The Pioneer from Longton, Kansas • 1

CI ilia 1 fiL WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1880. VOLUME 1. NUMBER 14. STORY. SELECT liized the figure.

It was Maude Wallace. Oae bound and he had reached her tide, and his Serpent like arms were wound about her. JJine mine at he hissed. Not a word, not an outcry, or I'll hand you over iuto the care ot the li.diaiit-.' Panther Face. on TIIE AVENGING SPIRIT OF TIIECATA KAU I'.

ihe tihieously painted savages crowed into the cavern aud drew near colored fires. The walking-iu-the-air Oueiues was ooue by urawing a bluffed figure upon a wire stitachtd htm the caturact over to the culls. I've had heaps uf fun nut of that character, but it's ail gone and a nigh came from the Ian ay i anger. 'Oue thing more, Zigzag how about that wonderful tube that tends a bullet Without noise Nothing but an can buy a cart-load of 'em in the My dear said Wallace, 'giye rne your hand; you've saved my daughter's life, and you've nved me My heartfelt thanks are all that 1 can i'hVr at the back of the neck, as t'otheis said a seutiiiu laboring man, wboai i How noticed Hlutidiug beside tueU-al sheep, occupied j-isi theu in ruugln wiping his oiood bUine.i fingers aimii the wool, examining the carcass lu ib. I'ttgiuu of 'he head.

Is more of this villainy going on I inquired, nearing the group. lsitioul I am ashamed nobody met were good Tom Treddock'u first words, gi pping my hand as iu a vise, and smiling odJy through his anger and vexation. 'I am so sorry you find us in this state. You must forgive us, Mr, New- lo the captive maiden, Release me, sir, she cried anu maoe an unavailing liar I to nee BY FRANK bCMOST, CHAPTER XII. The savages rubbed to the vere of the loi reilt to oOwerVe the fall of the doomed men A wud chorus of yells ascended as at present.

What became of the poor fellow who was launched with me iroui the summit of the cataract herself from his grasp. Never! Your father has just escaped me, but his recapture is certain, and his death follows. You are mine, mine forever. No power can take you from me. I have played my game, and I have won it.

I need hut another trump 'Take cried a voice from the recesses of the cavern, and a r'fled cracked. Sloeum ndaxod his bold upon Maude, while a deadly palor spread overfiis face. A btight red sot' appeared upon his forehead, horn which said a hining voice, and a form crept out of the bushes close by. they taw the two whiles plunge downward and etrike the foaming waters but scarcely had they done so when a ttbadowy form emerged from the gloom of the valley and leaped into the whirlpool. This person seized the two helpless men as the waters tossed them to the 'I in here, and I can't be coaxed away from you while you have a gun left The ion r.

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and 7 nu It. Bakek, pastor- to protect me 'So this is the feller what writes Ii.jun stories, said Zigzag. 'Well, I'll diirface and with the '-apidity ot thought cut the thonifs that bound them to take you with me place where you gether. can see wild Injuns; these fellowes Grasping Wallace, the person cast around here are too a few ci finson drops feund their way. trinkling down Upon his face.

Wallace stepped forth from behind a huge bowlder, and leveled his revolver at the mass of savages. 'Sloeum. our reckoning is at hand. him upon the bank of tilt stream, and didthesamfl to the helpless body of 'You needn't trouble yourself to take me any where but to a point where I the half-drowned author. can home.

I've seen all the You nave nut a lew seconds to live, Indians I want to see. You'll never Blocum howled like a maniac, and drawing his revolver, he emptied You have played yonr came, and I told I would play mine, and I have done so chamber of the weapon at the petson 'Not yet not yet gasped the villain below the cataract, who was bearing away the two victims of savage super exclaimed his wife, whose eyes I couid see, were red with crying; and then, away the teais, she gavu me a greeting almost as hearty as her husband's, though a hysterical sob diversified it here and there. 'Come along into the interrupted Tre.ldock, seizing my arm. 'Never mind all this ho added, glancing at his wife and then he went on, turLing to the servants: 'Go down to the village and tell the butcher there are three more for him to fetch. That's a'l we shall' catch the scamp some 'Have you hod an acident with the I involuntarily asked, for at the end of the low, old fashioned passage we had jut entered from the kitchen, a large caneinent was partly hanging inward, most of the panes in it shivered.

'Oh, it, is only one of those jokes that somebody is playing us. It smashed in just ufter six this morning, before it was well light and Treddock sent flying- some of the fragments of glnsa from underfoot with a kick, as he laughed again I learned, in the course of conversa. tion which followed, that these outrageous annoyances began on the evening of the day od which Treddock sent me hia last invitation, and they had continued ever since. The first incident was the finding of three or four geese in the yard dead, wllh their heads, wholly or partly severed, as if the necks had been cut by. some iacgered instrument.

On the fol as he seized the girl in his death grasp stition hut his aim was wild, and the and drew his lonsr, glittering: knife, 'This this into her heart; we die to bullets sped wide of their mark. A precipitate rush of the savages fol t'ether. Ha! ha! you are foiled in your game she dies with me lowed down the side of the rocky emr- The knife fl ished on high, and Maude in order to intercept or overtake both the rescuer and the two men who had escaoed the friirhtful fall from shrieked and closed her eyes. Isetore the weapon could descend a dark body rushed forward and leaped at the rene above. Loud yells and the rapid discarge of gade's throat.

It. was Zigzag's wildcat. Its terrible screums were mingled with catch me out among the miserable ruffians again, I'll never write a.iotner Indian story while I live. I'm going to write love stories. 'You're a nice duck to write loye said Zigsg.

'Now, if it was Ripley I wouldn't say a word, because he's in love, nnd I know Ripley blushed, and Maude did bIso. Zigzag raw that he had made a slight mistake, and tried to cover it by compelling the wildcat to embrace Hartshorn, a treat that the anther declined emphatically, and begged to be excused. But little more can be added to our story. Wallace and his beautiful daughter departed for the silver regions, accompanied by Ned Ripley. Hartshorn found his wny to the Yellowstone river, and took passage on the first boat for Fort Lincoln, homeward.

Zigzag and his pet accompanied the trroup until they reached one of Gen, Miles' scouting narties, and then he bade them an affectionate farewell. He stood up in the the firearms awakened the slumbering ech oes of the haunted valley. the howls of the renegade as the brute's claws tore his flesh arid hurled him to Cheer up don't go to eleep cried the rocky floor. the rescuer. Old Zigzag never deserts In a moment Aland was clasped to a friend in teed sohaug on to me and make irood use of your feet, both of her father's breast, and Ripley's voice ppjke assuring words to her then came Lodge Directory.

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PosrON, JLMctatur. U. II. Kilookk, Reporter, a rattling volley of firearms as the In The naray ranker lea ttie way, ana the two men followed quickly after. dians sprang to the attack.

The Htivag-es almost thirty yards 'This way I this way I cried the well awav from the two men, and rjlocnm known voice of old Zitrzag. 'Come along, lowing afternoon, the fine masiiffdog, kept in a kennel at the end of the was in advance, striving to reach, Wal Spunk. I can't leave you behind. -Hur LOCAL DIRECTORY. lace, and yelling louder than the wild ry up, all 'of you.

Im going to treat house, was discovered lying at the full length of his chain, beaten and bruised est Indian of the pack. the reds to a bath. This way, this to his last gasp. Wallace and his daughter followed wildcat sat in the bow, and the man, with his strange companion, drifted His sole aim was to reach Wallace, and the scoundrel was exerting every WJ1. CAliTMELL, Manufacturer of and dealer in harness, saddles and collnrs, bridles whips, halters, combs, etc.

Repairing done neatly mid cheaply. All work warranted. Uncle Sinn's harness oil always in stock, jiast si lo Kansas avenue, Longton, Ivans, vl-1 He had been heard some time before the rang-er through a narrow opening. to give two or three sharp, whining muscle in his body to uo so. while Ripley held 8, otted Hawk and down the river.

Waving his hat Zigzag shouted rks: and in consequence of the affair Zigzag finally halted, and pointing to his Indians at bay. Write to me, sometime, care of Fort After Wallace had passed through in safety, Ripley fired at the redskins 'To whom shall we address the let EVRItlilt SHOP, John Gracy, Proprietor. Sharp mr and clean towels a specialty. Hair dieting promptly attended to. Est Bide Kaunas avenue, Longton, Kansas, vl-1 and plunged through the aperture, Zigzag was beyond this open Eli Ris'ey, alias Old Zigzag and intr.

and as Ripley emerged from it he Panther rolled a huge bowlder into the hole, effectually closing it so that do human power could dislodge it. G')RDON HOUSE, R. A. Gordon, proprietor. It is our aim to please.

Special sc. cuuimortatuus for commercial men. Good 8am pie rooms. Every eiTort made to rmko our pitrons comfortable. Goou stable in connection with ti house.

East side Kansas avenue, Lcngtoi), Kansas. vl-1 The Bewitched Farm, of the geese, a servant girl had looked out instantly. The girl did not, it appeared, then give any attention to the kennel and it was not until some half-hour afterward that a wagoner observed the poor dog streachad on the ground, moaning and bleeding. The animal bad to be shot, to put him out of his misery, and the supposition was that he receieved his injury at the time he was heard to bark. It was to he expected that a second such extraordinary occurance, following so closly on the heels of the first, should arouse the suspicion of the household; and in consequence of it, Treddock and This huge rock bad been so situated, naturally, that it was balanced upon CHAPTER I.

an incline, po that while one man strength would be sufficient to push it My old friend, Tom Treddock, Invit down into the opening, a hundred could a clump of tangled vines, ehouted Into that passage, both of yon, and run for your lives as far as you can Both Wallace and Hartshorn crept into the aperture, while Zigzag stood above, and with a curious metal tube which he leveled at the savages, and sent a bullet through the formoBt Indian's brains. Missed that white laced he growled, 'hut his red brother got it anyway. the two men are in the passage by this time now to look to my own Heutterea peculiar cry, and in answer to it, a round, black object leaped from the darkness, and its shrill cry mingled with the whoops of the advancing Indians. Go for 'em, Spunk 1' yelled Zigzag. The wildcat bounded onward, and like an a iging demon, it sprang at the throat- of the nearest savage, its sharp els ws rending the flesh of the wretch, and its g'eaming teeth lacerating the throat of the struggling IL ACKSMITH Shop, J.

Ashman, propno- tor. Repairs on carriages, wagons, plows, and machines, both in wood and iron, given prompt attention. All work warranted lo jrivo satisfaction. Shop on 5th street, cast of Kansas Lougton. Kaiuas.

vl-1 ed me dowh to to his place. We had not not, from either side, diplodge it. So met since our college days, and I jump it was with the other end of the pas-ssge. as the hunter presently remark ed at the invitation. The cars rattled me down, hut there was no Tom at the ed.

railway station to meet. The station They're sealed up tight in the master let me lnt the cause. BLACKSMITH Shop, L. Parkinson, propn-eior. All kinds of waijon.

carriage and machine repiiirs itiven prompt attention. All work warranted to give satisfaction, shop on 6 street, west of Kansas avenue, Lonirton, Kansas. vl-1 said Zigzag 'for while you were watching them at this end I blocked up the 'There was trouble for the last three or four days all kinds of damage had other opening in the same manner. been done about the farm, and they Now follow, me to the opon A few hundred feet brought them I- N. GETTYS, Blacksmith.

Horseshoeing specialty. All kinds of repairs given prompt attention. Shop oust side Kansas avenue, Longton, Kansas. to the outer world at. a point just above can't find who it is does it.

They keep a good watch, hut it's of no use tome-how, they can't liirht on the rascal, Ve ry he added, 'that is the reason Mr. Treddock hasn't come down to the thecstaract. Zigzag stepped into the a man-servant sat up till that night on the hearth, in anticipation of thieves breaking Into the house, my friend reasoning that the getting rid of the watch dog must indicate an intention ot the kind. But no such attempt was made; the gray dawn found all safe, and the master went to his bed. He was, however awakened in less than an hour, to receieved the unpleeant news that one of the cows was hopelessly crippled in the home fieh', having two Jf its legs, a fore one and a hind one, both on the same side, broken to splinters.

This affair could only be pet down along with thei'therpreviousinexplicii-ble events, for their was neither hole stream, and began tugging at some ob- Trvl? .1. THOMAS. Phvsieiau and surifeon If u.iuriultv ni' nil fMirmiir. ilirtPAsns. 1 ect beneath the surface of the water.

Say, what are you doineont station to meet you, if he was expect Kesidence Drat house east of depot. Lonu'tnn Kansas. vl-J pked Ripley, observing the rangers ing No doubt that is the 1 said actions. nnd very sorry I was to hear It; for I This is the valve. I ve had this fix ed for a lone time.

All I've got to do felt sure my friend had done nothing to merit treatment of that kind. This B'f. W. L. OMVER, Suririral anil mnchanlrnl Dentist.

Office over Riley's dnig store, Longt in, Kansas. vl 8 lyVulvOKIT OL.VRK. Attorneys at Law, Kiinsa. is to lift up thin stone and allow the wa curious intelligence naturally not a lit ters to pour into the Cavern, and good- by, Mr. Injuns if the can't swim 1 tle excited me, and I hurried aloner the path that led me through well cultivated fields for some three quarters of a The terrible heapt sprang from one to another, and so swift were irs mo-tions, and so deadly the attack, that for a time the Sioux were thrown into wild confusion.

Slocnm alone dashed onward, and looked for the escaping men. Not a soul was in sight. He parted the vines where the two escaped prisoners had disappeared, and started to descend, a. horrible crv from the savag-es caused him to look toward the cataract. Upon its vercre stood the wafer demon, the avenging spirit of the cataract in all its feartul aspect.

The sulphurous vapors arose nnd enveloped the fiend, and its tafoli-like fin- H. NKMIOLS, Attorney at Law, How Kanws. 1 7 mean, sera until the water sees nt to leak out mile before I gained the top of the bi'I where the stacks stood in a cluster, as vet. as I could now see, intact from the The eccentric ranger finally arose. There it is The sound of a might) rush of waters Millinery: and fancy goods tf an kinds Lad ihh hats and trimming of the la'est si vl-i-t a ui fusliioii.

iidins coil'irs, tios, cuffs ru tH, handkerchiefs, do- fdinir and lues corhets and ci'mbs. All kinds ot Sowing done to order. Call and examine our goods. Mrs. Crawford and Miss Smith.

came from the center of the stream a incendiary's torch. The Inrge, rod bricked, many gabled lull, gurgling sound as of waters full houss then came into view iust below ing into a tunnel like cavity; then a ii hd tied chorus of yells came indistinct ly to the ears of those upon the bank. nor ditch on the croft into which it could have fallen; and iu addition to that, there were bruises on the skin, showing that the injuries hud been iu -flicted by blows received on theonlside. Its recoveiy was out of the question, and the cow had to be slaughtered. A close search was made for footmarks, or for any clue, and inquiries also instituted at the adjoining farms, and down iu the villge, whether any suspicious characters 1ih1 been seen about the district.

No information pointing to the offender, nor any solution at all of the mystery, was to be obtained. About noon on the third day five sheep was missed from a fl ck feeding-in one of the meadows, and they weie at length discovered, lying srattered about In a hollow; and id this case the aid of the butcher was not required, for ther had all been killed outright, eaeh era ere pointed toward the group of etruiriIinii Sioux. In an instant they broke and fled. mo and I had merely to cross a vard, skirted by the ont-bnildincs, to gain 'Three more are Vllled, Nell, and the old ewe is one of them. John ha just carted 'em up from the bottom TheRe were the first ominous words I heard on entering the yard but angry as wss the tones, I recognized In them my friend's chprry voic9.

Turning the angle of the lmrn. Irnme ron a lit tie group, the central fic-nre IVIDT AND SHOE J. Lozer, pro- iirict r. Keeps on hand a full stock ol French and domeMio leather, mid sines made to order. Repairing neatly and promptly attended to.

Shop in Churchman's harness shop, on fllh street eut of Kansas v-cone, Longton, Kansas. vl-2 (lUO. HUl.I.lKIULl). Cairiiigo ami wairnn maker, liopairing in all us branches nevt-ly nnd proninlly attended to. AM kinds of cuntrv produce taken ii xclmnire work, for which the highest cash 'iricp will he allow-oil.

Shop on 5t.li street, cast of Kansas avenue Lonirton, Kiiiimis. vl-1 'Ah, ha! don like a sliowpr hath, no growled the ranger. 'Hut it can't be helped. I'm a loser by that operation. All my hundle of scalps, and my wenpotis and curiosities all gone, and my costume for performing my great character of Panther Face You that terribls spirit called Panther Face cried Ripley.

'Of course. I know just what pleases the reds, and I always suit their fancies. My character of Panther Face of which was Tom Treddock. At his side stood a short and somewhat stout voting lady, whom I Instantly IndenM- one by a blow ofaomd blunt instrument deliyered on the back of the head. fiedas Mrs.

Ellen Treddock and around WyOKOFK A JACKSON, real estate and clntin rgents; also dealers in ngricultnial luiplementscnnMstlnltin part of reapers, mow crs, plows of nil kinds, hny rakes, fanning piill--, etc. East side Kansas avenue, Long-ton, Kansas, vl-1 On cams the rrrotip, headed by Spotted HaJvk. They passed close to the renegade. Stop! stop! I have discovered the trick and the secret hiding plae. See! hero it he cried.

Slocum's voice checked the retreating savages, and they flocked around The terrific apparition had vanished, and once more they were eager to re-capf ure the fugitives. 'This way cried Blocnm. 'See! here is the opening follow The savaees poured 'nto the narrow apertnre, nnd followed after the renegade through the passages until they reached and pmsed the smallest CftV ern. A momentary halt ensued. As Sloeum was hesltatinir, a faint cry rams to his earr, and a form pass' before hlni.

In an instant recog-( Somewhat earlier than this, on the day of my arrival, three more sheep (those I had seen under the shed) had been found In another field having been treated in exactly the same way; and before that, so early as six olclnck tb was easily played, considering all the traps I had to get in and out of my snlil Zlezsgj 'and Spunk did all the hollering when I gave th cue did't yon. Spunk The wildcat growled an affirmative. But how about the green vapors and the spirit floating away into space asked half inclined to doubt Zlczap's story. Oh! that's easly explained. I always carry a small amount of sulpber and W.

JACKSON, Jii'ticeof the notn-J" rv pub Icamleonveyancpr. Takes tilings on public lands for the land office at Independence, Kansas. Those wishing to file on thflr Jan I can have the testimony of witnesses ink-en here, and save trip to the land office. them, in different attitndes of amazement, bent a laboring man, a boy, and a servant woman. They were all too Intently gazlnir In one direction, under a kind of eart shed to notlcs me and as I approached, nn-obsprved, from behind.

I saw that they were, In wondering faclnation, contemplating the carcasses of three sheep ly-In" In a row tinder the shed. It's just the same sort 'o blow, right same morning, the whole household had beenstTtled by th sudden Smashing in of the window I had noticed In ruins. nil' heads, letter hend. slstn. mnt, blmM.

air, neHv and promptly tTim PtoNHBRomce, cast side Ki. avoi Longton, Kansas. CONTlVnrp KEXT WEEK.) Longton is improving rapidly. if.