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talked. The lieutenant told me that this Indian was a 

 Bannock, who had been ranging about Stein's Mountain, 

 and he was an outlaw. He had made a sneak on an iso- 

 lated settler, and had murdered the whole family, — man, 

 woman and child. 



" He hid in the locality for some time, but it soon 

 got too warm for him, and he skipped out and went to 

 the Klamath Reservation. There he hid himself among 

 the numerous tribes living there, until one day while 

 gambling with a Klamath Indian, he stabbed and killed 

 him. This enraged the Indians on the Reservation, and 

 they reported him to the agent, who sent a squad of 

 troopers after him. In some way he got wind of it, and 

 with two stolen ponies he undertook to get back to his 

 old range again. 



'' He was taken to Fort Klamath, tried for murder, 

 and hanged." 



Charlie Smith is no braggart; and when he told of 

 his deliberate resolve to execute Tom Savage for the 

 murder of a white woman, every one of his auditors felt 

 sure that but for the arrival of the outlaw's pursuers, the 

 grim death sentence that Charlie silently pronounced by 

 the embers of his smouldering camp-fire would resolutely 

 have been carried out. 



For about the forty-fifth time, the talk and story- 

 telling turned once more to bears. One remark led to 

 another until John Norboe said: 



'' The funniest thing I ever heard of in bear-huntin' 

 was about old Jack Campbell, and 



