
!, Heck nodded and went toward tn,
/ orchard. He knew they didn't wan
r him to overhear what they were going
K to say, but il didn't offend him. II
! wasn't easy to offend the good-natured
: Heck.
. Moreland turned to Dale. "Well?'
Dale turned to Hayes
"We're going to begin the building
of the little railroad at the earliest
possible moment. And because l don't
know anything about the work, Pm
going to ask you to take the lead. Now,
there may be some fighting. l don't
want you to go into this thing blind
ly, you see. If you're going to with
draw at all, do 1t now"
I'm not stranger to fighting"
Hayes replied smilingly. 1--WE been
through half dozen coal strikes. /
think you may count on me, Mr.. Dale"
"Then lay out a plan for immedi
ate action"
"I'd suggest" acquiesced Hayes,
that we send to the little town In
the lowland for a supply of picks and
shovels, axes and saws, hammers.
drills, and explosives. In the mean
time, you and | can stake out the |
way for the track"
HaA hncinnccIfEa
thought.
Within the hour John Moreland and
his son Caleb started for Gainesville
on foot, and In the older mans pocket
was money sufficient to buy the things
that were needed.
Dale and Hayes set out for the north
end of David Moreland's mountain,
and each of them carried a hand-ax
FOR making stakes.
1t was not often that the quiet Hayes
permitted himself to go into raptures
over anything; however, he went in ,
to raptures over the Moreland coal.
1t was, he declared, one of the best :
propositions he had ever seen. 1t
was no wonder that Henderson Golf /.
was determined to get possession of
1t, he said. q
Then they went to work. :
BY shutdown two days later they had Il
chosen the route for the narrow-gauge o
railroad and set stakes accordingly. d
Hayes told his general manager that
with a good force of men the last rail Is
,ould be put down within two months. T.
During those two days they had RI
everal times seen Henderson Golf in
ompany with Black Adam Ball and
ONE of his relatives. Once they had I'll
ONE upon Golf talking earnestly with oil
aul Littleford, the big bearded, gaunt n,
rother of the Littleford chief. Hayes Al
eminded Dale of this, and said to 81
i'm further: 60
"Gof will have the Littlefords on df
Is side the first thing you know! NJ
laybe some of the Littlefords, as we'll bi
S some of the Balls, knew about this be
BAL before David Moreland got his M
ountain by states grant at few cents sa
er acre. If you'll take my advice, Mr.. en-
ale, you'll make friends of these two as
Its just as quick as you can" hi,
Dale thrust his hand-ax inside his sa
slt and turned to the mining expert Be
"D'you know, | was thinking of that
Ime thing when you spoke" he re-
led. And l believe | can manage it, in
Nv that Miss Littlefords accidental 90
has given the old feud such
big blow. I'm fairly sure | can man
e it so far as Ben LittlefOrd is con-
rned; it's John that's going to be
nd to bring to taw. He should be
me this evening. if he's had good
elk, and I'll tackle him as soon as he
mes"
Together they started across David
mountain, walking rapidly,
tn Dale leading.
Darkness came down on them when
~ had covered half the distance. 4
e great hemlocks and poplars n
med spectral and gaunt in the early nv
fright. The almost impenetrable Mn
ckets of laurel and ivy whispered W
canny things, and their seas of pink XII
snowy bloom looked somehow "
,stly. Now and then there was the
lellus VI SOlue lltie hulIual s 1eel
the dry, hard leaves of bygone
RS. A solitary brown owl poured
its heart in weird and melancholy
IS to the night 1t loved. There was
faint far-off baying Of a hound,
the soft swish of nighthawk's u
gs. -
len from the core of civilization Mll
II feel these things OF the wilder IIM|
Gddenly Dale drew back and stood
In the trail ahead, standing as
ionIess as the trees about him, was
tall figure of man. 1t was almost
hOugh he We're there to bar the
ne two went on slowly. The figure Ar,.
Il move Dale spoke, and the form
t to life. 1t was By Heck; he was know
ing on the muzzle of his rifle. Nc
is you, is 1t, Bill, old boy?" He .Y
ned SiuouiShlV 81 was ou,af+frs 4f,f,l,