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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1888)
THE WEST BHOUE. be yet could in widening the distance- between him j self and his pursuers. He would not go to tho settle I raents, nor in the direction of the railroad, for he would probably bo searched for at either point; but ho would go straight ahead, as nearly as ho could, un. til he reached a distance where danger was no longer j imminent, and he would then turn in the direction of j the railroad. And so, after traveling all night in pur j suance of this plan, nearly dead from fatigue and thirst, his wound paining him excessively at every j step, dawn at last found him fifteen miles from tho I scene of the evening's exploits. Just ahead of him a j little way was a cattle ranch, and his heart could know no joy so great as this partial evidence of civil- ization gave him, as he dragged his weary limbs be j foie the herder's shanty and begged for but a few J hours' hospitality. j One morning, about a week later, his old neigh j bors in the Iloosier state were nearly startled out of ! their senses by seeing smok i curling out of tho chim ney of Jonathan's house, and at the apparition of Jonathan himself seated within his door with an arm bandaged its entire length. Some of the bolder ones ; advanced, in a cmtioui manner, U assure lhir sen. w, and when they discovered that it was Jonathan j in reality, their astonishment knew no bound Jon. athan nearly talked himself Ui dath that day explain ing where he was and what he saw on his trip, but he j made no alluiion whatever to a certain widow or a ! claim that was not his own. His wound was simply accidental, tbe result of the carets handling of a re volver; and tho west was all right in its place, but it did not suit him. He M reckoned" h had enough of rambling alwut, and ho came back to stay. Any al ' lesion to the great and prosperous went, its marvtdoua j growth snd astonishing public enterprii, to its fame j and fortune (n land or stock, would Uy up Jonathan j for a week and close his mouth as tight as an oyster. Huspicion gradually gained groutd that Jouathaa had not told the truth, and nothing but the truth, la regard to his absence, and it was evrn hlntM by sora that he may have Iwn engagM in some of tho train robins in Missouri; and it was not until sevrral years afterward, when tho whole truth gradually ; leaked out, that tho community again took Jonathan ; to its bosom, so to spak, and forgave him hU pat j transgressions. Dit. Ciuiil.ru II. Mil m il DISTANT MU8IO I i.' :.. I i... I- I Oh, hgw Mfl ri It rl-fn !!' ; Cam nl tmor, air '" I !, j r.lrh'linj, Mrlclili, !'' r1!" ; Mutant fimir, li!i)t tniwk, oh, ut tM::ti"tn thf-i' )i riflr !'! trtrnt m l Uxitjr, r.Vn.Jifijf, IWtfUt In !' i ) on- i f ,-t.t I-." i (1i.-rk tl.it M an lpt t'uh'-n, i Yrt, In l.'.fit iwiy '',J. In t.i4 ut'Jinn rin, I In th in'f Mff.!i' i I.ukrU., lurWttibtU-a n. U '! &- !' rft ' l il.f'4 il " r frf. U trf f li-n'i ; I'.t!it f'.'.lV, lU'US, ri. )tt !, n tt,tv f.". Ar 1 uj !- it Mnrt, .'.'! It t"' '' lllMIH kill" TtM