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Show .-' A PRAIRIE TRAGEDY. Bad Incident or Ufa In lUiinn Thirty-Odd Ycur Airo. Wo were out by tho cemetery the other day, says tho llnvs City (ICan ) Sentinel, and noticed tho sexton pulling pull-ing away tho weeds from two suukon graves which seemed more than coin-mouly coin-mouly neglected nmldst the still, nno-somo nno-somo houses of (ho voiceless dend. And thebo houses held tho bones of two people who wcro once quick In the wild days of Ilnys pcoplo who passed tho dark river In tho very Hush of youth nnd strength. How tluio flic It wns early In 1R57 when Alexander Uiimscy, then sheriff of Kills county fell by tho bullet of n horse-thief, and ten days later thu body of hla wlfo rai laid by his sldo. Theso wero lit j uunlc-on uunlc-on graves. Itamscy overtook two horsc-thlovcs tit tho town of Stockton Leaving his deputy nt dinner in tli hotel Kamsoy rodo boldly down tj their camp. It was all over in n minute min-ute one horse-thief was dead upon the ground, tho other was fleeing upon horseback, and poor, bravo Knmscy lay mortally wounded. II-s illed In two hours, but us ho luy thciJ with his Hfo blood pulsing Into the brown grass ho coolly adjusted his nlTuli-s nnd smiled grimly Into tho blanched faces around h.m. Stem stuff In thoso first men of Hays. When tho word camu Mra. Kamsey started for Stockton, but when she met tho slow-moving wagon with tho body of her dead l.u.baml thcro waoa low cry. n walling ihrlcld alio was a maniac, f.lio wnj taken to tho gentle Sisters of Mcrey at Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, but In ten days her body was returned nnd laid in tlio pralrlo spot besido her all. There, they sleep n lion nnd his mute. |