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As she disappeared into the door of her house, Sinclair looked at the bowed head of John Gaspar. "Denver!" he called suddenly. "Yes, your honor." "The prisoner's hands are tied. Wipe the sweat off'n his face, will you?" "Sure!" With a large and brilliant bandanna Montana obeyed. Then he paused in the midst of his operation. "Your honor." "Well?" "It ain't sweat. It's tears!" "Tears!"
In 1860 and 1862 precious metals were found in what was then eastern Washington; Lewiston, Idaho City, and the old Hudson Bay Company's post of Fort Boise became thriving towns, and in 1863 the territory of Idaho was formed, with limits including what is now Montana and part of Wyoming. In 1863 Arizona was cut off from New Mexico, and in 1868 Wyoming was made a territory.
The result was that both fell seriously wounded and Caesar set up a howl of dismay, not so much for his masters as from alarm for himself. Fred and Otto came forward, and stood looking down upon the outlaws, who were in the agonies of death. "It was our lives or theirs," said Fred coolly, for he had been long enough in Montana to become used to scenes of bloodshed. "Yes," answered Otto.
Idaho and Montana, by reason of their great distance and the interruption of communication with them by Indian hostilities, have been only partially organized; but it is understood that these difficulties are about to disappear, which will permit their governments, like those of the others, to go into speedy and full operation.
This unsettled land so long held in small repute by the early Americans, was, as we have pointed out, the buffalo range and the country of the Horse Indians the Plains tribes who lived upon the buffalo. For a long time it was this Indian population which held back the white settlements of Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado.
"Sure, I was through it all," he began. "I was buildin' boats in Prince George; and scoutin'. Upwards of three months we hadn't no news from outside and the settlement was in a continuous state of scare. It was supposed the Crees had been joined by the Montana Indians; and all said we was cut off on the south.
Hardman, his man Purcell, and the outlaw Mac New. He called himself Hurd. He was one of Hardman's jailers there in Marco. But I knew Hurd as Mac New, back in Montana. I saved him from being hanged." Pan moistened lips too dry and too hot for his swift utterance, and then he told in stern brevity the true details of that triple killing.
In our party were Senators Baker, of Kentucky; Bull, of Montana; Wendell, of Massachusetts; Hammond, of Michigan; Pennypacker, of West Virginia; and Congressmen Holloway, of Illinois; Manysnifters, of Georgia; Van Rensselaer, of New York; a majority of the Kentucky delegation, Mr. Ridley, Senator Bull's private secretary, and several newspaper men. Senator Bull is seventy, tall and massive.
There was something different about the man who had searched the Staked Plain with Hopalong and Red: he was not the same puncher who had arrived from Montana three weeks before. There was lacking a certain air of carelessness and he chilled his friends, who looked upon him as if they had never really known him. He walked up to Mr. Trendley and gazed deeply into the evil eyes.
It is a pity that such men cannot be compelled to serve at least one enlistment in the Army, and be drilled into something that resembles a real man. But perhaps recruiting officers would not accept them. FORT SHAW, MONTANA TERRITORY, October, 1878.
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