Show sanjuan and its autes by albert K R lyman continued from last week john grasped the humor burnor of the situation especially since he knew they had the growl on him and after cutting a generous pile lie he fall to see bee posers poseys supreme satisfaction as his squaw served supper for ali the e white while beggar posey always insisted that he had nothing to do with the killing of smith thurman Thur nian and may at pluto springs and that he took no part in the right fight at la sal and in the later fight at soldier crossing if he was not in them it was because his people had not yet moved up from navajo mountain but even so ao he knew that they returned red handed from that slaughter at la sal without being compelled to give any account and from the killing at soldier crossing even it if he were not in the fight the victorious indians went into the navajo mountain afountain country and he had splendid opportunity to drink deeply of their wild exultation As this story relates how in later years posey armed himself to fight the united states and finally died in open defiance of its authority it is well ft ell to consider carefully what these two pluto plute fights led him to believe consider also other situations equally misleading to his untutored mind the government attempted half a dozen times or more to move his people to a reservation in colorado but it failed every time the fact of the matter Is they are here yet posey considered all these failures lalli irps while he built up a belief that uncle sam could not touch him my aly firsthand acquaintance with posey began in 1891 at peavine leavine spring on elk mountain lie ile had his camp very near to ours in a quaking asp grove three families of them made the camp the father and mother old mr air and mrs airs Cheer posey with his wife and two little boys and scottie and its his squaw Cheer che was well advanced in years even then and lits his principal activity consisted in milking the goats while the old lady held them by the horns he would come hobbling out of the burdened with no cloth clothes but a breech clout and while grandma grand ma Cheer ran those contrary animals and had a dickens of a time getting her tired old fingers on their horns she scolded the old man in shrill staccato seeming ever to order older him to do just the opposite to what he was doing the old man bore it calmly ns as if lie had been hear tug ing it fifty years or more and when she had captured a goat with pen dulus udder he toddled with his I 1 black coffeepot coffee pot spread its legs as far as possible and milked it from behind continued on last page continued on 4 0 O made direct to farmers aiom agents of the farm fairn loan commissioner jere here Is help if you need it it if you need advice on oil liow how to start or what to do write to the agricultural college loran logan wilfor D porter editor of farm news bureau SAN JUAN AND ITS continued from page 4 posey and scottie Sc ottle always devoted to each other were never in camp when I 1 awoke in the morning they had gone silently away while it was yet dark to spy the deer still grazing in the open with the early dawn once as the gray light began to appear in the east I 1 became dimly aware of the distant footfalls foot falls falla ot of a racing horse lie ile camo came rapidly nearer and when his he seemed ready to crash right over our bed I 1 jumped up it was posey leaning forward on hla his mustang and riding neck or nothing buckskin big one he half whispered taking but a second to dismount and grab a gun he went ent its as he came the sound of the poney feet feel died way in the distance and I 1 wondered as I 1 still wonder why he was out without a gun or was he back for another gun while I 1 was still in bed a shot rang out off towards the bears ears and later the two brothers came by with a big buck on one of their horses around their camp they had sl athers of venison hung to dry it looked appetizing but when mrs airs posey gave me a liberal slab I 1 was disappointed to find it entirely without salt she always treated me kindly lier her pleasant impressions still live in my mem ory but it may be that her words and her looks of that time were sanctified ino tin unusual usual permanence by he tragic fate so soon to overtake her her oldest boy just a little bourner than 1 I dressed then in a short shirt and a hopeful smile lie ile and his brother seemed to have liberty to do absolutely as they pleased why they never did wron was a mystery possibly no wrong had ever been defined and forbidden neither parents grandparents grand parents uncle nor aunt seemed to drewni of at the little boys they rolled oft off of their sheep she ekins salna when they got ready in the rooming morning always early and they hunted all day where they pleased and stayed till they wanted to come back to tho the wick tup sometimes as we rode we caught glimpses of at the two little savages with their bows and arrows alone and far away in fit the thick timber but a homing pigeon would be as likely as aa they they to get lost they heard beard no orders to wash their faces or their hands no exhortation to comb their hair put on or take off any clothes they had no books no teachers no lessons no chores no morals no commandments one day was as good to them as as any other and every one was a holiday I 1 imbibed somewhat of their extravagant freedom and sometimes I 1 would give a pig if I 1 could break away from ten thousand burdensome customs and answer the sweet call of the wild as they answered it as th the wild rabbit answers 11 i as the he squirrels and the blue jays answer it one dwy day we brought u alif a b band d of f horses to the old log corral as posey and scottie came in from the hunt and they wanted to lo do our roping my father and jim told them to go ahead pointing out tho the tine ones s wo we wanted to catch it was as a game they the knew well and we e watched it with interest with lasso ready and muscles tense they darted forward and shot the loop over the bronchus bron chos head jerking up the slack buck before lie he knew what had happened to him then quick as seat scat they doubled tho the ropo around aro find their hips and braced to bring the frantic animal to a stop sometimes they were yanked oft off the ground but they always lighted on their feet and made a shorter bound next time till the choking creature had to stop the way lie he caught our black more mare in red canyon said my fattier father as we ve watched from the bars when lie he saw me coming he wanted to get his rope lope and be off so he be snubbed her over a cliff and broke her neck and he got out of sight while I 1 stopped to make out what had happened continued next t weli |