The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-05-14
BUFFALO BILL.
What he Tanks OF tn. moaoc..


We give below The principal points Of
m interview with 'qlulalo william and
oTexas Jack" by Philadelphia CORES.
pOndcpt Of the 81, Louis Globe
"well Bill, what do you think Of The
MedocsW
"well, Cap said the man who has shed
the blood OF more Indians on the stage
Than any other individual living, ~ have
not thought much about 'en, but hear n
heap of talk around the country since
Captain Jack lifted the hair of the CON.
missonors and General Candy, I'm sur.
prsed, I Rm that The government don't
clean em out forhwiIhiy."
"But ! remarked, lyon must remember
that these Nodes are in n natural cave or
fortress where the soldiers cannot reach
them without great trouble
"Rsach h-.-l' profanely interrupted
jack and Bill at the Same instant. "Gve
me old Nancy Ann, my breech-ondor
there, aud let Jhck have lasso and scalp.
ing.knifc and III bet every cent own
we can Cleun out eIysoody red son of.
s.cork-scrcw Of EN- inside of thirty days,
aud do our own scouting and cooking"
"You' hove shot Indians, then, before In
your lifs2'' | asked
"lou can bet your life | have replied
William, al have shot and stabbed EN-. cut
lheir bowels out with my knife, harpoon-
cd ra, dubbed EN- to denih and in fact
killed 'em in every way you ean think OF,
except talkin' EN- to death, and when
want to try that style I'll send for you
hey Cap?'
Your correspondent was obliged to check
the rising smile on the countenauces of
William and Jack, by Offering as a subSti-
tue another kind-6ue that is moist, and
easy to take when unmuzzled gradually
from the mouth of bottle. This pro-
ceeding having been attended to, spid,
"Mr. Cody, feeling certain, as you do
that you could wipe out tAis band of Mo-
docs in short time, why don't you offer
your services to the government, and take
hand in their extcrmination"
Jack and | was talking tkat very thing
over when you came in, replied Bill.
told him that just as soon as our engage
ments was all filled on tLe stage, we
would salt down our "squi6s' somewhere,
procure an outfit, and take run out TO
the Lava Beds, and see if we couldn't get
enough Indian hair TO stuff rocking
chair for the old woman"
GLOW many more engagements have You
to fin" asked.
ooh, not many; we played n New York
until we forced Edwin Booth to 80 West.
lie said it would not do for him TO try to
buck against us, and he was right My
idea (said William is to go to New York
next winter, and show the play-goers what
real acting is. propose to run Booth
and fletcher into New Jersey by playing
Shakespeare right through, from begin
ming to end, with Ned Buntlne and Texas
Jack to support nc. | shall do Hamlet in
a buckskin suit, and when my fathers
ghost appears, doomed for u certain time,
&C., shall say to Jack, Rope the cuss in,
Jackl' and unless the lasso breaks, the
ghost will have to come. AS Richard the
Third shall fight with with pistols and
hunting In Romeo aud Juliet |
shall put half breed squaw on the balco.
ny, and make various other intcrpreta-
tuHo VI DuhAeepcuros Hoiuo W oult MY -
self
"But about this Indian business, Bill
would you take the contract to extermi-
nate them if you were well paid for your
ssrvces}
~ don't care much about the pay" re-
piled Bill "but after we get through with
the legitimate Indian drama, if the gov
ernment will call in every soldier, mule
driver aud peace commissioner within q
hundred miles of the lava beds, Jack and
who need little recreaiion--w take
scout around that section, and if clean
EN- out is the orders, we wont leare a
pappoOse week Old
suggested thai the two borderers bet
ter get up a company of frontier settlers
and hunters to join them, but Bill! laughed
at the idea, and said it was "harder work
10 kill and drag off twenty Indians on the
stage every night than to perform the
same job in real earnest" | then left the
two actors and hunters, confident that they
would settle Captain Jacks breakfast, ii
they set out to do it.