Show QAN aff L T AN I 1 the fight at haws hasps crossing by albert R lyman after being closely as associated soc for thirteen years keaist ye aiSt N v ith lem red hed aud and seeing him rise to the occasion anil and fleet meet the emmer pency geney lit in numerous bur surprise prise situations it Is quite impossible I 1 to think of 0 him and I 1 undecided when that boat headed for destruction puny sentiment and hairsplitting hair splitting distinctions had bad no place in the stern kind of resolution needed to save gave that boat putting pulling his six shooter on oarsman L H 1 redd ordered him back bach to his place lat the oar v I 1 piloting that stricken craft to what trema ined possible in the way of a thi on the 1116 east emetilde side was vas no task for or a child and ot of itself alone was quite enough t fo d occupy a full set of but besides that there was those two hye hyenas nason on top of the cliff ard two men len had to stand Inre ln redl diness ness with their guns in their hands to crack at those two heads the second they came in fit sight bight otherwise they would stay up long enough to take deadly alin a in althey had come so bo near doing with thor their first shots even while lille the boat livas reeling dizzily towards death in the strong current cu rient those two heads lidd to be keep down at all al hazzard hazzards haz zarda only by darting up and firing quickly without aim could paxton and its his oily ally tire fire at all but most tia of their shots sho lilt hit wild in the i cartei yet all the struggle to reach the lower end of that bar bai in safety was less perilous than the landing was to toe be when every ani man would have to be occupied in getting the boat and tile the animals safely out of the lushing stream furthermore Futher more a target on oli land Is more easily lit lilt than a target ton water and the minute they land ed d and tile gunners on oil the boat gave their heir hands to icim something ething else those two allas on oil top the distant cliff were lb wrought rought to tear with mote moie deadly joint aim jody lyman ll 11 man had jumped with the rope to land and was v as pulling tile bot bont lip on the sand when a bullet struck his bia leg above the knee shattering the bone to a hundred splinters As ar lie idl fell one of the thieves rose lose up and idled exultingly 0 o boys ohp ferry ferryman ferrymen men and hyrum being occupied with the ho lio Fec and other thins th liis lorn lem redd hedd jumped t to the wounded man to get et him andel unde cover but the netti pst cover was ill the willows willow a four rods away vp ip a heavy yand rand bank up that sand bank lie struggled with his load tile the athlea VU isho oling vt ft him as fast as they f olad load and fire and they hey kept up the he fire till he disappeared with its his burden in tile the willows it was the hardest work I 1 ever did in my life lie he declared it relating lating le account years beara wards the rhe sun sull or oi th tint at even eventful trul Octo octobie Oc tobe bei day was sinking low ind and screened by the thick willows from any further if pr tb the five iiii dpn waited for foi the darkness dai kness to coa cover r their next move As soon ai as they could come out without being seen ken they gathered hois borss and prepared to start toi for bluff paxton and its his P arliler ar tiler minus bed food and everything but what they word wore or 01 carried when they went vent 1 into that ani ambush bush carne came down from their perch to the waters edge and called loudly in tile the darkness dai kness wishing visiting to make sonic some kind of compromise and I 1 be brought over to tile the aalt eai t side but the five men made neither noise nor light and went silently on an with their preparations to move J but on that west sl side G a skiff lay hidden in the willows still and if tile the thieves found it they cO come aver and carry cany on tile the fight that I 1 fact alone seemed to necessitate e the bove move from the river liver I 1 when all was ready and they the wounded man on oil a horse hoice ill hf taint fint 1 ed with pain they tied the dang alln leg IP to tile the cinch to keep it F ifill 1111 and then abe very slowest SlONIe lt gait pit tile they could tako take brought excruciating pall pain to that hat shattered limb with every etc peep p of tile the horse hoise up along the rocky locky road they climbed from the ill liver er bottom I 1 and tol tolled let slowly around the great gray sandstone bute bubb that stands south I 1 east of tho the crossing when they had 1101 around the bute and started stained got across tile the country for fol castle wash their road read leading ove over a dry bench covered atilt black shad scale the torment of the horses motion became intolerable and the wounded man mail beezee them to stop they made camp rig right lit there the nearest jorte li they knew about miles was wag in lalie lake C gulch ule six or even beleu the horses was a brass grass jor for away to burn biln nothing doubtful qu quan aw and hads eald wd and aliso but the 4 belp from wind or hat cutely no had to all thel tha sa same e they rain or stop fand to amp it ite ill tho possible redd le 11 of the thieves L coming road and put way ay on tile the andrut rode baak back a IT fastened on tile the top tir up a T follow us saving it if YOU note of it a into camp dont shoot lat but come on irv man an a hr q that aba t W late been very it t M must nave really ear early ly tile he next day dav it if not bight to had tl stopped b but ut when they antar as poon as possible have front rolles miles eipl ade cle seven fl ewel it t that it it were the the river hut but eyen wanted to 1 nearest rarest W ter no n 0 one birgett I 1 on n F ro 0 the hilr in tant I 1 cries it dor deott in the lerr men ro rode the lake towards with a canteen nn tile t sand ants r ni Us lis indefinite e hour ly lyman man contemplated with will nothing to i of nf 1 agony SV to skill kallel ed hands to ease 11 11 pall wl thile alme wound for foi A long e dress diess his tear 1 bearc of the tha ronk no that help hell of f benefit front yond yo re vii it alt it came be morning morn ln or later when needed aull Ou ll arriva much ot of abt in tile the and sitting com ro lads tile two to their fire alro watched I 1 anxiously and tried to in kept kepi awake hut but whit what could they do 10 it if they did keep atil a alip I 1 7 11 II HOKI got a ble which aro are corn com mon in that part of the country an and a biving it to the wounded mounded man in all said it if you want me and im asleep beep pole poke ma in avith with this stick when bell daylight came to that shad scalf suli solitude tude tile the wounded limb w was a a A terrible eirl ble acht to see badly sole and discolored anil and a mass of shutter ed cd bones some of them near the surface could be taken out and had to be taken out but others with their sharp points and edges pierced the flab at an all unreachable depth to ride further on a horse was vis unthinkable to move at all seemed out of the question and yet to stop right there in that bleak thirsty wild erness appeared a desperate course i to it was a long monotonous hundren hun dral miles to duff buff the nearest help and chev decided to have hyrum parkin undertake the trip on oil one of their best horses when lie ha disappeared over a distant ridge they began a lonie and anxious wait valt loins what they could to make the sufferer suf feier comor t ahme ble and hophie lopina hp he would endure till help arrived the made another trip with the canteen to like gulch and rard cared tor for tile the hoiss and did all they could to leave L H redd free for every service lie he could render lender in camp but we keep the mazotti out of that wound he said they seemed to develop lit in the night and we ve washed them out in the morning between the ravages of oc the ma masott and the utter tacit lack of any antiseptic or bandages lan daes and thi general exposure and unfavorable surroundings it became a more burning question every hour whether avrum perking perkina could outride the development of blood polson poison and thil thal other cles or of death deall which hovered I 1 arnd them the first day on the bench passel and another alc ht and another dav they quit looking for the ithe thieves ves from towards the river but from that festering Wet lne jornd they enned theft eye ee asnen and again to tile the place w bere the road load crossed the ridge tov ails bluff and won wonderer derel hov low much innear they could wait valt how much longer they would have to wait valt |