Show BUFFALO JOS DEATH A I 1 episode in the Ill history story of fort concho life ou on 1 lie texas piano A letter from front fort foh concho Con clio hex mex io to the new neto york lork world says unlike most of the old army posts iu in the west old fort concho b has as steadfastly refused to budge an inch in in any way of progress progressive ive civilization and w m a result in rapidly going goina to decay little or nothing now remains remains of what was once one of nathe the most flourishing flouri bing trading posts in the vest but ruins while talking over the good old times of furt concho with one of the first settlers I 1 learned a romance that is inseparably connected with the history of the place what become of old buffalo jo I 1 asked she site is dead also he lie answered and ali cn added it was sadly pathetic 1 pricked up tip my cars and bent closer 1 I knew Bal baltala Talo jo lie said away back iu in the fifties when she came to fort concho you remember member her na as only a hardened woman t steeped in vice I 1 saw her when she was a fresh faced modest girl you know that she was a woman I 1 ot of great intelligence she was as refined and gentle as she was lo learned arned her iler father was old col debo and find in the happy days when she presided at the licad head of her fathers house was as miss josephine debo the acknowledged belle of the post I 1 think she was about 17 when she first met maj do doyle ae he ile was nearly 40 a man dilim disliked by his brother officers and hated by the common soldiers fie was a good officer so far as brave bravery ry was concerned but he lie was cruel and tyrannical ran mean selfish and revena ful I 1 know at the time what subtle influence hc he exerted over the gentle girl but anyway the whole post waa was y very erv much sur surprised p when it became known that they were to bo be married in those days la y s the officers played for heavy stakes and it came out aft after erold old col deboa death he be died about a month after the wedding and find while the couble were spending their honeymoon in the states abathe had lost thousands of dollars to maj doyle and to save himself from disgrace dis race had sold his pure and innocent daughter I 1 body and soul to a man who had no mercy one ono day the major returning suddenly from a scout after indians found a handsome lieutenant in company with his wife hot Ilo words ensued be between ticen the two men and the lieutenant struck his superior officer the latter mad with passion drew the pistol and laid the young man at liis his feet dead it was then that his cifes long iong slum slumbering passion was wao aroused she threw throw herself on the body of her murdered lover over with piercing screams and when the major at tempted torviso tor aiso lier her aho shrank from him with loathing 1 I hate hat eyou you she cried and her evas blazed 1 I hate you I 1 have always hated haled youl you bought m ma 11 1 and for love loe of ot my poor father and to gave save him from froin ruin and dis graci grace I 1 consented to the sad sacrifice you have murdered the only roan man I 1 ever over loved for I 1 did love bemp flence henceforth forth I 1 go my way and you go col do doyle dole le was court fur for the shooting bla but t the tile commission exonerated him mrs doyle took up u with ith a gambler named davi davis and they lived together she never recognized her old acquaint acquaintances auces and of course they never noticed lier her af A few months after the separation 01 col ol doyle was transferred to a post in one of the northern territories ri and husband and wife never met again mrs doyle remained at the tile post and led a gay life to drown sorrow she began to drink the ga gambler tabler shook lier her and she became the mistress of a n bu buffalo fralo killer named fletcher pletcher she accompanied him on his hunting trips to the staked plains she site lol all her modesty and in the rough life sho led on the rifle range all traces of tender womanhood disappeared it was while on the range where as vou know she did her share of tho the h killing illi illin n skinning b aud and yen rendering dering with tho the rest of the men that she acquired the name of buffalo jo by which she was known down to t 0 the day of her death she would hunt all day and gamble all till night after fletcher Fletch cr died ho be waa was killed at fort doyle by arizona alt alf n 1870 1876 jo drifted d ri eted from bad to worse doyle died in the spring of 1880 and jo disappeared shortly after the news reached us she did not turn up at the post past again until after the victoria raid in the fall of 1880 one day she came in on the overland and two houra hours after her arrival was roaring drunk she was swaggering along a when three young girls giris passed her TWO of them were officers offic cra daughters and the t third a friend who was paying them a visit jo leered at them horribly and the three girls turned and ran screaming ig with fright jo 10 followed them yelling wildly during tho the chase she tripped and fell cutting a deep gash in her head on a sharp stone she lay jay there pvc speechless cliness and without a motion ill two officers daughters continued con till their light flight but their companion retraced her steps step and comeau knelt itel beside tho the prostrate woman S she lic wiped wiped anav anway the blood with lie her r dainty handkerchief and ani laid her ile r 17 oft soft white hand liand on tho be depraved womans comans face Thank ce she said laid and would have passed on buethe but the girl detained her dil 1 I am very I 1 sorry that it mccu occurred r and I 1 would liv to do la something for you that is if you will let me what mat is your name was jos question minnie innie doyle was the answer she did not notice the sudden look of pain ain which shot across dos jos face and she failed to hear bear the convulsive sob which rose to the fallen womans comans lips minnie doylee repeated jo mechanically and then paused will you kiss me awni the brave answer and the aming ui ij lip liw ii i vt t mi unstained stained and crip were and jut just touched jo s an and d r repulsive c mouth the girl re re bletl a shudder and jo turned T away and walked straight to I 1 the little jacal where she made her homo ionic she drank no more whisky that day and about midnight the post surgeon was called in to attend her she was violently ill and sinking very rapidly after examining her case very critically the surgeon declared that all hope for her recovery waa was past she will die bea before ore morning he be said 11 What tf that cried jo start ing up leave the room all of you she cried 1 I have something to say to the doctor the crowd filed slowly out and the dying d i woman oman held a few minutes stesy whispered conversation with the doctor at its close ho be hurried to the post and jo sank back on the bed exhausted when the doctor returned he lie was accompanied by minnie minnic doyle and when illen entered the room jo jr started with a glad cry minnie my daugh daughter terl cried and held out her arms mother other answered the through her tears and forward clasped the creature in her arms arm thank god godl whispered jo faintly and with a new now and beatific light shining in her eves eves fell back backi dead |