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Show MAJOR MYTON IS TO SEEK RELEASE ON HABEAS CORPUS 1 . Writ Will Be Presented in District Court Today; Friends Flock to See Accused Man in City Jail. MAJOR H. P. MYTON, who. early yesterday morniliK, shot and killed Roy J. Horton. a member of the 1. W. W., following an altercation on West Second South street, will appear before Judge C. W. Morse of the district court at l:o0 this afternoon for hearing upon a writ of lieheas coi-pus which was sued out yesterday yes-terday afternoon by Myton's attorney, Judge M. 1M. Warner. Attorney Warner stated, following the service of the notice upon the chief of rollce, that several persons who witnessed wit-nessed the shooting, and who saw Horton Hor-ton strike Major Myton, will be in court this afternoon, prepared to give evidence evi-dence If needed in the proceedings. Friends Flock to Jail. Major Myton spent a quiet day in the city jail yesterday, except so many friends called during the day that It became necessary to deny anyone admission admis-sion to his cell later in the afternoon, as the prisoner became very tired and was ordered bv his physician to retire to his cot and endeavor to secure some much-needed sleep. Jailor I)lk Beynon I declared that the city jail has never nr 1 a prisoner upon whom so many people called in a single day. No fewer than a dozen leading attorneys of Salt Lake lt called at police headquarters during the forenoon and volunteered their services in defending Major Myion. . No new features in connection wun the shooting were unearthed hy the police po-lice yesterdHy. though several eye-it-neses were interviewed. It has been learned that the dead man s father, Charles W. Horton. lives at Penn Yan N. Y.. and a telegram has been sent' Informing him of his son's deatn. Has Had Eventful Life. Major Myton has been in the public eye ? i rice he wns 21 years of ar. r.nni In "Hunt ine ton coimtv, Pennsylvania, in isr,i, he lived there until tw was vears of ace. when he renioved to Denver Den-ver Colo. Shortly afterward he v etit to Ford oountv. Kan., and was appointed appoint-ed clerk of the distrirt court there. He later served as cieputv sheriff fit r-od-- City under Bat Mn-nerson. Tun-ins the dava when IXxiee City mucked the western west-ern frontier boundary, Majr-r Myton was anion? the picturesque figures which i consUtut'-d a type mu.-h expl"itd in I eastern magazines and new.si apT:-.. I In lS.3, when his term ;s d-inty sher-! sher-! iff expired, he was elected county c!-.-rk i of Ford county, of which p.--iu-f City in the county .eat. In l1-'! I.- w.id ai'ji'ri,:-i ai'ji'ri,:-i ed regi-rer of tho land oi'ico at '".rdn City. Kan., beins: the youimc-t man to hold that popltloit. Having served thrc years ns rf'tdsipr : of the hmd nffire, .M:ij-r Mytnn ran Ur tlr1 legislature in l."-"'"- and wap c'f-'-t.d, , servine: two yfars. I,ai.-r. In I 4 , i.'-waa i.'-waa r--"oricr of FnnifV c "uit '. K a .--a-, land at the close of th" lattt-r v;ir irv-l j to rkhart. lnd.. wher. fi'T thr.-c y--:ir, I hf wa.i K-neral rr.a naLr-r of riie .nd'ara j Electric Kailroad m;ni-(iny. an inif-rur-'ban line which t h p 1 1 ran b e L w c n K i k -i hu rt and Goshen. Honored by President. In PrtiRldent M-'Kinh-y api-ointcf! Mrtjor Mytnn as a in'trrbf.-r of thf In-dim In-dim rnminic.-lon for 't.th. In thl? n-1-fi t ton he S"J". t-d In t l.o C in ta rasl n for i sit y-ars, with h ; do, i;,i ri m nt o ! Fort j Iiu-'heare. miles from t iic present town of Roo.-ev.-lt. Me v:is r.-i h-n I i;i ' I fd'M-for from I't:, ). nu t h.- i . u til n n n tifUet in when llnwvr-!" was .;?'(- I ed. aiKi served a-9 f!----n'v r"n!t-d P'atf-B 1 marshal tjndc-r Ij. ff. S:.y;h'. H wa.i 'deputy pheriff under .M'dr.-w Pmith, Jr., i son-;eiini';s a'-t!n' hh jajl-r at the county jj.'iil. While prvin-r in t mo laripr en - paf Ity he had rhart 'f pn fru t 4 i amor.e I hem i Ir.rton. the man l;c k I DM tu rda v ni t-li t. Mor t on str -d a tf-nn in the -oun'y jail when convicted on a f?ra tuiorT,' fdin rRr. Mfijor Mylou is a mrmber of th H p O. K.. Salt I-rike Jtre No. m rn. Mv- ton and a .uon. Fr-d It. Mvton, Arc in I Ih Atiqeics, v-hcre t he latter ih rn-gat;e'I rn-gat;e'I in the movlnsr pi'-ture bu?incns. JUDGE COLBORN TALKS OF DODGE IN EARLY DAYS F-w men of today ar- more fa mil lax Tith thft ntirrin-,- lirnes in IVkIkp City wffn It was the. -riz't "bad" town of th; country and Major If. I. M vtop w;lh prominent ther. than -Tudjfr K. ff (,-born (,-born of Salt I -alio. From l7i f o 1 '' DoK-- r:i t v saw its pn Imlont ihvn n s a "bwd" town. Judsre Colbfnn not. otilv saw whm was (join on dnrl nir that prlod but. n publl-" pro-truior for the town, participated in nn wav or an- i ot)er in the v-ntH w hi-h Ravn It the bell . an the "bad" town without a rival or a peer. ft whs about this fim t lui t Major1 M. P. Myton h-ame ldntiftrd with th activities of Ixdie 'it-, but It wum not1 until a little inter that h ber-ame a : power in tiie political a llvitles of the ! Htfttr,. ; While dls'-iisslnff the en rr of Mnnr M'vton yesterday .IndRe Cnlborn beca.me reml nisf ent. Me Bald; Dodfie City wa n In a rla ss bv it-solf it-solf and came lnlo promlnen'-e on ae-eotint ae-eotint of -Jittle traie bofweeii 'Jexos and Kxrtnm. Ahilne, 'chltn. ;rnt. Frv1 nil had their day. Th"v were biff cattle towns, but the farmers gradually forced the cattlemen out and they all came to DodKe City and all the "badness" of those towns was multiplied In Dodge City. It was easily tiie peer of all the "had" towns of the west and practically tiie last. Worst of Bad Towns. After Tode City came a new Una of "had" towns through "olorado. Arizona and Nevada, developed by the mining industry. But cond Itions were different rjhI they were not so "bad," and conditions are Bueh in the west today that tJiere will likely never nev-er be another. rodge City has no rival ami no peer. There was just enough law to give somebody an excuse ex-cuse to enforce it and little enough to mnke every man an arbiior of his own quarrels. The first thing1 a man learned after reaching Dodpe City whs whether or not he was a fighter. fight-er. If he wasn't he soon found it out and If he "was he had every chance to make good. I was public pub-lic prosecutor in Dx5ge City from ISTfi to 10 when the town was at its worst ajid in one way or another participated par-ticipated in many of the events that pave it its reputation. When the cat tlemen were forced from other sections of the state they an came to to.ip;e i. itv. T:ie lontr-horn lontr-horn steers would not fatten in Texas, so they were driven across the country to Podge City. Tn this wav about 501.000 head of Texas steers came into Kansas every j'ar. FIv the time they reached Podge City the --attle we' e fat and in shape for market and were shipped by rail to eastern markets. Six-shooters Popular. The cowboys who came with the herds were far different from iIiosa seen In moving pictures today. Thev wore high-heeled boots, an open fihirt with no collar, a bic s.-ish and a pair of six-shooters. No i-owpun- hT was properly attired without the s! shonrr-rs. Of --ourse. they came primarily pri-marily to oring the cattle, but it was alpo their puro e to hunt all the trouble thov could find. They w-re tiie bar. lest characters that Tens produ-'ed. Naturally, pod-o Clfv had to march them, and it did. Never was tru-ru a more clever general, a be'ler t'un-f t'un-f i Lrht er ' r a niin t-v r!.-.-s m.in t mt n Rat Ma-fe-s..n. H ;is a de;, , .;ot ard could pi -k but 1 1 ins off a m ci's I'lnr !,. 1 1 .- was an ot-t Immt ;tr.d a fa. !-( nnd he nevr I.r hi- b.ad. Su itou r.d r ng an) assisting b,! m in ho. d tiie T'-Mith .'.ere -r r.r-l as Vhlt K.'ip. lo- Hop., Kd M:i'ers'.n. N.-.J H-.-.u n. r'-nr!!-P. is-, if. L ike .Sh-.rt an I A. H. US-; US-; sf' r, rvrrv oil" of v.d in:u u ,.s a gun -! f nr j :t -T a r. ! u 111 , n kT to meet ,,11 i om- ec;:, TV hi it v as or.lv n it i -a I that j tl'.-- c: :i e . ard w,im hlways larger In , f.'W t'-ui'i in ff- prev.Mni; ppr!ne. i M,ti:v rrti froi T.-v.,s. who :-. koiied f h- 1 n'lr t i. r V. .-t -. n'-e :i -1 . p on I Root inn. fit h oit;. ni bury- j Ing -j-ourd f'f t; e fHriy d.i-.S I Gambling a Feature. My t Tt w;ih to i,i-r.";ic tl:0"e v. - did rifi l-o to t be .- t r-.-ndi v r.f . get : I vz kill' d lfi.- fity u as a Httik'hng, oi!e-s:-ry to-,i, w'tli one sli.-et. turugyi 11 - center f-( V.'hl, h rpn tl.e r-'i :!.-- of Cf Satiia I'e r,u!-,n... r,u!-,n... N.-. e-ai ilv t w.t.. ,e ' n :s.-s to f : ?-1 ! : i t' e M;p- . rO:e" hi'-h were tu-.'!e. tn 1 ,r,' I j 1 j .' 1 1 1 ' : ' . . P'it tl.e bi;sin'SS u., the viV.ot. :,.-. ET.md.Pnc o-.-i-pc:)'. K.i !. .. N w .i manv as a Ai., n hiio Y' s''le. Kver ono h.ad an rr'-hritrn the r"nr and rows of (.-nmhljnir .Inun ra-'h side w v e r f.- ro, t'u.n'e. 'bM-k-n-IU'k. 1 -ard and all td'-r mearis "f te;:,pt'nc fnll swing dav and tdi.-ht. i Tii trer iiff was mad" up !n this n .i I n ftf n ti In la I von t h nt- uild lie life, and ill wore si - h 'u h t e -s. I"nv I a - 'd c ' -h f t i-ey roa u-.ed t n and mit of ' the sa,ron and nlrxled 'Alth uo:nn j and t." 'la. -v- ral h ntilr d in rm m -i ).f r . v. 'in were . n t " n t to wear nifiili-i nifiili-i er-hnbi.ardfl ft rjillf-o and be ballets I . e rv dav v rn el od v n ' 1 e a r 1 ;' ' a i id e vrv rifv tv rue hod y o f one I fp nd recall that, at Die time, I --.k"d upon niuthltur nut fie town or It 1 1 1 e as unusual as I hnd ben ratted on tbr border n rid had rorne tr look n pni i (six - shoot an a ne.-p. mtv, the m; a f; a por k"l knlf. Put In later ears, w ).en I b ain nr. rjitotned to th V n v of IPr.af Ion. I Irr.ked lack to the days of lodne "it v a rid wondered I bat I hat) not !,r fu i i aire 1 1 iM urbvi t lui n I wnjf. Myton a Money-broker. Major Myton imib Itien k prosperous numey -hrok er uri'l 1 waa his at I or-II or-II ey Me A afi a nnvleit nnil en pa )le bi isi ness man, t:ot It 10k i i ig f'ir 1 run Me tint s'ltl not running from (t. loiter, a Tter I he n i t lo t rade had enhslded lo some eent. be filled manv Important Impor-tant polltha ofTb-es. In-'liifling the of-fe of-fe of s'.erlfT Put I left hef.ir that and am little informed of fmj details of his life In public offlm. T'ne story of 1 tndge ('Itv has been f'ef-uently written, gnerallv from hear pa v a nrl by pens that exaggerat -ed Ihe truth. Alfred lleiirv Lewis In bis "Sunset Trail." fame hmuit than a n v to reflect i rig the I i fe a It rea 11 v whs. I hoi " some time to ela bo ml " tiie tor- myself, for 1 saw every c i ia (iter of It and knew ovcry ciiar-a'-ter. |