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Show THE WASATCH WAVEI i VOL. XXI. IIEliER CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1909. NO. 33. most deadly shots with rifle and re- jected, bnt the young woman insisted saw herself mistress of the sit nation. crime that had been committed nnd a volver in a state that abounds with and he finally gave in. Calling to her comrade to keep the posse of armed men who knew the men remarkable for their skill in Perhaps he would not have con- drop upon the driver, she ordered hills thoroughly started in pursuit The bandits, knowing that the spirit handling such weapons. All of Pearl's sented had not Pearl overawed htm the passengers to get out of the stage. spare time was spent in practicing by a timely exhibition of her skill in They were three In number, two while of vengeance must have been unher favorite pastime. No target was gunnery. She wore In her belt a men and a Chinaman, and they obeyed leashed upon their track, lost no time too small or distant to escape the bulbrace of six shooters, and drawing her without a murmur. Her first care in making for the mountains through which they rode for several days, let that flew from the nervous presswas to relieve them of their firearms, them proceeded to fire at surrounding HE put up the ure of her small, strong hand, and the objects in the most nonchalant way. and that done she proceeded to search camping by day and doing most of rinsed dishpan, more dangerous and sax age the game First naming the target at which she them all. From one white man sho their traveling by night Finally, bethe soap off her she pursued the greater pleasure she was about to shoot, she would pull secured 5390, from the other $36 and lieving that they had thrown their hands in a basin BEING A REMINISCENCE OF AN found in the chase. Circumstances the trigger and In every instance the from the Chinaman. $5. Turning her pursuers off the trail, they camped BY and dried them on Individwithin 20 miles of Benson and there to that to seemed She to attention the mark. have bullet driver, true combined mould its to sped EARLY BORDER EXPERIENCE FRANCIS the hand towel. Both were the slender young girl into an amazon used her right and left hand alterual produced the sum of $8, which he their fate found them. As Bhe did this OF A NOTED DETECTIVE $ $ $ $ RENO noiBe of a when The of undaunted tx pe. fearing neither God a rueful with banded to exhausted her had Bleeping heavily and she grin. after nately the light from the and of and nor man and paxing the way for the the chambers of her two revolver!, him thrust the at smiled back guns shouting firing girl shone on lamp aroused slumbers. from Peari her hand. Into his to execution of the audacious the reload them, remarking money again project proceeded face. her It a to beheld feet her she which she afterwards executed, and placidly: You may keep that." she said, Springing out 1 xxhich was destined to make her name brought I believe youve earned it circle of dark, stern faces around her guess that will show you I ain't laughing. against dark shadnotorious through the eutire counlikely to fall down on my part of the by driving three Buch cowards across and the grim muzzles of several Winthe ows high chester rifles covering her and her the hills." try. game, Joe." the cheekbones, comA under the Her stay at Mammoth terminated posse her The prospector stared at her fascounted companion. the young booty Having set mouth droop(Copyright, 1909, by W G Chapman ) when the largest mine there shut cinated. to the three mand of Sheriff Truman of Pinal returned adventuress In Great Britain ) (Copyright ing at the cornYou're the real thing, all right," passengers and gave each one of them county had tracked the bandits to down, leaving her without employers, the heavy lair and the long chase was at their I'm Reno. with the said In concealing their sex. They ment. She had saved a little money, a he dollar. Francis trouble you, admiringly. note: (Editor's brown hair drawn of pi- - obtained a an end. of a family I kind whenever of trail hate hit the fellow well about a and with you deteroutJIO, of this shoe she good "Being uttior, comes pal; couple shining forehead and the back from flffhters, and Is related the submita rere and Bhe Pearl, loser, tightly so." to dead mined good to folks fits to see went always her and Ariz. to say as broke, work pay quite booth. acks, way Globe, Mai Keno of Custer Massacre fame. incold eyes. In the turleading the usual gypsy life of those She t iund two Mormon boys who were Having gained her point Pearl was marked pleasantly, so I'll stake you ted with a gambler's grace to the Hu earl'er tears were spent She sighed deeply as she stepped he picturesque little arabs who were at go in evitable, and she and the by wagon to Globe and paid not the sort of person to hesitate all. And now take a run back along moil of frontier life In Arizona, where were taken to Benson and then to to the lamp to lower its light, but her . for some time deputy sheriff and that time one of the distinctive fea- them $S to allow her to accompany further. She gave her companions the trail for the good of your health.1 at uter deputy InttedIn States marshal, There was no resisting the force Florence, where she was separated face did not relax with the sigh. tures of Chicago streets. They worked them. entnusiasm no ume to cool, ana enforcing the Tucson His efforts In the growing darkness of the Mambronchoes the of When Mormon this suggestion, backed as It was from her companion, brought to Tucrodo bortheir in first left Mexican south the end on of they the boys mounting the business E lusion Act son end room a streak of moonlight, coming in waB there It the commended of lodged anthe over barrels moth until jail. by the mountains the beside speakPearl districts and as been had, acby away they highly Hart, glittering they later, der hate they became and recognized struck the GJobe trail. Here was er's weapons, and the trio walked has- that I Interviewed her In her cell, and through a small opening of the door, with the other bootbiaeks, other passenger, a former Washington authorities, Chicago quainted a who placed price roved hv the Highbinders, all over the downtown district, shoemaker, who had for some time where the girls wonderful memory tily down the road. Pearl watched after some trouble succeeded In ob- stood out distinctly. This caught her coo on his head, which stands retaining from her a written confession eye. She stepped to the door and a held he has highly seeking refuge when night fell in the late years Of one of the largest covering the whole of her eventful flung it open. box cars out along State street, In sponsible position with In the United career. Her advoptures had not, howbank protective associations Moonlight flooded the room. It enavenue Wabash in lofts livery tarns, of its seStates and as superintendent come at to finish a this her. ever, quite veloped or wherever they could sneak in uncret service has established an enviable She stepped out into this ethereal point. noticed. record of sureess in running down bank are confined to Pearl Hart did not approve of her glory of the harvest moon, which One evening Pearl saw a wagon load burglars These stories in the west, the in the Tucson jail and bad blotted the earthly lines of care and bis earlier experiences quarters of watermelons near the standing scenes of a hu h are laid in Arizona and no Intention of remaining there any monotony so lately written inexorably Mexican of corner border the State and Harrison the near New Mexico Fortune In her face. longer than was necessary. streets. Several of the melons had The Last Frontier, which until recent favored her by turning up a friend In It was kind, and how she had longed years was wild and lawless, and where been from the were taken and wagon of bad man" pioneer days the tvpical the person of a fellow prisoner who for kindness! In the exhilaration of no the one sidewalk. When upon piled last his stand.) made had but one day more to serve In the the moment she forgot the drudgery was looking she stole one of the HEN the justly cele- melons and rati down Harrison street jail. This man was at first looked upon of her life, forgot that brated French student with the heavy load. Before she had by the girl as a deadly enemy, but cir- would come and with It the round' cumstances conspired to change her of hard work cows to milk, men to detective lore gave gone a block a policeman caught her the world the now and both she and her sister were opinion. feed, berries to pick, the baking, scrubof taken to the Hartison Street While In the jail the girl bandit bing ail the innumerable things that phrase police Find the Woman, made a pet of a young wild cat. She never come to an end. She forgot station. thereby Inferring that kept the animal in her cell most of that Bhe was tired, that it was late After the two girls were arrested there is a daughter of and sentenced to a bovs school their the time but occasionally it roamed and that the men were in bed. Eve at the bottom of sex was discoxered and they were sent into the corridor and visited the other She only felt felt without thinking One day it entered the every big crime, he to the reform school for girls. Old prisoners. that something was leading her on, a sentiment voiced cell of the short-terprisoner. He that something thrilled her and beyond their years by virtue of the savwhich, while plausible varied experiences they had passed picked up the cat and it bit him seemed to be lifting her away from enough, may be set tarough, it was not to be supposed agely, inflicting a deep gash in his weary things. hand. With a howl of rage and pain down as rather superShe followed the moonlight, folthat they would tamely submit to the he dashed the animal upon the steel lowed It through the field where the fluous. One might as vigorous discipline of the school for floor and killed It. well assert that every any great length of time without enlate summer grain had been piled Is man has a mother, and pose as the For hours Pearl eat In her cell sheaves, each tawny pile topped with deavoring to make a break for liberty. discoverer of a startlingly original Yet to the surprise of the officials who cursing the man who had slain her pet its fringing Bheaf, each casting a pytruism. but later, when he bad an opportunity ramidal purple shadow on the yelknew their history they remained for Somewhere in the background there three months to speak to the young woman, be told low stubble. It seemed to ber that contented apparently lurks the eternal feminine whose exher he would get her out. He was a a field never had looked so beautiful and tractable without evincing any istence spurs the thief on to the aptrusted prisoner and the next day he before. desire to escape from confinement. climbed to the top floor of the Jail propriation of other peoples property Put one' fine morning the surprised She followed the moonlight past the or nerves the murderers hand to deal and and cut a hole nine Inches wide and tail trees that stood apart like sendisgusted matron awoke to find out death by bullet, poison or knife twelve inches long through a grated tinels and basked contentedly In the that the birds had flown. The two blade to his victim. The professional window. Through this window Pearl silver light. girls had made a rope of the sheets thug is wont to look forward eagerly and a nightgown and lowered themHart made her exit and escaped. She followed It down the stretch to the good time In store for him In selves from a window. Her freedom was of short duration, of rutted road to where the willows the company of the painted damsel Pearls sister climbed down first and however, for 12 days later she was re- leaned over a ribbon of silver water. whose capricious favor he hopes to accident. Pearl followed, but captured, again disguised in man's There she stopped. She bad reached purchase with a portion of his being the heavier of the two she got clothing, at Demlng, N. M., and taken Willow creek and could follow the gains, while your amateur, edua fall that almost knocked her sensepack to Tucson. When brought to trial moonlight no farther. cated criminal would fain win the less. Instead of she was convicted and sentenced to tying the nightgown Still ber dream did not desert her. tmlle of some siren of higher social at the lower end of the rope she had the Yuma penitentiary for five years. She watched the silver shower of incaste by the expenditure of that for fastened one sleeve to the bed. Her If Pearl Hart knew, as It is probable sects dance above the water. She which he risked honor and liberty. she did, what the real name of her watched them without thinking, only weight ripped off the sleeve and she "For the colonels lady and Judy fell ten feet to the confederate in the stage holdup was, delighting in the vague hypnotic powground. This acciOGrady are sisters under their skins dent did not prevent her, however, Bhe kept the information loyally to er of the night and the moon, only alngs Kipling, and equally so there Is from discarding her dress until she herself. When the prisoners were feeling that all was well for the molittle to choose between male maraudcould climb the high, fence arrested the refused to ment and she must not think. ers of high and low degree. Vid help her sister over. reval his Identity, and Sheriff TrueWhen a chill of dampness crept Admitting that there Is usually a When the girls escaped they hasman went to the young woman to at- over her, ber dream ended. She shivwoman In the case somewhere, one tened away from Chicago as soon as tempt to learn the mans name. At ered' and sighed. seldom finds a member of the fair sex they could secure two suits of boys the time Pearl was pulling on one of But though the dream was gone, the taking an active physical part In the clothes. They made their way over her high boots. bard look did not return to her feacommission of a carefully planned the Northern Pacific railroad to Hel"What's that man's name? Inquired tures. The face was softened by the crime on a large scale. Street hold- ena, Mont., and later to Victoria, B sheriff. gentle light, and then came these ups with female participators are not C. They remained In Victoria for Joe," responded the girl. thoughts: unknown in police records, but as a three months and then started back Joe who? asked the sheriff. I have been mean to John because general thing the woman merely plays to Chicago, beating their way in the - Why, Joe Boots, returned Pearl, I had to work so hard. He has worked the part of a decoy to draw the vicmost approved tramp fashion by easy with a mocking grin. hard, too, and things haven't always tim within reach of her strong-arstages, the round trip being the most A MURMUR. He was Indicted In that name and gone well. I never tried to make It THEY OBEYED HER WITHOUT companions. During my experience remarkable ever accomplished by two under It was sentenced to the peni- easy for him. I never cared except as United States marshal In Arizona girls of their age. Upon reaching Chi- been prospecting for gold In Arizona. and acquired knowledge of the region until they had disappeared around for 30 years, but afterwards that it Beemed as if I should always and later as an investigator of bank cago, the younger one, who did not Pearl in both dress and manner came into play. Dismounting she led distant curve in the path, and then tentiary made a wonderful escape from du- have to work and work. Ive thought robberies I knew of but one case possess such an iron constitution as looked every inch a young cowboy, the way to a narrow little path that turned to her companion. rance vile. While working with a gar.g only of how it was going to be for where a woman figured as an actual her Come on, Joe," she cried merrily, sister, became ill as a result of and the cobbler, who said his name curved ofT the trail and wound around he' made a break for lib- me and didn't care about him. live worker to the extent of en- the hardships she had gone through, was Joe, managed to strike up an ac- the side of a high rock. At the first and the two plunging into the mouth of convicts erty. An alarm was sounded and the Thats the reason Im cross and forcing a demand for cash at the muz-tlmuch bend in the path she stopped and of a canyon made their way by and soon grew very homesick. When quaintance with her without turned a gattling gun , upon ugly and people are almost afraid to of a She was Pearl she had in some measure regained her difficulty. It Is CO miles on the trail pointed out to her companion the circuitous route back to the spot guards him. Nearly a thousand bullets went speak to me. Why shouldnt the men Hart, then a girl in but pos- strength Pearl took her back to their from Mammoth to Globe and t,he trip strategic value of the ambush thus se- where they had left their horses, hurlting past the fleeing prisoner, but who work for John never have a word sessed of a dare devil courage and Canadian home. On account of the tortuous Mounting they rode swiftly away, and was made very slowly. In the even- lected. not one reached Its mark and he es- for me? They like John because he recklessness worthy of a member of nature of must one occurred of curiouB trail the of the the of two time the the then those of the this last stage eider the By Journey day ing caped unhurt. isn't ugly and mean and I am. the Jesse James Yet was at from could how miles shows which the driver a there the this instances gang. travel, point superstigirls had become confirmed tramp in party camped three Pearl Hart served part of her time My life has been hard, but Ive nothing masculine in the appearance everything but appearance. The long latter place and whUe they were there not see the roadway 20 feet ahead of tious dread can shake the nerves of and was afterwards of this paroled. She Is made it harder and made life harder extraordinary girl, nothing to Journey twice across the country had the Globe stage coach containing sev- his horses. Having tethered their one whose hardihood in encouraging now In City, Kan., wheni she for John, too. Indicate the Amazonian horses the two took up their stations, ordinary dangers knows no bounds. owns a Kansasstore spirit that but served to increase her strength eral passengers passed the camp. and makes no atlurked within her slender frame. She and excite her Oh, how soft, how good, how glorcigar one on eacn of alroad. confines of side the a box the adfor were fresh observant long whose Entering eyes longing Pearl, She ified the moonlight has made everytempt td conceal her Identity. as of slight For three hours the bandits waited, canyon an unearthly chorus of hoarse has build, weighing in the ventures. Her parents knew she would ways wide awake to what was going reached her thirty-sixtyear and thing! neighborhood of 100 pounds, and, clad not long remain at home unless she on around her. had taken a close view Joe in a fever of excitement and grunts and strident squeals suddenly has two children who live with their In the male I wish John could see this night, attire she usually affected was placed under restraint. They of the locality in which they were en- chafing Impatiently over the slow ap- assailed the ears of the astonished in Toledo, O. The call but I suppose he would see nothing looked like a not Pearl reined in her horse grandmother robust sent her to a boarding school near camped and noted every rock and de- proach of their prey. Pearl Hart, on bandits. particularly of the road no longer holds any fas- different. I suppose he's too tired. and rather attractive bov. and stared at her companion with Montreal where special arrangements clivity with accurate judgment of one the contrary, was as cool and unconcination' for her and she leads a quiet, Poor John!" It was in the from which trace face of as in color to cerned she when the were made of have in wise every the stole her has days ways grown carefully who jail at Tucson, Arizona, uneventful existence, after having She put her apron to her eyes and that I first made Pearls had fled. w and xtermelons her toted The girl possessed blacking the wilderness. as strange and thrill- then quickly smoothed it down. As acquaintance watched. passed through and obtained from her a confession she In search "My God, Joe, She was closely gnarled too, but a wonderfully tenacious memory. One box along Chicago streets faltered, aint ing a series of adventures as ever fell she neared the little plain farmhouse, hioh laid bare the details of her rov- she found a way to elude her gerrd-lans- . glance alwas sufficed to photograph of custom. It was alt in the days that terrible. What can it be? Maybe to the lot of one of her sex. her home and Johns, she saw a dark ing and singularly romantic life. This She met a man who lived in the the outlines of a face or the peculiar- work a slightly larger contract than this place is haunted. star-tiefigure on the back porch. To have as immediately The less had undertaken hitherto mind she on that her a was the school a town where of hardly Indelibly, ities iocattd, place after she had sprung The Flirt. been caught showing emotion would to his alL taan was listened me told afterwards confederate, she and before she had and although notoriety by accomplishing a feat Harry Bordenian, been is which The flirt have strange indeed in her. Her by never before generally to mouth with to the id drew a At of the robbers' gratopen "a harsh, length vigil holdup performed by one of her been at the school four months she that at that t'me the from tl! meant the feminine inconstant is by face stiffened back to the old lines. did not occur to her. it is certain that a close. The rattle of the coach and ing dirge that holding up sf a stage coach eloped with him. and robbing the sides of the canyon. Then suddn'v no means the cold and heartless being But it was only for a moment and At that time Peari Hart was 1C the memory of that passing stage and hoof strokes of the horses passengers at the nt his from of walls the and the the of trail of the dicanyon perplexed scowl faded and abroad of the novelist's misrepresentation. then with conscious effort she allowed a and came lonely She old. the Brrdemau was possibilities gun. It Jo the culmina-- years Sir Walter Scott knew better when her features to relax again. girl's eyes glistened like those of a grin took Its place, exploit of her career which had rectly to Chicago where, however, she served later to draw her into the exhe wrote that woman in our hours John was sitting on the porch. His to tones been a stormy and in he of cried all about landed which "Its her crime right, crouching of upon spring the tiger eventful one from remained but a short time. Following ecution to head hard of and bent forward as he drowsed. The coy ease, uncertain, team a lead hut victim. As relief. the swung great r'y childhood. Theyre nothing' a quarrel with him cne day she dis- in the penitentiary. please, is to mankind's pain and sor- wife put her hand fondly upon the into view she leaped from her hiding bullfrogs, gal, big croakin bullfrogs. the Pearl Hart is a party the On to went morning following Trmidad She appeared. native of Canada, a ministering angei. row veritably drooping head. It did not seem so And Pearl Hart., as desperate a feere her placa and stood covering the trail with Col., but later came bark to Chicago reached the mining camp and Pearl parents, honest, respecta-It is remarkable how often a girl who strange to caress him as she had exas one male the leveled has world exer bandit office revolvers and a cook as work to pointing went to reconciled became Bcrieman and in people humble circumstances, a pected. John woke with a start. an exclamation of sur- has bad a score of hearts remained in the Wim'v City boy in a sort of hotel. Before she straight at the driver's head, the other known, uttered 13 she They le age r.S!iAt0ay flaxen set dozen scalps John, she said, why arent you dangling, and pale comat window at of this unlooked the the her gladness a week. stage. prise Joe, "Pr rst P'rmaSe Into the out-during the year of the World's Fair had been there in bed? Have the others gone to down by her elders as more effervegirl Throw up your hands and be quick for explanation of the mysterious world, running away from her after which another quarrel with her panion on the trip, went to her and ror and rode on with fully recovered scent and volatile than perfume, bed?" declared he had a good mining claim about it! she shrilled. 'n,lsay' Ont, and taking husband caused her to again pay makes one of the most domestieab'e I thought Ud stay up for you, AnThe ringing tones of the terse comspirits. to Trinidad not far distant. She was out of a younger sister. The She west. returned visit two, of wives and mothers when her time nie. Theres a full moon. Did you until their with return to wished menace, pursued mand, They she flight deadly said replete and essed as boys, made and-latAriz. to She went Phoenix, money their way by become tired of carried conviction to the ears of the within six miles of Mammoth where comes to marry. The face once see It? Seems as if I ain't seen so to Buffalo, N. Y., where they had not been in Phoenix a week when to Canada, having and his horse man- wreathed with light, mocking laughter fine a night since a long time." The Chicago stage driver. He had lived too long the West. in the worked for a while in a factory she met Bordeman at a boarding roughing it He fumbled awkwardly for Annies of the In the west to despise an order of that aged to fall into a river and would becomes beautifully serious over a picture and glowing followed reconciliation a re. prospector's cflll,lren house, were .v- employed. After kind when backed by the gaping muz- probably have been drowned had it cradle; the favor that was once dis- other hand and took it in his two big to believe that led her bethey the c'aim until lived two the had together S.tPrs been ,n Buffalo for number of candi- calloused hands. ,wo months their the Spanish war, when could dig up enough gold in a short zles of a brace of six shooters, even not been for the prompt assistance persed among any parents got ginning of enlisted for ber girlish heart and hand them dates was fragile-lookinrendered a tr, . Pearls it uttered They said nothing. They couldnt to by back by vigorous her Canada, though to way in McCord's time pay regiand finally recovered them, Bordeman a woman's love to be be- All seemed so strange and new. For In the bushes becomes hands. bis whom They camped u the him. Several with went sinewy stripling she and love of roving had become ment and left the territory. to develop any trace bands could have crushed in rough for the night, intending to push on for stowed, for always, upon one man out the moonlight had brought a wonderWhen Bordeman left his wife she days' work failed Implanted in Pearl Harts ful kindness. Chicago Daily News. on the claim and and tumble battle. 'With a desperate the hills the following morning and of the whole wide universe. Flirtadirt the in of 1)080111 to allow to went gold and attire male donned of her leading again a nnt 61 with both her clutch at his lines he pulled the lead- seek a secure biding place. That day, tion, wisely understood, is perhaps the disgusted she out grew hired and where she uneventful existence at Mammoth, Ariz., hnm ers almost upon their haunches and however, their lack of provisions com- means by which nature has insured Knowledge and Wisdom. and her new friend. W0 Fear wanl later she again as cook In a mining camp on the condition man to ride Into Mammoth the widest possible range of selection, to the sudden sat a halt of pelled Globe the Knowledge is proud that Cowper: coming swearing then thought She away, her sister accompany-tbanks of the Gila river. It was at this a "stick up to her strange oaths to himself in an under- for the purpose of purchasing tobacco and hence in the long run the highest he has learned so much; wisdom is r,e.r s before and the pair went time that she attained that degree of stage and proposed and food. By this time the officers of attainable degree of human happiness. humble that he knows no more. business was entire- tone. otb were dressed in skill with firearms which afterwards companion. The bovii Philadelphia Ledger. Pearl laughed triumphantly as she the law had become aware of the and he strongly ob- him to new one of of the clothes and name ly the her apparently had no gained for The HARVEST MOON THE LAST FRONTIER tale of PEARL HART, THE GIRL BANDIT - Chi-ne- Wof ' ! wire-boun- , ' c - h ethe e tr e vthn g . n |