Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-05-17
BUFFALO BILL.
What ne ThinIts of tho NIod0cs.

We give below the principal points oi
mn interview with "Buffalo william" and
"Texas jack" by a Philadelphia cores
pondent of the st. Louis Democrat:
"well, Bill, what do you think of the
Msdocs ?"
"Well Cap" said tho man who has shed
I the blood Of tn6rc Indians on the stage
| than any other individual living, 81 have
! not thought much about EN-, but hear a
heap of talk around the country since
Captain Jack lifted the hair of the COM
missioners and General Candy, I'm sur
priscd, / am, that the government don
clean EN- out forthwitbiy."
"But," remarked, "yen must remember
that these Modocs are in a natural cave OF
fortress, where The soldiers cahnot reach
them without great trouble
"Reach h--l," profansly interrupted
Jack and Bill at the same instant. "Give
me old Nancy Ann, my reech-loader
there, aud let Jack have a lasso and scalp
ing-knife, and I'll bet every cent own
we can ulpaa out every sloo1y red son.of-
. a-cork -screw Of 'em inside of thirty days,
and do our own scouting and cooking"
"You hove shot Indians, then, before in
your lfs?' asked.
"You can bet your life have replied
William, ~ have shot and stabbed em,cut
their bowels ont with my knife, harpoon-
ed en-, cuht.d EN- to death. and In fact
killed EN- in every Way Joii chr think Of,
except talkin' em to death, and when |
want to try that style I'll send for ycu--
heyl Cap?'
Your correspondent was obliged to check
the rising smile on the countenances of
William nd Jack, by offering as n subsli-
tnte another kind--one that il moist, and
casy 10 take when unmu1zlgd gradually
from the thoj,i!i tf bhttls. This pro-
cecding having been attended to, said,
"Mr. Cody, feeling certain, ns you do,
that you could wipe ont this band of Mo-
docs in n short time, why don't you offer
your services to the government, and take
HAND in their exterminstioul'
Jack and Sas talking tSat very thing
over when you came in" replied Dlll. J
told him that Just as soon as our engage
ments was ali filled on tie stnge, we
would salt down our "squids" somewhere,
procure an outfit, and take run out TO
enough Indian hair to 5tnf = rocking
chair for the old woman"
allow many more engagements have you
to fll?" | asked.
"Ob, not many; We played in New York
until We forced Edwin Booth to 60 West.
lie said il would not do for him 10 try to
buck against us, and lie 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
ping to end, with Ned Buntiine and Texas
Jack to sHppprt nc. shall do Haml in
a hy,ssg!n slit, aHd vhe, ris fathers
ghost appears doomed for certain lime
&c., shall say to Jack, Rope the cuss in,
Jack! and unless the lasso breaks, the
ghost will have TO come. As Richard the
Third | shall fight with with pistols and
hunting-knives. In Romeo and Juliet
shall Iut a half breed squaw on the bllco.
NY, and make various other interpreta.
tiens of Shakespesre's words to suit my
SELF
"But about this Indian business, Bill
would you take the contract to cXtcrni-
nate them if you were well paid for your
services p
IL don't care much about the pay" re-
piled Bill, "but after we get through with
ihs Legitimate Injiat, dramH; II TIE gov
ernmenL will call in every s0iitt, .ihls-
driver and peace cor missioner within q
hHndrcd miles of the lava beds, JACK aud
Who need little ncrsation-will take
scout around that section, and if clean
'em out is the orders, We wont lrase a
pappoosc woek old"
| suggested that the two borderers bet
ter get up company Of frontier settlers
and hunters 10 join them, but Bill laughed
at the idea, and said it Was "harder work
to Kill and drag off twenty Indians on the
stage every night than to perform the
same job in real earhest." then left tho
two actors and hunters, coafidcnt that they
would settle Captain Jacks breakfast, if
they set out to do IL.