The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-07-05
THE WILD HUMOR OF THE PLAINS.
How MIR. Jack Slade Punished jules Burg
for Undermining his Reputation.

THE WILD HUMOR OF THE PLAINS.
How MIR. Jack Slade Punished jules Burg
for Undermining his Reputation.
Riding past the wicked city of Chey-
enne, and Just before we come to Lara
mie, on the Union Pacific, writes cor
respondent, we stop at Robbers Roost,
one of the old overland stage stations
between Denver and Salt Lake.
1t is here that they will tell the Won
derful stories about Jack Slade who su-
perintended the stage line in go. Jack
Slade was considered by every one in
this region as an A No. mana killer
and stabber, whose honor had never
been tarnished by missing q man he in
tended to kill. The crowning glory OF
Jack SHADES life was when, after killing
his thirteenth man, he finally killed
Jules Burg, from whom the town OF
Julesburg on the Union Pacific took its
name.
"How did Slade happen to kill Jules
Burg?" / asked ranchman with red
face, teasel like beard and greasy buck
skin jacket.
"Well, this Jules want no good man
like Jack anyhow" he commenced.
"Jules hadn't killed anybody to brag of
anyway-only few immigrants-and
he hadn't no business foolin' around the
Roost, anyway. We all told him 80, too
told him Jack was a good man, and
told him he'd better look out about pour
in drinks over his shoulder when Jack
liquored. Now, Jack, he was gener-
GUS sort of man. He didn't care how
many men Jules killed-he wasn't jeal-
GUS. But every time Jack let daylight
through one of the boys, Jules would
90 mopin' round the Roost, jealous like.
But Jack could have stood this if
Jules hadn't lied about him. He said -
"How did he lie about JACKIE" I
asked, becoming excited.
"Why, he rode over to Laramie one
night, Jules did, and slandered Jack
told the Salt Wells boys that Jack hadn't
killed no thirteen men. By the great
horned steer wasn't Jack mad, though,
when he heard about Jules undermining
his character? Want he?"
"What did he do?"
"Why, what could man do when
his honor's tackled? He jes went to
shootin'. The next time he caught Jules
at Laramie he went for him, but Jules
got the drop on him, and thunder and
lightnin'! Jack had to take water.
But that was not the end of it. No, sir!'
"Did Jules and Jack meet again 2"
You bet they did. Jules went up
to the old Antoine Runnels' ranch on the
North Platte. Runnels was Jacks right
bower, you know, so he and some of
Jacks drivers got Jules drunk and tied
him to post in the corral and sent to
Robbers Roost for Jack. Lord, how
Jack flew for Runpels' ranch He rode
night and day, killed two horses, and
when he got there Jules was still tied to
a post. AS Jack rode up he drew out
his pistol and commenced firing. Every
time before firing he'd say: Now,
Jules, I'm goin' for your left knee, and
fire 'cordin'ly. Then he'd pop an arm,
then the end of his nose, and, in fact, he
shot all around him and through him,
and over him and into him, till Jules
looked like a skinner. Jack would
shoot a spell and then come into the
ranch and take drink with the boys,
and come out and make Jules drink
and y
"But how could Jules drink with 80
many bullet holes in him ?" inquired.
"Well, he did drink, and the whisky
d run right through the bullet holes.
Jules Burg refuse to drink Why, the
first thing I expect to hear In the next
world will be Jules Burg's voice sayin' ::
I say, Monte, didn't you bring a can
teen of old Robbers Boost with you 2
But about the shootin': After Jack had
shot twenty-five holes through Jules he
walks up to him like Christian and cuts
his ears off, and takes 'cm down to 81
Monks saloon, in Cheyenne. We boys
all go down, too, an by the great horn
spoon you ought to seen the joke Jack
got on ST Monks /"
"What was it, Montie?" asked.
"Why, after lquorin' a few times,
Jack asked ST how many drinks he'd set
up for Jules Burg's ears.
"Jules Burg's ears ! says ST. Why,
for Jules Burg's ears I'll liquor every
body in Cheyenne.
"It's a co. says Jack, and he
slapped Jules ears down on the bar, and
ST Monk had to liquor for all the boys
in town."
"And what became of the ears?"
"WeI, Jack Slade travelled around
with them ears, getting drinks on 'em in
Virginia City and Montana till the dog
gone railroad came through and billed
shirt marshal had him arrested"
"Was Jack ever hung?"
eyes, they hung him over in Montana.
His wife rode thirty miles on horseback
to shoot him, but -
"What did she want to shoot him
for % =, :.
"She wanted him to die with his
boots on, an when she got in too late
and found Jack hadn't died with his
boots on, it broke her heart. She went
out and shot seven barrels into crowd
of Cinnamon, jumped. on to her horse,
and that's the last we ever heard of Jack
or Sue." And the old ranchman knocked
the dust off his pipe, looked up, and re-
marked:
"I say, stranger, don't you think it's
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