“Homicide,” whispered two or three jurors at once.
“Homicide,” corrected Foreman Christian, “an’ that the said Colonel Cook didn’t shoot none too quick.”
[CHAPTER XVI]
THE AEROPLANE AS AN AMBULANCE
On the sixteenth of July, the Aeroplane Express was inaugurated. Mr. Blocki spent over a day on his sketch map of the country in which the Utah Mining and Development Company was interested. This extended from Bluff, on the east, to the Sevier Mountains, on the west, and from the south boundary of the state as far north as the junction of the Grand and Green Rivers.
The Company had six gangs of oil and coal prospectors in the field. One of these was opening new territory in the Elk Ridge District. Another had moved east beyond Abaja Peak on Montezuma Creek. To this party, Sink Weston had been assigned. The other four parties had spread out west and north. On Mr. Blocki’s map, their probable location was indicated by pencil crosses with the date when last heard from.
No. 1, Hi. Clark in charge, had crossed the Colorado and was on the banks of Pine Alcove Creek, June second, ready to ascend to the Henry Mountains.
No. 2, Alex. Woodruff in command, was following up the Fremont River toward Castle Ridge, May fifteenth.
No. 3, Fulmer Lowell in charge, was somewhere east of the Cliff Dwellers, on Dark Canyon. He had sent in a courier, June twenty-second.