Gresham outlook., July 17, 1914, Image 8

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the ranch and say that your boss sent
The jury laughed and Mr. Lawrence
yuh out for suthin’. Then you have descended from the witness stand well
a tire bust or the machiuTy oxplode, pleased with himself.
an’ let on yuh can’t get home till to-
At last it was the turn of tho lawyef
By Dix Drummond Osmun.
morrer. Then about sundown tomorrer, for the defense, Jim Hunter.
yuh gets powerful oxcitcd a n ’ rip
He lazily stretched his six feet of
aroun ’ an ’ say that yuh just cayn’t height upward till he was standing
HE big cowboy poshed through the
“ Hellover lot. Listen here.”
circle of dilapidated looking people
“ A n’ I ’m cravin’ revenge,” h keep still no longer—that the boss done erect.
“ Now, Judge, I don’t know much
until he was face to face with the wound up, “ just like that feller we got held up by two desp 'radoes. Got
about this law business, an’ I wants
that straight, son f”
•Id woman sitting on a broken trunk seen in the show last winter.”
tuh ask yuh, Judge, cayn’t I tell the
“ Yes, sir,” answered the boy.
Surrounded by a miserable assortment
“ What yu goin’ tuh dot Course I'm
“ Good. Yuh stm tuh me tuh be a thing in my own way, an’ will yuh
• f household goods.
in with yuh. H e’d oughter be strung
“ What seems to be the matter, up, that ’8 what, only this durn eoun real sensible young feller. Well, about kindly keep that there feller that's
two days from now, yuh com© tuh the been roastin’ me a n ’ Shack, quiet till
m a’am t” he asked politely, taking off tr y ’s gettin ’ so blame ladylike.”
house which is writ on this paper I ’m I gets through!”
hin broad brimmed hat.
‘ ‘ I dunno. I can't think uh nuth goin’ tuh give yuh, a n ’ ynh’ll find the
The judge nodded.
The woman did not cease hei weep in
“ Weil, then, Mr. Judge, an ’ fellers
boss there safe an’ sound, an’ maybe
log, and Jim glared angrily around at
A gloomy silence fell upon the two git a reward. Now, son, I ain’t gom ’ on the jury. Mo an’ Shack done kid­
the gaping crowd.
They finished their meal and trailed tuh be harsh with yuh, but if yuh don’t naped Mr. Lawrence, a n ’ we done put
“ If yon lowdown critters has been out into the office.
do oxactly as I tells yuh, there’ll be him in a pretty mean room. I adm;ts
tormentin’ the ol ’ lady, I ’d sure be
Get over your mad y e t t ” asked sunthin’ eomin’ your way, a n ’ i t ’ll that what he says about them there
pleased tuh know about i t ,” he declar the clerk pleasantly.
come good and plenty. Yuh’ll be good, pigs uh his is right, ’cause that room
ed menacingly.
No, an ’ I a in ’t goin’ tuh,” replied
wasn’t fitten fer no pig tuh live in.
“ We ain ’t done nothin’, mister,” ex Jim. “ Me a n ’ my pardner here is pin- won’t yuh I ”
There wasn’t no fresh air, as ho says,
Yes, sir.”
plained a man. “ S he’s been turned out in ’ tuh do somethin ’, but we can’t fig
Right, A n ’ now there’s one thing ’an the smells was suthin’ orful, but
Zer not payin’ her r e n t”
ger out anything.”
more. After yuh git the boss out, yuh 1 don’t see why Mr. Lawrence is rais­
Jim stared. “ Yah mean that some
“ By the way,” said the clerk cas­ let on that yuh know who's been keep- in ’ sueh a holler about it. That there
snake livered coyote put that po’ ol ’ ually, “ old Lawrence is going out to
dame out for not payin’ a little his ranch—the Arrow Seven, you know in ’ him captive. It was Jim Hunter room was in a ten ’mint house at No.
an’ Shack Morley. Don’t fergit them 2 River street, an’ Mr. Lawrence owns
Bjoneyt”
— in his automobile this morning. Fun­ names—Jiin Hunter an’ Shack Mor­ it, a n ’ if i t ’s so plumb bad fer him tuh
“ Sure—d a t’s what they done.”
ny how that road winds along in that ley.”
stay two days, what's it like fer them
“ How m uch!” he asked tersely.
gulch. I ’ve often wondered he didn’t
You want me to tell on y ou !” ask­ po’ folks th a t’s there all the tim e!
“ Nine dollars an ’ six b its,” volun­ have a hold-up, going back and forth,
“ Say, I That’s what we shut him up fer—so's •
teered a woman. “ Bad luck to the as he does, with only his kid chauf­ ed the amazed chauffeur.
don’t care what you do to him. I won't he could know what it was like.”
hard heart of him who done it I”
feur.”
The courtroom laughed—yelled is a
tell anything if you’d rather not. H e’s
“ Same here, lady,” responded Jim.
* • Why, it does seem sorter reeky, ’ ’
“ Howsomever, the first thing tuh be assented Jim. “ Come on, Shack,” he the meanest man I ever worked for, better word. In vain the judge rapped
done accordin’ to ray notions is to put added to his friend, “ we gotter be go and h e’s got a lot coming to him. for order. Even the jury rocked back
and forth holding its side in merriment.
her back agin. Such a triflin ’ sum ain ’t in ’ if wo want tuh keep that business He— ”
“ Easy there, son,” reprimanded Mr. Lawrence rose hastily and tried to
nothin’ tuh me, an ’ I ’d be proud tuh engagement.”
Jim. “ Don’t yuh ever run down a man reach the door, but the crowd held him
help an old lady tuh that amount, an ’
“ What business have we got tuh
then some for grub an ’ things which ’tend tu b !” asked Shack when they when yuh takin’ his money. If yuh hick. The prosecuting attorney at­
don’t like him, quit yuh job an’ then tempted to make a speech, but he him­
it looks like tuh me she ain't had reached tho street.
shoot yuh mouth off some if i t ’ll help self recognized its futility. Already
plenty of in some tim e.”
“ We'ro goin’ tuh take a ride, me
“ Ilivin bless yer fer that, mister,” a n ’ you, an’ we gotter git another cay- yuh any, but ’s long as h e ’s yuh boss the jury had reached a decision, and
nothing that he could say would alter
stanf on his side. Understand 1”
cried the woman who had spoken be­ use besides ourn. ”
“ Yes, sir.”
it
fore. “ May the blisaid saints— ”
Shack looked surprised, but as the
“ I fell plumb mean about it,” said
“ Well, now hike along an' do’s I
“ Sore, th a t’s all right,” broke in younger man of the two it was not for
Jim some time later to an admiring au­
the embarrassed Jim. “ Now, who’s go- him to ask questions. Not until they said. ”
Randall Lawrence, bereft of his Van dience, who were thrusting upon him
in ’ tuh help get this truck back!”
were fully five miles from tho city, fol
There were a score of willing hands lowing a trail like road, did Jim divulge Dyke beard, and clothed in overalls and and Shack every token of its worship
a blue flannel shirt, rode through the —for a joke is still a joko in the West.
at his service.
tho “ business.”
“ I feel plumb mean about it ,” he
streets of Benson City between his two
The old woman could not understand
“ A n’ here’s the spot,” he wound
at first what was happening, but when up. “ When we see him cornin’ w e’ll captors late that evening, and was duly repeated. “ We mighter done ’most
she did she made her rescuer exceeding each git one side uh the road, an’ if he imprisoned in vile quarters. He lan­ anything tnh him, an’ h e’d ’a ’ got over
ly uncomfortable by her voluble thanks. don’t stop, ping a tire—th a t’ll break guished in his cell for some two days it, but tnh mak him a laughin’ stock
before ho was discovered by his ehauf like we done— it's goin’ tuh stick tuh
Ho hastily shouldered the trunk and, in oa his hurryin ' any.”
feur and released. Coincident with his him fer the rest of his life .”
guided by a small urchin, traversed
Some minutes later the red touring rescue he received news which caused
dirty halls and ascended even dirtier car of Randall Lawrence was held up
stairways until he arrived at a squalid in approved bandit style. The owner, him to procure warrants for the arrest
Gates for the Garden.
room, lighted only by one window, and being a timid man, offered no resist of Jim Hunter and Rhaek Morley.
The garden should have two gates,
Yuh wait till the trial,” was all one small one and one large one. The
that opening into an air shaft. He set anee to the masked robbers who order­
they could be induced to say.
the trunk down and looked about bin, ed him to alight.
small gate should be convenient to the
in consternation.
If them two boys swore on the Bi house and the large one convenient to
M . Randall was not a western prod ble that they held up that there ol tho barn, for hauling manure and en­
“ Why, this ain ’t fitten fer no hu
man bein’ tuh live in,” he stated em­ uet. Ho had lately come from the East skunk, I wouldn't believe it, onless tering with team and tools.
phatically. “ Say, what got inter the with money to invest, and had proceed uh course they done it fer some kind of
feller that built this placet Looks tuh od to invest it wherever the promise a joke,” declared the foreman of the
Cheapening the Rations.
of dividends seemed largest. At first Bar O outfit, which numbered Jim and
'm e 'sif ho was plumb loeoed.”
The Iowa station has found that a
the
people
of
Benson
City
and
the
sur
“ Guess you ain ’t wise to the city,”
Shack among its members, and his dec small amount of oil meal or cotton seed
answered his gnide. “ This here place rounding country had hailed with de­ laration voiced the sentiments, not only meal added to corn and oats improves
light
the
advent
of
a
real
live
capital
is what they calls a tenement, and they
of the Bar O people, but also of every and cheapens the ration for work horses.
puts as many rooms in as they can so '» 1st within their borders; but a growing once who had ever come in contact with A mixture of 77 pounds of shelled corn,
familiarity with Mr. Iiawreneo’s meth­ the two culprits.
to git more rent.”
15 pounds of oats and h pounds of oil
Jim sgowled; it was not his idea of ods tempered their delight considerably.
The day of the trial saw the popula meal gave somewhat better results than
It
is
even
probable
that
had
the
ma
making money.
tion of Benson City considerably aug
jority of the eitirens who abode in that raented by a rough and noisy element oil meal, and the ration was a little
“ Who owns this shacks, non!”
cheaper in the proportion of 79 pounds
“ I dunno—nobody don’t know. I section of Wyoming seen the great fi­ who londly voiced their belief in the of corn, 15 pounds of oats and six
nancier
in
his
present
position
they
prisoners’ innocence, amt evinced a pounds of oil meal.
gneoB the guy would be ashamed to let
would not have been greatly displeas­ readiness to pull Benson City apart if
on.”
ed.
the jury should decide otherwise.
Success M ay Be Further Down.
“ How does he get the rent, th en !”
“ Now, Mr. Lawrence,” said Jim
In the crowded courtroom Jim and
In many instances the yield of gar­
asked the unsophisticated Jim.
gruffly, “ this a in ’t no picnic, a n ’ then Shack listened to the ravings of the dens can be increased by simply getting
“ Oh, a agent gits i t ”
agin it ain ’t no proper holdup. We prosecuting attorney with unmoved down a few inches deeper with fork or
Jim waited long enough to see the old ain't after your money, but yuh is our
woman installed, and leaving her a gen pris'ner just the same. First thing yuh faces. Mr Lawrence was equally se­ spade. The French gardeners can give
rene. He told his story simply and Americans many lessons in this respect
•roiis roll of bills, departed and retraced doea is tuh shed them duda, an ’ put on
truthfully, dwelling much on the dis­
The soil should be pulverized, but
his steps back to the hotel at which he some we has ’special pervided for the
comforts of his imprisonment.
work should not be commenced too
was staying.
'casino. An’ wc must ask ynh tuh cut
“ Gentlemen,” he said impressively, early. Plowing the ground while it is
“ S ay,” he told the clerk, “ I just off them whiskers, onlcss yuh would
seen the hellover thing,” and narrated rather for ns tuh do the job. T got the “ the room where I was confined was too wet will cause tho sail to pack in
his experiences, leaving out only his scissors in my pocket for cuttin’ ’em.” not fit for a hog to live in. I breed solid lumps. Good land is almost ruined
this manner.
some pretty good hogs, and I ’ll tell you
generosity. “ There was a donation took
“ This is an outrage,” fumed Mr. honestly that if they had found them­
■p, ” was the way he explained that
T h e K en tucky senate has passed a h ill
Ijtwrenee. his fat. puffy face livid with selves in that room they would have autkorisinff
part of it.
the employment e f convicta in the
died for lack of air and sunshine.”
m anufacture of articles fo r state see.
“ I ’d feel real pleased tuh know the anger, “ a dastardly outrage.”
“ Uh huh. ” assented Jim enlmlv.
name of the skunk that owns that there
“ That’s the wav it would look tnh
shack,” he concluded wrathfnlly.
Howsomever, if you'll
The clerk leaned over the desk and most people.
just chnnge them duds and the rest of
whispered a name in his ear,
it. it'll «ame time a n ’ trouble.”
“ Yuh joshin’t ”
The capitalist looked keenly at the
“ No, I ’m not. That's straight goods.
other, and failed to find any comfort
My cousin is his agent.”
“ Why, t il’ ornery dog!” exploded in the cold eves shining throngh the
“ T don’t know what yonr game is.
Jim, “ an’ him the richest man in the
but I have <200 with me, which T will
S tate!”
After expressing a few more nncom give yon in exchange for my liberty,
pi i me nt ary remarks, Jim went up to his and let it end the matter. T am a busy
room, and was still boiling when sleep man. and my time is worth money.
cut short his malrdietious. He swoke 1----- ”
“ I t ’s no use.” snapped Jim. “ T
the next morning with a well defined
grouch, and ate breakfast in a melan told vnh what tnh do, and I ’m gittin'
pmty tired uh w aitin'.”
•holy silence.
“ What yuh sore about!” asked a
While the magnate was disgustedly
voice in his car, ns a newcomer pulled following out the humiliating orders un
out the next chair and sat down.
der the direction of Shack. Jim led the
“ Shack! Well, by Tripes! I was chauffeur to one side.
just wishin’ yuh was here. When'd yuh
“ Now. «on.” he explained, “ ynh
git in ! “
want tuh do everything just as I lays it
“ Minute ago. What 's deia ' I ”
out for yuh First off ynh goes on tnh
A Righter of Wrongs
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