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Show g rr . THE BULLETIN. mNGHAM. UTAH INSTALLMENT 11 " i! THE STORY SO FAR? had built - HJScbM m the West. the opposition of his sweetheart, Jodv Gordon, and her father. Daring upon raid, Thorpe i Texas holdings wiped him out of the state. Roper then prepared for great raid upon the vast herd, on Thorpes Montana ranches. Severn! Canadian border to tak, every beef that 2e?X Mi Jdy that h" warn him He was mmH. . "Yes, mam. I kind of did, I guess !"d t0 be getting on there'. Miss Gordon. If you'll just give me any message you want me to take Id sure like to be pulling out of here, before" "All right. You be here with two good horses Just after dark." "If you could Just as leave give me the message now, I'd sure like to" "There is no message. rm going with you to Bill Roper." Shoshone Wilce looked like a man entrapped. "I can't do it! Your Just won't do it. Miss Gor-don I" "All right I'll make the ride by myself." "Hey, look! You can't" "Bill Roper isn't going to like this, Wilce." Shoshone studied her searchingly, but found nothing to reassure him! It was in his mind that this girl would do exactly as she said. "My Lordon spoke, his voice Kits very stillness f t imminent destruc-fiop- er sent a man to . that He's a man 2 Bill Roper in the i;.' War; he doesn t LS Montana raids." Lew Gordon rum-- ft'i'his name?" iwace." Low that name. I know rope and drag him in a caught him talking to . bas talked with Ben - Jody told her lot of strange news is m to Thorpe from up -- tani. Some bands of i'llashlng up and down reting lead and leather 3rpe outfits under Lash-,- it he's badly hurt al-- $ will know how badly nter breaks." r waited, his eyes angry, j from Dodge explains able that King-Gordo- n Is jody said. "Thorpe e that one lone cowboy, j everyone who should tis friend, could manage is Texas holdings, and go r3y his herds in Montana. that we were backing In the Texas Rustlers' he believes that we're 3 DOW." Lew Gordon said. "You ryou came all this way iat?" rpe means to kill you." rion's face showed no expression. But he did at once. ioubt it," he said at last; '.i you expect? You bring i i i i a a lu n". easy throw together three huidred nead In a couple of days. That two ttousand. The more the better --but with two thousand we'll make our drive." They giCpt that night under the slowly falling snow. Roper himself made cofTee and routed out his rid- ers two hours before the first light. They caught their horses in the dark with hands that fumbled the stiff-ened ropes; then split otT in pairs to comb the range. For two days Roper watched the enemy camp while the snow held on, piling a deeper and deeper mat; then on the third day he returned to the rendezvous as the roundup men began straggling in. Tex Long was the first one back. "This range is plumb solid with stock," Tex declared. "How many head do you figure me and Kid Johnson scraped up, just us two?" "Well," Roper grunted, "upwards of a dozen I should hope." "Better'n six hundred head! Lord Almighty, Bill! Figuring they're worth twenty dollars apiece, and al-lowing that all the other boys do as good, we're liable to get out of here with around eighty thousand dollars worth of cattle! You realize that?" But Roper was thinking of the let-ter in his pocket; the appeal of a girl who needed him in some unknown way, and who did not even know why he couldn't come. All the next day they worked to throw the little bunches together into a trail herd. Not all of them had done as well as Tex Long and Kid Johnson, but most of them had done well enough. And then, at last, the first herd privateered in the Great Raid began to roll. A long unstead-ily moving river of cattle poured northward, a dark welter in the thin-ning fall of the snow. White-faces- , mostly, blocky and heavy, well win- - I range tuu uuj'uuu is :o down." ice was white. w what's at the bottom ouble we're having," her "You know as well as wo years of nothing but i square at the door of ang up to face him. "I :o not know anything of the answered him. Idon stared at her. (everlasting shame upon buntry that Dusty King's still In their saddles. I Billy Roper is the only ieen with courage enough her father angered as she neenhim anger. "You'll thing!" he roared. "Rop-- k of hearing his name a whelp that knows noth-- 1 and burn and raid!" yes narrowed ,and filled "You may as well know old her father. "The day itoper dies I want to die moment Lew Gordon nldered; he stared at his if the devil had come up floor. The girl who faced lirely strange to him. her say, "IX you had im, as Dusty King would "I'd sure like to be pulling out of here before" life ain't worth a nickel, either way," he almost whimpered. "You be here with the horses," Jody said. She turned and went into the house, leaving Shoshone Wilce standing unhappy and uncertain, an-kle deep in the wet snow. CHAPTER XVI The rounding up of the wild bunch of riders lost Roper a few days; but within the week Bill Roper and Tex Long rode into the plains of the Lit-tle Dry. Here around a spluttering fire the riders crouched in their sodden blan-kets, like Indians, while Roper gave out his orders. Thirty-tw- o men and six outlaw leaders were now in the field against Walk Lasham's power-ful Montana outfits in the Great Raid. Roper's first move had been to split his renegade riders into five the leaders that he tered on the prairie hay Roper counted two thousand six hundred odd! Pressed hard by the heavy force of cowboys, the cattle bawled but humped along northward into the valley of the Prairie Elk. Rounding up within a day's ride of Miles City itself, Roper's men had taken this herd almost out of the very corrals of Lasham's outposts; and yet, so far as any of them knew, that swift-movin- g drive repre-sented a harder blow than had ever been struck a cattleman in a single raid. In all their months of effort the winter wild bunch had been un-able to achieve an equal reprisal upon Lasham, and now they could hardly believe their own success. They forced the cattle hard, driv-ing through the clogging snow at a rate incredible to men accustomed to handling market herds. The cattle that broke the way through the snow kept dropping back, blown and tired; but as fast as they failed, others were forced for-ward to take their places. Long-horne-stag- legge- d steers of the old Texas strain fought the riders, breaking the heavy column repeat-edly in their wild-eye- d thrusts for liberty, and these were allowed to get away. Gaunt, weak cattle lagged back, unable to keep up even under the snapping rope ends of the tail riders; they also were allowed to drop out, promptly forgotten. Yet, in that first day, the side riders swept in enough north-roamin- g cat-tle to more than make up the loss. Roper went with the herd as far as Circle Horse Creek; but when they had forded the shallows, crash-ing through the rotten ice, he turned back. With him he took four men who he believed would do what he said. The cattle were moving more slowly now, plodding doggedly through the heavy going; Tex Long and the remaining eight men could hold them to their way. What was needed now was work of a different kind, and Roper thought he knew how that was to be done. It was his intention to fight a rear guard action-n- ot only for this first herd which would be delivered with-in the week to the Indians who would spirit it away, but for the protec-tion of all the rest of the wild bunch raiding to westward. But now as he neared the head of the Little Dry, a rider came drop-ping down a long slope upon a racing horse. His carbine was held above his ragged sombrero in sign of ncace; and as he came near they saw that it was Hat Crick Tommy. "Roper jumped his horse out to meet Hat Crick. "What is it? Is Did she-Tom-my's there any word? face was haggard with . ...... ..cw eone!" he jerked bunches under knew Tex Long, Lee Harnish, Dave Shannon, Dry Camp Pierce and him-self. Hat Crick Tommy he sent to Miles City in search of further word from Jody Gordon; Hat Crick would later rejoin Roper as messenger and scout. It was Roper's plan that he and Tex Long, with twelve men between them, should make the most daring raid of all; a raid upon the big herds which Lasham held between the headwaters of Timber Creek and the Little Dry. Of all the ranges in which the wild bunch was inter-ested, this was the nearest Miles City the most accessible, the most closely watched, the best protected. How many cattle he could transfer from this range to the starving Ca-nadian Sioux, Roper did not know; but it was his hope to raise such a conspicuous and stubborn disturb-ance as would mask the operations of the rest of the wild bunch, and permit Pierce to work unimpeded. "The fourteen of us will split sev-en ways." Roper told them now. 'I figure Lasham's look-ou- t camp tot about twelve miles this range is We'll comb every way but S way. I'm not telling you stock. Hunt em how to gather like you know how to hunt em. Move out one day's ride, spotting your bunches. Next day pick em cow and work 'em this way An on day throw your gadier SauS . coulee or something where hold 'em. and the oth- - one can iof each pair ride back and here. I figure this range rheaS with cattle. I don't see any reason why two good men cant Thorpe would have been i through, long ago." said queerly, "what :ing about?" only take Billy Roper " lever happen while I 'ther said flatly, fell between them, pres- - by the girl. "He asked "ith him once, when he outlaw trail. I wish the last day I live, I'll fen with him then. And you something more. If 1 me again, I'll go." '1 moments he stared at laken than he had been "h of Dusty King. Then Bested, and he rose up keels to tower over the ' ne said, his voice un-tt- e repression he put " closes the deal! I've off him because of anl I let him run on "Sup a range war that busted King-Gordo- ' comes to tampering e end! I'm through. UP his battered sombre-Pr- s rang as heurned oor. 'are you going to do?" 15 a reward on Bill is going to reward." ming out, his face with portent of '' moments Jody Gor-wonie-where he had ; he turned and went 3USe to the long shed- - '''ce was loitering there of the rear wall, an esess figure. 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The smoke's the thing! njL t$ZfKU Of f"Nf HCT.ON historical i ighlights If Ctma Scott IVaUo j (Released by Western Newspaper Union. Yellow Wolf, Indian Patriot CIX years ago there died on the Colville Indian reservation in Washington a patriot of a lost cause. You may never have heard of him, for his name was Hemene Moxmox which, translated into the white man's language, means "Yellow Wolf." An Indian "a patriot of a lost cause"? Yes! For Yellow Wolf was as truly a patriot as was any ragged Continental who plodded through the snows of Valley Forge, and the "lost cause" in which he served was that of his people, the Nez Perces, who, some 60 years ago, were fighting against injustice in the face of over-whelming odds. The story of that struggle is not an unfamiliar one, and there is no brighter page in military annals than that which tells of the masterly skill with which Chief Joseph led his people on their retreat from the banks of the Clearwater river in Idaho to the Bear Paw mountains in Montana between June and Octo. bcr of 1877. Yellow Wolf shares in the glory of that achievement, for he was a cousin of Chief Joseph and one of his chief lieutenants in that epic march. But interesting though Yellow Wolf may be, as the "last great Nez Perce warrior," he is a more important figure in history than that characterization Indicates. He not only helped make history but he helped write about it later. Thirty- - ImiiT, , awn.. MVmtA.iML:aJL'A Taking down Yellow Wolf's Story (Left to right) Thomas Hart, In-terpreter; Yellow Wolf; L. three years ago he began telling the story of his life to a frontier his-torian, L. McWhorter, of Yaki-ma, Wash. The tale was complete before his life ended and recently it was published in book form by the Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho. There have been many accounts of the Nez Perce war but virtually all of them have been written from the viewpoint of the white man. "Yellow Wolf: His Own Story" gives, for the first time, a complete account of that tragedy as seen by one of its victims. It tells how the Nez Perces were defrauded of their ancestral homes by land-hungr- y white settlers and how Gen. 0. O. Howard, acting upon orders from Washington, "showed the rifle" and precipitated the crisis which Chief Joseph had tried to avert. Then the Nez Perce chief, bur-dened with the women and children of his tribe, began his flight over some of the roughest country on the North American continent Repeat-edly attacked, he either beat off his assailants or outmaneuvered them in a way which won the admiration of the army officers sent against him. Then with his haven of refuge across the Canadian border almost in sight, he paused to let his weary people rest. Attacked in the Bear Paw mountains by Col. Nelson A. Miles, who was later joined by Howard's pursuing column, the fugi-tives were forced to surrender. In the light of Yellow Wolfs story the history of that campaign must be rewritten. For instance, it shows that Chief Joseph's fighting force was only a fraction of the number of warriors which his opponents said he had, and that fact adds to the glory of his achievement. It shows that, on the whole, the Nez Perces were more humane toward than some of their white op-ponents were. For Chief Joseph's treatment of the tourists whom he captured while passing through the Yellowstone park region is in marked contrast to the unnecessary killing of Indian women and chil-dren in several of the attacks on Chief Joseph's camps. And there are other examples which show that a victor's version of his conquest is not necessarily the true one. Has this warrior, speaking for the vanquished, "talked with a straight tongue"? Any impartial student of Indian history, after reading his book, can not help believing that he has. And that is why the pub-lication of "Yellow Wolf: His Own Story" is an "historical highlight" of the past year! a a Some of Chief Joseph's warriors escaped to Canada, among them Yellow Wolf, who lived for nearly a year among Sitting Bull's Sioux be-fore returning to the United States. Then he was taken to Indian Terri-tory where Chief Joseph and his people, in violation of the terms of their surrender, had been sent. In 1885 they were settled on the Colville reservation in Washington and there Chief Joseph died in 1904. Thirty, one years later, on August 21, 19:15, Yellow Wolf joined his chief in Ahkunkenekoo (Land Above). Noble Issues Above all, in our dealings with the souls of men we are to take care how we check, by severe re-quirement or narrow caution, ef-forts which might otherwise lead to a noble issue, and, still more, how we withhold our admiration from great excellencies, because they are mingled with rough faults. John Ruskin. Falling Community A churchless community, a community where men have aban-doned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a commu-nity on rapid down grade. Theo-dore Roosevelt. Beginning of Education The education of the human mind commences in the cradle; and the impressions received there frequently exert their influ ence through the whole of life. Principles which take the deepest root are those implanted during the seasons of infancy, childhood and youth. Logan. Jisk Me Another O A General Quiz The Questions 1. How many tablets of stone held the Ten Commandments as given to Moses? 2. The average amount of blood in the human body is about what proportion of the body weight? 3. "Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" is a quotation from what? 4. What is a binnacle? 5. In Greek legend, who sowed the dragon's teeth? 8. What country named its cap-ital after an American President? 7. What is meant by 0:15 a. m.T 8. Who were Egbert, Ethelwulf, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, and Ethel-red- ? The Answers 1. Two. 2. One twentieth. 3. "Macbeth." 4. A box containing a ship's compass. 5. Jason. 8. Liberia (Monrovia, named for President Monroe). 7. Fifteen minutes after mid-night. The zero is used to denote that the first hour of the day has not elapsed. 8. The first five rulers of Eng-land, reigning 12, 19, 2, 8, and 5 years respectively, from 827 to 873. Their conquest formed part of the rich early Saxon-Danis- h his-tory of the island. Pride No Reward Unless what occupies your mind be useful, the pride you derive from thence is foolish. Phaed. Unblemished Sun The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure aAefore. Ooke. Without Trials He jests at scars who never felt a wound. Shakespeare. Willing Leads Willing comes first, then comes the working. |