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Show TOUGH TOWN IlEFOBMED. The City Council of Dodgo City has stopped the pay of its Town Marshal and tho mnn svho has been holding down that sinecure has resigned. Ho still hnto no successor, became no netcssity exists for This news will sound strnnge to thoso who renumber the diss when the town as described as the hottest outslda of hades, uion tvhoio westernmost boundary people used to say It was situated In those dajs the Marshal of Dodge had to bo cool, nervy and resourceful and nblo tc draw u pistol quicker and shoot stralghter than any other man of the many who walked the streets with six- shooters stuck in their belts snd chips on their shoulders 1hoo were the dajs when Wjatt Eirp and Hat Masterson and Chalk Ilccson ard Clay Allison and Tom Nixon were proud to wear tho title of Town Marshal of Dodge, i Of the moro famous men who once held the office but threo arc known to bo living liv-ing I.'arp wns last heard of In Alaska, Mastorson not long ago figured In n qjecr encounter in New ork City nnd llecson lltes here llceson is. In fact, tho only lit lug ex-Marshal who has stuck to the town One other landmark of the old dajs re-malm. re-malm. Hoot Hill This la the old town cemetery, started by Bat Masterson with the bodies of a rnng of Mexicans who dropped In from the South for the pur-pope pur-pope of shooing up the town and dictating dictat-ing Its pollc) ro, a few short hours. They lasted about half an hour, nnd were burled bur-led with their boots on Ihls gave the cemeterj' Its nnme, ard no ono lies within with-in Its confines who took the troublo to die linturolly nnd In bed. Ilccson his his home In Dodge, but rides the rnngo on his own ranch and farm close to town He lacked the foothurdy daring of Masterson snd the rcsentfulncss of Harp, but no man wns quicker on the draw and nobody could shoot stralghtrr thin ho For jears ho was a marked man but ho no longer tsen wears a gun, and this Is tjplcal of the changed ntmosphcro of tho town It was llceson whose bluff frankness ston thu heart of Gen. Sheridan when ho had tho Grand Duko Alexis here on a burfalo hunt. The Grand Duke. In the excitement ex-citement of tho chase, handled his gun a littlo carelessly, and tho Marshal sworo at him roundly for It. In the old dajs etery other house In podge was a gambling den and those In between were dance hnlls Nowadajs there nre more churches than saloons and no gambling-houses at nil. Twenty sears ago it was n familiar easing Hint 'there aro no churches as far nest ns Dodge nnd no Ond nest of Harden city "-Uodce City (Kan ) Cor. New York Sun. |
