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Show NO RAW WESTERNER "DAT" MASTERSON CORRECTS A WRONG IMPRESSION. Has Become of the East, Though He Owns to a Fondness for the West He Has Left An Early Day Tragedy. "This talk about my being n raw westerner, ready to eat two or threo men at every meal, Is .rather tiresome," tire-some," said "Bat" .Mnstorson, shorlff of Dodge City, Kits., bark In the sov-ejttlcs; sov-ejttlcs; deputy marshal of Trinidad, ,Col., ono of the rungers who went fighting Indians with Gen. Miles, and now deputy United Stntes marshal In Ntw York city. "When tho president appointed mo to tho position I now hold, I had been living for four yenrs In a hotel on a prominent corner In Now York," ho continued. "Yet It was made to seem as though I hnd Just stepped out of tho plains with u sombrero hat, cowboy trousers, a belt full of guns, and rendy to shoot up tho town. I was followed with cameras uud flashlights until llfo was mado a burden. I have lived in tho cast a long time now but, of ef course, I am stilt something of a westerner. A man who 13 once a westerner west-erner never gets over it. Ho can't. It' gots in his system. "Out there In the west in the days when a man had to travel' hundreds of miles on 11 stngo conch In order to get anywhere, wo had some adventures now nnd then. For Instance, ono day In 1878, when I wns sheriff of Dodge City and my brother was marshal, ho saw on the street two obstreperous lowboys who threatened to do harm to innocent bystanders, nnd started to take their guns away from them. Ho told them to disarm and thoy refused. Ho wrestled with ono for his gun. I saw tho other shoot at my brother and miss, and then I Baw tho fellow whom my brother was wrestling with discharge dis-charge the bullet into his nbdomcn. My brother fell dead. I had been running run-ning up, and wns then ten or 12 feet nwny. Beforo cither of tho cowboys could fire I had shot them both dead. Only n matter of 20 seconds had elapsed since tho frncas began, and thero lay the threo dead bodies in the middle of the street." Marshal Mastorson modestly declined de-clined to go further into the history of his shooting Bcrapes. "There -was quite a lot of shooting going on then," ho said, "but it was mostly confined to tho obstreperous Individuals, who set-' tied their dlfllcultles In that way. If ono of them attacked a man who had always been peaceful and Industrious, and refrained from quarreling through no lack of moral courage, tho bully who wanted to fight was attacked In turn, and told that if he could not find his own kind to fight with ho had better bet-ter leavo town. A man was recognized for his truo worth, everybody was outspoken, out-spoken, and .hypocrisy wns not tolerated." |