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TILE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 , 1883 OUR OWN LITTLE HIGHWAYMAN , 11Y JCAQUIX MILLKH. I hail been duly elected to the re sponsible position of Judge of North * era Oregon by the people thereof fco- fore I yi > t had n board. With that matchless confidence nnd nudacity which la born of youth nnd fed on van ity , I hud taken thu oath of oflico nnd entered upon its duties , nnd , with ono law book nnd two six shooters , pro- oeodcd to sternly administer justice , if not the law. One eultry t vdlight , oa I sat smokinp ; a pipe en the stops of my olHco , an old man camp shullling down thostoop hill from n little cluster of cabins that clung to the side of the mountian , with its top crowned by n gallows nnd gruvojard. The cabin constituting tny oflico nnd my residence my country residence and city residence lay at the edge of the tumble-down old mining town. This town waa deep down inn canyon. Indeed , it wns called Canyon City. You will find it on thomnpof Oregon. It is now the county sent of Grant county. Wo who had found this min ing camp nnd built this dismal inoun tain town , 200 miles from any other place , firat named it Orodolphia ; but ll didn't ' look like Orodolphia. It looked like Canyon City. The miners called it Canyon City nnd Canyon City it is to this day. Hrown , bold hills , high and barren , heaving to the clouds all around us ; n high , timbered mountain for a back ground , away to the south and east , with the graveyard nnd gallows look ing squarely down upon us , whence the Shoshone Indian sometimes shot arrows at night into our ono populous street , and wounded , drunken and howling minors this , in short , is n charcoal sketch of my scat of justice , where the old man who shuttled down the hill in the twilight found mo sit ting that sultry evening. "They stole two horaoa , " began the bent nnd weary old men , as ho shuf fled up close , lifted his tattered hat in his loft hand , and cluched a coiled rope in his right. "My children ! " I stood up in an instant lifted my face to the gallows , nnd then glanced at the rope in his right hand ; but be fore I could speak ho put up a hand in protest and went on. "No , no ! 1 I don't want 'en punished. No , no , not like that , judge ; but if they'll go back with mo , I'll take 'em back , I will , and and I'll forgive 'em , and and " The poor old man quitu broke down. Ho put on his hat and pulled' it over his eyes , aa ho turned aside. "They are your children ? " "Yes. " "Tho law will have to " "No , no , no ! I don't want the law. I want my children. Why in the world they run away I don't know. Of course , it was dull for 'em down in the settlements , nnd then they hparn of the mines , I s'poso , and wanted some excitement , so they sacl- died up and rode 200 miles through the Injun country , and I after 'em. And now they won't go back. Why. - ono of 'em " The old man twisted " > his hat nnd his rope together in his f two hands , nnd caught his breath nnd half stopped as ho spoke here , ns if there was something behind nil this ? that ho did not care to telf ; but in i iribment'ho went on. "One of 'em , the the girl was to have been mar ried only last week ; but they took my hosscs and run .iway. They're up there now , in that old cabin with thereof roof half off. They've made a bed out of the saddle blankets , they've turned the bosses out on the hill , and they toll mo they won't go back. They say they're going to stay and dig gold. Now , jedge , I want you for to go and talk to 'em. Got 'em to go back. I'm all nlone. Their mother died when they were babies , and I brought 'em up. I brought/em up by hend , jodgo. And nnd , jodgo , they're not bad. They only don't want to. stay at homo. They say they will dig lots of gold and bring it to me ; that they won't go back to the settlements no more. r X Now , jodgo , you come no in the dark and talk to 'em. Don't lot anybody see you , for I don't want 'em took.up for stealin. ' I only want you to tell 'em to go back. " In a moment more wo were climbing - ing the hill toward the rootless old cabin that clung to the hillside , under the gallows and the graveyard. I cannot tell to you the pity nnd the pathos that was in that old man's voice , as he had stood there in the twilight , twisting his hat and his rope together , pleading ior his runaway children. I know it was not the law I waa about to try to enforce ; but I thonghc it was justice , nnd my heart waa with the old Oregonian. As wo climbed higher up and out of the can yon , and stood by the door , wo were quite away from the noise of the town. All wits aa still as if wo had stood at the door of one of the ever lasting homes on the hilltop. The door had long ainco disappeared from the deserted old cabin. I lis tened. Not a sound. I stopped across the sill. Click , ciick ! Two black bushy headsnhot up from under a pile of blankets in a dark cor ner , two whitu little hands shot out , and two bull-doii DarringeM looked u in the face , as if about to hark. Wo'wont outside. Perhaps it was cooler there ; for , as bi'foro observed , it was a sultry evening , I do not know why , but T began to suspect this whimpering old man of some sort of falsehood and trickery the moment I K\W these two resolute heads shoot up in the dark corner of that deserted old cabin. Then the pistols ! "If these are your children , " I said , with a spice of resolution , as wo reached a cool spot , about fifty yards distant , "if these are your chil dren , they are not worth your tears or your trouble. You had bettor take your horse * and leturn homo. When they got hungry they perhaps will not bo so ready to draw Derringera on their father. And if tliuy are not your children , I don't see what better you can do than to let them alone. I think we'd butter lot them sloop. " The old man was looking up under the shadow of the gallowd as 1 spoke , an if trying to make out the horses that were gracing amonjr thu grave * there in the d.irlcm's.s , Ifu took u few titops in that direction , an if to make certain of his object , and then re turned , Then ho melted away in the darkness , and 1 eaw him no more. I waited patiently. To bu sand wiched in but.veen n graveyard and two vicious characters , with bulldog derringcm in hand , and have to wait tliero for the return of a sort of An cient Mariner , whom you begin to half suspect haa only just left ono of the graves , "for this occasion only , " is not pleasant. Pretty noon I started1 nnd I got down thu hill and into the heart of that town , after 1 did start , with n haste hardly consistent with judicial dignity. The next day there wns a sensation in camp. A pretty woman had come to townl The arrival of a pretty woman in any part of this earth that I have yet risited is nn event that loosens every tongue ; but the arrival of n pretty woman in a rtulo , wild mining camp , hundreds of miles aw v in the wilderness--why , it almost took men's breath awny. She had come in the night , men said. Come with her lover a beardless - loss fellow , a mure boy. They had been discovered walking down the one street that morning , looking curi ously nt the mines , minors , nnd all the strange sights of the half savage camp. camp.Was it n love affair ? Men grow bold with curiosity as the day wore by , and the two still wandered about the town or around thu placer mines in the canyon. She wns very beautiful. A bit stout , but rosy with youth nnd health. They were both shy at first the lover particularly so. And , indeed , when a half drunken miner made bold to speak to them , thu man , or rather the boy , shrunk back , blushing nnd embarrassed , while the woman , or girl , was left to do th talking. Who were they ? Where did they come from ? Was it n runaway match ? Would he keep her long ? Could that beardless boy keep that ono beautiful woman all his own in this town full of tall and brawny men ? Tneso were only a few of the many questions men put to each other , as the two still wandered up and down the camp , looking curiously at all men nnd all things they met. Toward night they wont to the butcher's and bought some meat. They next visited the German baker. Then , aa the sun wont down and lift ed the gallows to nwful prominence on the high brown hill , over the graveyard , the beautiful lady , with her weak and boyish lover , disappear ed from our savsge little town. It was ns if the sun and the moon nnd the stars had set forever on Canyon City. Men took their pipes , however , as was their custom , nnd sat on their doorstops and smoked in the twilight ; while the bat whirled by , and coyote called across the canyon to his shaggy mate prowling around the graveyard and the gallows. Suddenly looking up in that dieec- tion , I a.iw that the half roofless cabin had taken on n few fresh shingles , and that a smoke was curling lazily up from out the ugly , tumble-down old chimney. It all came to my mind like a Hash. The pretty lady and her boy lover were the two little desperadoes I had encountered only the night before in that same old cabin. I was more curious now than ever : but I kept my own counsel. Later in the evening I went around to the ox- presi oflico and waited for the arrival of the stage. From the driver I learned that fifty miles away an old man had been seen tiding furiously for the settlements and driving two horses before him. Curious to know who ho wns , I climbed onto the box with the dusty driver , after he had emptied his stage 6f mail bags and passengers ; and , when ho had turned his load ers with a long , lazy swing nnd was drawing up at the stable , I began to pump this traditionally dig nified and silent master of the road. "It was Cnttonden , " laconically an swercd the driver , as he drew up at the stable and throw the reins to his hostler. "What ! Not old Crittenden that killed- " "Tho Crittcndon that killed his man last year , and the year before , and is going to kill another this year. You see , there's a feller been .vfoolin' ' with iv gal of his. Hun away with her , or somethin' worse. Whoa ! Charley. Yes , I will take n cigar. Well , good night , judge. " The boldest men nnd the bloodiest men , too , in all the settlements were these Crittendens. A proud old south ern family. Poor ns could bo , but so proud ! Of course they were hated , and were feared , too , by the whole country. No man over struck hands in friend ship with this haul and unhappy fam ily. They were half outlaws , nnd yet no man could lay nny real dishon orable deed at their door , BUY * that of their dreadful ready use with deadly weapons. Even the women were feared in the settlements , I remem ber. And now ono of thorn was sto Ion or gene astray. And to think that this dreaded head of this clannish and most dread ed family had plead with mo for his children only a few hours before. "His children , indeed ! It was the old man's daughter that had been stolen ; not hii horse , " I said to my self , tint night , H ] went to bed , nnd waited to got n good look on the mor row at the woinon who could BO ad roitly draw a derringer. I saw her ; 1 saw her daily ; but she refused to make friends with any one. The two kept patching up the cabfn and it began to look as it they had come to stay. They made inquiries about the mines and seemed anxious to go to work. Ono day n miner met them far up in the canyon with pick , pan and shovel. Nothing remarkable about that , oxccpt that the woman carried the heavy pick and shovel and led the way ; while the man , or rather the boy , carried only the pan and fol lowed timidly behind. Hearing this , I decided in my judicial mind that it wiw the old man's boy , not his horses , or daughter cither , that had been stolen. They were evidently very poor , however , and , making little headway with the pick , they were soon out of favor with the butcher , and baker. It began to bo noticed that the omnku Boinutiines did not rise from I ho brok en old chimney under thu shadow of the Hallows , At such times the camp pretty cltiurly understood that the two [ overs were supperles * . A pistol WHS pawned soon. I called around to the pawnshop frequently now. I wa& waiting for them to pawn the pistol. They never did it. And 101 did not call , Iy nnd by the beautiful woman who still seemed to bo growing stout ; despite their hungory , began to make bold demands on both butcher nnd baker. The two made common cause nnd refused her absolutely. All this' time the lover , husband , brother , or whatever ho may have been , kepf timidly in the background. The two were evidently desperate , hungry , starving. t There wns a famous , or rather nun nious , house in the heart of town , kept by the Jack of Clubs. The Jack of Clubs was n short , stout , black woman , with n bullet head and a foot like an old-fashioned coffin ; and when ehe WAS mad , and stood straight up , nnd dug her fists in her ribs , and grow black in the face with rage , she looked like the Jack of Clubs , and that is why she wns so called. Ono day the beautiful woman on the hill , under the shadow of thu gal lows , cmno down , walking very fast nnd alone. She looked neither'to the right nor to the loft , but walked straight on down to the house of the Jack of Clubs , knocked , entered , shut the door behind her nnd disappeared , The town was appalled. It stood or its feet in silent consternation. It re fused to sit down while she remained inside that house. Cid Berry went up to ft drinking booth in thu open street , and withono eye fixed on the door of the infamous house , poured out nnd drank , alonu nnd in silence , n draught thut would stagger a sailor. After a while the beautiful woman came out. She , ns before , seemed in great haste , and looking neither to the right nor left , but walking very fast , started on uj through the town , toward the cabin on the hill. M n leered at her now. They looked nt each other and winked and madefaces. . Cid Berry boldly crossed her path. Shu did not speak. She refused to understand that he stood before her , but lustily trii'd to pass on around. Ho caught her by the shoulder nnd spun her about. Then , for the ilrst tune , her face mot his , and something else mot his face also ; for her arm sprang up like a steel spring ; and the short , ujily barrel of the derringer glistened in the sun just under his nose. nose.That night there wns ft fearfu storm , and the little brook in the bed of the canyon began to take to itself the air and diqnity of a river. How the rain did come down. No man sat in his cabin door thai night. All took refuge in the gam bling saloons , and oven in places o loss substantial character ; and the OIK topic there was the beautiful strangci on the lull ; her morals and her im morality : her reckless visit to tin wretched place ; nnd , also the disconv fituro of their bold loader , Cid Berry , The Jack of Clubs was sought ami consulted. She wns thoughtful and mysterious , "What in the world did the woman want ? Was she starving' ' Who was she , anyhow ? What was she ? And , above all , who was ho And what manner of man was he , to let her come to ? " ' Now , stop right there ! I'll answer yo no questions. She's a woman. " "Of course , she's a woman. " "Yes , she's all woman. That's jus what's the matter. Now , stop ! No1 a word , for I won't answer. The Jack [ o' Clubs bets the last scad on that ere card. She's iv woman and n stranger , and another stranger is a coming. " "Another stranger. . Prom Oregon ? ' "No , Cid. " "From Idaho. " "No. " "From from the states ? " "No , no , Cid Berry. From from , ' the hard work let her hard voice fal soft and low ; her eyes drooped dowr timidly for n time ; then , clasping her hands , she lifted her face , nnd looking up , said : "From from up there. " It was so still inside that house that the rain outside seemed beating like u hurricane. Cid Berry pushed himself back from the side of the woman , and , without knowing it , took off his hat. Soifie men went to the window , and looked out at the rain that came dash ing down into the town. No man spoke ; but ono by ono they molted away , and left Cid Berry standing there , thinking of the beautiful woman on the hill and the awful mystery of her sex. At lost , pulling himself to gether with great effort , looking down all the time nnd talking low and em- harassed to the short woman sitting there , ho said : "If gold will make up for it , Jack Mrs. Jack it gold will make up for it , Mrs. Jack o'Olub.s , she shall have the hull mine. I'm going a prospectin' in the mornin' , and , Jack , I won't bo back for half a year. When my mule's tail disappears over that hill you'll find the door of my cabin wide open. Put her in my house. Put her in , I say ; for it takes n very big house to hold a very small baby. " And , with this , the man dashed out into thu driving storm. The next morning the storm was booming. Many a cabin had been washed away. The miners on the other side of the stream , under the graveyard and gallows , wore com pletely cut oil' till they had thrown long , quivering logs across the swift , seething stream. And it was peril ous enough to cross ! The water was , far below , n boiling , foaming whirl pool , mad and wild and wicked as thu wild beasts and wilder men. How all eyes were lifted to the cabin now. If that woman should come down to town now , each man would hold his hat in his hand while she passed. She did not come the next day , nor the next ( perhaps she dreaded the crossing ) ; but early on the third day she was soon to slowly descend toward the town , Mori stood watching , wailing. The foot IOK was hidden in the depression of the stream , and when she disappeared in Ihia , men looked eagerly for her to reappear. Pretty soon an object was seen whirled about in a sudden turn of the stream below. A white hand was seen to reach out and that was all. They recovered the lifeless brdy far below , and it was buried on the hill , not far from the old cabin under the gallows ; but whether by accident or design who died no one could eny. Her lover was silent now an before. Silent ? JIo was uavago. And how the camp did abhor that boy now ! The weak , ruthless , nega- live little wretch , to let such a woman die ! No one would speak to him now. No doubt ho was hungry ; no doubt ho was starving , The camp didn't care ; the camp , I think , was glad of it. But pretty BOOH the camp began to see that a little circle and wall of stones was being built around the now urnvo on the hill under the gallows , Some men passing that way ono night found that this work wns being done by the boy they so heartily despised. This fact bohfg noised nb'otit , helped him in the eyes of the camp n bit ; but still it could never forgive him , nnd ho waa left to starve , soul nnd body , so far as the camp should care. Singularly enough , in a place so utterly isolated , where overbody know everybody , there began to bo frequent nnd rccklosn highway robberies on the road leading to John Day's city. This little clusUr of shanties was only three miles awny. It has long since disappeared from thefaceof the earth ; but still it keeps firm place on the maps of the country , nnd looks aa big there now AS it over did. It Boomed like n sort of joke to hnvo highwrtv robbora , or , nt len-t , n highway robber nmongst UH. Men laughed nt those who got robbed. Wna it not nil in fun , or had the wily Shoshonoo Indian tvlopted this plan to got n little gold dust without dig- ing it from the enrth ? One night , ns I stood wntching the monte game in the naloon , 1 saw n man , or rather felt a man come up to my side and look me steadily in the fnco. I did not move or eeom to no- tieo this ; but I felt my f.xco grow rod. Then 1 saw , or rather felt this man step back and speak in sharp , short , whispers to n companion. This com panion happened to be n friend of mine , and no soon as thu obtrusive party wont out I went straight up to him nnd naked what was the matter. The man blow n long , curling cloud of smoke , closed his eyes and chuck led : "It's the robber. He was robbed of his dust last night , nnd he says it waa n little feller nnd a feller without a beard. Sabu ? " "And ho means to hint that I I , the judge I'll I'll murder him ! " "Keep cool , now. You just keup cool. It's got to bo somebody. . It's got to be ono of us , ain't it ? Hero wo nro. Everybody knows everybody. No strangers up from the settlements yet. It'll all come out straight You just keep your shirt on , judges. " And , chuckling as if it was a great ioko to bo suspected of highway rob bery , the man sauntered up to the table and laid a blue chip on the uco of diamonds. Which one of ua was the highway man ? It is to bo admitted that our moral status was not high. Many of us hnd been in piison , including thu honored judicial head of the camp , nnd there is not a bit of doubt that n great many of ua ought to have had a similar and even more extended expe rience. But all that did not settle the question as to which ono of us was defying the gloomy old gallows that looked down upon UH. The little circle of rocks grow very slowly around the grave on the hill , for the boy waa certainly not strong now. Still it was to bu seen that ho kept steadily on at his singular task a task of sad , desolate love and devo tion. tion.After After a while the boy employed n teamster to haul him down some ever greens from the mountains , to plant on the b.irreiij brown hillside about the grave , inside the little circlif of atone. The teamster , doubtful of his ability to pay , demanded his hire in hand. The boy at once gave him a largo nug get of gold , and , turning away , went on up the hill to his cabin. The teamster ran to Cid Berry with the nugget. Consternation , curses , and the laughter. Berry lins been robbed of this nugget only the night before. The remaining Derringer was doing its work. And do you know wo all suddenly came to like that little highwaymen of ours ? Ho wao now even a greater hero than Cid Berry , who had slain nn Indian chief. Han him ? He was a hero now , n sort of Alexander. Canyon City lad n highway robbur of her own and such a handsome , young and dashing Dick Turpin it was , too ! All this would make our town famous in the land. Wo were particularly proud of our mysterious and sentimental little robber. The nugget , however , was not re turned , though Cid Berry proudly re fused to prosecute. Pethaps it was hunger that drove our hero once more and very soon to the highway , for in u short time another robbery was at tempted. This time , unfortunately , our hero attacked two men who hud newly come to the camp , nnd ho waa shot dead in liin tracks. 1 When these men told what they had done they were cursed and den- pised. A party went out in the dark ness nnd brought the body into town. It wns laid out on n monte-tablo , and the camp , now filling up with men from the HpttlomentH , came "pouring its people into the saloon to ace the corpse. Beautiful , very beautiful was the faco. The hands were so small nnd delicate ! Ono of them still held the ugly little pistol. And when , on ex amination , it was found not to bo loaded , the indignation against the two men was unbounded , Suddenly a stranger , who hnd pushed his way thiough the crowd , threw up his two hands and crowd : "It's Critloiiden ! Yen , it is ! You know the girl that was betrayed at the Forks , and they said hnd gone to 'Frisco to hiduJ" "Knto Crittondon ? " "yes , Kato Crittondcn. Well , this hero IB her sister. " "Brother , you mean. 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A Biirocnro for llllrid , llleedliijc , Itching and Ulcerated I'lltd linn been discovered by Dr. \ \ ' | | - Hani , ( an Indian rcmuly , ) lallul Dr. U'llllain'H Indian Ointment , A tingle .lion lias eiirod thu Horetihronlci'u tn of SO or 30)eiri hlaiulln . No onuiieud miller Ilio mlnuten alter appljlng thli wonderful Hootlilnh' medicine , lotloii , Inatril- menU and ilectuaileu do inoro harm than ( 'fxid , WIIIUiu'H Ointment alwoilji the tiimorx , thu intense Itching , ( lurtlciilaaly at idght nfur 1'UtliiK warm In lied , ) ietH n apoultUv , given In- Btnnt und iialnlcHH relief , and b prepared on I ) for 1'ilen , lulling of the prhato ptutri , and for i.otli In ; , ' ilsc > , \ilnttliollon.J. . M , Ccfllnlierry of Cleveland - land na\m\l. cut Dr. Wllllain'H Indian 1'ilo Oint ment : I liavu usud wore * ot I'ileH citief , and It alluriln map oabiiru to my that I ha vt nut IT found luijlhtirj ulikh ( , IUOMHI liniiii iitu | and perma nent relief nu Dr Wil IMII'H Indian Ointment Kurkalu liy all driin'i'UtH or mulled on receipt of nrlu1.00. . HENRY & CO. . Prop' , , CLKM'l.ANU , OHIO. Tor Kilo by 0. 1' Goodman , toLTomas&Bro , WILL IIUY AND HKI.L , AM ) ALL T ANHAt1ION COM.KCTHD TIIIHIKirn. Pay Taxee , Rent Houses , Etc. If TOU WANT TO BUT OB BILL Call at OfDce , Itoom 6 , Crdgbton lilock , Omaha. THIS N3SW AND M - rnr w. jcyond nnjroiwonablo rjuMton thnttu * CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN R'Y I/i / t > y nil o < dj tlio bc.n roiv 4 for you to take when Jrim-llne In cither direction b .twi-KS 1 Chicago and all of the Principal Points In 1ho West , North and Northwest .TftroJMllyofnralnothN.Vnn. TJmlVlnplnftl CltlMof tlio Writ nn.l Northwest nir taiiom on tills ronil. 113 . tliri'tijU tralus lunko close couuoctlouj TtltU Uio trains of alt r IUowls i Junction points. , ! > S , / , " - X fj fe. AA * ' S1 1 H-i.noT L.'wXuMl l b-AViUdiy . V.J t * * \ * < ' { * ry / ° < lt } ' * 'M > ' -u " . ! L.uiliOAGO } , fc KORTHWffeTKKH RAirWAYl . THE CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY , Over all . of Its prlnclpnl lines , rum o.ioli way d.illv from two to fourortuoro Fast lixprav Trillin. UU tin'only ioul \ > cst iif Uhldigo Uial tuc tlio The Imperial Palace Dining Cars. Jt niuin1 > ot tonsl : for TIcKets vlix thU roadliosuro they roml over ItnnJ takcnnnuotlios. MAKVIX Ill'aiurr.Ocu'lllatiaKcr.ChlcnKo , . W. II. STBSKKTT.acu'l IMss. .Agent , Clilcwo nAHHY P. ntllU , , Ticket AKrnt 0. A N. W. IVUIwnjr. " 0 > and Fajnhim rtrueta D. K. KIM11ALI , , AMtlKUnk'nckot . * . Ilallwny , ARPtit C. .NLW. Uth anil Farnham Btreetl J. HEM , , Ticket Aueiit . A N. W. Hallway , U. P. R. U. Depot. BAMKHT. 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