Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-09-01

information. Ken. Feed Is pretty
scarce to the east OF me and suppose
Tom Antrim got desperate. Yes. you
have your uses. gringo."
IF you care to run into Los Ago
dones and swear to a warrant charg-
Ing him and John Doe and Richard
Roe and James Black and Thomas
Green and say dozen other off-color
gents with trespassing. I'll pick those
boys up and lodge them in the juz-
gado; then you and your boys can
run the sheep OFF in peace"
Il don't want to run them Off In
peace. Ken" Don Jaime replied lam
guidly. i've done that before and
II doesn't work. They always come
back. Sure you haven't got some
other work TO do tomorrow
"Now. look here. Jimmy" the ran.
ger protested. you listen to me. Tom
Antrim's there to stay. SO I'm going
to hang around the neighborhood,
He's got twenty herders with him
and noticed they all carried rifles"
a mans house is his castle" said
Don Jaime contemplatvely. "and I
presume that principle applies to the
lands contiguous thereto. One has a
right to defend his castle from I'M
warranted trespass. and I'm here to
tell you. old keed. | am very weary
of Tom Antrim and his sheens-I
mean sheep On ii. will never get
over the habit of slipping on my plu-
rails. like any Mexican! Three weeks
ago the sheriff Of this county arrested
Tom Antrim and held him and his
men long enough to permit me to
drive his sheep off my range: and be-
fore ! called the sheriff In ! talked
with Tom Antrim told him he must
not come back again. because eef-I
mean if--he did''-here Don Jaime
shrugged eloquent well,
| would not bother the sheriff to fight
for my rights for me. No. by Santa
Maria Ia Purisima II is In the blood
Of the Higuenes family to fight their
own fights"
The ranger protested again. II
heard all about the famous def OF
yours to old Antrim. and happen to
know the old skunk don't take orders
worth cent. Yet. he knows you
mean business. That's why his men
are all armed He expects q battle
and he knows you'll lead your forces.
Now, II you should get killed In the
fracas. your executor would be the
one to protest against his trespassing
In the future. Who might your ex-
ecutor be?'
"The Federal Trust company OF Ell
Paso"
TON Antrim owes them a lot of
money. In a dry year they might not
be too anxious to discover that An.
trim was invading your range-that
Is, not until they had gotten their
money out OF the old hog. Now
like you. Jimmy. and don't want to
see you get killed Besides. II you
kick up row and don't get yourself
killed you make work for me and
my men. Myself. I'm man of peace.
Consequently 1t occurred to me"
"You want me to give him another
chance-to appear weak and vacillat-
Ing by talking to that Antrim again?"
Don jaime charged instantly.
THANK God. my blood is the cool
blood Of an Anglo-Sayon ancestry. RI
! had your hot corpuscles, Friend
Jimmy. never would have risen to
be captain in the Texas rangers. I'd
have been killed as private Now.
you listen to me, because | have no
Interest at all In Antrim. | have,
however. sympathetic interest In
you and your broad acres. You plan
to go over yonder and start something.
All wrong. old son. all wrong. You
take rangers advice and let the
other fellow draw first. Then beat him
to the draw"
you are always my good friend"
murmured Don Jaime gratefully.
Now. listen, Jimmy" Ken Ho.
bart continued Tomorrow | shall
make it my business to drop In to that
sheep camp for luncheon. little
later you will ride up. alone and un-
armed, I'll report to Antrim that
you're bent on an argument. but not
In the smoke; and he'll 90 out to talk
to you, because I shall advise Il
strongly. When he does you give him
final warning In language most be
coming to n hidalgo OF your proud
ancestry. He'll think you're weak
and afraid and of course he'll disre
gard the warning.
well having warned him, you ride
back home gather your gang together
and take possession OF the water.
holes where Antrim must, of necessity,
water his sheep tonight Don't let
him water them. He'll fight for the
water, rather than back-track with
his flock over ground that's been
eaten over, only to find your men
guarding the water-holes In that d.
rection, too. sheep can't stand such
hardship, and three days without wa
ter will see his sheep dying by the
thousand.
you understand me, Jimmy You
provoke the fight but he shoots first.
Then you clean up and clean up good,