Show san juan and its by albert R lyman I 1 when ha uw jaw that I 1 knew all about it heu he was its ot alij vi very mitch ofin l ej 0 1 I had rig fegl uni u n il I that he ichi deop it tip roe me aa a hot ewt potato in which at I 1 stayed with unfaltering devotion till I 1 wrote him a check which ht ch 1110 L he 0 rend read a aril of it lie accepted for or booi gooi goo I 1 money wadded it do down wn in a greasy old pocket and de parted pa ted in haste it took months for the wherefore of that haste to ta rome come to light hu bu here we get gel to it hy by short cut he to headed straight bark bacic to long point pot got ray my brown mr mar r an mil I 1 traded hr to a navajo he fiilus l however to show the navajo agaj av aj hou w i it be to keep her out oid of 0 slight sight and when he be brought her into bedl I 1 her it was ft as now the navajos cavajos Nava jos turn to move and he obil l posey to dip dig him up aric another tier hor horte horse te of course it then became poseys turn to move bit lie was aa over the hills and far iway imp 1 ard ar d I 1 was not to know toi for n long lone time just what move he trade made in 1901 1 I found a 1 kray gray mare ot of mine tie I 1 to a post try the ie road and I 1 booc her it nio me t seems 0 hat at old party 1 ir r I 1 I 1 in vi a and nd he seemed se nied 1 amount anoush lie he came to claim her explaining that she belonged to posey when patty fatty went vent back empty posey came in his wrath for the gray mare I 1 lacked much of feeling the tolar ance for posey then that I 1 feel right now and after telling him of what ht hc had done with my brown mare I 1 told him a number of things not noi rec necessary recess essary arv to repeat but I 1 made it very clear that I 1 would keep the gray mare his fury rE relied fever heat beat tie swore he threatened among other things he told me that some time when I 1 went on the range I 1 would not corn come P back that the coyotes would cat me I 1 asked numen kumen jones francl francis nielson and other conservative men about the propriety of swearing out a complaint against him but they advised if it tie ivle to let it blow over without trouble rouble here heie it Is right to explain that sonic some time previous to tills this the fluff row cow men had rounded up rind and killed from 75 0 lead head of broom tall hordes vint spoiled a lot of good rang lange and posey m when lien refused the gray mare contend ed why object to my taking it a horse horsa to use ugo when you ou are killing them thema ile ho framed it into quite a worthy nt but he failed to make necessary distinction between it a valuable broke horse and a worth worthless Tess broncho bion cho to himself in hit his anger aneer posey fesq ored something like tills what ila did uncle sam do to punish us for It Illine all those men at ta la sal nothing what did lie be do about the soldier anti and the cowboy we wounded and doir geil I 1 to death at soldier crossing No nothing lhing what has he accomplished in all his bis efforts to move us out of san juan co county u nty nothing ite he can do nothing to me ill do as I 1 please with tills this assurance lie he went into the he first melon patch lie he saw defying anyone to hinder him from taking all he wanted also he invited himself into a womans comans orchard and mocked at her when she protested to checkmate this new turn of events kumen hume jones and others advised me to prose pros cute him for stealing my horse i I 1 swore out my complaint before justice peter allan but the big bl thing now was to serve it how could posey bo be arrested without stirring up a dangerous fuss remember that bluff kluft was just a little community or abou thirty families and the nearest neighbor town was monticello Mon fifty miles away on the deputy sheriff arthur S wood devolved the huge ity of serving that warrant without precipitating a disastrous uprising posey had hla his on the little red hills just north of town anti and around him camped a group of friends among them old patty ganop scotty and six or eight more to go in that camp and arrest posey at the point of a gun might be like throwing a matin matill in a can of powder the deputy sheriff w wanted anted him to come down and talk with them no he would do no such thing lie he could make out that some new movement had started in town and he sat stub borely down in his while most of his people scattered brouna town to see all they could sheriff wood funded up and deputized about a dozen men to go with him up to the on the hill we had bad about three guns among us and all were afoot but three that was wag ou cu the thirtieth of july my journal for that date ralls falls to give tile te names of the posse but I 1 can kemem bet bei humen jones joseph P F barton francis nielson Nl elson L 11 redd nick lovis henry Pel pehrson irson J B decker jr tho the deputy sheriff A S woon V end there were others I 1 A flurry of excitement ran thru the camps as aa we gathered around rind and in poseys wic klup this wic klup a summer residence consisted of a closed in bower boer of cottonwood colt onwood boughs matted together and dried in the suit till it afforded a fairly cool shelter even on that blistered hill posey 1 bitting eitting between his fire and the brush wall ft all could hardly make out just whai what we meant to do when told that we wanted him to come down to town with us he refused flatly whereupon our spokesman let him know that he was going anyway everything became commotion in a second poseys squaw up a gun but J F darton barton took it out of 01 her hand in less time than it takes to tell it A plute appeared on a horse just outside and we heard the sharp report of a gun right light einung us ua but no ono one knows even yet just where cherti lit it came from unless a cartridge had been kicked into the fire I 1 posey became a ke kicking king striking squirming figure with halt a dozen men reaching tor for him as lie he backed into the wall when he fell thru that thai wall nick lovla lovis fell thru on top ot of him holding its his wrists as in a vice ond anti calling for someone to put on the handcuffs with his wrists fastened together he had to bo be chur churched cried up ana down several times before taking me hint to stand on his feet instead of curling up on the ground his squaw had been letl iett for kumen jones to pacify but she became about as belligerent bell gerent as her lord and the two of them were helped oft down the hill ito to begin begia with or arrange tor for a hearing I 1 continued next week |