Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-26
WICHITA FALLS.
THE FESTIVE COWBOY OF TEXAS
SEEN AT HOME.
Ills Toilet and Amusements Wire Fence
Cutting In the West-A Comancho
Colony--The Town and
It's People.

From our Travelling Correspo ndent..
Wichita Falls, August EFF the
GAZETTE wishes its representative to
keep pace with the fashions 1t should
Immediately express him Il brace of
''popsn 45-calibre. Send self-cockers
and self-sighters too ii procurable and
twelve-inch dirk. Their day of USE
fulness in tt is region has passed away
yet they are eagerly paraded rs articles
of adornment by
THE FRONTIER DUDE.
That specimen of the western inhabl-
tant has religiously preserved
the traditions OF his ances-
tors or predecessors, who
achieved their greatest glory at the
muzzle of the pistol or point Of the
knife and would perpetrate and share
in their fame by at least a warlike dis
play. He dons his pistol belt with the
same precision that his Eastern
brother adjusts his cravat. TO each it
is matter of the toilet, and one does
not take more pride in his snow-white
shirt bosom than the other in the gilt
tering CLEAN of deadly steel
Understand this Is no reflection on
Wichita Falls rs hotbed of lawless-
ness. The demure and timid down
easter 1ould scarcely desire more
peaceable and orderly community,
Iet there is an element around and
about there which would be as averse
TO shedding their pants in the noon.
day sun rs TO dlscarding their hip
pocket or belted attachment With
out -, they would be ut as great a loss
as the Yankee schoolhoy who misses
his barlow
"How is 1t, | asked, Sthtt the pis-
toll law is not enforced ~
"Oh, y came the reply, "all YOU have
to do Is 10 stand IN with the Shorthand
get appointed deputy and besides no
one pays any attention 10 a pistol
here.n
There he touched the proper key.
Public sentiment isn't yet educated up
to regard the practice with displeasure
and tnat is the only solid basis for the
enforcement ofany law. The only re-
suits OF the system which could he
commented on is an occasional
COWBOY MATINEE.
This class largely comprises
those who adhere 10 the
festive siSshooter. Sometimes
they visit Wichita Falls i'm force and
make an heroic effort to create e
whisky famine in the community.
TDis partially accomplished, they be-
come excessively hilarious, and not
being satisfied with the bedlan of
their own voices, ring in enorus OF
sharper explosions. To shoot out
town. clips as deep niche IN the col
umn OF fame tor the cowboy as Il
scalping performance eScavatcs for an
Indian. And though their bullets chase
amun around barrels aud under houses
yet they ale innocent of any inten-
ton 10 harm. II Is merely she West
ern type OF ha2ing, A young man,
recent importation. told mas that one
night recently with u companion be
escorted two young ladies so socia-
BILE, Returning they stumbled upon
a cowboys jamboree, and the gay
gamboliers seeing the white dresses OF
the ladies hegaA TO fire in that direc-
ton, bat elevaiing their weapons SO !
rs to- 90 40 harm. lie said it required /
all his persuasive powers 10
his fair compan-
on. That was brave Young man
bat II consisted in trying To stud
GAZETTE reporter with such bad mr. |
Iicle of fiction; n glance at his anatomy
convinced me that he was good on |
The run. Approbos ofthe topic, u may |