The A.H.T.A. Weekly News from St. Paul, Kansas • 5

THE A. H. T. A. WBEKLY NEWS.

breakfast for four men and four hor the banner, denoting intelligence, Proud of the Order. As it has been a long time since I stability and honor; we being law ses. Tne answer was as soon as it could be gotten and to help ourselves abiding citizens of the United States having Law and Order as our motto- have written for the News, I will now tender mv letter to vou all, to the feed. The question was ask May God ever keep us steadfast in ed the old farmer as to the reputa hoping it may miss the waste basket? tion of the man at the house we had doing our duty, and may our noble order ever be held in reverence by all law abiding citizens. I am now living close to Grove, I.

and would be pleased to have any of the brothers to pay me a visit. searched. We were informed it was very bad. After breakfast was over and I Brothers, attend the meetings of The lodge at Grove was not repre went to pay the bill I was informed your sub-orders. It is impossible sented at our state meeting at Wag oner, 1 am sorry to say, out i nope there was no bill to pay while hunting thieves and murderers, but he hey may, with my assistance, re for your officers to open lodge without your attendance.

You are working for a noble cause of which you should be proud. tendered a good rope if we had none. sume work with renewed energy. On starting on J. B.

Minton said, We had a glorious state meeting Brother Fred Moore, of Muskogee, the 28th and 29th of 1903, at "That is a clever old man. He must be a democrat." We objected to captured three thieves 21, and Wagoner, I. T. which was the first annual meeting, and I am proud to landed them in Muskogee jail, all him being called a democrat, so we hallowed back and asked his politics. He answered very readily "A Re say it was a grand success.

We had alone, and they were all heavily armed. They had stolen a boat from Tulsa, worth about $25.00. He tte best of attendance by the dele gates and several visiting brothers. publican sir. After going a short distance we saw a horse track and a mule track.

I recognized the horse caught them on the Arkansas river. Brothers, we should be proud of We should all put our shoulders to track as being the gray horse that the wheel as Bro. Moore did. Look our state officers. We have an excellent set of state officers and 'tis our duty to encourage them in the out for such men and try to assist was missing from Cedar Creek, which proved to be correct and the the officers in arresting the crimin grand and noble work they have to do.

It is for your benefit brother as rider was Tom Masters. The mule als, will close for this time for was being rode by the man that liv fear of tiring you from reading this. well as mine. What a great consolation to us to belong to an order ed where we searched the place. We Will come again later.

Yours, bllowed on until noon. We came to last and all of the time for the good protects our personal property quite a farm with a good corn crib. of the order. against thieves, while we thru our Ben wanted to stop but we objected. D.

B. Troth. honest toil accumulate such as we Thief Chasing in Missouri. In the early days of the Southwest Protection Association of southwest which was in the spring of 1885, Tom Masters and Charles Coaten-barger were recruiting officers of a horse thief gang that ranged from here to Coffeyville, Kansas, theD south to Old Busby's, then south to Texas. However those gentlemen of the order recruited into their order one James Martin.

He was sworn in according to their custom and arrangements made to steal three gray horses, two of them from one Wm. Tipton and one from James Jetmore. The rope was purchased at my store to take said horses away. B3T an idle remark of one I mistrusted something wrong and gave the young man to understand that if anything went wrong that they might come to grief. James Martin, after being all ready to go to steal the Horses, got scared and went to his uncle, Gil Martin, and confessed what he had done joined a horse thief gang and was to go and help get horses, but had decided not to do it.

His uncle went to the recruiting officers and talked to them about leading a young boy off into evil and threatened them with the law. The next day about 11 o'clock while Gil Martin, Brice Martin and their nephew, James Martin were working in the clearing and James Martin was chopping a tree down the crack of a "Winchester was beard. James Martin fell to the ground shot through and through. His two uncles, on looking up saw Tom Masters getting out of the clearing into the woods with Winchester in hand. Tom Masters was arrested that night and taken to jail.

James Martin died a few hours after being shot. Tom Masters was tried and jury hung. One juryman was bought for the sum of $50 and his name can be given by the writer. However Tom Masters was returned to Carthage jail as Newton Co. had no safe jail at the time.

A few days later the jail was broken and all the prisoners escaped. The next day Cedar Creek Liodge No. 8 was called out to try to capture Tom Masters, It was reported he had come towards Cedar Creek, his old home. After a round up of Cedar Creek we failed to get It did not look right to us. We saw Eaifle.

No. 168, Grove, I. T. may need for the preservation of hounds in the yard. Later on we ife.

We should be thankful to our stopped, got dinner and our horses Creator that there is an organization Very Quiet. Well, as I have not written to the fed. When asked our bill, he said now existing that protects us against "Not one cent. Catch that man is the worthless class of people who Weekly News for some time, I will try and let the brothers know that all I ask." Ben said, "You must be ive from the toils of honorable, Democrat." "Not much," was worthy, upright people; a people of No. 229 is not dead yet, but is doing biz at the same old place.

whom any government is proud. the answer. "lama Republican. We pressed on. When night over- Brothers, allow me to relate an ook us we were near the line of incident of interest which came to my mind while at the state meeting Arkansas.

We put up and took to the woods a foot. The name of the at Wagoner, I. T. During a few man we put up witn was Jones and minutes recess, I sat gazing at the he was a Republican. That night we captured a man Stars and Stripes which was unfurled in the lodge room, which was held in the U.

S. court house, with that was in the woods with some hounds that we recognized as the the Brazen Eagle perched on the hounds that once belonged to the man Masters. We kept him in custody during the night for fear he banner of our country, wondering why the eagle was the ensign of our glorious country, America. Brother wculd let it be known that there Fred Moore, of Muskogee, I. who Our officers for this year are as follows: E.

E. Fisk, John San tee, V. Fred Roger, marshal; Walter Titswortb, Sec; Wm. Tits-worth, fin. Wm.

Pitenger, treasurer; Lonny Fisk, guard; and your humble servant, correspondent. Our lodge has been very quiet for some time, as all our new members have been elderly like and we did not cinch old Billy very tight and so he took the new riders rather mildly. Everything has been quiet for some time. No thefts being committed close to here for a good while. I think Bro.

Dick Walkers' mark for horses is very good and every order would do well to follow it and mark all their stock with the number or their order. It is a good mark and easy to trace. Well, I guess I will have to bring my few remarks to a close and go and feed the goat and we have one or two to ride him and we want were strange men in the woods. We was a member of Co. I 35, Ohio, O.

searched some houses just at day V. related to me this happening, showing the intelligence of the bird break but missed our man as our Dilot had tBken us to tne wrong which is the ensign of our country, house first and Masters got into the America. During the Civil War brush from house No. 2. Masters this company, that is the 6th Wis.

has never been gotten to this day. Infaatry, captured a young eagle, On our return home Ben said we would stoo for dinner where he which stayed with them during the service. During the battle of Mill Springs, This young bird rode Masters. Finding there was a gray wanted to stop when we went down, so we stopped. There were then just three of us.

We fed our horses the banner of our country and while horse and saddle missing from our neighborhood belonging to a man at its fury the bird soared high above and screamed for life, appar and got dinner. Tne lady was a that was a friend to such people, large light complected woman, with ently realizing the danger; also Billy in good trim. C. T. GlLLETT.

No. 229, Cherry vale, Ks" steel blue eyes and I dont think ever Sheriff Bailey, of Jrsper handed me his Winchester and told me to smiled. Ben ask how the settle pick three or four men and go south ment was politically. She said, after Tom Masters. The captain of "Democratic.

There is just one Lodge No. 8 was J. B. Minton, a tall radical in the county and he is too stinev to keep hounds." Ben told slim fellow, and a terrible Democrat. I selected him.

Then I picked John i i soared high at Corinth, Chic-amauga, Chatanooga and Lookout Mountain, Tenn. It was there that he went far above the clouds and wasin numerous other engagements. When after the battle was over he would return and light on the banner, the Stars and Stripes. This bird was known as Old Abe, and was finally cared for by a specially appointed custodian, taken back to the state of Wisconsin, and lived to the ner ne wisneu ue uouiu iraue iiis Buspenener, a Pennsylvania Dutch farm to that radical for his as he man and a strong republican then was in bad company and he was traveling with two Pennsylvania Clint Jones, another republican. Well, we left at once for the south.

Dutch Republicans. It Is not the work, but the worry That wrinkles the smooth, fair face; That blends gray hair with the dusky, And robs the form of its grace; That dims the lustre and sparkle Of eyes that were once so bright But now are heavy and troubled With a weary, despondent light. It is not the work, but the worry, That drives all sleep away, As we toss and toss and wonder About the cares of the day. Do we think of the hands' harder labor, Or the steps of the tired feet? Ah no, but me plan and ponder How to make both ends meet. It is not the work, but the worry, That makes us sober and sad.

That makes us norrow and sordid. When we should be cheery and glad. There's a shadow before the sunlight, And ever a cloud in he blue. The scnt of the rose is tainted. The notes of the song are untrue.

It Is not the work, but the worry. That makes the world grow old. That numbers the years of its children. Ere half their story is told That weakens their faith in heaven. And the wisdom of God's great plan.

Ah! 'tis not the work, but the worry, That breaks the heart of a man. It was then night. We went to some cross roads of Buffalo about 20 miles and then guarded roads and houses Dinner was over. 1 told as that was his kind of people, to settle the bill. Ben says, how much is our bill? "$1.50 sir." I said, "Ben until near daylight when we search age of 20 years.

After death he was cared for by a Taxidermist and is now in the Smithsonion Institute, at Washington, D. C. Brothers, I am it is rainy. Let's stav over ed a house and found that there was no stranger there ana tnat tne pro but Ben wouldn't stay. That is the only bill paid in the trip.

This letter shows the assistance you may get in Missouri if you are in pursuit prietor was srone, no one wanted to say where. We mounted and went proud and thankful that we as an organization have the privilege and pleasure, as well as the honor of meeting under the Stars and Stripes with the glorious eagle perched on a half a mile. Then it was getting of bad men. Yours very Respectfully. W.

B. Pabkek. No. 155, Spurgeon, Mo. light.

We stopped at a farm house, called the man up, asked to get.