| Show TACTICS perfection 0 whitis hi rd p nil all A Fl lAr wun iva drought by u minor miner talking about mur murder marderas deras is it a fine ar arti t tv said A J pleasanton wit who 6 lives up near til the a dakota dad lands land to a st bt louis post dispatch reporter I 1 I 1 talking about murder as a line fine art I 1 am reminded of 0 tho perfection to which the scientific slaying of ones fellow men wa evno brought many years ago in tho the northwest and which opened tay iny cye not a little to methods of tho mining hapli among ahoi whom q I 1 went to live when I 1 fira fir a ii visited tho the plok hills now dont und understand e r mo me as a g against tho the west M t and its border llo or criticising criticizing critic ising for criticisms bulso tto bodo podo of morals of tho pioneers far from it tho country of which I 1 speak is enough and its it manners hold held up to a gibing publio by too often for mo me to strengthen tho the impression that tho the frontiersman li Is normally a cutthroat cut throat what I 1 do haq taftt to say js s that there la 14 no more dangerous pan man I 1 on earth than tho the citizen of a frontier town own when hg hi becomes become a absolutely convinced that ho he mut must havo have tho the life of an enemy timea aro are changing tiow LOW pad and the period is passing away when each ono one set himself up tor for an all sufficient judgil of personal right and wrong people go to law chero they formerly aly reached for the hillid handiest leit weapon an dUlack abono stono is reported to oftener than etlo bowle knife but j it was different when I 1 first 1 went vent west say pay when tho the houlle italeso min ers era were pillaged pf af their ArAt big pay dirl dalri i and I 1 must confess that my heart failed M mo n until I 1 grow accustomed to tho the now order I 1 of things mind you I 1 am not speaking of but if t an who mado made of murder a necessity whoa yon confronted by somo stern situation and who would go to work in tho the roost most cold blooded manner in order to attain their end it was very terrible to my inexperienced mind when jim waters wo we will call him tor for I 1 dont wish to unpleasant recollections up at home shot abet down a nan man who stood high io in our little community c of miners mad and traders a tow ow miles to tho the north of sturgis in a little town that hat has long since been aban abandoned donvil waters had made up his mind to kill bill his enemy and a n d how hov do you suppose ho he went about ill IH why la in truo true western fashion boshion os hion for ho he had no desire of having his neck stretched for his pains palus tho the party of which his bis too foe was a mem member bar was working a claim just juat across acro tho the ridge from us nod ono one line morning waters aw his man lovly walking along tho the summit of tho the rise axe in hand looking forero for firewood fire wood ills mno was mado up in en an instant and ho be quietly loft left camp la ia aba direction of his enemy wo we could bear no nothing thing of the quarrel tho the first thing w TO know was that waters had bad turned ond and IM w running at full fall speed pursued by tho the nian man w who he I 1 was afterward convinced ho he baa started out to kill the pursuer gained a little and raised his bia alo as an it to strike and then wo we saw waters turn tum nm halt there waa a little putt puff of smoke me tb creek of a six shooter and nd the man with the bs wea dead self bak till lit of conr url ht they tay said 11 at tb be trial what uio the man bud ana I 1 swore though wo we felt la in our baarts ehlt waters wm a g cold blooded murderer I 1 merely tell you thia to illustrate what k would call 1 I western ta tactics optics the west IA 14 my homo home nv and I 1 lovil love it but I 1 rocoe 0 its ita faults and a m only ionly too glad to nee MO U V I 1 F I 1 I 1 |
