Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-11-11

40, StAs VIZ ~vANS W S~Ss Says
he.
II Topped him sudden and asked
him why he was putting on the bride.
"He owned up then. Said a man
had hired him to steal the horse.
"'That man has got to have hoss,'
he said. Hell give ye any price ye
want to ask. II you'll give me a few
dollars I'll take We to him.
"'You go and bring him here and
I'll talk to him. said.
IT let the Teller go. I didn't sup
pose he'd come back, but he did.
Came a little before sunrise with that
well-dressed Teller we saw at the
tavern.
> What's your manner / says.
"He handed me card on which /
read the words Lionel Davis, Real Es-
tate, Loans and Insurance, IA South
Water Street, Chicago. H.
There's one branch o. your bust
ness that isn't mentioned on the card
/ says.
whats thatT says he.
'Horse-thief.' says !. You sent
Ln&A@ AGAACA ACAS W 0lGdA - 1OAGC AAAh
he got caught
"'well / told him IL he'd get me a
good horse I'd give him Eve hundred
dollars and that didn't care how he
got him. The fact is Pm desperate.
I'll give you a thousand dollars for one
of. your horses
"'You couldn't buy one Of 'em at any
price, said. There's two reasons.
wouldn't do business with horsethief
and no money would tempt me to sell
an animal to be ridden to DEATH
'"rhe two thieves had had enough
of us and they got out"
That night our party camped on the
shore Of the Kankakee and next day
they met the contractors. Lincoln
Joined the latter party and Harry and
Samson went on alone. Late that af-
ternoon they crossed the nine-mile prai-
rie, beyond which they could see the
! simmer of the lake and the sunlit
structures of the new city.
"There 1t Is" said Samson. "Four
thousand, one hundred and eighty
people live there. 1t looks like stur-
dy two-year-Old."
The houses were small and cheaply
built and of many colors. Some were
implanted. Near the prairie they
stood like people ON the outer edge of
a crowd, looking over one another's
shoulders and pushing in a disordered
mass toward the center Of interest.
Some seemed to have struggled away
as If they had given up trying to see
or hear. So to one nearing 1t the town
had helter-skelter look.
Our travellers passed rough boarded
houses with grand-loOking people in
their dooryards and ON ~their small
porches-men In broadeloth and tall
hats and ladies in silk dresses. 1t
was six o'clock and the men had come
home to supper. AS the horsemen
proceeded larger buildings surrounded
them, mostly two stories high. There
were some stores and houses built Of
red brick Beyond the scatter of
cheap, wooden structures they came to
streets well laid out and crowded and
busy and Every soft" to quote q phrase
from the diary. Teams were strug-
Cling In the mud, drivers shouting and
flashing. Agents for hotels and board
ing houses began to solicit the two
II horsemen from the plank sidewalks.
The latter were deeply impressed by
a negro In scarlet clothes, riding a
horse In scarlet housings. He carried
scarlet banner and was advertising
} In a loud voice the hour and place of
great land sale that evening.
A sound OF many hammers beating
upon boards could be heard above the
noises Of the street and behind all was
the constant droning Of a big steam
saw and the whir OF the heavy stones
in the new grist mill. 1t was the be-
ginning Of that amazing diapason OF
industry which accompanied the build
ing OF the cities Of the West
They put out in the livery stable OF
the City hotel and at the desk Of the
latter asked about the price OF board
It was three dollars day and no
pollteness In the offer.
'Tt's purity Steep" said Samson
.'But Pm too hungry for argument or
delay and guess we can stand 1t to
be nabobs for q day or so.'
The hotel clerk had a Register Of
the Residents OF the City Of Chicago
wherein they found the name and ad.
dress Of John Kelso. They went out
to And the house. Storekeepers tried
to stop them as they passed along the
street with offers Of land at bargains
which would make them millionaires
In week. In proceeding along the
plank sidewalks they were often as
cending or descending steps to another
level.
On La Sale street they found the
home OF Jack Kelso. It was a rough
boarded small house. a story and q
half high. II had a little porch and
dooryard enclosed by an implanted
picket fence BIN, In a handsome