Show 9 i was i C h E Oo r j BY BY EL O- O SCOTTY A iP 0 V f N J JANUARy u 13 pr press s from L Los ros Los Los' Anc les' les e rigid car the thc nr news s that f W Wyatt nIt Earp s- s sV eight severity V rih toting gun i t n-t 4 peace officer of Doig J J Kan an and f Tombstone Ariz In In frontier days whose colorful career led him through J n a dozen fatal conflicts with had men oten w i. i pt pf f i Old Ilie 1 Old i Vest died i here I. I That In lI rief announcement n I reca recalled cale lle M for or r N 1 Li a a a a Veal real i ne We l' l t i W n In American history when there took place events In wl the bar bare barb r chronicles chronicles' of bf fact reads Uk like the fervent fer and tex tex- ex ex- J fiction of ot the dime novelist And And the the story of those times seems all aU tIp more mor remarkable remark remark- able ahle chic when one realizes that the they were wre less than fHt fifty fifty years wears ago and that there are ae many men men still f i living who had a part in the tle stirring events events of of t c what lint now seems like a II tariff oft and i i 1 er ern l 1 t vj-pf vj pr cou course s tIl number r of ot such men men Is being r mph rapidly ly reduced and he galaxy of real frontier notables small l Js SO small so-small small that tb YC 1 1 ibe i- i he be counted on on- the the fingers of one HULln the fI nt ns there name JQ wt i i q pui l a n- n That Is th the ii name nie- nie of of Col Col William Willia WilliamX X nr e a R contemporary of Wyatt Earp Karp In Inthe inthe 1 the Tombstone Ariz episode of the real Wild Wid l West lest est period and the thc passing of Wyatt Earp Karp only servos 3 to emphasizes the Importance of Colonel as RS the sole remaining figure of or outstanding prOminence In t that tf episode r m j. j was ns he Ie im- im as S an J Jt fd t I of H Im r t q f dl days s 's fn Ar hC is C L lm o pOI lint as a n chronicler of thos those days S 'S Fortunately for the future historian the story of Tombstone has been set down clown by one who was there In the h hl day of that lively l place lace If the old Nevada mining town town fg r V s' s d r Lri hr i and the old Kansas cow town was known farand tar far II and n d rl k t tt zEn JI lat t i mr t. t t 1 p L h t P A Irv R and tt o on D its LS e rec Il In some r sll Jt r eit t l th n 1 either of of tile the r. r the UC name li l II II 1 sr Iio hooi l Jilch wa m rec v P b 1 fished by be r the Houghton Boughton company Is the ther r hr host best t answer Jt it Jt a 19 with the the su subtitle sub sub- title at 1 ng i u v a thet Me Y kf F u uIt nl if I i II It If were the chronicle of ot cn- cn ridges ridge's career as ns n a deputy sheriff In Tombstone only It would he be Interesting and nd exciting enough But Hut It Is the r record rd of lils Ilfe IJ for tr more Z than half a t a 8 century In in the the West and to to read I Is to call the roll of a long list of famous frontier names For the saga of Colonel Billy III began during the second year of or the thc Civil war when wilen he run away from his home In Wisconsin he was then twelve years rears old to work In the quarter quarter- quartermasters quartermaster's masters master's department of the Onion Union army and soon afterwards wms found himself t engaged In freighting supplies for the army In Missouri After Arter a R few months of that we next find him crl crossing ln the plains to r with n a freight outfit nn and t on this trip he made acquaintance with the first or of the frontier r notables he wits was to know When ive we reached lack Jack Morrows Morrow's ranch at nf the mouth of or the North orth Platte Platt river writes s c e T 1 saw Bill Cod Cody or Buffalo Bill 1111 for the first t time I thou thought ht h he was th the handsomest man mm manI I luid in-er in soon Seen After several sc trips across the Breckenridge enlisted In to the Third Colo- Colo u fi 21 which was WIS called la to senI service by y Coy Gov I Tulin ln Mn Evans of Colorado to take the field a against tJ tin the Indians who had III been en committing I tins on the till Isolated ranches and among the immigrants mm grants coming corning Into the country As a n member of ot this outfit young oung Billy met some more frontier r chief o 0 o whom were Old Jim Beck I worth the famous mulatto who became a D chief firming the row Indians and Antoine enise who f served as guiles guides for the regiment which was wa commanded by Colonel Chivington They taught l Inc ino a n lot about scouting and the ways wars and habits of Indians sn says s 's e. e row om U the controversy v. has lias rn ran rae ranI I Ifor for tor Q over O the thc battle of Sand Creek when Colonel surprised I 1 and destroyed ell the ramp mip of lit Chief Black Bind Kettle of the Uie s itis it itIs Is rather remarkable that Breckenridge e dismisses hl his part In this famous engagement with a n few tew t f paragraphs Perhaps the fact that tUn I he has bas and more stirring events to write about 1 founts Hi-founts for that For the next nest r few w years he hf was 1 busy I II Y us as u a government tr freighter I between u arm arraj- arraj i posts past ts In W Wyoming Colorado o nn and Nebraska and having hI many narrow escapes from death at nl the lands hands of the Indians Next he became come a n builder of or railroads working for his brother who had the contract for building the roadbed nf of th the Union W Pacific which was WIS then pushing west wort st through i Wyoming and he hc was present II on lh the historic i when the Central Pacific and the rhe Union loess line met of nr Promontory Utah on on May iny 10 w l lOO IM a 9 and the Jold golden goiden n spike was fiR dr driven to aig- aig sl nii e the completion of the si transcontinental railroad V Next we find End young Billy In Denver pr In the employ 1 of ot Gen Gen William J r cf Palmor m r- r rS r'S S 'S a surveyor surveyor- U r for tor the Denver and and- RID IJ h W waa waa 8 then i L i i j. j E i V. V f hi Hi 1 I- I r Q tf i w ire I Ii LL 1 r t k A r vM 7 i h i i t tI y I w is l I t to r p t j i If I N PJ Y Jo JoI ii i I A All II Pictures Pictures' Courtesy eS s I Co being built from Denver to lt I is I Is also In g note ot Jm pt Jl ll he let asa c tourIst for du S p. p s- s sAI AI An o tTE tW e r passengers whom he role o oc c from Colorado S t I t r Manitou was a good a g p l looks g o ou m 1 stranger r who ho 1 I b began gan to tell teU m m t. t t a tco w extol r J 1 his f I. I f V juf i i father was how pithy j n he e p l p ll wf nt rH fine horses h he v th r I ct n p 35 s your father p poke k t up pr with a goon deal of w S F.-S- emphasis Cornell M Vanderbilt I told him I hind had never pC pf t. t li 1 and the the- themore more the er heard o m young the more young oung 1 H t t m me e aa rhe 5 1 t j r. r I at I I. I t 1 f h k Cf F ils 1 ll I ft t. t rF r rS I t jo Iri t IA eFi a i t a Je fie e o p j b It tai Wj tin nil b il Ih tooL took hl da o. o t d ll rJ t J Ve he ca eer bl ras rJ e m gil l f rl J ter vor 1 tl rr f 1 anti and d su s sa sd surveyor or he Hta e. e f 11 0 11 h HW HWa a small village a 9 Q itt N il wl J Hn ted cIlar c- c Ilar ea P Pit sheriff i f. f Gist Jp ob 1 Ito gt r.- r. I rest 08 e ta j jm m murderer which h e did without jim any tf locked him up 1111 the to t. t 1 taut Put wIl while I. I df tt thet Yer lr sheriff and his hi his d deputy were we're er putt J i of f town ow Ja a nitro pum- her of citizens met at the arid nd formed J I a R vigilance 1 committee About ten o o. lp p l that tt morn morn 1 I Ing ib the committee committee- went to fo the Jail and 1 tool look two wo murderers murderer out mid hang hanged d them he to th the cottonwood cottonwood cotton cotton- cotton cotton- wood tree In front of ot tl the town town- hail ball r They t. t took I two lumber wagons placed a n board across neross the wagon box hox at the rear end and ond had harT tile the murderers stand on the tile hoard with the nooses around their necks and the other end end of the lie rop rope fastened fasten cI cIto to the limb of the cottonwood tree hee The first manto man mm manto to be hanged either ther fainted tainted 01 or the noose was too tight He sank down on the rope rol and as there was er very little slack his neck W was S not broken he Ju Just t strangled The other man jn just t n n as t the team started to drive from under him Jumped as high as os he could and his neck fleck was wap broken p. Every l' l thIn thing was very cry quiet when some one In the crowd spoke up Why th the son gun must of ot been hanged before he knew Just how to do It In 1870 1879 arrived In III Tombstone e and nn spent pent an unsuccessful season as q prospector Of Tombstone at that flint time he writes The Int interesting period in Tombstone was during the fall of 1879 1819 and th the early ariy eighties In those few years ear Tombstone was Wll horn a mining town lived n a mining town and died a mining town 1 Like nil mining towns to In their beginning money came easy and went easy all kinds of men and women flocked there and It was W poon soon a Il lively camp It Is le claimed by many that Alfred Henry Lewis who was In Tombstone In later days day getting material for hiD hla story tory Wolfville placed Wolf Volt vUle vile at Tombstone and end ted Red Dog at Charleston The rich Tombstone mines manes brought bad had men from mm Ml all parts parta of the Went Nest Into tho the valleys of the San Simon Sulphur Spring and San Pedro rivers where t stage tase ge robbers outlaws and cattle attle thieves found refuge but for tor all of that Tombstone was an h orderly town What little killing was warn done there thero was done among the lawless element nt themselves This element lemert was very much In th the minority and during the five the yearn year I 1 lived there there- J I never heard beard of n house being robbed fIr or or anyone anYn being held up In the city and It was perfectly safe for Cor any lady or gentleman n to pass along alone the streets t. t day or night without being moJe molested td I. I Despite this picture of a p peaceful vIII village U fe us as s painted d by Colonel Billy which so su favorably favor favor- favorably r rubly ably ubly with the conditions In some sm of tl the Ia larger r cities of the day duy the thc fact tact fact still remain k that when the lawless element dl did do o b bit of or killing among themselves Tombstone was fur far from arum a CIU quiet place F For or lien t lien Colonel Billy went scent to that town he be could stroll down the only street t In 10 It and pOSS pass less thou thuu forty men who had bad the right to cut one or more notches on th lr guns guris- eo Conspicuous among them stem were the follows follow l o of whose names muUs are ore fatuous famous In frontier history Bat Dilt Hoc Doc the Burp Kurp br Wyatt brothers r T Wyatt at Virgil Morgan and ond Warren Luke Liike aU of or whom hall hail won their spurs fc Kz i r r fl as bad men to fool with wilh In th tile the roaring da days days' s of City John RIngo Dave Date Nagle B Billy lIy Clar Cla- bourn Charlie Storms Frank L Leslie and Dick jd 7 d l. l to the gl gunmen Pt mst most of whom were I. I A gain M lers lets the hec country un y was ns full of t nl rustlers lers and t stage tal tage robbers robbers- and when young Billy r j J g iwas wn yas ap Pu deputy sq bY John J l n Beha Dehan he found that the business of Ing lag U ills r l lo ih the c n s' s one one I offered Innumerable e for sudden death fo fo Ji I ily se he j Job oh j B P. P t- t It If er the iS n a man man fitte l for r th that t j job b it was young ot BlU filly aL afati tie he mails made f is li c PUS J s one ope oft t the most r In tJ history He He Be did did not make maka It ft with a blaze blaz i In g s sh ix ter uit was was wrig riot i his way wiy way lie rie got s t hl his man his Invariably but h thY peace peace- l ible I m means Take the clue case or of th 1 man who and killed Johnny Johnno J l eJ al' al after Johnny P had refused to sell sett him an another r di and ordered hID out of or his saloon D Deputy Breckenridge was sent to tiring bring In tn the murderer Better take a posse posse they told him Shucks Shuck no I ed d Billy for tor as ns he explains in his book I never liked to take tule a posse with me me must most always s 's I can handle things s better m myself So he set out alone found Pound the murderer and ond told him hed he'd better come along alone When the man to see It that way Billy argued with him that lint it wasn't much good goad to wait and be chased ed all nit over o the country and auth maybe mn maybethe hc die the of starvation out on the desert So the murderer mur mur- I derer PIr walked peacefully to jail jil unc and Deputy Billy got another r man with no gunJ gunplay ay Then there ther was the tints time when be lie wt was s sent nt to collect colled the taxes on th the personal property In the valleys Js and mountains east of Tombstone This was In the el very heart of ot the outlaws outlaws' country and It was t easy to guess that the rustlers stage stage- tn e- e robbers and othe others outside the law would not care particularly for pu paying Jn ta taxes faxes to support the law which they consistently dolled dl lit Hut Rilly tn way was to go straightway tr l I to Curly Bill Dill the most mot notorious In thai that section sec sec- section tion of the country I. I told him I 1 wanted d to hire him to go o with me meas meae as ae a deputy assessor or and help me collect the taxes as 9 I was tas afraid td I 1 might be held up and my tax money monty taken from me if I went alone The Idea of my asking the chief of all the cattle rustler rustlers In that part of oC the country countr to h help Jp me collect eases axes from Crom them struck him a U as a n good goad Joke He lie thought r It over for a 11 fe few moments and th then n 11 laughing hinG said Yes Ye and we will make every one of those blank blank cow thieves pay his taxes Next day we started 1 and he led lell me Into a RIot lot lotof lotof of blind canyons and hiding places n where here the rustlers had a lot of or stolen Mexican cattle and Introduced me something like this Boys nos this Is 18 the county ty assessor and I am hip hi hl deputy We are all good law abiding citizens h here re and we cannot run the country without we par pa taxes He Ite knew w about how many cattle they lhEr each had and If they demurred or or claimed they had no money he made them give me an or order cr on their banker Turner Curly had many a henrt hearty laugh laughr about It He lie told toM them that If It any of them r pet get arrested It wo would uld bo a good thing thins for them to show that they were we're were taxpayers In the I The result was us that and aid his deputy collected nearly u thousand nd dollars In n tax tux mone money with which lira arrived safely In Tombstone and und be lie hc confesses that he heus was us much relieved relle when I did so Several Sc historians I have U C told in detail of lit other lither similar feats of ot as ns u deputy sheriff which for sheer cool headed nerve are tare nut mil ext lJ in wc western tean history But Put you oU will find nu no h l tinn tion of that In his book unless you ou read 01 i ithe the lines Haws of his liis straightforward modest narrative ills attitude altitude Is Is' that I it ft was vms all nil In the days day's work Like all ull true Irue heroes s he was as not given to heroics I lie He did his Job simply and he tells 1118 if i f it In th I same |