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Show THE FJUSTWILD BILL WAS NOT BO WILD AS NAME INDICATED. na Had raw NiiUlirt In lit. (lm llo.lr, Ulian He tiled with lilt llnoH On at llraiwf,iil Tlia Mork The current picture that represents Wild DIM' ai a wavy haired dare devil looking desperado ma) at welt be shelved It waa taken from a portrait made III crnyou for 'Huffalu Hill ' Cody awd from memory Hut the real Wd Dill waa a very different sort ot man In looking oter mine effect! that had long lain undisturbed, J II l'dwurdt, one of the tint icttlen of Abilene, Kin nnd who went through the wild Aid woolly da) a whn lllckok waa marshal rereutl) came upon an old-fashioned old-fashioned daguerreotypo of tbe frontier hero It represents him aa he wat when he came to Abilene then a cow hoy headquarters to keep peace among the unruly rattlemen who mudo their wa over the trail from leiaa lllckok wai then In tho height of lilt glory ami though he had killed a few men hla career wua not atalned with the dredt that made hla nitne dlacrcdl table In later yejrs Ho had been In r.llla and H.iyt CH) where he had trouble with cattlemen, and had been acting the acout along the l'latte, na well aa dealt a fine hand In faro at divert and tundry rctorti of the wett He went to Ablkne to succeed Tom Smith, who li iald by all tho old let-tiers let-tiers to have been far the better man before-or behind a gun J li lllckok when he beenmo mar tbsl was n handsome man He was nliout sis feet high with a somewhat womanish fare and long, fine hair, ot which be waa very proud He had an Imprcnlve manner a well propor- HOIIATIO Hiai'LOW. (lone I alnew) form not nn tiunro ot superfluous fletth and In Ihe exhibition I of bis strength acted tbo bully at times Ome when tho city council waa In aetelon J O McCo), now ot Kansas City being mayor, and A A lltird. attorney for the Santa IV, city clerk, one of the members was needed to make u quorum He purposely absented ab-sented hlmielf nnd remained In another anoth-er part of the building lllckok went after him and brought him Into the council chamber on hla shoulder, whero under tho rules that antedated those ot ltted be was counted as pies ont ' Wild Hill was not noted for his 1 bravery In facing an adversary He I killed two mm on the south side of the Union Pacific track one da They were Phil Cola and Mike Williams The marshal was standing In a door of a saloon and they camo up tho atrcet Without wn nlng ho dropped Cole, and then aa Williams came running killed him also Tho Indignant cattlemen offered a reward ot 110,000 for lllckok'a dead body Ho went nbout na usual after that, but alwajs walked In the middle of tho street and carried for a weapon Initead of tbe usual ready re volter, a double barreled shotgun, tawed off to a length of eighteen Inches With such a protector he J II HICKOK. could not be approached with much safety He was ufrald of hla life and showed It Soon he left town aud drifted Into the mining camps of tha mountain! Ho killed some more men and was the pride of tbe saloons In tha new camps He was a bluffer ot huge ability and often made tbe crowd tblnk he waa doing a brave thlug when he waa simply counting on the timidity of hla victim and seldom In vain, lie fought duel once In Springfield, Mo , atter the close of hla career as a scout and before going farther west He had become a gambling-room hero, tall symmetrical, weighing 200 pounds. and with as much rare given to hit hair aa the moat careful lady beitows on her tresses. He strutted around town, and with one Pave Tutt, a partner part-ner and frlond did up tbe tenderfeet at poker In a manner that was mar-veloualy mar-veloualy skilful Then one day tho two fell out over a game of poker In which they wero opponents Tutt staked hie watch against Hill a money and tbe latter won Tutt was furious and accused lllckok of cheating There were hot words and both went out threatening to shoot on sight Tbs nest morning both were on the street armed and looking for each other Hill wore Tutt a watih Aa WIIJ Hilt DAM! Tl'TT walked along tbe south aide of tbe tquaro Tutt came In light about eighty ardi away They halted and both drew their gum and llred Tutt fell dead, lllckok wai unhurt, though tbe ball pancd two Inchea from bit head and burled llaelf In Ihe wnll of tho old Shepherd bnltdlng It waa hli only duel, for ho wot not quarrcliome and tho gamblera avoided him, knowing well hla ability aa n ahot As haa often been totd, he met hit end In Dead wood being ibot from behind be-hind by n man who bad followed him for years brcnuie of the death of a brother, whoso taking off was tbo gambler's act lllckok'a gum wero bealda blm nnd he reached for them but bis strength was gone His slayer waa taken out and ran the gauntlet of party of good markamen, but eacaped them all and fled Into the mountain!, never to be heard ot again. It waa ronaldered n poetic Justice that tho killer should meet his death at the hands of an avenger Other nvengtra had tried It, but none wat qj-k cnot-gli before Tho miners burled him on the wooded hillside near Deadwood, and for n long tlmo his grnvo waa unmarked un-marked Then one day nn admirer ot Iho old scout 'struck It rich' and put up n mouununt that la ono of tho unique cemetery attornment of tbe nation It bears n bust ot lllckok, be-ncath be-ncath nro two crostol revolvers chiseled chis-eled In the grtnlta nnd n scroll recites his virtues Some oars ago an effort was made by n number of rich California Cali-fornia miners to get permission to moo tho body to that state for burial. I but nothing came of It Tho people ot Deadwood have In tbo grave ono of the chief attractions of the place, and would be loth to allow Its removal It la aomonliat curloua Hint though ho wnt through llfo at 'Wild Hill," he had nothing In his nnmo that warranted war-ranted the title It was lu fact stolen from hla elder brother who was killed In some dangerous mission during tha wnr. When William died the younger lllckok. John 11 , oecnmo "U1H" nnd later ' Wild Illll " It was perhaps his superb marksmanship rather than any other quality, unlesa It might have been his expertnesa at cardi, that made lllckok great He that aa It may, he has a secure place In the history ol tho frontier nnd any relation of rattle-1 trail das that omlta hli deeds and mladeeda la Incomplete |