Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-03-10

iiS tUulu see nun III tie ACT OF
bridling Abe's horse.
Hold up your hands," Samson
shouted as he covered the man with
his pistol If We stir a foot I'll bore
a hole in ye.'
The man threw up his hands and
stood STILL
In half moment Abe Lincoln and
Harry had got up and captured the
man and the loosed horse.
This is part of the entry which
Samson made in his diary a week or
so later:
'Harry put some wood on the fire
while Abe and | led him up into the
light. He vas one Of the dirty white
men we had seen at the tavern
"I1l give YOU four hundred dollars
for ii loss in good Michigan money
he said
eff Sc cent stell ! horse you're
v.iil.n' Il bus one says.
"'No, sir. only come to buy says
he.
Il Topped him sudden and asked
him why he was putting on, the bride.
He owned up then. Said Il man
had hired him to steal The horse.
THAT man has got to have a boss,
he said. He'll give We any price ye
want to ask. If you'l give me few
dollars I'll take We to him.
"'You so and bring him here and
I'll talk to him., / said.
II let the Teller go. ! 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
whats your nameY / says.
''He handed me card on which |
read the words Lionel Davis, Real Els
tate, Loans and Insurance, IA South
Wafer Street. Chicago H.
There's one branch o your bust
ness that isn't mentioned on the card,
| says.
What's that?' says he.
"'Horse- thief, says l. You sent
| that Teller here to steal horse and
he got caught
"'Well | told him if he'd get me a
| good horse I'd give him five hundred
! dollars and that | didn't care how he
| got him. The fact is I'm desperate.
| III give you thousand dollars for one
of your horses.
"'You couldn't buy one of EN- at any
| price, | said. There's two reasons.
| wouldn't do business with a horsethief
| and no money would tempt me TO sell
| an animal to be ridden to DEATH
| ''The 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 sunit
| structures of the new city.
There it Is" said Samson. -Four
/ thousand, one hundred and eighty
people live there. 1t looks like 81 Stur-
| ely tW0-year-0ld.
The houses were small and cheapy
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 it the town
had a heiter-skelter look.
! Our travellers passed rough boarded
houses with grand-loolIing people in
their dooryards and on their small
porches-men in broadcloth 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
busy and very soft to quote phrase
from the diary. Teams were strug
Cling in the mud, drivers shouting and
lashing Agents for hotels and board
ing houses began to solicit the two
horsemen from the plank sidewalks.
The latter were deeply impressed by
a negro in scarlet clothes, riding a
horse in scarlet housings. He carried
q scarlet banner and was advertising
in a loud voice the hour and place of
n 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 Il big steam
saw and the whir of the heavy stones
In the new grist mill. It was the be-
ginning Of that amazing diapason Of
Industry which accompanied the build
ing of the cities Of the West.
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