{"id":8001,"date":"2022-03-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2022-03-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T06:00:00","slug":"deception-in-cactus-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/deception-in-cactus-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Deception in Cactus Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1914-03-08\/ed-1\/seq-65\/\"><em>The Sun, March 8, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Arthur Chapman.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are strong, down here in Cactus, for the majesty of law,<br>But a heart throb\u2019s sure to stop us \u2018ere we make the halter draw;<br>That is why we freed a hoss thief that was caught near Bridger\u2019s Buttes,<br>Though he rode Slim Johnson\u2019s pinto and he trailed three stolen brutes;<br>We was all prepared to send him where he\u2019d join more of his kind<br>When he says, \u201cGents, just one minute, in my shirt front youse\u2019ll find<br>A package that I\u2019d gaze on, if it\u2019s all the same to youse.\u201d<br>So our leader reached in, rough like, and drew out two baby shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, we stood around there awkward, and we sorter scuffed our feet;<br>You could hear our spurs make music, and it sounded soft and sweet;<br>We was due to start proceedin\u2019s, it was gittin\u2019 cold and late,<br>But somehow we\u2019d lost our ferver to enact the role of fate;<br>We jest milled there in the moonlight, and nobody said a word;<br>Some was lookin\u2019 to their saddles, but at last Bear Hawkins stirred<br>And he freed this hoss thief feller, and we rode away by twos,<br>\u2018Cause you can\u2019t hang anybody who is packin\u2019 baby shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, of course the law was cheated, for we found the game was old;<br>He had worked the same at Sage Crick, and at Range View, we was told;<br>And he never had no children, and the shoes he\u2019d simply found;<br>Such we learned, with other details when the story got around;<br>But in spite of all the laughter that we\u2019ve drawed down by our act<br>We would play the same cards over\u2014that\u2019s a cold, hard twisted fact;<br>So we scorn the jeers of Pi\u00f1on, and we don\u2019t mind Lone Tree\u2019s hoots,<br>\u2018Cause we know they\u2019d do what we done when we found them baby boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, March 8, 1914. By Arthur Chapman. We are strong, down here in Cactus, for the majesty of law,But a heart throb\u2019s sure to stop us \u2018ere we make the halter draw;That is why we freed a hoss thief that was caught near Bridger\u2019s Buttes,Though he rode Slim Johnson\u2019s pinto and he trailed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-8001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun","tag-arthur-chapman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}