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Show NO RAW WESTERNER AT" MASTERSON CORRECTS A WRONG IMFREMION. Ka Bhcom of the Et, Though He. 0n to a Fondneacfer the Weet He Ha Left An Barry Day' TratasJy. ThU talk about mr belac a raw westerner, ready-i aat two or t-re saen.at every BM-t la rat-entire Borne," ld "Bar M-trton. ,kerT of Dodge City, Kam. kaek , ntlee; deputy bmw-I o TrtaMad. Col, oae ot the Maters who went ( , Scktlag Indian wKh Qen. Mile, and K now deputy Unite- Bute marshal In New York city. "When the pse-ldent appoint me to the position. I now hold, I had been living1 for four year in a hot or a prominent comer in New York," ne continued. "Yet it wa made ae aeem a though I -ad Just atepped o of the plain with, a ombrero hat. cowboy trousers, a belt full of guns, aad ready to shoot u tho town. I was followed with cameraa and flashlights until lite was made a burden. I have lived la the east a long time now but, of ot course, I am still something of a westerner. A man who la once a westerner west-erner never gt over It. He can't. It get in hi system. "Out thero In the weet In the days when a man had to travel hundreds ot miles on a stage coach In order to get anywhere, we had some adventures now and then. For Instance, one day In 1878, when I waa Bherlff of Dodgo City and my brother was marshal, he aw on the street two obstreperous cowboys who threatened to do harm to innocent bystanders, and started to take their guns away from them. He told them to dlsapn and they refused-He refused-He wrestled with ono for his gun. I saw t other shoot at ray brother and miss, and then I saw the fellow whom my brother was wrestling with discharge dis-charge the bullet into hi abdomen. My brother fell dead. I had been running run-ning up, and was then ten or 12 feet away. Before either of the cowboys could fire I had shot them both dead, Only a matter ot 20 second had elapsed since the fracas began, and there lay tho three dead bodies In the middle of the street." Marshal Ma3terson modestly declined de-clined to go further Into the history ot Ms shooting ccrapos. "There was 4ulte a lot of shooting going on, then," le said, "but .It was mostly confined to the obstreperous Individuals, who set tled their dimcuiues m- inai way. it one ot them attacked a man who had always been peaceful and Industrious, and refrained from quarreling through no lack ot moral courage, the bully who wanted to fight was attacked In turn, and told that It he could not find t his own kind to fight with he had bet- d ter leavo town. A mpn was recognized ' for his true worth, everybody was out- spoken, and hypocrisy was 'toot tol- iJ i erated." |