Gunnison news-champion., 1923-10-12

S. d. so -hOi the thief and killed him
IT. 'EeT thief got away and rode to
ST. ,-8u where ne held up everybody
in g.. -aloon and got bottle of wills
keg and rode out OF town. When he
va ding away the men got their
Shs miles and Jack Flory, an old
but hunter Of the Paradise county
Wu- ed the man IN the cheek. How
eve the desperate reached kir7SIn.
b.! Ee loss Of blood caused sickness
ar 20 could 20 10 farther. Officers
togs MIN 20 Hays, but he broke jail
arc tas never found. The ponies
wei not stolen from Allison and Day
bu. aere stolen from the Cheyenne
In ms.
=. incident that aroused much in
ter and excitement at the time and
v mas been told and retold since.
H4. the killing Of General Bull and
=. other men at Bull City, By a
>, ed up Fix, which had been cap
tut and held as q pet for years. The
a. al acted unruly when he wa5
f. and when told Of It General Bull
$50 he would take il out Of him.
D.. Inferred the high fenced corral
% hand spike, but in nearly no
the iufunated elk was goring
One man standing nearby rushed
IS and met a ike fate. Still an
.. man. seeing what was going on,
a- upteu 20 keep the elk al bay with
3 .cG fork: be was thrown over the
IT. 'nut fence with one lift Of the great
o.. horns. This terrible killing Of
o.. three men took not over three
Pr .Ites, on" Of the men had n wounds
n us body from the jabbiug horns Of
go elk. In telling Of the funerals. all
&, ec Of which were conducted by the
--uc minister at the same time, Doc
..a-, The horns Of the elk were fast
,.-d on the back Of the preachers
buggy, and h. took them home with
HIM
He also tells a story Of a horse
ealing from the Omaha Indians who
aere going south on their annual buff
flio hunt. There were about 400 Of
e indians vino came from North east
m Nebraska and went down to near
old Fort Dodge 10 get buffalo meat.
J Hree horses that belonged to a widow
-quaw were missing and when Shores
and his party went into their camp
hey Were told by a squaw who could
peak fair English, that they thot the
whites bad stolen the ponies. why
10 you think this ," Doc asked.
Hobbies were cut, Indian no cut
hobbies but white man he cut hobbies.
the squaw replied. 9Th was very good
reasoning" Doc says, for the Indians
would save the hobbies to again hob
BILE their ponies, but the white man
never thought of saving them" I'VE
knew they would steal our horses
when they returned If they were not
located. For two or three days the
Indians rode over the hills of the Sa-
line valley singing the Lost Horse"
song. II they found the horses the
finder would start singing the Found
Horse song and start for camp. The
song would be heard by the nearest
indian and he in turn would sing it
and thus they all would know the
horses had been found, and return.
We thot we knew who had the horses
and went to them and demanded that
they return them, warning them what
would happen when the indians came
back. They swore they did not have
them, saying, Shores, we would tell
you If we had stolen them, and
could tell that they were telling me the
truth. We then found that employees
Of ranch man had taken the horses
and left" Shores and his men followed
them about 100 miles and brot back
the men and horses. The money of
the men was taken from them and the
horses We're turned over to the com
nander at Fort Hays to be given to
The indians. Before the men were
turned loose Doc slipped one of them,
for whom he felt sorry, SIS Of the
bad men were plentiful in those
days said Doc, But they were not all
famous like Wild Bill". BY this he
was referring to the shooting of
Robinson thru the leg by one
Of his own men who then left him ly-
ing alone in the camp to suffer. When
they arrived on the scene Charley's
leg was swollen to about twice its
original size and the flesh was black
and blue. He could not ride and the
only thing TO do was to rig up an
Did ambulance, which had been left
there some years before by the SOL
iiers, and take him over the q miles
TO Hays Cow horses were all they
had and harness was made for them
with rope and odd scraps. They
creased the wheels with bacon grease
and broke the ponies to drive. With
plenty of rye grass the ambulance was
padded against the jars and jolts.
When they arrived in Hays they found
a man who claimed to be a surgeon,
having been active in one of the
argest hospitals in the east. Char
ey's legs were spread apart after
hey set him on the floor Doc held
arms and another man sat solidly on
mis- good leg. The said doctor then
proceeded to find the bullet, ana, after
poking and prying with his probe for
some time, declared that it was To-
.ated about middle way between the
knee and thigh on the inner side of
he leg. Then'taking a long knife nc
tore his way to the spot where ne
the bullet lay. The blue
skin puckered and then gave way.
Poor Charley had the grit of sand
pile but such suffering as that was