Show I AROUND ABOUT UTAH I CharleS F Blackburns District in I Idaho Turning Out Big At San Francisco Experts Flattering Opinion of the Comr tVAIene Mines Till Cowboys Virtues Extolled by nu Arizona Critic A Defence of IbM Cowboy We who are thrown in daily contact with them are growing tired of these neverending slurs upon the cowboys That they are as p ule reckless of danger dan-ger and frequently fond of a fight is true but that they are criminals as a class in a ridiculous libel They are less so than bank officers or government officials and there is no more reason that they should be deprived of their means of doing do-ing wrong than that each bank president and cashier should lie chained to his desk to keep him from running away or that every government officer should have his hands tied so that they might neither reach his pocket nor be held behind him The legitimate and genuine cowboy cow-boy is brave generous and worthy brave because no coward can face ths dangers of his daily life generous because be-cause the brave are always so and worthy because he works for a living That he delights in terrifying the brainless brain-less dude who maligns him is not to be I I wondered at but his real faults and I offenses are those of a manly nature lie never insults a woman or betrays a trust and if his sixshooter is quick to resent an insult to himself it is as ready to right the wrongs of the oppressed And when lie disappears after a few years of thi wild erratic life > it is not in a dishonored grave or behind the bars of the penitentiary peniten-tiary but only to reappear as the shrewd and prosperous owner of an honestly earned herd of his own There arc exceptions ex-ceptions but all who are familiar with the type will readily vouch that the above I is a true outline Arisonia Exchange |