A VULGAR INVITATION

to report to the pursuers. They evidently felt easy, as they were in

familiar territory, and asked the boy where they could cross the river. He

directed them to two crossings, and they started towards the lower, but

had not crossed at six. They were in a country hard to hunt, full of

knolls and ravines. The stage from Sioux Falls this afternoon brought in

the two gray horses, which were found at the house of Mr. Nelson, on

Splitrock river, below the Palisades. The robbers called there between six

and eight o’clock Sunday evening. Kelson lit a pipe and sat on the fence

talking. One robber asked if he was