Show JUDGE JUGE JACK STILWELL The Te Contemporary of ot General Gener Custer Cuter and ad Buffalo Bill BiB i Said to t be Dying Chicago filter Ite Ocean Ocean George Gr who gave to Pros Pres President PriS PriSIdent ident Roo the th handsome saddler which the the president named amed ned arrived arIed in New York the other oter day from the Big Horn Hor basin Wyoming I bringing the news that Judge Jack Stilwell is dying ding there in the shadow of Eagle mountain I The old scout cout is i in i the grip of Brights disease nd can live Ive but a afew few fet weeks longer He has ha moved moed from his hi ranch to the town to be b nearer medical treatment Giles Gies Stilwell who has been known all aU his hi life ute as a Jack ack wag w wa the friend frend and contemporary of General Geer uW Wild ld Bill Bl Texas Jack Buffalo I Bill Bm and the Indian fighters scouts and frontiersmen of that day Wen When he retired from the army from cattle catte raisins raising und and nd ranching he studied law lawand lawand lawand I and was admitted to the te bar His arguments argument before the courts court of or Ari An Arizona roan zona zon Texas Wyoming and Oklahoma are remembered for wit wi it as well wel as a a I comprehension of the law He has al always always always ways had the rare r art of telling a astory astor astory story stor well wel which is half the work be before before before fore a western wester jury jUlo Judge Stilwell is now very ver fat fat His Hisong long long ong curly cUrl hair is i white and ad his hands are ar chubby cubby as a childs He rolls his wn own own cigarettes and sitting cross cros legged egged in congenial company will smoke half hlf a hundred of them tem white while he IB spins off of a score sor of anecdotes sf f the te early west west Today one would not rec recognize recognize recognize Judge ude Stilwell Sten from the de description dr description of him contained in General Custers book book General Custer wrote uA A mere beardless boy of perhaps 19 years ear possessing a trim tim lithe figure which was set off of to t great gat advantage by a jaunty suit sul s c buckskin which wh ch che tie ire e wore cut and fringed according to the true tre style of the frontiersman rm A capital shot whether er afoot or on horse horseback hore horseback back back and a perfect horseman horeman this thi beardless boy bo on more mor than one peon occa occasion cc sion slon proved himself a dangerous foe to the wily red man most notable achievement took place while hUe he was a scout sout under General Generl Forsyth A little body of ot scouts scout and soldiers soldier was hemmed in Ia by bya a thousand Sioux and 2nd on a asand asand sand island In the te Arickaree fork i rk of ot the Republican Re n river in the summer of The Te Indians killed kled all al the hes the the soldiers soldier had General Generl Forsyth Forth was shot twice The soldiers dug holes in inthe Inthe the sand to escape the Indian sharp sharpshooters sha sharpshooters shooters The Indians galloped over I them them recollection of or the charge is that the Indian ponies looked like over a a him flock of o 0 pigeons as a they the passed pad I General Forsyth Forth found he hold out much muc longer against the In Indians I Indians and as a desperate measure de do decided de to try tr to get a message mesge through I to Fort Wallace He picked out Stil Stilwell Stilwell well wel and a Frenchman named Trudeau u for messengers Trudeau was about 55 5 naturally n t rI brave and gen generally generally recklessly drunk They dis disguised disguised guised temse cs as Indians Idian and at nightfall slipped Into the river As Stilwell went his comrades who expect to see him again agai said sid Jack this is i a sellout Well Wen if I It i Is I will wU come pretty high said Stilwell said Trudeau the Frenchman he bring good bod price too to The the river and got in i the high grass on the opposite bank bank The country was wa alive alve with wih Indians They The lay all aU day daO in a washout within sound of the cries of r the Indians and trav tray traveled traveled slowly that tat night night About and day break brak an Indian rode ro e In sight They saw sw but one place to hide That was inside the carcass of a buffalo bufalo which had ha been beca ben killed hilled some time before Into it I they crawled and lay there all aU the hot day although the stench of the thc carcass cars made them ill i The next night they made the old Denver stage road They met a Mex lean ican driving along and asked aked him to turn back and take tle them tem to Fort For Wa Wal lace He H refused but when two to rifles rif were jabbed into his ribs he consented They got to Fort For Wallace four days after leaving the island and Colonel Colnel Carpenter Carpnter took his hIl regiment to the re lief of General Forsyth F One of favorite stories store about Wild Bill Bi has ha its it scene m in i a Kansas town Wild Bill loved to WId Bl loe gain gam ble There Th re waS wag a Big Elg saloon slon in g this place fitted out o t with pool tables and tables t for cards card and faro Bill Bf lost his months wages wage at faro fare and discovered toward the last that the dealer deler was wa I cheating him He reached over the table knocked the dealer deler to the floor foor and opening enIng the drawer counted co out the amount he e had lost lost He put that In his pocket and returned the rest to 10 the drawer and te rest Meanwhile ie the te dealer ealer had hd crawled out from beneath the table ble and gave the signal sigal which summoned all aUthe the bad bd men who hung out at the saloon They Th y came toward Bill Bi armed with billiard bilard cues and revolvers Bill backed d up against the wall waI he be was wa alway afraid of ot being shot from behind a and d drew drw his guns gns As he went for theta them thep some someone one oi in n the t e crowd r wd recognized him I its Wid Wild Bill BU he yelled I There want an unbroken window in hi that place In i one minute said iid Judge Stilwell in telling the te story The bad men had just dived jut through trough them theta In their haste baste to get out out Stilwell saw Wild Wid Bill Bi assassinated and ad comforted Texas Tex Jack in his last hours when he was ws dying of tion He saw saw the rush Into Oklahoma when the territory was opened by the te government and has h shared d in many m ny other stirring strIng scenes senes of ot the west He Is credited with ih killing seven see or eight men inca who were disagreeably eager in their search for tor trouble but as a dis cBs Kentuckian now no resident In Wyoming once sId saId Stilwell never killed kled a a gentleman for or no gentleman could quarrel with wih such a bighearted other gentleman oter genteman |