The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-06-24

in the canyon at about the center, the
sun being in the decline, the high
walls prevented the sun from shining,
thus the trail was dark. Suddenly her
pony threw forward his ears and came
to a sudden stop. About that time a
sharp Halt" rang cut in the air, and
two men leaped out, one grabbing the
horse by the head and the other draw
ing gun ON Dora, who threw up her
hands as she was completely taken by
surprise She saw that the two men
wore handkerchiefs over their eyes but
that did not deceive her for she rec
ognized the men by their Stetson hats,
each one had sewed Bull Durham
label in the front They were Skinner
Pete and Bif Ryan.
Fall out of the saddle, my fine
lady, said Pete, land be quick dis
mounting.
She was relieved of her two six
shooters. They then tied her TWO feet
together, also her hands behind her
back, not disturbing her cartridge belt,
carried her over to one side of the
canyon near some rocks which had
sharp edges projecting upward. This
they did not note, being in hurry to
press on. They warned her in dis
guised voice that she should make no
noise and that they would see that she
was released in due time. The pony
they did not want so they left him
stand with rein down on the ground.
Time was rapidly passing. They dis
appeared up the trail, where they
emerged into the upper valley. The
moon had risen and they skirted along
the river through the timber until they
came opposite Lu Lu Pass. They as
cended the mountain side and went
through the pass across between
Fisher and Henderson Mountain to
Chimney Rock Pass where they waited
for Sarface Pete to come up. Scarface
had received his notice that day and
prepared at once to leave Cooke. A
stranger had come into camp some
time previously and Scarface had
picked him up as chum. They had
gone into the National Park and
bagged a couple of mountain sheep
without chief scout McBride's learning
of it, this being a Leavenworth jail
sentence if detected. This mans name
was Jack Deering, with a shifty eye
dark hair, dark skinned and black
mustasche, and noted for shooting
when his victim was not looking. Meet
ing Jack on the street, Scarface called
him to one side and told him to come t.
the cabin. Going there he told Jack
the layout and persuaded him to gc
along. Along about nine o'clock these
two men started up the trail fully
armed with six shooters, as gun tot
mig was the usual thing no notice was
taken of it and they passed out of the
camp without exciting any comment
The night being clear moonlight, i
was easy trailing. They had imbibec
a little freely of camp whiskey anC
We're feeling little scrappy but no
enough to make them noisy. AS they
came into Chimney Pass in a clump 0.
trees through which the trail ran
there was three figures that stood VI
in front of Bill and Jack.
Hello, Pard", called Jack, "Whicl
way" No answer but the figure:
came on, when Jack called out again
Damn you, hard of hearing?" Abou
that time a loud wool was uttered
Bits hair went straight up and hi
yelled out "Hell, Jack, them's bars
With that Jack leaped over the trai
into the bushes. Bill sobered u.
quickly but did not dare shoot at thu
bears. For one thing there were tot
many of them and then he feared thu
noise would be heard. The thret
figures were cub, father and mother
silver tips, cousins to the grizzly. They
were not dangerous when not attack
ed. They stood up erect in the trai
on their hind legs until Bill, who knew
that he must get off the trail jumped
into the brush. When he did so they
dropped down on all four feet anc
crashed through the brush as anxiou:
to get away as Jack was Bill
came back to the trail and called tt
Jack to come on which he did, with
the remark that maybe it was the
whiskey and maybe it was true, bu
he had seen the bears, proceeding. The
men next came through the pass tt
the upper portal where they were tx
meet Skinner Jim and Biff Ryan. As
they emerged a voice called "Halt
Hands up! And they were looking
into the barrels of two repeateine