Show A MILDEYED MAN At Gunnison Col last August while waiting for the small hours of the morning to come around we were entertained with narratives illustrating il-lustrating the customs of the country given by Dr W B Cockrell Lieuts FebrigerWagner and Weth erill gentlemen connected with the United States army and others familiar fa-miliar with life and death in the Western wilds Dr Corkrell on being asked whether the reports of affrays af-frays were not greatly exaggerated replied that some of them were while in other cases the truth had never been told There is a man remarked the Doctor indicating a mediumsized mildeyed person who stood in the doorway looking into the billiard room of the Tabor House who has I killed twentysix men and he is only 27 years of age He is H B Matterson of Dodge City Kansas He killed his men in the interest of law and order Once he shot seven men dead within a few minutes How While in a frontier town news was brought to him that his brother had been killed by a squad of ruffians ruf-fians just across the street Taking a revolver in each handfor he shoots readily with both in this manner the Doctor here crossed his right wrist over hic left in the form of an Xhe ran over to avenge his brother The murderers became terror stricken when they saw him coming and hastily locke ° the door Mas terson jumped square against the door with both feetbursting it open at the first attempt Then he sprang inside firing immediately right and left Four dropped dead in shorter time than it requires totell it The remaining three ran for their horses in a vain attempt to escape fiom the town He followed them up so closely that before they reached the outskirts all three had bitten the dust dustAt another time continued the Doctor two Mexican halfbreeds a father and a son became very troublesome in the mining camps They were the sharpest shots iu the country working together with a precision that made them invincible As soon as one had emptied the chambers of his revolver he would reload under cover of the other Many a miner had been murdered and relieved of his outfit and treasure treas-ure A standing reward of 8500 was offered for their bodies or their heads Finally Masterson resolved to kill the halfbreeds They occupied occu-pied a cabin in an almost inaccessible inaccessi-ble place in the mountains One morning hours before daybreak Masterson crept to the verge of the clearing with a repeating rifle in his hands Hidden bv a friendly bush he reclined on a sack which he had brought from his horsethat he had fastened a mile away in a glen Shortly after sunrise the door of the cabin opened wide enough to permit the shaggy head of the old man to protrude After sweeping the boundaries boun-daries of the clearing with searching search-ing eyes the head was slowly withdrawn with-drawn In a few minutes the head reappearedfollowed by a body with a belt of pistols strapped around his waist ana rifle slung over his shou ders The old man carried a water pail and at his side walked the son ully armed Masterson covered the old man with his rifle over a path to and from a spring a hundred yards or so from the cabin at right angles The father and son were conversing eernestly seemingly unwilling un-willing to reenter the cabin before I the door of which they stood for I some time Thirty minutes passed which seemed hours to Masterson before he could obtain what he considered con-sidered a favorable shot Finally the od man made amove which uncovered un-covered his son Nasterson took advantage ad-vantage of his opportunity and the young man fell to rise no more Before Be-fore the smoke revealed from whence the shot had come the old man was a corps alongside of his boy Cutting of their heads Mas terson placed them in his sack and started to exhibit his tropies in or to obtain the promised reward A twodays ride under a hot sun swdlled and disfigured the heads so that they were unrecognizable taking tak-ing advantage of which the authorities authori-ties refused to pay the reward Letter in New York Sun |