The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-09-18


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go down into Chat canyon Tor drink. fur
fIoy was right there In thr bushrs, uud
first they picked mp thr rifle and then
they picked m him. We traiIrl 'uW
100 the way where tICt tpuk him. They
put mpccnsing on him. but Il want mo-
use. for John was % white man, and
tocd out, bat nm Indian walks straight
foot. like q dang animal They took
him up tO the top Of y high mountain
aud roasted him. Roasted him alive,
and had fun over him. like il was moth
in but a dang barbecue. We found
where they'd tied up his heels like 70
dead hog to q limb Of one Of those bas-
tard cednrs- Juniper trees. they rall 'rm
and then built "A slow fire under his
head, and had fun over him. Rough on
John, want it? Cowardly brutes, them
ApaChes. When | was down there near
New Fort Wingate they Catchcd u sol
der out and shot him plum through,
from the shoulder in, and left him for
dead. But he wasn't. He woke up u
little after dark and felt the blood a
ruunin' down his innards, and tore up
his handkerchief into lint and rammed
it into the hole with his ramrod, Just
like you'd wad a dang shotgun. Then
he got up and walked all night and got
into the fort lust at daybreak. The first
place he came to was the cook-Shop,
and there he saw II siX-quart can full of
sour Yeast on the ground, and what
does he do but drink the last drop of it.
And when the doctor heard of it, he
lust laughed and said it was GOOD medi-
cine for him, and then he turned Il
stream of cold water on his sore spot,
and in three weeks I'm a liar if that fell
Ter wasn't down town as drunk as ever.
There's nothing better than cold water
for u wound. That's the way | doe
torCd.
OLD TENS f
Chavez shot him Toy had heen
for Cboya1 oI dow and whom he
did meet him ont here in the wood he
WANT dead certain of hi. man, But
susnicioned thc Other. and chavez
was danG careful TO keen his bridle-rein
and his heels well into his horses
RIBS, GA Tex is a good sort OF MAJ at
heart and he didn't want to shoot a Eel
lef-Delng on uncertainty, so ne ookS
MN 1alr IN the face with ms muzzle
says, I guess you're h man were
lookln' Tor! with that Chavez dropped
ON ms horse, Socked IN the spurs,
hung ms pistol-hand back and let drive
~ Old lex, and smashed ms ankle. 50
ne got away that time, but he 0 get
nm yet, II II won be the SherlilS that
AXE him. either. Two or three OF us
ire a gong to takea blanket apiece, and
20 off prospectin', you know, and then
ven Just happen on him and shoot him
ike a dog, without askin' for an intro
iuction, like Old Tex did. Oh, dang
he sheriifS, they can't catch any thing.
Here they came out after Chavez with a
wo-horse livery team loaded down with
,iX-shooters and Winchester guns, and
,ut up at Mitchell's as if it was Il hotel.
But they didn't get any game on that ,
No, they didn't capture Vas
luez, neither. They only pulled him l
'ut ID a trap, that's all they did. TWAS |