Show stories of great scouts by ELMO SCOTT WATSON 6 1111 1921 western newspaper union NED BUNTLINE SCOUT WHO WAS WRITER OF PLAYS some of the old scouts turned their lands to queer trades when the indian lighting days were over buffalo bill A as the owner of a wild nest est show edgar S paxson became a painter and sapt apt jack crawford craw Crai ford was nas a poet it aas as left for ed buntline to add anther to the list of unusual things for I 1 scout to do lie became the writer t f dime novels and tho the producer of melodramas equally exciting judson was his real name and edvard zane carroll judson was the full rull title with N which alch bis his parents burdened I 1 ned him on the day of his birth in in 1822 he ile became one f the boi bos s who nho ran away to sea and a hen alien he was mas only thirteen he rescued jie he ere crew of a boat that had been run lown by a ferry steamer in new york soon afterwards he became a midshipman in the united states navy then the aest called him and jud son ansiN answered ered the call during the civil war mar he lie was nas chet chief of scouts imon imong t the indians on them the western estern frontier and after that he wandered all mer er the great plains as hunter and and trader lie ile made the acquaintance ot buffalo bill wild bill and texa lack and began writing his thrilling tales part tact fact and part fiction about their lives ned buntline was vias the pen name he lie used in his writing and as ned buntline Bunt lne ne he became famous buntline belle bel leed Aed that eastern andl ances would be interested in plays cased on life in the far west and in 1872 he lie persuaded buffalo bill and lexas jack to come eabe and take part in one of his melodramas they arched in chicago one wednesday and found that buntline was mas planning to pen the show the next monday lie he cad rented the largest theater in the lit but none of the other actors had been engaged to appear with the two outs in fact the play bad had not yet kieen written I 1 alth characteristic energy buntline et bet to work and in four hours he had a play called the scouts of the plains Bunt lives dime novels were equally po anil anti in spite of the disapproval of their parents the bos of the eighties and the nineties eagerly read the hair raising adventures of red bred ralph the ranger and deadeye dick buntline never won re lown sown as a scout himself but he helped spread the fame of others until la in 1880 he fol followed lomed the trail of many of the redskins red skins who ho bit the dust finhen w hen one of ills tits liero s 4 trusty rifles rang out THE HEROIC DEED OF OLD MAN RICHARDS one of the hottest indian fights in frontier history was tins the battle of adobe nalls alls in HIP tho texas panhandle in 1874 the adobe walls consisted of several huts and two or three stores surrounded surround eil by a sto stockade cLade and it was headquarters for a party of hunters who mho killed buffaloes for their hides bides the indians saw with dismay tho the destruction caused bj the white men rhey resolved to destroy the adobe vails walls and kill the hunters Si before they had wiped out the ait herds of bison early on the morning of june 27 a war part of Co manches mow as and under the of chief quannah of the Co manches inept few ept dow doun n upon the adobe alls nails the buffalo kunter were awake aake however and as the indians charged the while men with ther their hav sharps boffilo guns ilfred purred a deadly fire into their midst the indians attacked again and again but each time tinie they wera beaten back with N ith I 1 leavy ea y loss nor did the hunters ere escape ape unharmed three of them were nere killed in the first attack and in one orie of the stores a young nian wan named Uh thurston urston was shot through the limy bis his en cra of ft N ater I 1 a terl I 1 uns w as heard above the din of the nearest water mater was na 3 50 yards away where a pump stood in the un protected open in ill tills this same store was an old scout allta old man stan richards he ile heard beard loung oung thurstons Thurs tons cry 1 I I reckon now noa said aid old man richards I 1 III 1 II 11 go fetch a bucketful he lie took a bucket and tossed it through the window V k frightened dog that hat had been alding nar bi fol followed loed him Nh whining ining indian bullets cut up the ground all about them the pump was as slow it took tool two y 1 to get the water started f the sun still cracked spout the ill p was struck a doyen times as worked the handle he ile cunil ed on without bising his ills head the dog was us shot down donn at his fet t A bullet tore ills its hat lint from his tits licad milt he pumped on at last the bucket win its filati he lie picked up his tits lint placed it on oil ills tits head took up tip the bucket and brought it back to the store without spilling a drop luiere was as not fl A scratch on him I 1 its it s sure some hot out there in tho the sun said old man richards as ho he gave the dking a drink picking up hs hl ride rifle he took his ills post at a window again without indicating hy by word mord or act that he knew he lie had just como come out of the jaws of death |